Joseph Wilkinson

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Joseph Wilkinson

Joseph Wilkinson

@JoeWilkinson09

Katılım Haziran 2023
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Stacker@stackerco·
30 Ways Your Brain Tricks You Into Believing False Things 1. Parallelomania Seeing “meaningful” parallels everywhere and assuming similarity proves connection. 2. Confirmation bias Looking for evidence that supports what you already believe while ignoring evidence against it. 3. Motivated reasoning Starting with the conclusion you want to be true, then building arguments to defend it. 4.Texas sharpshooter fallacy Shooting first, drawing the target later. You notice a pattern after the fact and act like it was predicted. 5. Cherry-picking Selecting only the facts, quotes, studies, or stories that help your case. 6. Post hoc fallacy Assuming that because one thing happened after another, the first thing caused the second. 7. Appeal to mystery Treating “we don’t fully understand this” as evidence for your preferred explanation. 8. God-of-the-gaps / magic-of-the-gaps Filling unknowns with supernatural, paranormal, or conspiratorial explanations. 9. Special pleading Creating exceptions for your belief system that you would not allow for anyone else’s. 10. Double standard of evidence Demanding strong evidence from critics but accepting weak evidence for your own side. 11. Apophenia Seeing patterns in random data: numbers, dreams, coincidences, symbols, dates, names, etc. 12. Availability bias Believing something is common or true because examples come easily to mind. 13. Survivorship bias Only noticing the hits and ignoring all the misses. Example: “This prophecy came true,” while ignoring 100 failed ones. 14. Argument from ignorance “You can’t prove it’s false, therefore it might be true.” 15. False cause Assuming a connection without proving causation. 16. Anecdotal fallacy Treating personal stories as stronger evidence than data. 17. Authority bias Believing something because a respected leader, scholar, influencer, or institution said it. 18. Sunk cost fallacy Continuing to believe because you’ve already invested too much time, identity, money, or relationships. 19. Groupthink Going along with the group because disagreement is socially costly. 20. Identity-protective cognition Rejecting evidence because accepting it would threaten your tribe, identity, family, worldview, or sense of self. 21. Pattern inflation Taking a weak resemblance and exaggerating it into a strong argument. 22. Conspiracy thinking Assuming contrary evidence is itself part of the cover-up. 23. Emotional reasoning “It feels true, therefore it is true.” 24. No true Scotsman Redefining the category to protect the belief. Example: “No real believer would do that.” 25. Ad hoc rescue Inventing explanations after the fact to save a failing claim. 26. Overfitting Creating a theory that explains every tiny detail so well that it stops being falsifiable. 27. Falsifiability failure Believing a claim that no possible evidence could disprove. 28. Equivocation Switching meanings of words mid-argument. Example: using “spiritual,” “true,” “know,” or “evidence” in different ways depending on pressure. 29. Base rate neglect Ignoring how common ordinary explanations are compared to extraordinary ones. 30. The “too many coincidences” fallacy Assuming multiple coincidences must mean design, while ignoring how many possible coincidences could have been noticed.
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Joseph Wilkinson
Joseph Wilkinson@JoeWilkinson09·
@John_Stone_ @stackerco Man you really figured it out. Those old guys just just fleece us sheep so they can get all that money and.... Sit in meetings all day until they die...
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☦️ John Stone
☦️ John Stone@John_Stone_·
@stackerco Pro tip: telling you to go to the temple is telling you to be worthy to go to the temple, which is just another way of encouraging you to give 10% of your income to the “church” so they can invest it in the Wall Street casino and real estate.
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Stacker@stackerco·
I had a conversation with my wife a couple days ago that church is just lessons and talks telling us to go to the temple. And tonight, I check out the Come Follow Me … and …
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Josiahnd@Josiahnd3·
@JoeWilkinson09 @BasicBaptistGuy @stackerco If MS/Dehlin’s two-employee company with annual revenue less than $1m Vs 17+M member org with tens of thousands of employees with annual revs at $7-ish B and 300+ B surplus reserves can’t spin this into a classic David vs Goliath story then Idk 🤷‍♀️
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Josiahnd
Josiahnd@Josiahnd3·
@JoeWilkinson09 @BasicBaptistGuy @stackerco He already won. Legal battle - TBD. But irrelevant. Free publicity. So long as the church maintains its lawsuit, his platform will regularly receive more regional, national exposure. Views, subscribers, donations are all up for the foreseeable future for MS/Dehlin.
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Joseph Wilkinson
Joseph Wilkinson@JoeWilkinson09·
@stackerco @BasicBaptistGuy The don't just excommunicate and sue everyone that speaks out. You're taking a single case scenario and creating a false equivalency to everyone else who verbalizes their doubts about the church. That's just not what happens and everyone knows that
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Stacker@stackerco·
@JoeWilkinson09 @BasicBaptistGuy Of course they don’t sue for just speaking out. But they will excommunicate and then will sue if they can justify doing it like with Mormon stories and sending similar letters to mormon discussion etc.
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Joseph Wilkinson@JoeWilkinson09·
@BasicBaptistGuy @stackerco If it's so clear like you say then you have nothing to worry about. John dehlin will be vindicated. Or alternatively... He's screwed. When he loses, I encourage you to do a little self reflection about your level of objectivity.
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Darin Bracy
Darin Bracy@BasicBaptistGuy·
@JoeWilkinson09 @stackerco Dude, do you believe everything the LDS corporation tells you? @stackerco has posted all the information and clearly if you actually look at it it’s pretty clear it’s not from the church. I watched Mormon Stories 10 years ago and I knew it wasn’t supported by the LDS. Duh!
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Joseph Wilkinson@JoeWilkinson09·
@BasicBaptistGuy @stackerco He intentionally made his website/billboards and adds look like they were from the church to direct traffic to his sights. He even admitted so on his own podcast. That's why he's being sued and that's why he'll lose. Speaking out doesn't get you sued
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Darin Bracy
Darin Bracy@BasicBaptistGuy·
@JoeWilkinson09 @stackerco Sure they can, you just blindly believing that a YouTube podcast is a trademark threat to a multi billion dollar corporation. They seem to be ignoring the big boys who have the power and money to fight back like Disney (Mormon Wives) and “The Book of Mormon” Broadway musical.
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Stacker
Stacker@stackerco·
@BasicBaptistGuy Yep. The threat is if you speak out you might get excommunicated and sued.
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𝐿. 𝐻. 𝒢𝓇𝑒𝒾𝑔 𝐼𝐼𝐼 🌲
@Mormonger Yes, I think you misunderstand these things So how a debate works is that you try and prove me wrong by saying “here’s what the gospel is, and here’s what the keys are, and here’s what it means that they disappeared from the earth for over a thousand years”
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Jeremy Abrahamson
Jeremy Abrahamson@JeremyAbrahams8·
The Mormon Church has historically, and to my knowledge, until now, taught that both the Father and the Son have points of absolute beginning, and do not exist from eternity. So this man is lying, knowingly or unknowingly for the sake of disrupting discourse.
Jordan Brimley@jmbrim3

