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Title: The conspiracies of FAIL
Post by: RedneckR0nin on May 23, 2012, 06:41:30 AM
Just a place where I will post the ones of entertainment value or at least the videos. Be forewarned though....this may reduce your intellect level by at least 2 points.

I'll start it off with my most favorite character the BeePeee guy. He believes in his infinite wisdom that the oil spilled there has affected the environment(DUH) but his information sharing I don't think is getting anyone to do anything but laugh at him..always great for  laugh. Everything is about eating itself. ;D


Title: Re: The conspiracies of FAIL
Post by: RedneckR0nin on May 23, 2012, 06:46:08 AM
Who was responsible for 9/11...not the jews, or Bush, or Silverstein or anyone else....but aliens...that is right...aliens...well she doesn't know for SURE it was them but knows they were there.
This one hurts my head badly...if you can make it all the way through your a god
Title: Re: The conspiracies of FAIL
Post by: BazBear on May 23, 2012, 08:38:13 AM
Well she's right about it being done by aliens...

But I'd guess 18 Saudis and 1 Yemeni aren't exactly the extraterrestrial sort she means.
Title: Re: The conspiracies of FAIL
Post by: ka9q on May 24, 2012, 03:10:19 AM
And every one of these people is entitled to one vote, the same as you and me...

Frightening, isn't it?
Title: Re: The conspiracies of FAIL
Post by: SolusLupus on June 07, 2012, 12:49:29 PM
Funnily enough, ka9q, people can seem otherwise normal and intelligent, and be able to hold a non-crazy conversation about religion, politics, etc., and then suddenly devolve into crazy over certain subjects.

The Timecube guy, Gene Ray, was said to have been the same way.  Normal guy, but ask him about Timecube, he doesn't seen normal; any other subject, he was fine.
Title: Re: The conspiracies of FAIL
Post by: Echnaton on June 07, 2012, 01:55:29 PM
The rationality of each human mind is most certainly bounded.  It is just that we don't all share the same boundaries.
Title: Re: The conspiracies of FAIL
Post by: SolusLupus on June 07, 2012, 02:19:20 PM
Sometimes I wonder if part of it has to do with the way thoughts are organized.  Think about politics in general, and you can be fine; but think about Timecube, or the apollo missions, or whatever else, suddenly you see a large conspiracy.

The biggest thing that made me think this, actually, was talking with someone who felt that global warming was a huge conspiracy by the government, started from the '50s (in "The Unchained Goddess", which I linked) on up all the way to today, and planted so that the government gets more power from the corps.  Yet he was also 100% supportive on the War on Iraq, Afghanistan, etc., calling himself "pro-War".  The same body he felt responsible for a conspiracy to control people, he trusted to use the military.  It's like he has one "thought group" that involves the "War on Iraq", and another "thought group" that involves "Global Warming", and the two shall never meet.
Title: Re: The conspiracies of FAIL
Post by: gillianren on June 07, 2012, 04:24:27 PM
Not unusual, so far as I can tell.
Title: Re: The conspiracies of FAIL
Post by: RedneckR0nin on June 19, 2012, 10:21:10 PM
This one made the last forum ...HAARP and it's deadly rainbow sprinkler effects
Title: Re: The conspiracies of FAIL
Post by: SolusLupus on June 19, 2012, 10:26:28 PM


Haven't heard of the first one.  Just... what?  They left THAT out of my history courses.  :D
Title: Re: The conspiracies of FAIL
Post by: DataCable on June 19, 2012, 11:38:00 PM
This one made the last forum
Twice.
Title: Re: The conspiracies of FAIL
Post by: RedneckR0nin on June 20, 2012, 03:39:36 AM
This one made the last forum
Twice.

Yeah I posted it about two years after the fact!
Title: Re: The conspiracies of FAIL
Post by: SolusLupus on June 20, 2012, 03:59:59 AM
I'm still boggling at the Phantom Time Hypothesis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_time_hypothesis
Title: Re: The conspiracies of FAIL
Post by: ka9q on June 20, 2012, 06:04:38 AM
I'm still boggling at the Phantom Time Hypothesis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_time_hypothesis
That's a pretty strange one, all right. I'd say it's neatly refuted by the eclipse and Halley's Comet sightings.

Astronomical events are a marvelous way to date ancient events.
Title: Re: The conspiracies of FAIL
Post by: Inanimate Carbon Rod on June 30, 2012, 10:46:28 AM
You haven't seen woo until you've seen this bad boy:

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Project_Blue_Beam (http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Project_Blue_Beam)
Title: Re: The conspiracies of FAIL
Post by: Inanimate Carbon Rod on June 30, 2012, 08:28:32 PM
Children served up at fast food joints:

http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?t=193732 (http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?t=193732)
Title: Re: The conspiracies of FAIL
Post by: ka9q on June 30, 2012, 10:35:36 PM
Just saw a great sig line on that forum (DavidIcke):

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'Occam's Razor' - 'The simplest explanation is the likeliest one.' However, on this forum, not only does Occam not shave, but his balls haven't even dropped yet...
Title: Re: The conspiracies of FAIL
Post by: Andromeda on July 01, 2012, 06:32:27 AM
Children served up at fast food joints:

http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?t=193732 (http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?t=193732)

It's like Poe's Law...
Title: Re: The conspiracies of FAIL
Post by: Inanimate Carbon Rod on July 01, 2012, 10:15:02 AM
Spotted this gem at DavidIcke.com

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genetically modified to produce chickens with extra breasts
Title: Re: The conspiracies of FAIL
Post by: twik on July 01, 2012, 01:46:09 PM
I think a lot of conspiracy thinking seems to spring out a sense of self-pity, and a love of feeling victimized. Everything bad isn't just chance, that *everyone* has to deal with - it's something done deliberately.

