There is a new sport in town: Making claims by supposedly asking a question.<\/p>\n
It started as a known advertisement technique. Are you looking for a quiet and inexpensive washing machine? Why do people buy XXX beverage? The late English comedian Benny Hill once had a quite amusing video clip about this. It naturally slipped into the political world: What did John Doe do for you?<\/p>\n
With the combination of religion and media networks, this has boomed. There is the famous question-which-is-not-really-a-question “Why are you here?”<\/b> (See here<\/a>), there are other similar questions, and then came Quora<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n The simplest method of implementing this emerging technique is by taking a claim you want to publish, and insert a “Why”, “How”, “What” etc. in front, with a bit of sophistication. Just treat the often-wrong message of your claim as if it is widely known as the truth. Let’s see Quora again: “If souls have free will, why do some souls choose to incarnate as cockroach?”<\/i> Hmmm… So “souls” and “incarnation” are given. We only need to ask about their specifics.<\/p>\n And then of course there will be those who will seriously answer. There always are. We can encourage them by answering ourselves using a different ID. And after a while we have a whole thread, which we can use as a reference in future-such-questions, and so on and so forth.<\/p>\n Ever wondered how the Bible was actually written?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There is a new sport in town: Making claims by supposedly asking a question. It started as a known advertisement technique. Are you looking for a quiet and inexpensive washing machine? Why do people buy XXX beverage? The late English comedian Benny Hill once had a quite amusing video clip about this. It naturally slipped […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-argument-and-preaching","category-internet","category-missionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":675,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}