Conspiracy theories

[dholliday]

Zeitgeist 2007 aged incredibly well in regards to its coverage of Christianity, 9/11 & Banks. It's also available on Netflix if you prefer better quality than YT.

yikes, Siggy got canned. he only posted this a few hours ago.

This is a fantastic documentary if anyone has 5 hours to spare... Poor sound quality in places unfortunately.

5 hours?? you got a paragraph summary?

 

[Bluesaint]

This is a great thread with some incredibly compelling theories, but I have to weigh in with regards to the moon landings. They were very clearly faked, filmed by the one and only Stanley Kubrick. However, with Kubrick being such a perfectionist he insisted on filming them entirely on location.

 

[Lee Smith]

But there were six moon landings in total, plus three other manned missions that went into orbit around the moon. That's 24 people who were there in person. If they faked it once with Apollo 11, why on Earth would they fake Apollos 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 & 17 as well?

For the bantz?

 

[Tramps_mate]

yikes, Siggy got canned. he only posted this a few hours ago.



5 hours?? you got a paragraph summary?

Basically how and who controls the world, financially etc etc its very interesting. Theres a few bits that are questionable but a lot of it is certainly true.. It goes back to Egyptian times and 'Jesus'..

 

[davids]

Basically how and who controls the world, financially etc etc its very interesting. Theres a few bits that are questionable but a lot of it is certainly true.. It goes back to Egyptian times and 'Jesus'..

Have to love the Illuminati in whatever guise.

 

[dholliday]

 

[neil999]

Zeitgeist 2007 aged incredibly well in regards to its coverage of Christianity, 9/11 & Banks. It's also available on Netflix if you prefer better quality than YT.

Absolute tripe

Easy to find debunking on that especially on the religion stuff

 

[neil999]

The right wing political slant on current conspiracy theories is interesting

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

NOTHING IS REAL.

 

[dholliday]

The right wing political slant on current conspiracy theories is interesting

what are typical examples of left-wing conspiracy theories?

 

[JimmyJeffers]

The right wing political slant on current conspiracy theories is interesting

Agreed. The aftermath of the Sandy-hook killings and ‘pizza gate’ should have led to a serious time of self reflection.

 

[PhilM]

But there were six moon landings in total, plus three other manned missions that went into orbit around the moon. That's 24 people who were there in person. If they faked it once with Apollo 11, why on Earth would they fake Apollos 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 & 17 as well?

"Aye Russia, I know we're in a space race and Cold War and all that, but would you do us a favour and pretend we went to the moon? Cheers. Love u 2"

 

[sdk]

what are typical examples of left-wing conspiracy theories?

When I was a dewy-fresh young adult I met a number of what we'd currently term conspiracy theorists at school. (It seemed a popular minor field of study for dudes majoring in Bong Philosophy.) They were all on the left politically and one got the sense this was mostly the province of lefties generally. I don't think that means conspiracy theories are more likely to skew left or right in content so much as they are likely to be most popular with people already inclined to distrust standing authority. Back then, in the High Reagan Era [spits on floor], such folk tended to be more left or liberal, since the right was having its day in the mainstream-political sun. But times change, and now people on the right appear just as likely, if not more so, to entertain notions based in the assumption that constituted authority is a sham and that hidden powers rule the day with their own unstated agendas.

(Not the worst bet, that, but for me conspiracy theories tend to founder on the implicit assumption that such hidden powers command the competency of execution and longterm secrecy to pull off mass conspiracies.)

 

[dholliday]

When I was a dewy-fresh young adult I met a number of what we'd currently term conspiracy theorists at school. (It seemed a popular minor field of study for dudes majoring in Bong Philosophy.) They were all on the left politically and one got the sense this was mostly the province of lefties generally. I don't think that means conspiracy theories are more likely to skew left or right in content so much as they are likely to be most popular with people already inclined to distrust standing authority. Back then, in the High Reagan Era [spits on floor], such folk tended to be more left or liberal, since the right was having its day in the mainstream-political sun. But times change, and now people on the right appear just as likely, if not more so, to entertain notions based in the assumption that constituted authority is a sham and that hidden powers rule the day with their own unstated agendas.

(Not the worst bet, that, but for me conspiracy theories tend to founder on the implicit assumption that such hidden powers command the competency of execution and longterm secrecy to pull off mass conspiracies.)

excellent post, balanced and thoughtful. a rare breed round here.

especially agree with your bracketed final paragraph, hence why i often find myself in disagreement with followers of Q.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

no, not at all. i believe you because i recognise your username and think i recall you being a sensible poster. it would be dead weird if you were just pretending to understand, so i discounted that.


i didn't shift the goalposts, you did. i originally used it more broadly, you came in and shifted the use to meaning something very specific, something linguistically-inflexible (if technically more accurate).


You are struggling, tho'. It took you three posts to finally state what your initial problem was, and you don't accept colloquial use of the term, hence you will struggle to understand people's meaning when they use it so.

Whereas other people, perhaps laymen, will contextually understand the point being made. Hence one coming across the term used that way so often...it works, linguistically at least.



do you enjoy a site with the letters G A in its name, ending with a domain opposite to a loss?

Is capitalisation a conspiracy theory, hence your seeming allergy to them? Symbolic of patriarchal society or sommat?

*taps nose*