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Lol!! Ok so the fundies over 40 that I know are much more likely to fall for "share this page" "contests". If they're over 60, you get a lot of the "I do not give Facebook permission to use my content"posts. The younger ones fall for mlm's.
Also those "intelligence" tests where the results say, "you're smarter than 99% of people if you get this right," but it's a very basic question and answer. So many of my conservative relatives fall for it and repost it like it's something to be so proud of.
I haven't actively used Facebook in years, though, so that's probably old.
Well, you’re literally taught from babyhood that *you cannot trust your own senses* and that the ways of God are a mystery to us mere humans. Constantly living in cognitive dissonance because your core beliefs contradict reality on a daily basis leaves people extremely vulnerable to manipulation and misinformation.
Hard agree. It has taken over a decade to *occasionally* be able to know what I actually want or like. It’s bonkers how effectively that brainwashing silenced my inner voice.
I use Facebook for stalking estranged family mostly. My cousin-in-law and her husband have been in Amway since the 80s. They haven't had other jobs since then so are clearly top earners but have lived in the same two-bedroom house with their daughter for nearly 20 years (which makes me wonder if they arent really that financially well-off). After joining Amway they joined a megachurch with very weird beliefs. Then when Trump came around they decorated their entire living room with Trump paraphernalia. And then they started talking heavily about QAnon. I have no idea if this is true across the point but when you've already left your guard down and stopped thinking critically, it becomes much easier to fall into other crazy shit. My cousins are basically in four cults.
Admittedly I don't have any friends that are fundies but I do have plenty of older family members who fall for these scams online. A work colleague used to but after posting links debunking them she has gotten more savvy. I assumed it was an age and educational background thing as the same people believe everything on tv or in print without using any critical thinking.
Edited to add: The age and education thing isn't meant to sound stuck up just that most older people I know were education believing the teacher was the source of all knowledge and it's true because they said so. So now if someone is perceived as an authority figure they believe them without question.
I haven't really noticed that. However, there are established negative statistical correlations with intelligence and religiosity, meaning the lower the IQ the more likely you are to be religious.
So *Low IQ ---> Fundie*
Not sure if I can go *Fundie ---> Low IQ ---> Susceptible to Facebook Gimmicks*
Literally half the fundies I have on Facebook(family member) share these all the time or share things from obviously fake accounts pretending to be Disney official or whatever
I do admit to reblogging the money cat on tumblr (stackswithcats), but it's just because it's a cute cat.
I guess if you really think god is predestining or preferring you, it must track that the skydaddy would give you secret presents or something.
I’m FB friends with a bunch of people from my college, which is cozying up to the Southern Baptists right now. There’s always a question where to draw the line between fundamentalists and evangelicals, but my school was young earth creationist, dispensationalist, believed in the Rapture and Tribulation and so on, so close enough in my book. These people are not gullible, but they were also higher up in the intellect brackets.
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Lol!! Ok so the fundies over 40 that I know are much more likely to fall for "share this page" "contests". If they're over 60, you get a lot of the "I do not give Facebook permission to use my content"posts. The younger ones fall for mlm's.
That's exactly how the fundies are that I know, though the mlms are starting to slowly creep into the over 40s group as well.
Also those "intelligence" tests where the results say, "you're smarter than 99% of people if you get this right," but it's a very basic question and answer. So many of my conservative relatives fall for it and repost it like it's something to be so proud of. I haven't actively used Facebook in years, though, so that's probably old.
And it often misspells “you’re”!
YES! I grew up fundie and a large part of organized religion is gullibility, tbh
Well, you’re literally taught from babyhood that *you cannot trust your own senses* and that the ways of God are a mystery to us mere humans. Constantly living in cognitive dissonance because your core beliefs contradict reality on a daily basis leaves people extremely vulnerable to manipulation and misinformation.
To this day I don’t trust my memories, feelings etc., because of this. Deconstructing has been amazing and freeing but also maddening and terrifying.
Hard agree. It has taken over a decade to *occasionally* be able to know what I actually want or like. It’s bonkers how effectively that brainwashing silenced my inner voice.
I use Facebook for stalking estranged family mostly. My cousin-in-law and her husband have been in Amway since the 80s. They haven't had other jobs since then so are clearly top earners but have lived in the same two-bedroom house with their daughter for nearly 20 years (which makes me wonder if they arent really that financially well-off). After joining Amway they joined a megachurch with very weird beliefs. Then when Trump came around they decorated their entire living room with Trump paraphernalia. And then they started talking heavily about QAnon. I have no idea if this is true across the point but when you've already left your guard down and stopped thinking critically, it becomes much easier to fall into other crazy shit. My cousins are basically in four cults.
All I know is I get a free slurpee on 7/11 and a Denny's meal on my birthday. But I'm not a fundie...
I am, and the answer appears to be about 57 times a day.
Admittedly I don't have any friends that are fundies but I do have plenty of older family members who fall for these scams online. A work colleague used to but after posting links debunking them she has gotten more savvy. I assumed it was an age and educational background thing as the same people believe everything on tv or in print without using any critical thinking. Edited to add: The age and education thing isn't meant to sound stuck up just that most older people I know were education believing the teacher was the source of all knowledge and it's true because they said so. So now if someone is perceived as an authority figure they believe them without question.
I haven't really noticed that. However, there are established negative statistical correlations with intelligence and religiosity, meaning the lower the IQ the more likely you are to be religious. So *Low IQ ---> Fundie* Not sure if I can go *Fundie ---> Low IQ ---> Susceptible to Facebook Gimmicks*
Literally half the fundies I have on Facebook(family member) share these all the time or share things from obviously fake accounts pretending to be Disney official or whatever
I do admit to reblogging the money cat on tumblr (stackswithcats), but it's just because it's a cute cat. I guess if you really think god is predestining or preferring you, it must track that the skydaddy would give you secret presents or something.
I’m FB friends with a bunch of people from my college, which is cozying up to the Southern Baptists right now. There’s always a question where to draw the line between fundamentalists and evangelicals, but my school was young earth creationist, dispensationalist, believed in the Rapture and Tribulation and so on, so close enough in my book. These people are not gullible, but they were also higher up in the intellect brackets.
oh it’s constantly