#Credulous

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

#Darwin Chandler #Ah Sunday #christianity #credulity #credulous #intellectual surrender #deception #delusion #faith is gullibility #gullibility #gullible #religion #religion is a mental illness

[transmutationisms]

anti vaxx arguments are not based in a defence of bodily autonomy btw and one clear indication of this is how much anti vaxx discourse hinges on the figure of The Child whom these people intend to 'protect' from vaccination and often other public health interventions---which is to say, a person they view as totally lacking autonomy, bodily and otherwise, and whose medical decisions they intend to make unilaterally. anti vaxx arguments are complicated but if i had to say they're 'about' just one thing i would argue it's ableism. that it sometimes wears the rhetoric of bodily autonomy, religious freedom, &c doesn't change the fact that these positions are fuelled by a disregard for disabled, elderly, and young people's safety in society, and by continually stoked fears that vaccines are a kind of black-box technology threatening to give The Child autism or other disabilities

#we have to stop being so credulous of these ppls surface level rhetoric and parse what's actually being said and accomplished

[lights-all-askew]

the OceansGate coverage is fascinating in part because it lets you see the bullshit world of billionaires so clearly. like, take this forbes article about the submarine. they include this photo of the British billionaire tourist Hamish Harding who's on the sub. look at the caption!

a reasonable person reading this without additional context might see "astronaut" and "mission specialist" and think: oh, this guy is a dedicated researcher. someone who goes to space and the ocean floor out of curiosity and wonder, to contribute to human knowledge, to gather information and bring it back for the collective good

and like..,..... yeah he's been to space. technically. but the important context is that this photo is from when the billionaire went on jeff bezos's weird space tourism thing

this photo! is him getting a participation trophy! after spending 200,000-300,000 USD on an 11 minute plane ride that technically reaches space (as in, they go above the Kármán line, the internationally recognized boundary of space, 62 miles above earth. for like a couple minutes.)

is "astronaut" really the best term for someone who's done that?? when "space tourist" is right there???? "leech who exploits workers to amass a fortune and then spends it on elaborate astronaut cosplay"???

#it's just wild how credulously all these writers are talking about this bullshit #like im not surprised but #call it what it is! #oceangate

[batrachised]

what i'm getting from these latest chapters is that Aunt Becky's jug is the 1900's equivalent of the pink stanley cup

#on one hand the fact that everyone including elderly men to teen girls want this jug so badly is straining credulity for me #on the other #tangled web book club #stanley cup...loudly decorated jug...what's the difference?

[sexhaver]

usually i don't single out tags correcting my posts on petty shit that doesn't matter, but i'm pretty sure that flat-out denying something someone else is trying to convince you of is literally the exact opposite of gullibility. if you accept this line of reasoning then nobody gullible has ever fallen for the Nigerian Prince scam; they were simply "verifying the claim". come on now

#treating the claim as credulous enough to need verification means you're gullible

[bbygirl-aemond]

remember in episode 6 when alicent tried to go to viserys on aemond's behalf after the pink dread incident and viserys's immediate reaction was literally just "he shouldn't have been so gullible it was his own fault"?????? every week it's just a new thing to dislike ab this guy!!!

#he literally just says “he shouldn't have been so credulous” #which means gullible #like literally no care for the accountability of the ppl doing the prank #ofc it's aemond's fault #yes sounds about right #hotd #house of the dragon #show #alicent hightower #viserys targaryen #viserys i targaryen #aemond targaryen #aemond one eye #alicent #aemond #viserys i #viserys

[russenoire]

rewatching the first season and it hit me...

...so, so much of mob's apparent gullibility is simply his having lost any sense of self-trust since ???% first broke free and nearly made him an only child. he does not, cannot, trust his own perceptions and feelings anymore, so he turns to reigen or tome or... anyone but himself. when i realized what i was seeing, it broke my heart.

for folks traumatized as kids, it's not uncommon to defer to anyone and everyone around them for a sense of what is real and true, or to feel/act as if they never got the memo on how to be a person.

BUT.

he knows how shady the (LOL) cult actually is; you can see it in his facial expressions on stage before ekubo-sama first appears. he asserts himself again with teru upon meeting him, and with his little brother when he lashes out.

it amazes me just how much of the kid's will still remains.

