Conspiracy Theories - The Ramblings of Nutters and Halfwits.
By robspeakman
@robspeakman (1700)
November 10, 2012 8:57am CST
I do love a good conspiracy theory, not because I believe there is sinister working occurring in the background - No, it is the crazy people that believe these things. They are very funny.
If you are one of those that believes.... Ah bless, run along the grown ups are talking.
Everything that has happened in the last 100 hundred years has some form of conspiracy behind it.... or so the crazy folk will have us believe.
WW1 was some European land grab. Pearl harbour was allowed to happen. WW2 was so USA, Russia and UK could split up Europe. Roswell, Kennedy, Moon Landings, Peak oil, Contrails, 9/11, cuban missle crisis, Diana, 3 mile island - the list is endless.
How can there be so many conspiracies? Very very simple. We are nothing, we are merely people - the powers that be do not have to reveal everything to us and that is where ir all starts. Conspiracy theorist start to create their own information or pass on other rubbish they have heard to fill in the gaps, thus creating myths and false information.
None of the conspiracy theories have actually been proved to be truthful or proved.
For example, 6% of Americans believe that the moon landing was faked. What do you think? I will tell you what I think, 400000 people worked on the Moon mission of 69, Can they all keep a secret. The moon mission was at the height of the cold war, would the Russians keep that quiet? Every radio telescope in the world followed the mission - Are these people liars?
Now, I do believe that the powers that be conspire against us and hide stuff, but the do it openly and before our eyes, because they know we are powerless
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@Rollo1 (16676)
• Boston, Massachusetts
10 Nov 12
Life without conspiracy theories is like food without salt and pepper.
Science explains too much these days. We don't have our oral traditional lore and legend so we make it up. Whether it's a conspiracy theory or Bigfoot, it captures the imaginations of people.
However, just because 99 out of 100 conspiracy theories are wild and far-fetched, doesn't mean that 1 out of 100 might not be based in a grain of truth.
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@matersfish (6306)
• United States
10 Nov 12
I think it has more to do with the fact that most of the world grows up believing things without any evidence at all. They believe what they're told only.
And even as you get older and become educated, matters are still complicated due to competing evidence.
I'm not necessarily talking about a highly-qualified engineer talking about the structural integrity of steel vs. a guy who worked on a construction site and watched a building catch on fire once. I mean people pulling those "facts and figures" and citing sources and such to make arguments for religion, the political system they believe in, etc. I'm also guilty on that front.
But it goes to the fact that we believe things, and we subsequently find ways to back up our beliefs.
I think it's harder to be swayed from a belief than it is to be led to one.
Then it comes down to what you believe in.
For me, beliefs that the majority of my fellow citizens share is one that I find to be too out there to get on board with. But it's a way of life for them.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
14 Nov 12
Conspiracy theories are extremely popular, and as you say there are so many covering almost every conceivable subject.
The people who follow this line of belief seem to be addicted, almost in the same way as the fanatical soap opera fans who send hate mail and get well soon cards to characters because of the current story line. I had a friend who spent all his spare time visiting conspiracy theory websites, and he genuinely believed that he was learning something. The trouble is that it is impossible to disprove most of these theories because the lack of any tangible evidence is usually considered as proof that there must have been a cover up.
Like yourself, I have heard all this nonsense about the moon landing, which so many people now accept. If there had been any possibility of then I would expect that Russia would have been the first to dispute it.
@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
11 Nov 12
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment#In_popular_culture
The Tuskegee Experiement was a 'conspiracy theory' at one time too.
You want to believe everything you're told, go ahead. ME, I'm going to question EVERYTHING I'm told until the day I die.
@inertia4 (27978)
• United States
12 Nov 12
Well, I do believe all the theories are bull. But with the Kennedy story, I read a book by the son of Joseph Bonanno in which he explained in extreme detail how Kennedy was killed. It actually made much more sense then the story given to the public. So that story I do believe. After all, the Kennedy's father was a bootlegger and involved with the mob already. So it makes sense that they helped him get elected and also took him out. All the others, well, they are all speculation.
@rjschultz68 (387)
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10 Nov 12
I believe in the cult of the individual. This is being eroded by the iphone/facebook/lemming culture.I feel that the more this culture permeates us,then the more people will be susceptible to being indoctrinised by the latest claims/conspiracy theories. Too many people in influential positions are d***heads,charlatans or pointdexters.
@STOUTjodee (3670)
• United States
10 Nov 12
Conspiracy theories to one person maybe just that. To another person they are fact and even have proof to back them up. Conspiracy theories are like the saying "one man's junk is another man's treasure." You might call me a conspiracy theorist and I might call you a conspiracy theorist, we're just disagreeing with each other's ideas but adding in a statement that is PC (politically correct.)
