Poor Heiwa, just when he thought he'd found a home full of special new friends who liked him, he's immersed in more trouble.
http://www.cluesforum.info/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1632&start=345The special people at Cluesforum are engaged in an exciting debate, in which they escalate the stupidity on a daily basis (something at which they excel), namely their suggestion that rockets don't work in a vacuum. NASA says rockets work in a vacuum, NASA tells lies, therefore rockets don't work in a vacuum. Anyone who says rockets do work in a vacuum is one of those pesky NASA shills promoting a lie to deceive the sheeple.
That would be Heiwa, who is desperately trying to point out to the intellectually deficient that they are wrong, and that the main reason Man couldn't go to the moon is because of his own stupid theory. Oh the irony. He must feel some of the frustration and annoyance we've all felt when trying to point out something blindingly obvious to people who just will not listen.
The thread I linked to above is a psychologist's paradise. Key individuals in a group have adopted a position. The remainder of the group fall behind the leaders and adopt the position. All views that reinforce the adopted ideology are accepted (especially those that have some sort of apparent validity because they use big words and complex arguments), contrary theories are rejected, no matter how logical or simple the argument.
The adopted position spirals way beyond the original premise through a series of escalated arguments and peer pressure, while those who disagree are increasingly marginalised. Like Heiwa. Heiwa currently has the protection of the group leaders because he has made 'important contributions' on the Apollo 'hoax' by producing his own set of big words and complex arguments to validate an illogical position. It will be interesting to see how long it will be before he is turned on and evicted.
It's fascinating.
