i used to laugh in this myself!!!
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[/QUOTE]then i found to there being people who actaully BELIEVE IT... i stopped laughing. [/QUOTE]
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Well, I laugh at you. Complete circle. Thank you universe.
Just Ridiculous! Funny tho!
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[b]Major Tom wrote: [/b]
Well, I laugh at you. Complete circle. Thank you universe.[/QUOTE]
huh?? i wasnt laughing at YOU i am laughing at the retards who believe this shit... i dont laugh at you at all your one of the better posters here. :[/QUOTE]sorry.[/QUOTE]
[b]Major Tom wrote: [/b]
Well, I laugh at you. Complete circle. Thank you universe.[/QUOTE]
huh?? i wasnt laughing at YOU i am laughing at the retards who believe this shit... i dont laugh at you at all your one of the better posters here. :[/QUOTE]sorry.[/QUOTE]
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[b]Zebonka12 wrote: [/b]
There isn't much to them. They can be entertaining reading, and good for a laugh, but that's where it should begin and end. They're merely an outlet for paranoid people, and a byproduct of the human tendency to not want to believe certain things
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So any theory challenging what is generally accepted to be an official explanation is to be labeled as a conspiracy theory, despite any evidence however supportive or futile?
[QUOTE]with 9/11 they don't like thinking that there are people out there that could commit such awful acts, so it's easier to lie and say the government did it[/QUOTE]
That explanation makes no sense, as it still entails someone being able to commit such awful acts - their government as opposed to people from another country.
The most common reason given is that it gave the government an excuse to go to Iraq to kill the terrorists in the interests of keeping the American people safe. They achieved their principal goals in 2003 by capturing Saddam and his son, yet they are still there.
[QUOTE]A lot of these theories are tailored to human weakness and gullibility.[/QUOTE]
Targeting human weakness is certainly not limited to conspiracy theories.
[b]Zebonka12 wrote: [/b]
There isn't much to them. They can be entertaining reading, and good for a laugh, but that's where it should begin and end. They're merely an outlet for paranoid people, and a byproduct of the human tendency to not want to believe certain things
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So any theory challenging what is generally accepted to be an official explanation is to be labeled as a conspiracy theory, despite any evidence however supportive or futile?
[QUOTE]with 9/11 they don't like thinking that there are people out there that could commit such awful acts, so it's easier to lie and say the government did it[/QUOTE]
That explanation makes no sense, as it still entails someone being able to commit such awful acts - their government as opposed to people from another country.
The most common reason given is that it gave the government an excuse to go to Iraq to kill the terrorists in the interests of keeping the American people safe. They achieved their principal goals in 2003 by capturing Saddam and his son, yet they are still there.
[QUOTE]A lot of these theories are tailored to human weakness and gullibility.[/QUOTE]
Targeting human weakness is certainly not limited to conspiracy theories.
"So any theory challenging what is generally accepted to be an official explanation is to be labeled as a conspiracy theory, despite any evidence however supportive or futile?"
Not exactly. I think that's a different topic; 'what should be qualified as a theory?'. Actually I think most theories would sit more cosily under the banner of 'bullshit theories' as opposed to 'conspiracy theories'. They're related, of course, because they reek of denial and a lack of solid fact.
"That explanation makes no sense, as it still entails someone being able to commit such awful acts - their government as opposed to people from another country."
Inasmuch as the term 'conspiracy theory' is sometimes applied wrongly to a shonky theory with little or no thought put into it, 'the government' is (admittedly in my post as well) a term used not to denote a bunch of people, but some faceless entity that the public can blame for things so that they don't have to waste too much time thinking about the long term causes for the problems in the world today.
True - one could say "if Western countries had been more sensitive in their dealings with the Middle East during and after World War I and paid more attention to the consequences of establishing Israel when and where they did, and if we hadn't kept on funding little wars all over the shop without thinking of the implications ... maybe we wouldn't be having hijacked planes flown into our buildings".
