>>12471741There’s also a phenomena where a person encounters a baffling but empirically verified piece of information that refutes mainstream consensus and then elaborate off into an alternate worldview where most of their further claims are unproven, unverifiable, or probably false. The most obvious example would be someone witnessing pretty clear cut evidence of the supernatural ie. the day after a loved ones death a door randomly pushes open without explanation as though the ghost is confusedly wandering the void. A normie will forget all about it or just argue it away or maybe even cherish it before compartmentalizing it and resuming scientific materialism as though it never happened (reflexive cognitive dissonance). A schizo will see this event and start going full tilt on ghost cosmologies and get obsessed with communicating with them. The axis of evil in cosmology would also be an example. It glaringly refutes modern cosmology and hints that the universe is somehow aiming at the one solar system we know of with life and consciousness. A schizo will often encounter this and use it as an excuse to completely abandon scientific rationalism, going too far off the deep end into unsubstantiated theorizing. They take one tiny fact that completely unravels the mainstream consensus but then start building a mostly unverifiable alternative worldview off of it. The axis of evil proves that the universe was built with intent and not chance, at least in part, but a schizo will bridge from this to “my religion is literally completely real” despite the axis of evil in no way hinting at a creator god specific to their religion.
TL;DR They take one verifiable fact that knockdown refutes the mainstream and then build off of it and expand into a vast unverified theoretical worldview that people who don’t see the original irrefutable fact are utterly baffled by.
