Psychology of Belief - Group Conformity to Absurd Beliefs

Did a dead man rise?
Did a burning bush, a snake and a donkey speak like a human?
The holy books are full of tales no thinking person can accept but million say they believe. This is why.
Solomon Asch Experiments-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments
Also see-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum

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[tipoomaster]

Religion in a nutshell right here.

[drandersw]

I would not fall for this. I would object and ask what was wrong with the others and ask for a ruler.

[whirlpoolzend]

"The King is in the altogether, but all together, the altogether

He's altogether as naked as the day that he was born

And it's altogether too chilly a morn!"

[Bonobo3D]

This explains how and why people give their precious children up to genital cutting/mutilation (aka circumcision).

[Skindoggiedog]

I saw this a long time ago and it made me slightly ill. I kept thinking 'what the fuck is wrong with you?!' I just couldn't understand why he'd conform like that ...but it turns out I'M the weird one, because most people supposedly would!

You hear the world 'sheeple' thrown around a lot, but geez. Is there a better example of it than this?

[IllPropaganda]

"You are number 6."

[DreamwaIker]

I think I saw some other video like this in the past. Creepy. I think in this particular situation, if I could see the lines as well as I could see them in this video, I'd just go with the correct answer though, and probably due to my knowledge of these sorts of experiments, I would then expect I'm in one. =P

[bonnie43uk]

To quote a line from Life of Brian,.. "Yes, ..we're all individual"!!

[RationalismDefined]

This desire to adapt to the group is probibly the reason why humans have managed to thrive to the extant that we have. Unfortunatly it has also saddled us with the unnessesary baggage of mythology, statism, and religion. With luck we can most beyond these things.

On a side note I know I wasnt the only one thinking: "THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!!!"