Blog 3: Summary of I know the Truth

In today’s society people are bombarded with all sorts of information and rumors, whether its lies or the truth, and how people react to their belief towards such information [something is missing here].

In the article “I Know the Truth, So Don’t Bother me with Facts”, the author states that people are easily persuaded into believing gossip that might not be true. A study was done by R. Kelly Garret and Erik Nisbet who recruited 750 people who set out to expose facts about the Islamic Culture Center. Their task was to present information that would change people’s belief. Garrett states that many studies were carried out and people were not easily persuaded to change their belief although valid data was presented. In the world today people haves nothing to lose nor gain about their belief. I agree that people don’t want to change their minds about what they believe in whether the information circulated is true or false.

Rumors and lies are what people say to get by in life. This is something that would not ruin their life. Some people’s belief is so strong that whatever a quote says they would not budge [I do not know what you mean by this] . ……I remember watching a movie where the family took their father to the hospital. He suffered a stroke in the left side of his body, he was lifeless and nonfunctional. The family was sure that the father had died, but the doctors convinced the family that the dad was still alive because his brain was still at work. The family members were stuck in their belief. They relied on the physical evidence of the father’s lifeless body and was not willing to change their belief. The immensity of the father still being alive baffled the family because they weren’t willing to broaden their minds to accept the fact that he was still alive.

The title of this passage in its entirety is contradictory as well as quite jovial. The first paragraph is almost calling human beings stupid due to the fact that we are easily fooled and deceived. The supposed mosque being built at Ground Zero caused a lot of conflict because Americans felt that the Islamic culture should not have any place of say or any purpose at ground zero even though in all actuality the supposed center wasn’t a mosque and it wasn’t being built in Ground Zero. Despite this fact people still believed that indeed a mosque was being built even though that race of [there is only one race; the human race, you need a different term here] people caused a lot of hurt and pain to thousands of families. I recall an incident at work where there was chatter around the office about a Christmas bonus, if for one month all the employees would come to work on time and meet our target that was assigned to us. As first when I heard this proposal I was in disbelief because a proposal like that should come from corporate office in writing, but I was a team player and still went along in meeting the requirements for said bonus. After a few days we were told that the our supervisor was going on a vacation for Christmas for 2 weeks and when she returned she hopes to hear that we were making our numbers and getting to the office on time. We the employees were gullible in believing the rumor and I was very upset in finding out that the chatter around the office was indeed chatter and not significant Intel.

 In conclusion, there will always be rumors of lies, and facts, no matter where you go, but the fact is, this is something that will be on the face of the earth until eternity. People will believe what they want to believe. Most of them would not change their mind, and they just don’t care. I thinks as human being we should at some point and time be able to accept the truth when it is presented to us.