Despite there being a lack of evidence to a conspiracy, people still hold onto it. We know 9/11 was more an inside job. We know the government didn't kill JFK.
Why do People Believe in Conspiracy Theories?
Despite there being a lack of evidence to a conspiracy, people still hold onto it. We know 9/11 was more an inside job. We know the government didn't kill JFK.
Because the "official story" isn't always accurate and governments lie, I don't really trust strange men standing on podiums with their fancy ties and executive suits.
jibarodepr (2012-07-01), jr1 (2012-07-20), Mister G (2012-07-20), sean (2012-07-05)
http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...n-conspiracies
Some ideas mentioned in that article. ^^^
"The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot." - Carl Sagan
It would be a great idea to create a thread for conspiracy theories, but anything other than something like "It's the Jews fault".
Originally Posted by Esekon Kimatt:
So when you're having sex you never suck on your Tut's toes? Guess i'm a freak on this forum...
Carolemily (2012-07-20)
People who believe to all conspiracy theories, also the most bizzare ones, like that one about the reptilians and Haarp, are addicted by 007 movies or science fiction books in my opinion.
Maaany times the greatest conspiracy theories are the official versions.
I do not like worrying about the future. I am not altogether on anybody's side, because nobody is altogether on my side.
I am sure it would end jew bashing threadOriginally Posted by cafman21
i hate conspiracy theories although some can be funny but mostly they are for me annoying
example this kind, Pyramids or stonehenge made by aliens, Princess Diane death 1000 theories etc
I still struggle with "Jew Bashing" and can't understand it at all. It seems so ridiculous , and hard to understand that anyone would actually believe a tiny minority could cause such enormous effects. It seems so painful to read those posts and attempt to understand where all that hatred and anger comes from. However it is eye opening how many people post such nonsense, and a bit frightening that there are so many people with that perspective.
When something is poorly explained or there is scope for interpretation it allows a creative, or mischievous person to fill in the blanks and offer their own version of what really happened. Important events, like JFK's assassination or 9/11, will never be accounted for in full so they are perfect material for conspiracy theorists to work with.
I think some conspiracy theorists do this because they really believe what they proclaim happened happened, some people really do believe that 9/11 was an inside job, but many others have agendas of one sort or another.
To address the question, I think what's more interesting is that not only do people create, often out of thin air, their own version of what happened but thousands or even millions of other people will believe it with no good reason to prefer it to the official story. This leads me to suspect that people believe in conspiracy theories because they are looking for reasons to believe that those in authority are hoodwinking them and that those in authority are up to something evil- why else would somebody believe JFK is really alive or was killed by the CIA or whatever? I think it comes down to them wanting some reason to despise or malign those in power, and the justification for this can come from anywhere (so somebody proposes some unlikely but possible theory, others choose to believe this even though there is little evidence to substantiate it because they want a reason to dislike whoever is accused of the wrongdoing in question, usually it will be governments or big corporations).
The above can mean that adherents to conspiracy theories are fickle friends, if they are going to believe bad things about others for no good reason whose to say that they won't eventually turn on the person feeding them the conspiracy theories? I remember watching a guest on a TV programme illustrating this; David Shayler (an ex-MI5 officer, whistleblower and certifiable oddball) was also on the programme and was spouting his theories about 9/11 being an inside job, this other guest (can't recall his name) pointed out that if he decided to start a conspiracy theory that Shayler was in fact still an MI5 officer and was pretending to be a whistleblower in order to discredit 9/11 conspiracy theories this theory would acquire believers very rapidly. Those who want to believe strange things will believe strange things.
I don't believe this is my England
Carolemily (2012-07-21), mdou3 (2012-07-20)
Why don't most people ever think to question the first explanation thrown at them from a source of authority? My observation is that most people need things to be in black and white to remain mentally stable. I think we subconsciously choose to be gullible on the off chance that we can't handle the truth.
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