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Originally Posted by OldDave
My final thought is conspiracy theorists fall in with discussions of politics and religion. People believe what they believe and do not want to be bothered with facts or any arguments that don't support what they believe.
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These two lines are truly the clearest explanation of the attitude of “Don’t confuse me with the facts, my mind is already made up,” although I agree with a later poster who says that there are more areas of our lives that this can be true for in addition to politics and religion. When OldDave says that “people believe what they believe,” I would add that for some, it's not simply
what they believe but rather
what they choose to believe....