#mob psycho 100 #mp100 #mp100 meta #mp100 s1 rewatch #trauma #ask me how i know #he's so much stronger than he gives himself credit for #and he doesn't see it for such a long time #is mob really that gullible? no #his lack of self trust is easily mistaken for credulity #kageyama shigeo #分析

[allhailthe70shousewife]

#southern strategy #us history #gqp #gop #republicans #social media is fuckng poison for the credulous amongst us #trump #qult #we are so fucked in the usa

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason." -- James Randi

"Faith" is the antithesis of reason.

#James Randi #reason #faith vs reason #reason vs faith #faith #faith is not a virtue #faith is a vice #credulity #religion is a mental illness

[fluorescentbrains]

IM JUST TRYING TO BUY PANTS THAT ARENT MADE OF POLYESTER AND I HAVE TO RUN THE GAUNTLET OF THE STUPIDEST ARTICLES ON THE INTERNET

#YOUR CLOTHES DONT FUCKING VIBRATE YOU CREDULOUS MORONS

[charlesdesvoeux]

hickeygibson if they were in a teen movie and not a historical horror show

#hickeygibson #the terror #terrorposting #'he said he's 6'2 and im like dude nice try' -> tell me hickey wouldnt do this #(maybe not 6'2 bc that would strain credulity but. he would tell a bald faced lie about his height for sure) #(i picture it from gibsons pov but honestly it could go either way) #(also maybe not a teen movie more like early 20s but still) #Spotify

[blorb-el]

clark and alfred in cahoots... and what’s more, this works, alfred actually successfully keeps bruce in the dark for a day or two and clark catches the joker

dc comics presents 41, “superman and the joker: the terrible tinseltown treasure-trap treachery!” 1982, script martin pasko, pencils josé luis garcía-lópez, inks frank mclaughlin, colors gene d’angelo, letters ben oda

#love the casual open shirt slouch here #the team up strained credulity a little but it was just overall a fun time #also i had no idea this dr dundee was a reoccuring character. ContinuityTM :) #clark kent #alfred pennyworth #bruce wayne #dick grayson

[door]

naked faulkner party?

right, so. senior year in high school, we were reading as i lay dying by faulkner in english class. our teacher was new that year--all of the english teachers were, as i recall. there was a mass exodus the year before. anyway, mrs. m was new and we liked her but she had no reputation preceding her. we didn't know if she was cool.

anyway: as i lay dying. mrs. m taught a few different grade levels so she'd put the agenda for each class on the board for us to see when we were coming in. on this particular day, it just said "faulkner." i picked up the chalk and wrote "party" underneath it, just to liven it up. because nothing's a good time like william faulkner. my friend peter walked in after me, saw the faulkner, saw the party, and then picked up the chalk and added "naked" above it. the class is chortling now. we're all 17 and don't know how mrs. m (outside the door in the hallway this whole time) will react. there's an element of danger.

the bell rings. mrs. m walks in, says something like "right! what are we doing today," looks at the board, sees "naked faulkner party," and with zero hesitation goes "okay" and reaches for the hem of her shirt as if to strip it off.

instant pandemonium. class in hysterics. with a single gesture, mrs. m has earned our undying adoration and loyalty.

#that's the power of reacting to an obvious bit with full credulity #i don't know what mrs m is up to but i hope she's well #she was a good teacher #asks #anonymous

[t3r4t0m4]

Don't think I ever posted this here but a while ago I scribbled over that sketch I did of Skirmish/Harry/The Credulous Husk for an art trade over on Instagram.

I still really like it but it probably could have used more blood

#art #skirmish #harry #credulous husk #cloven #still haven't decided on her pronouns but I'm thinking it/he/she for now #or maybe no prns at all.. maybe Skirm is above all human perceptions of gender #blood #body horror #gotta draw them again. I'm doing an overhaul of nearly all my worlds and characters #also if you didn't notice by now this pic is also my pfp

[kushblazer666]

the point of the zionist atrocity propaganda i cant let go of is “obviously this woman abducted from the psytrance rave was raped! look at what she’s wearing! they tore off all her clothes” and then the sum total of their proof is her being dressed like the prototypical edm thottie

#like she was abducted at gunpoint by hamas militants #but no they have to go one step further so if you express any credulity youre denying women’s lived experiences or whatever