I notice this on a gaming forum I frequent. Many players seem to believe that things they don't like about the game are not merely bad choices by the designers. They're *deliberate* attempts to "ruin the game", although why the designers would want to do that is not explained.
Title: Re: The conspiracies of FAIL
Post by: Mr Gorsky on July 03, 2012, 09:18:55 AM
I think a lot of conspiracy thinking seems to spring out a sense of self-pity, and a love of feeling victimized. Everything bad isn't just chance, that *everyone* has to deal with - it's something done deliberately.

I notice this on a gaming forum I frequent. Many players seem to believe that things they don't like about the game are not merely bad choices by the designers. They're *deliberate* attempts to "ruin the game", although why the designers would want to do that is not explained.

That reminds me of something Marcus Cole said in season 4 of Babylon 5 ...

"I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, 'wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them?' So now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe."
Title: Re: The conspiracies of FAIL
Post by: twik on July 03, 2012, 04:37:19 PM
Marcus ... (lets a single tear fall).

Yep, Marcus had a way with words.
Title: Re: The conspiracies of FAIL
Post by: ka9q on July 04, 2012, 10:25:31 AM
"I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, 'wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them?' So now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe."
That's why every conspiracy theory posits malevolent conspirators doing nasty things to us that we don't deserve. Otherwise they wouldn't be called conspirators.

Just as you say, it would be even worse to think that these bad things happen to us because we actually deserve them. That's probably why no conspiracy theory I know of suggests this.

This is the province of organized religion, with a God (or gods) in the "conspirator" role.

Title: Re: The conspiracies of FAIL
Post by: Noldi400 on July 04, 2012, 12:06:33 PM
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This is the province of organized religion, with a God (or gods) in the "conspirator" role.

You could make a case that Conspiracy Theories qualify as a religion (cult?) albeit not a very organized one.

They hold to a given belief despite any facts or evidence to the contrary. They know what they know because they know it and obsess over tiny bits of data that they claim support their belief. They ascribe opposition to a malevolent enemy (NASA, CIA, etc). And they get really cranky when their beliefs are challenged.
Title: Re: The conspiracies of FAIL
Post by: ka9q on July 05, 2012, 05:19:46 AM
Yes, I guess you could say that. A conspiracy theory is a religion with a devil (or group of devils) rather than a god (or group of gods). Some conspiracists ascribe vast powers and abilities to the CIA, FBI, NASA, and other parts of "the Gub'mint" that are hard to distinguish from the omnipotent and omniscent god/gods in many religions...
Title: Re: The conspiracies of FAIL
Post by: SolusLupus on July 05, 2012, 10:40:33 AM
It's demon-think, just like a witch hunt.  You're on the demon's side, and thus all you say and show are lies and should be dismissed as such, you're manipulated by the demon, and thus all you say and show are the demon's lies and you need to be corrected or intimidated away from them, or you see the truth and agree with the accusations.

Only for witch hunts, the imbalance of power is against the witch; in this case, the illusory demons have so much power against the conspiracy theorists, that they feel helpless and might as well just go about life.
Title: Re: The conspiracies of FAIL
Post by: Noldi400 on July 05, 2012, 11:05:22 AM

(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy257/Noldi400/conspiracynew.jpg)

Title: Re: The conspiracies of FAIL
Post by: twik on July 05, 2012, 02:09:33 PM
This is the province of organized religion, with a God (or gods) in the "conspirator" role.

And don't forget doctors - anything goes wrong? It's because you weren't looking after yourself.
Title: Re: The conspiracies of FAIL
Post by: twik on July 05, 2012, 02:13:29 PM
Some conspiracists ascribe vast powers and abilities to the CIA, FBI, NASA, and other parts of "the Gub'mint" that are hard to distinguish from the omnipotent and omniscent god/gods in many religions...

That's a good point. The bad guys in conspiracies are both omnipotent and omniscient - for example, able to control ALL pictures taken in Dealey Plaza, without even one person showing up later with a Brownie camera and a clear shot of the grassy knoll. WHile, at the same time, letting all photos that DON'T show the assassin clearly (such as the Moorman polaroid) go through.
Title: Re: The conspiracies of FAIL
Post by: RedneckR0nin on July 07, 2012, 12:46:06 AM
Yes that is right Illuminati wacked wacko Jacko..if you can make it through the "proof" in the Beat It video without laughing your a stronger person than I.