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MasterJedi
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27 Jan 2011, 6:12 pm

my neighbor is a conspiracy theorist. She thinks the contrails are chemicals to decrease the population and fluoride is bad for you.

When she goes off on a tangent about how mercury causes autism and someone shows her that it was a hoax, you'd think she or someone like her would reexamine their beliefs and suspicions. Maybe airplanes aren't spraying chemicals. Maybe the government isn't out to get me.


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27 Jan 2011, 6:14 pm

You just opened Pandoras Shit-box man :lol:



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27 Jan 2011, 9:24 pm

MasterJedi wrote:
my neighbor is a conspiracy theorist. She thinks the contrails are chemicals to decrease the population and fluoride is bad for you.

When she goes off on a tangent about how mercury causes autism and someone shows her that it was a hoax, you'd think she or someone like her would reexamine their beliefs and suspicions. Maybe airplanes aren't spraying chemicals. Maybe the government isn't out to get me.


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27 Jan 2011, 10:07 pm

MasterJedi wrote:
my neighbor is a conspiracy theorist. She thinks the contrails are chemicals to decrease the population and fluoride is bad for you.

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Get her a tin-foil hat.

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27 Jan 2011, 10:09 pm

Vigilans wrote:
You just opened Pandoras sh**-box man :lol:
Yeah interpretation isn't as cut and dried as the OP puts it lol. It takes way more than just overwhelming evidence.



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27 Jan 2011, 10:37 pm

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean "they" aren't out to get you. :lol: