I know someone who believes in lots of conspiracy theories. I see this person almost every day, and it's not easy to just ignore them. I'm crap at arguing/debating, so I tend to get panicky when they tell me all their beliefs and don't have any counter arguments. Or I try to but they come back with more 'proof'.
I don't believe everything is as it seems in the world, for example I think the government and the media are colluding possibly to gradually make the NHS look worse and worse so that we end up scrapping it and having only private healthcare. Plus things like the way the disabled are treated in this country. So am not totally 'the other way'. I stress though that these are only 'possibles' in my mind and I don't blindly believe that!
I'd like to be able to hold my own in our conversations, if anyone has any ideas I'd be grateful.
Some of her current beliefs:
- There are only chem trails in the sky, put there by the government to poison us.
- All vaccinations cause autism.
- Autism never used to exist, the government want children to have it so they are easily controlled.
- ISIS don't exist and every single terrorist attack is performed by actors.
- Any medication we take is because the 'Big Pharma' want us all hooked on everything, the GPs get back handers and want us on as much meds as possible. Every single medication is making us more ill which they want.
- The entire Royal Family are corrupt in the most awful ways. I won't go into details.
- Everything David Icke says is gospel.
These are just a few. If you're wondering why I care or can't just walk away it's because I do like this woman and we do have a real laugh a lot of the time, sometimes though I get frustrated by her extreme beliefs, especially when she brings my health into it and says my GP wants to poison me. I'd like to be able to discredit some of this in a clever way.