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To: Solon who wrote (490)	10/31/2012 1:57:08 PM
From: average joe	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2133

I wonder what divine happenings would need occur for gweggy to run after someone like Moses and do his bidding? It must be frustrating waiting for the carnage to happen.

To: Solon who wrote (490)	10/31/2012 1:59:09 PM
From: average joe	Respond to of 2133

Illusionist Derren Brown on the Psychology of Gullibilityby Maria Popova Why trust is the antidote to cynicism and how our false mental patterns serve us. Carl Sagan once made an eloquent case for balancing skepticism and openness as to avoid gullibility — but what, exactly, makes one gullible? In this short video from Open University — who gave us those wonderful 60-second animations of famous thought experiments and religious theories — Nigel Warburton of Philosophy Bites fame talks to English illusionist and mentalist Derren Brown about the psychology of gullibility. [iframe height=281 src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/U1cMmz7m3AA?rel=0" frameBorder=0 width=500 allowfullscreen=""][/iframe] Somewhat counterintuitively, it’s the more trusting people that actually emerge as less gullible. They obviously get fooled, as we all do… but they tend to be very good at learning from those experiences where they have been duped, they tend not to generalize it over everybody and then to start being cynical about everything, which then makes them more effective socially. For more on the art and science of beguiling, see On Deception, the fantastic anthology of Harry Houdini’s writings, recently republished with a foreword by Brown himself. brainpickings.org