1.0Anxiety Publishinghttps://hyrumjones.com/anxietypubHyrum Joneshttps://hyrumjones.com/anxietypub/author/hejones/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="LTEVbqoioW"><a href="https://hyrumjones.com/anxietypub/understanding-your-conspiracy-friends/">Understanding Your Skeptical Friends</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://hyrumjones.com/anxietypub/understanding-your-conspiracy-friends/embed/#?secret=LTEVbqoioW" width="600" height="338" title="“Understanding Your Skeptical Friends” — Anxiety Publishing" data-secret="LTEVbqoioW" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script> /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); //# sourceURL=https://hyrumjones.com/anxietypub/wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js </script> https://hyrumjones.com/anxietypub/wp-content/uploads/Critical-thinker-flowchart1.png1058794Purpose This article will help you understand your special friends who excitedly tell you about what they’ve learned. In order to understand these individuals, you must first understand their basic view of the world. Although you probably call your special friends, Conspiracy Theorists, this article will kindly refer to them as Critical Thinkers, a less stigmatizing term. See the definition section, for critical thinking. This attempt at a generalization obviously cannot apply to everyone, in every respect. The human world in a nutshell: Materialistic humans have two objectives, to maintain control of their stuff and acquire more stuff. If they can, they…