Do you believe in conspiracy theories?

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zacb
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09 Dec 2012, 2:28 pm

Or are the people who talk about them nuts?



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09 Dec 2012, 2:35 pm

There are always people being capable of doing psycho s**t like that and there are always people who can unintendedly drive certain others that far that they become the victim of this behavior.

You have to be really unlucky though to be the victim of such thing.



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09 Dec 2012, 2:42 pm

Um, I was talking more about conspiracy theories. Sorry :oops:



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09 Dec 2012, 2:59 pm

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09 Dec 2012, 3:03 pm

I blame the Freemasons. And the Zionists. And the Illuminati.



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09 Dec 2012, 3:08 pm

Tequila wrote:
I blame the Freemasons. And the Zionists. And the Illuminati.


I see what you did there! :P


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09 Dec 2012, 3:39 pm

I don't put much credence in conspiracy theories. Some of them are just straight from left field. Like the one about lizard people running the world or the missing time hypothesis or whatever it's called.



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09 Dec 2012, 3:45 pm

They are most definitely not nuts. They're in it for the money. Someone like Alex Jones has developed a systematic, scientific method for pushing gullible people's buttons and selling them products. They know exactly what they're doing.



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09 Dec 2012, 4:50 pm

Not really mostly, I do read a lot though and find them interesting :o



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09 Dec 2012, 4:53 pm

I don't believe in them literally, but I enjoy them as exercises in pattern recognition.



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09 Dec 2012, 5:01 pm

http://www.truthism.com/

The above website is hilarious. A very long read, but worth it.


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09 Dec 2012, 5:56 pm

There are a lot of extreme ideas out there but the people that they should be watching they don't. :twisted: If they spent half the time that they spend on odd theories watching there own governments they might do some good.



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09 Dec 2012, 7:00 pm

I certainly do believe in the existence of conspiracy theories.


I never said I believed in their accuracy, just their existence.


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09 Dec 2012, 7:37 pm

At first you think it's all BS, but some of them have some truth in them.

Some examples:

- It is a fact that Rockefeller financed genetics experiments, the question is whether he also intentionally financed Hitler genetics-projects.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_Record_Office

- There was something known as the Havaaraa-agreement. The Nazis and Israel made a deal so that more people could come to Palestine. This agreement is used by conspiracy theories and it isn't a very well known agreement in mainstream media.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haavara_Agreement

- Conspiracy Theorists are right about a lot of American presidents being a freemason.

- You can read books written by freemasons themselves who say that George Washington had a masonic inauguration and you can still see symbolism of the masons.


I think that these facts are actually distorted by conspiracy theorists to make them fit certain ideologies, but I believe that some bankers really have some plans.

What is unbelievable about bankers, who are mostly psychopaths, because they only think about themselves and don't care about other people, wanting to take over the world or wanting to have a lot of power? If I was a banker in such a high position with such a mindset, I think I would do everything to make money too. The question is what are facts of what is claimed about bankers in conspiracy theories.

I don't think that all these conspiracy theories are nonsense, just most of them. Watch out for believing nonsense, but also watch out for thinking everything is nonsense because some conspiracy theories surely explain certain things and seem to give a good and better explanation.

There was a physician from an university who claimed in a video that the official story about 9/11 is, scientifically, quite unreal. I don't say that 9/11 was a conspiracy, I just say that if you seriously listen to people claiming that it was a conspiracy that it's very likely that they are right at a lot of points. A lot in the official story doesn't seem realistic. There was a Dutch TV program which researched this and even they found out that certain things weren't right in the official story, and this was mainstream media.



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09 Dec 2012, 7:37 pm

One-Winged-Angel wrote:
http://www.truthism.com/

The above website is hilarious. A very long read, but worth it.
:lmao: Absolutely - a cracking good read.
There is some astonishingly stupid crap on there.


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09 Dec 2012, 7:55 pm

I believe in some conspiracys. And Defintley believe in Ghosts & Aliens

This guy hacked into NASA and Some USA Military computers and saw something out of this world. I believe him

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McKinnon