@JeremyAbrahams8 How do we scorn Him? I believe all of this, “The God who made all things, who died for you, who is from everlasting to everlasting”

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Joseph Wilkinson
Joseph Wilkinson@JoeWilkinson09·
@Espalda @stackerco Yeah they kind of evicted themselves because they didn’t feel like being exterminated. Those silly Mormons. Keep playing the mental gymnastics. It’s fun. Movie???
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beardedmetabaron
beardedmetabaron@Espalda·
@JoeWilkinson09 @stackerco The way that played out in reality it was an eviction, and was between people who no longer exist. Meanwhile Heritage Mormons are being actively exterminated by the corporation, yet you are still triggered by a movie into supporting the people doing that.
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beardedmetabaron
beardedmetabaron@Espalda·
@JoeWilkinson09 @stackerco The men acted like enemies, were bad neighbors, and the women and children paid the price for their hubris. They wouldn't even recognize the Grantite Corporate Sole Globohomo faction who learned to play ball anyways as part of their religion.
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Joseph Wilkinson@JoeWilkinson09·
@Espalda @stackerco Missouri Executive Order 44, known as the "Extermination Order," was issued by Governor Lilburn Boggs on October 27, 1838, during the Missouri Mormon War. It stated that Mormons had to be treated as enemies and "exterminated or driven from the state" to restore peace.
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