
Originally Posted by
hag
i see, thank you for your input! i asked my mother (IEE-Ne, familiar with Icke and conspiracy theory) about her opinion and she basically echoed what you wrote—specifically, in that it's more constructive to do your own research and approach it with an open (yet appropriately doubting) mind, and determine what you think to be the truth.
as a Ne-creative i can somewhat relate. i am in a permanently "skeptical" mode—i don't ever take anything to be entirely true. i am always open to doubt; i find it hard to commit to any particular 'truth'. and while something may not be entirely credible, it's still possible to glean truth (or examples of a different perspective) from it. i've noticed that IEE (unsure about ILE) can sometimes seem initially too trusting, perhaps in the "honeymoon phase" as you've described.
generally i don't apply the label "conspiracy theory" to anything i believe that might be true. even if it does technically qualify as a conspiracy theory, the term seems to have a de-legitimizing stigma, so i avoid it altogether.