Originally posted by: Josh
Originally posted by: BeauJangles
Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus
Originally posted by: Josh
Originally posted by: Ns1
Originally posted by: Bulk Beef
Originally posted by: Amused
I wonder what it is that compels a small, but significant percentage of the population to buy into obviously contrived and logically impossible conspiracy theories?
It's as if they NEED the conspiracy to be true. They WANT it to be true and will ignore facts to believe it.
Are conspiracy theories the new religion?
I was going to write a sociology paper on CTers a couple of years ago. Was going to try to answer some of those questions, but I decided after a day of research that it was just gonna piss me off.
I felt that way after 5 hours yesterday
Sometimes I feel as though they don't even believe in the shit they are just trying to get a rise out of people the sick sadistic fucks.
Well I thought Alkemyst had some intelligence until this thread. I have since realized he thinks he has a lot, but in fact does not. Casio I never thought was intelligent, and just thought he was the shit. Then IBS the jury was out on. I thought he was just a college guy that just wanted booty, and had no real goals. Turns out he is just a moron as well.
Eh to each their own.
The better question is why do I take them seriously and actually try to answer with facts when I know they'll either ignore my post or scream something like "but, teh weapons pods!?!?!?!"
The greatest words I've ever read about the 9/11 conspiracy came from a Maddox article talking about Loose Change in which he says "Watching this movie is like being bukakked with stupid."
http://maddox.xmission.com/c.cgi?u=911_morons
Brilliant.
Here it is for those who can't view for some reason:
The fact that THIS MAN is alive is proof "Loose Change" is bullshit.
Here's why...
1. The man in the picture above is Dylan Avery. To be more precise, the fact that Dylan, his friends, and family are alive, is proof that "Loose Change" is bullshit. He, along with a couple of his friends, created a 9/11 conspiracy video claiming that the US government and the military caused 9/11. Take a closer look at the last part of that last sentence: he's claiming that the US government, for whatever ends, killed nearly 3,000 innocent Americans, and tens if not hundreds of thousands of more lives in the conflicts that ensued because of it.
2. Since Dylan's arguing that the government has no problem killing 3,000 innocent people, this raises the question: if his documentary is true, and we've established that the government has no ethical qualms about killing thousands of its own people, then
why wouldn't the government kill Avery and his friends as well? What's a few more lives to them to ensure the success of this conspiracy? [/b]
Whatever reason it may be that the government supposedly orchestrated this conspiracy, it must have been worth it to them to cause so much suffering and loss of life. So if there's any truth to this, then you can bet your ass that the government wouldn't let a couple of pecker-neck chumps with a couple of Macs and too much time on their hands jeopardise their entire operation by letting this stupid video float around on the Internet. I can picture you morons emailing me now: "BUT MADOX, MAYBE DYLAN POSTED IT ON THE INTERNET BEFORE THE GOVERNMENT HAD A CHANCE TO REMOVE IT LOL." Yeah, too bad this rebuttal is inconsistent with the premise of Dylan's shit-festival of a movie: that the WTC was brought down "in a carefully planned and controlled demolition ... and it was pulled off with military precision." Now we're expected to believe that the same government that was able to commit the largest terrorist operation in history--with military precision no less--is suddenly too incompetent to sniff out and shut down a little website set up by some college losers within days, if not minutes of its creation?
I win. There is no conspiracy. Eat my shit, losers.