What you don't know can't hurt them.
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Did you know Columbus discovered America too?
That's amazing!norton ash wrote:The word "gullible" is a vernacular slang borrowing from the French, and will not be found in any English standard dictionary.
gullible |ˈgələbəl|
adjective
easily persuaded to believe something; credulous : an attempt to persuade a gullible public to spend their money.
DERIVATIVES
gullibility |ˌgələˈbilitē| noun
gullibly |-blē| adverb
ORIGIN early 19th cent.: from gull 2 + -ible .
THE RIGHT WORD
Some people will believe anything. Those who are truly gullible are the easiest to deceive, which is why they so often make fools of themselves.
Those who are merely credulous might be a little too quick to believe something, but they usually aren't stupid enough to act on it.
Trusting suggests the same willingness to believe (: a trusting child), but it isn't necessarily a bad way to be (: a person so trusting he completely disarmed his enemies).
No one likes to be called naive because it implies a lack of street smarts (: she's so naive she'd accept a ride from a stranger), but when applied to things other than people, it can describe a simplicity and absence of artificiality that is quite charming (: the naive style in which nineteenth-century American portraits were often painted).
Most people would rather be thought of as ingenuous, meaning straightforward and sincere (: an ingenuous confession of the truth), because it implies the simplicity of a child without the negative overtones.
Callow, however, comes down a little more heavily on the side of immaturity and almost always goes hand-in-hand with youth.
Whether young or old, someone who is unsophisticated lacks experience in worldly and cultural matters.
norton ash wrote:The word "gullible" is a vernacular slang borrowing from the French, and will not be found in any English standard dictionary.
Russian police say hypnotism is not an uncommon criminal technique.
By Kevin O'Flynn — Special to GlobalPost
Published: December 14, 2009 06:56 ETMOSCOW, Russia — Bank robbers have threatened tellers with knives, shot their way into banks and tunnelled up into vaults. But one woman in southern Russia chose a more peaceful method: Police say Galina Korzhova hypnotised a bank teller into handing over tens of thousands of dollars in what is believed to be just one in a series of daring, if non-violent, bank robberies.
Galina Korzhova was arrested, said Anton Kornoukhov, a spokesman for police in the southern city of Volgograd, on suspicion of hypnotising a bank teller in the nearby town of Volzhky into giving her more than $80,000. She is suspected of having robbed up to 30 additional banks in what Russian media have called a "grand tour" around the country.
Paying Attention
If we hear a voice addressing us that articulates words ‘too-fast’ or
‘too-slow’ - it changes how our brain processes language.
A metaphor is ‘highway-hypnosis’ which changes our ability to think and
react with conscious-behaviors - to ‘no-thinking’ - ‘auto-pilot’. It occurs because visual-sameness causes mental-boredom, and our decision-making processes shut-down.
Our brain has a standard language processing-speed at either the speed-of-speech or the speed-of-sight (reading). Listening to accelerated or ‘s-l-o-w-e-d’ speech
patterns creates mental ‘information-overload,’ which results in two-effects:
a) reduced vigilance and decision-making ability
b) limited attention-span on the present-transaction
The result is a consciousness-hiatus, a mental-time-out, because our anterior
cingulate cortex becomes inhibited. Our minds become vulnerable to the requests
of others that ordinarily would be instantly rejected. We cannot decode the incoming-language at the perisylvian area of the brain, and are inhibited from
rejecting outrageous requests - such as turning all our ‘wealth’ over to a stranger!
