Re: Gullibility
Originally Posted by
tarantula
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I find it incredible that some people are so gullible they are taken in by scams, especially ones that ask you to put money up front in order to supposedly receive a lot more.
I don't find it incredible.
The human condition is one of total vulnerability. Humans are simply empty vessels or if you like advanced bio computers. From birth they begin with only basic body function programming but they spend the next 10 years being programmed and conditioned by parents and teachers and other people. People are simply the product of that conditioning, that vulnerability which is the human condition.
Consequently you can make a human believe absolutely anything.
You can make them believe there is an all powerful all loving God watching over us, whilst every day those same people see children suffering and dying of diseases, being sexually abused, women forced into sex slavery and so on. The conditioning makes the human involved compartmentalise the reality around them so they don't have to confront it.
If you can dupe humans to that extent, then you can dupe them in any number of other ways. People are being scammed all the time. Not just with the large and dedicated scams you raise here, but equally each and every time they walk into a supermarket they are being scammed by clever pricing scams, by food label scams, by weights and measures scams and much more.
We are scammed by utility providers and banks. By car salesmen, insurance salesmen, pensions, pretty much anyone and everything where there is any money involved.
It's no good appealing to people TBH. They are either conditioned or they have woken up and are different people as a result.
Once you're woken up, you are on constant alert. You expect to be scammed at every corner, with everything you buy. You do lots of research before you buy anything, you steer clear of contracts and subscriptions to things. You stay completely away from any form of gambling because you know it's totally rigged and corrupt whatever it is, very especially online gambling, online poker, online bingo and so on.
I don't take calls at home any more. I simply don't answer the phone at all which keeps all business telesales away and gets me marked on their databases as a "useless number" which in turns stops the calls. Friends and family let the phone ring twice and hang up and know that I will ring them back as a result.
etc etc etc
People either wake up or they remain in their conditioned stupor simple as.
I do my best to wake as many people as I can on life's journey.