Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 8599 Location: Fingerlakes - NY usa
The Cult of Conspiracy Theorists
The very name they choose exposes who they are... well kinda.
They tend to believe in theories as fact like any other religious group. We see them making statements about videos and documents such as "100% proof positive" when it comes to propaganda: just like Religious people. They have special ambiguous insider names for criminals such as; Illuminati, or NWO just like the Christians use Luciferian, and Satanic. They set up leaders for themselves for them to parrot and bring more followers to. They try to pass themselves off as enlightened beings while everyone else are "sheeple" to them. They will gobble up nonsense in an effort to seem more spiritually aware than their peers.
Church goers like to dress up, and Conspiracy theorists do to. They need their conspiracy theorist gear to show their lack of shame similar to how Christians are pressured into carrying their Bibles so others can see them to show that they're not ashamed. They have such faith in their beliefs that were passed down to them that they won't listen to your arguments and will try to appeal to your emotions like good Mormon Missionaries.
They want to choose for you who to vote for and support in politics. They align with the candidate that best suits their theories ignoring and blindly attacking anything negative about the politician. We see a parallel with this and Catholic Priests.
They hold rallies and protests that mimick tent meetings. Their leaders don megaphones and dark sunglasses to hide their tells. They chant, or sing in harmonious repetition. They want to be heard but don't want to listen. They antagonize their opponents with religious fervor. They are the chosen herd, and all others are lost.
They're afraid of symbols. Business's are demonized if their logo bears any resemblance to a pentagram, hexagram, nautilus, shell, hand, eye, triangle, pyramid, etc. They're like Jehovah's Witness's who are afraid of cross's and Christian literature.
They get disgusted with their family and friends who don't join their cult. It doesn't matter that they constantly use words that they don't even understand or can't accurately define themselves like; illuminati, amen, or satanic. After all; they're emotionally charged and doing the will of their leader who's making big bucks (and deserves every million) off of their recruiting efforts. Many alienate themselves from loved ones in an effort to avoid sound reason.
How can we be different? Learning the Rules of Disinformation is a good start. Don't just learn them.. look for their use in any debate. They empower people to better discern for themselves.
Last edited by madthumbs on Sat May 19, 2007 11:23 am; edited 2 times in total
Get on your milk crate with your megaphone and conspiracy gear and act a fool.
Christians are hardly ever original either. Notice the Black shirts with the white print and the familiarly coined term. Notice a lot of Christianized music, and Christianized video games lately?
Christians are trying to make Christianity cool too.
Sat May 19, 2007 10:49 am
madthumbs
Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 8599 Location: Fingerlakes - NY usa
More Conspiracy Images
Talk tough like you're going to stick it to the NWO (or Satan)
Act the idiot to prove your faith
Profess your faith in things that can't be proven.
Downplay issues of race, prefer to stick to things that affect you directly or causes with impossible goals. Afterall, Jesus was a racist.
Make some absurd claims that can't possibly be true.
Sat May 19, 2007 11:08 am
madthumbs
Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 8599 Location: Fingerlakes - NY usa
A new conspiracy theory sweeping the Internet and radio talk shows has set parts of the federal government on edge.
The theory: The white lines of condensed water vapor that jets leave in the sky, called contrails, are actually a toxic substance the government deliberately sprays on an unsuspecting populace.
Federal bureaucracies have gotten thousands of phone calls, e-mails and letters in recent years from people demanding to know what is being sprayed and why. Some of the missives are threatening.
It's impossible to tell how many supporters these ideas have attracted, but the people who believe them say they're tired of getting the brush-off from officials. And they're tired of health problems they blame on "spraying."
"This is blatant. This is in your face," says Philip Marie Sr., a retired nuclear quality engineer from Bartlett, N.H., who says the sky above his quiet town is often crisscrossed with "spray" trails.
"No one will address it," he says. "Everyone stonewalls this thing."
The situation Marie and others describe is straight out of The X-Files.
He and others report one day looking up at the sky and realizing that they were seeing abnormal contrails: contrails that lingered and spread into wispy clouds, multiple contrails arranged in tick-tack-toe-like grids or parallel lines, contrails being laid down by white planes without registration numbers.
Believers call these tracks "chemtrails." They say they don't know why the chemicals are being dropped, but that doesn't stop them from speculating.
Many guess that the federal government is trying to slow global warming with compounds that reflect sunlight into the sky. Some propose more ominous theories, such as a government campaign to weed out the old and sick.
Exasperated by persistent questions, the Environmental Protection Agency, NASA, the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration joined forces last fall to publish a fact sheet explaining the science of contrail formation. A few months earlier, the Air Force had put out its own fact sheet, which tries to refute its opponents' arguments point by point.
