How Many People Do We Need To Convince? Not Many!

Minority rules: Scientists discover tipping point for the spread of ideas

Date: July 26, 2011
Source: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Summary: Scientists have found that when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority of the society. The scientists used computational and analytical methods to discover the tipping point where a minority belief becomes the majority opinion.
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Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority of the society. The scientists, who are members of the Social Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center (SCNARC) at Rensselaer, used computational and analytical methods to discover the tipping point where a minority belief becomes the majority opinion. The finding has implications for the study and influence of societal interactions ranging from the spread of innovations to the movement of political ideals.

“When the number of committed opinion holders is below 10 percent, there is no visible progress in the spread of ideas. It would literally take the amount of time comparable to the age of the universe for this size group to reach the majority,” said SCNARC Director Boleslaw Szymanski, the Claire and Roland Schmitt Distinguished Professor at Rensselaer. “Once that number grows above 10 percent, the idea spreads like flame.”

From Science Daily, here.

When the Jews Returned to Israel, the Arabs Came Too…

Read “A Muslim Aliyah Paralleled the Jewish Aliyah” by Daniel Pipes here…

The beginning:

“So far from being persecuted, the Arabs have crowded into the country
[Palestine] and multiplied till their population has increased.”
— Winston Churchill in 1938

“[T]he Arab immigration into Palestine since 1921 has vastly exceeded
the total Jewish immigration during this whole period.”
— Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1939

Famously, Jewish immigration to the Land of Israel, called aliyah, is centuries old and took on an organized form in 1882. Described as “the central goal of the State of Israel” (in the words of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon), it provides the demographic basis on which the entire Zionist enterprise rests. Both very public and highly controversial, it has inspired millions of Jews to move to territories now under Israeli control.

Much less famously, a large and diverse non-Jewish immigration to Palestine (meaning here, roughly Gaza, the West Bank, and the northern half of the State of Israel), mostly Muslim, has also taken place. These immigrants included Arabs, Muslims, and many others. They and their descendants probably make up a majority of the population now called Palestinian. Palestinians, in other words, are not an aboriginal, autochthonous, first, indigenous, or native people; most of them are as recently arrived as Zionists. They are also as ethnically diverse.

The scale of this non-Jewish immigration was once well known, as the Churchill and Roosevelt quotes above indicate. It has, however, long since disappeared from view, replaced by a fable about a homogeneous people living on the land since the deepest antiquity.

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Read the rest of it here…

Hey Trump: Why Don’t You Ask Us To Offer a Korban for You?

Since you recognize it was “God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening”. Why not sanctify God’s name worldwide?

We can’t set up an altar on the Temple Mount alone, but maybe you can force your frenemy Netanyahoo into it…

Or at least come over for a short trip and insert a prayer note in the Western Wall!

Any readers who can do so, please pass on the suggestion!