Judging by our old friend the internet, it seems a lot easier for people to look at blurry images of an alleged missile stuck to the bottom of an airliner and say 'this is proof that the government did it'.
"Targeting human weakness is certainly not limited to conspiracy theories."
Oh well if you take it literally, you could say that Tic-Tac packaging is targeted at human weakness. God only knows my resolve is tested every time I pass one of those things.
I have to stress; this is a thread about the "Paul is Dead" shtick. There couldn't be a worse place to discuss the validity or cause of conspiracy theories.
Not exactly. I think that's a different topic; 'what should be qualified as a theory?'. Actually I think most theories would sit more cosily under the banner of 'bullshit theories' as opposed to 'conspiracy theories'. They're related, of course, because they reek of denial and a lack of solid fact.
"That explanation makes no sense, as it still entails someone being able to commit such awful acts - their government as opposed to people from another country."
Inasmuch as the term 'conspiracy theory' is sometimes applied wrongly to a shonky theory with little or no thought put into it, 'the government' is (admittedly in my post as well) a term used not to denote a bunch of people, but some faceless entity that the public can blame for things so that they don't have to waste too much time thinking about the long term causes for the problems in the world today.
True - one could say "if Western countries had been more sensitive in their dealings with the Middle East during and after World War I and paid more attention to the consequences of establishing Israel when and where they did, and if we hadn't kept on funding little wars all over the shop without thinking of the implications ... maybe we wouldn't be having hijacked planes flown into our buildings".
Judging by our old friend the internet, it seems a lot easier for people to look at blurry images of an alleged missile stuck to the bottom of an airliner and say 'this is proof that the government did it'.
"Targeting human weakness is certainly not limited to conspiracy theories."
Oh well if you take it literally, you could say that Tic-Tac packaging is targeted at human weakness. God only knows my resolve is tested every time I pass one of those things.
I have to stress; this is a thread about the "Paul is Dead" shtick. There couldn't be a worse place to discuss the validity or cause of conspiracy theories.
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[b]Zebonka12 wrote: [/b]
'the government' is (admittedly in my post as well) a term used not to denote a bunch of people, but some faceless entity that the public can blame for things so that they don't have to waste too much time thinking about the long term causes for the problems in the world today.
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Very true.
[QUOTE]True - one could say "if Western countries had been more sensitive in their dealings with the Middle East during and after World War I and paid more attention to the consequences of establishing Israel when and where they did, and if we hadn't kept on funding little wars all over the shop without thinking of the implications ... maybe we wouldn't be having hijacked planes flown into our buildings".[/QUOTE]
Truer words have rarely been spoken.
[QUOTE]this is a thread about the "Paul is Dead" shtick. There couldn't be a worse place to discuss the validity or cause of conspiracy theories.[/QUOTE]
Fair enough!
[b]Zebonka12 wrote: [/b]
'the government' is (admittedly in my post as well) a term used not to denote a bunch of people, but some faceless entity that the public can blame for things so that they don't have to waste too much time thinking about the long term causes for the problems in the world today.
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Very true.
[QUOTE]True - one could say "if Western countries had been more sensitive in their dealings with the Middle East during and after World War I and paid more attention to the consequences of establishing Israel when and where they did, and if we hadn't kept on funding little wars all over the shop without thinking of the implications ... maybe we wouldn't be having hijacked planes flown into our buildings".[/QUOTE]
Truer words have rarely been spoken.
[QUOTE]this is a thread about the "Paul is Dead" shtick. There couldn't be a worse place to discuss the validity or cause of conspiracy theories.[/QUOTE]
Fair enough!
I edited this post, as some of you might get offended by the possibilities I wrote. I don´t want to make enemies. I still feel sick to this day when watching the planes hit the WTC.
I left this slice of thoughts..
Big brother feeds us fear, cause we comsume more when we´re afraid.
I tend to look at things with a sceptic eye, not with a paranoid.
I left this slice of thoughts..
Big brother feeds us fear, cause we comsume more when we´re afraid.
I tend to look at things with a sceptic eye, not with a paranoid.