"If you try to pin these people down and refute things, it's, 'Well, you're just part of the conspiracy,' " says atmospheric scientist Patrick Minnis of NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. "Logic is not exactly a real selling point for most of them."
Nothing is "out there" except water vapor and ice crystals, say irritated scientists who study contrails. Some, such as Minnis, are outraged enough by the claims of chemtrail believers that they have trolled Internet chat rooms to correct misinformation or have gotten into arguments with callers.
"Conspiracy nonsense," snorts Kenneth Sassen, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Utah. "These things are at 30,000 to 40,000 feet in the atmosphere. They're tiny particles. They're not going to affect anyone."
The cloud-forming contrails that conspiracy theorists find so ominous are "perfectly natural," Minnis says. The odd grid and parallel-line patterns are easily explained as contrails blown together by the wind, scientists say.
This is a good topic because this conspiracy culture has been quite blatant since as long as I could remember. Its all a big show I think. replete with the standard leaders and followers. The way they act is also bordering on immature, you'd think with the knowledge that they supposedly have about the world they'd be thinking on a much broader scale than what is being portrayed in rallies and conventions. There is a convention called ConspiracyCon for crying out loud. they allow what should be important thought changing ideas to be turned into a subculture of entertainment. And of course they are ALWAYS the target of the big media smear campaigns against any of the thinking and research done by people seeking a higher truth. The contrail article is a good example of that. a smear article without objectivity, EASILY countered by this article.
but of course I am sure most the self-styled "conspiracy theorists" haven't even read more than 1 authentic book on the subjects they "research", much less that article i just posted.
Sun May 20, 2007 8:49 am
madthumbs
Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 8599 Location: Fingerlakes - NY usa
Some examples of so called truther's resorting to Rules of Disinformation:
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I would like to add that posters like MAD havent a clue what the NWO is at all until people like myself inform them.
So why the hell do they bother commenting on something they DONT know anything about as Mad readily admitted himself. One has to start questioning their motives?.
With the impending war in Iran, you, the 9/11 truther are the disinformation agent. Oh, and this one has sound. for whatever reason the last one was corrupt.
An excerpt from the BBC program Who Really Runs the World. You Tube is full of videos dedicated to various conspiracy theories and I thought a healthy balance of skepticism is needed.
Why is it a conspiracy when there is video evidence?
When there is witness on the scene that contradict the offical story
When the Official story is illogical and breaks all the laws of thermodynamics.
Facts don't need a theory, they speak for themselves,
The Truth needs facts and the Government has none.
There is no conspiracy theory, just a conspiracy, its a real word and it does happen and did happen.
Not hard to understand and easy to see based on the evidence if we look and think about it.
Sun Mar 16, 2008 8:31 pm
JazzRoc
Joined: 16 Jun 2008 Posts: 37 Location: El Medano, Tenerife, Spain
ShadowWorks wrote:
Why is it a conspiracy when there is video evidence?
Is there "video evidence" of a conspiracy? I thought there was "video evidence" of aircraft colliding with buildings.
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When there are witnesses on the scene that contradict the official story.
These are expert and able to distinguish between explosions and other large releases of energy?
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When the Official story is illogical and breaks all the laws of thermodynamics.
When the logic used doesn't conform to your interpretation of the facts, and you don't understand the thermodynamics involved at all.
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Facts don't need a theory, they speak for themselves
No, facts are always incomplete, and always need a proper interpretation.
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The Truth needs facts and the Government has none.
The "Truth" is a concept to which Man has to make considerable efforts to even effect a remote approach.
Here is a DEVASTATING simulation which demonstrates a much closer approach to one small aspect of the "Truth" than any of the garbage hurled out by the so-called "truth movement".
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There is no conspiracy theory, just a conspiracy, its a real word and it does happen and did happen.
There is NO EVIDENCE at all of a conspiracy - just a whole bunch of coincidences - which suggest to me the goverment took the same approach to impending events as they did at the time of Pearl Harbour. It's a suggestion. There is NO PROOF.
Another suggestion is that the extraordinary route taken by the aircraft to hit the most hardened face of the Pentagon suggests a deep penetration of Al Quaida by a double agent. It's a suggestion. There is NO PROOF.
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Not hard to understand and easy to see based on the evidence if we look and think about it.
Easy-to-see and easy-to-understand things are NOT necessarily the Truth.
If that were so, the Sun would go round the Earth. THAT's easy-to-see, too.
Thu Jun 19, 2008 2:34 am
madthumbs
Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 8599 Location: Fingerlakes - NY usa
find creationists and 9/11 'insider' wackos are very similar. They are completely devoted to their religion and ignore anything that might bring down the lies they believe.
Remember: I don't call 9/11 'insiders' truthers..because the last thing you will ever get from them is the truth. Same with creationists, however.
