> Here are the two separate phenomenon at work in this community: >1) The grift >2) The writers block, or the Q equivalent of the writers block. Neither one necessarily pertains to Q researchers. >When I was in college I worked in telephone sales. >After a while you begin to despise these people and start to believe that they deserve to be scammed This explains more about you than anyone else. I did telephone sales for about two days when there were no other jobs available. I quit when I realized what a scumbag I would have to be to interrupt people at home with cold-calls and lie my ass off to them when they were just trying to politely tell me to leave them alone. I saw that the best sales-people were the smarmiest lying fucks in the room. You seem to have projected your own self-loathing onto your potential customers, as would have to be the case to last at all in that type of job. And you still do the same today. >Their minds will make them shop, surf the net, spend time watching twitter, do all kinds of bullshit just to waste time so they can justify to them selves that they don't need to write that day, they can leave it for tomorrow. That's not writer's block. That's procrastination. I'm a writer and I learned that there's a formula to writing that starts with taking notes, hashing out ideas, doing a little or a lot of research depending on the subject matter, etc. The only real block is not being interested in the subject matter to begin with, and if you're not interested in it, you really don't have desire to write, so what's the point of it? >We all have similar mental blocks in our heads, it's part of our dna design. I don't fully understand the evolutionary reasons, but, most people fail at whatever they fail at because of this mental block. Sounds like your moving towards blaming genetics, i.e. 'racial inequalities', but maybe I'm wrong. The fact is, it has nothing to do with DNA so much as it has to do with what I said earlier. If you have no idea of how to go about doing the task, you aren't going to get very far or do a good job. The first step in doing anything is learning how to do it properly and building the habits that then make it a subconscious act that doesn't demand conscious attention to the details of how to go about it. In other words, knowing the steps well enough to follow them without much mental confusion over how to begin and follow through. Ask a plumber to explain how to fix a leaky faucet and he'll spew it out easily because he knows the subject. Ask a young kid and he scratches his head and fumbles because he doesn't really know what he needs to to do. Raise that kid to always be lazy and not apply himself to learning things, and you create an adult who never applies his/her thinking skills because they were never exercised and laziness became a habit. >Slow sensory adaptation. You start with a bit of exposure, then more, then more and eventually you are free of it. Pretty much what I just said. You have to learn to crawl before you can walk. Not every plumber can do every plumbing job. Same with writing on a particular subject. They have to first be exposed to the knowledge and gain some experience with it. The familiarity begins to erase the incapacity/confusion/lack of knowledge/uncertainty/fear of failing/etc. >You guys, somehow, refuse to learn about con tricks and keep on coming back for more. Please point out one or two examples of anyone here being conned. Be specific about what they're being conned about and how you know they're being conned. >You guys, somehow, refuse to learn about con tricks and keep on coming back for more. And also explain what it is that brings YOU here. Is it to play the con game? You've already let us know that that's part of your repertoire. >Learning is REALLY HARD. Getting new skills is REALLY HARD. No it's not. Only disinterest or laziness stops a person from learning something. If I gave you a book on quantum physics, you would probably give up reading it after the first few pages if you weren't really interested in the subject or were too lazy to really try to follow what's being said in the book. You might force yourself to read the words and finish the entire book, but that would just be words passing in one side and out the other without much retention of what was said, because of disinterest and a laziness towards paying attention and thinking about what you're reading. If I gave you a book on something that really interests you, you would apply yourself more and learn something if there was anything there for you to learn. It wouldn't be a struggle for you. It's not learning that's hard. It's the desire to apply yourself and the quality of the information. >what you guys are doing with this Q stuff, for the most part, is using it as that mental crutch What Q stuff? Where do you see it here? All I see is people like the OP raising Q as a subject (either directly, like this OP, or more often indirectly, through mocking comments about 'Qtards') but nothing else. It's in your overactive imagination that it exists here. Almost all the posts in these forums that were originally for Q-related stuff are now moved on to current events. Q is done and everyone has moved on. Except the shills. >so that you don't have to do the real digging, the real work, the real risky shit like actually doing something. What do you suggest people do, besides staying abreast of current events? Are you hoping to incite some sort of action? Or do you think there's anything to do research on that hasn't already been done? Tell me. >So, that is some advice from someone that has expert insight into how this stuff works and what is going on here. LOL!!!!!!! I don't take advice from admitted con artists. >We all thought Alex Jones was making shit up, but it turned out that he has a mental defficiency You live in a bubble of your own making. Projecting your own deficiencies on others makes you feel better about yourself. Classic shill characteristic. You include yourself only enough to pretend you can speak for the group, as well as to soften up your mark by making them think they're in familiar company (a typical con tactic). The truth is, you don't know what anyone but yourself thinks. >They just don't know how to communicate it because they don't understand the various mechanisms at work, so they come across insulting. Your entire spiel has been one big insult to the members of this forum, and that says a lot about your made up explanations that you've adopted in order to try to understand the mechanisms at work with how these Q forums have morphed into something else. You and all these other shills are still stuck on Q more than anyone else here. You take pleasure in trying to sound superior when really you're just tossing shit. You offer a little bit of personal knowledge about conning people that you picked up in your life and that's all you have to go with. You supply nothing of any value other than to let those of us with minds to see see what you're really doing with this long-winded comment. Anyone can write a long boring book that amounts to nothing. Length doesn't equal value. >people criticizing you are trying to tell you that they see something wrong here and are trying to help. Bullshit. I often write quality comments that give a lot of useful knowledge and information that I've gained from my years of research into relevant subject matter. Why are they almost always ignored by you shills? Why, when they're not ignored, are my critical questions that would get to the bottom of what someone is claiming always being ignored by them, and often appear to be taken as insults to their intelligence when they're not insults at all? The reason for the non-responses are because I made a point, or there's no way to respond without showing that what I was responding to was flawed, and my questions aren't answered because the person just doesn't know as much as I do and can't make a good argument to support their views. If you expect people to be researching, then don't expect them to be wasting a lot of time on here, because they're busy researching, which means they're spending their time reading things and learning. What you see here these days isn't research. It's current events and short little comments that don't convey anything useful. I have a stack of research that I've done over the years that sits on my computer, with some of it posted out there on the internet where others who are interested can find it. I research for my own education, and I know from experience that most others aren't willing to accept anything that comes direct from some anon in a forum that's hidden away in a corner of the web. If they're smart, they want someone who is a known professional in their field, or an eye-witness to an event, etc. If they're not so smart, they want someone who is popular because they get a lot of promotion, and their level of expertise or experience is beside the point. The point I'm trying to make is that most people are just here to follow current events, and anyone that wants to 'help' (as you call it) is not helping anyone by criticizing their reason for being here. If you want to help, post some fucking research or shut the fuck up.