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I have a conspiracy theory about conspiracy theories.
I believe they purposely create or perpetuate totally fake ones so that everyone gets used to rolling their eyes and pshawing all the theories so that no one pays attention or believes the ones that are really true.
Everyone should take time to read and understand this quote from NAZI Josef Mengele...
''The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.''
It applies to the American public at present time.
I bet 99.999% are bulls**t. I am especially tired of all the 9/11 theories.
Your mind is too small to conceive of such things and they are fairly easy - they happen too frequently.
If you like Star Trek and Star Wars you would have some idea of what kind of society could support such endeavors. Punching a small rocket out of Earth's gravitational pull to go to the moon is one thing. Building spaceships the size of those depicted in movies would require a collective effort of the entire planet.
Right. The loner nutcase Breivik was controlled by the Norwegian government. Do you even think they have the resources or technology to do this? Fact: ABB was primarily a product of a failed childhood (neglected by his parents), like so many criminals.
Not necessarily the Norwegian government. Could have been some other government used him against the Norwegian government....For example, Norway is a rich country that has it's financial act together. It doesn't want to join the Euro for that reason. That probably p*sses the powers that be in the European Union off to no end. Of course, this is just one possibility.
How do we really know he was merely the product of a failed childhood? Maybe that's part of the story. Maybe such children are ideal fodder for mind control programming. Maybe the press simlply is lying about his background (or the press has been fed lies and did not check them out). There are a whole lot of possibilities you're not considering. Like another poster said....Closed mind.
Here's plenty of reason to question govt. And my sources are real, from inside beltway, not radio shows or dubious conspiracy "sites"
In 1973, the price of oil skyrockets, bringing a huge amount of wealth to Saudi Arabia and other oil-rich Middle Eastern countries. The Center for Security Policy (CSP), a Washington think tank, will calculate in 2003 that, between 1975 and 2002, the Saudi government spends over $70 billion on international aid. More than two thirds of the money goes to Islamic related purposes such as building mosques and religious schools. This money usually supports Wahhabism, a fundamentalist version of Islam dominant in Saudi Arabia but far less popular in most other Islamic nations. CSP scholar Alex Alexiev calls this “the largest worldwide propaganda campaign ever mounted” in the history of the world. In addition, private Saudi citizens donate many billions more for Wahhabi projects overseas through private charities. Some of the biggest charities, such as the Muslim World League and its affiliate, the International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO), are headed by Saudi government officials and closely tied to the government. The IIRO takes credit for funding 575 new mosques in Indonesia alone. Most of this money is spent on benign purposes with charitable intentions. But US News and World Report will assert in 2003: “Accompanying the money, invariably, was a blizzard of Wahhabist literature.… Critics argue that Wahhabism’s more extreme preachings—mistrust of infidels, branding of rival sects as apostates, and emphasis on violent jihad—laid the groundwork for terrorist groups around the world.”
I'm not sure if I call these conspiracies.. but I'll refer to them as such for the purpose of this post.
Basically, think of them as when people suspect established institutions (i.e. companies, organizations, schools, governments, etc.) of having a hidden agenda.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, I'll give this one example of a review of the app "YELP". Basically, the reader believes the purpose of this app is to hold businesses hostage and extort huge fees out of them to get rid of bad reviews (rather than the "intended" purpose of regular people reviewing businesses.)
Am I just naiive or is there something psychologically "off" about the people who construct and believe in these sorts of conspiracies?
Don't know about lizard people or any of the rest, but as a small business owner I can verify that both Yelp and Angies List do sort of "shake you down" and offer filtering of reviews if you pay them money. They can call it what they want, but it is what it is.
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