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Do you subscribe to any conspiracy theories?

This poll is MULTIPLE CHOICE

  • Moon landings not as told (faked, or otherwise lied about / findings covered up)

    Votes: 3 4.3%
  • JFK additional assassins, or completely different assassins, and for different motives

    Votes: 13 18.8%
  • 9/11 staged, or carried out by persons other than Al-Qaeda

    Votes: 5 7.2%
  • 2012 End of the world, or similar.

    Votes: 5 7.2%
  • Chem-trails

    Votes: 4 5.8%
  • HAARP

    Votes: 3 4.3%
  • Illuminati

    Votes: 8 11.6%
  • Freemasons

    Votes: 8 11.6%
  • Lizard aliens secretly rule the world

    Votes: 9 13.0%
  • Government knowledge of aliens

    Votes: 13 18.8%
  • Secret Nazi Germany technology

    Votes: 6 8.7%
  • Revolutionary technologies / inventions suppressed by a conspiracy of big businesses / gov'ts

    Votes: 15 21.7%
  • None of the above

    Votes: 36 52.2%
  • Other

    Votes: 8 11.6%

  • Total voters
    69
Has the media created our need for garbage/celebrity culture etc, or is the media responding to our desire for it? I'm still not sure which end of the snake is which sometimes...
 
I don't invest much in any conspiracy theories, it doesn't help matters that the people who have conjured up the major conspiracy theories (David Icke) have been lunatics.

I do believe that corporations hold back "revolutionary" (if you can call things like HDTV and the Blu-Ray player as such) technology in order to maximise the profit potential, but everybody knows this and it's not really a conspiracy theory.
 
There are thousands of conspiracies going on all the time. Most never amount to anything of real consequence.
 
I don't invest much in any conspiracy theories, it doesn't help matters that the people who have conjured up the major conspiracy theories (David Icke) have been lunatics.

I do believe that corporations hold back "revolutionary" (if you can call things like HDTV and the Blu-Ray player as such) technology in order to maximise the profit potential, but everybody knows this and it's not really a conspiracy theory.

Are they holding them back? I'm probably just a luddite but to me it feels like they're pushing them before we're neccesarily ready for them. Hence how we ended up with HD ready tvs, and 3D tvs before there's really much to watch on them. To me it feels like we're being force fed every minor upgrade in technology, hence why there's a new iphone/ipad whatever every few months (it seems) each of which is only marginally more advanced than the other. As someone who remembers what a quantum leap it was to go from cassettes to CDs and from VHS to DVD, it feels like now we're effectively being sold a 'quantum' leap every week, only they're not quantum leaps anymore, barely even quantum steps.
 
Has the media created our need for garbage/celebrity culture etc, or is the media responding to our desire for it? I'm still not sure which end of the snake is which sometimes...

I'm probably just a luddite but to me it feels like they're pushing them before we're neccesarily ready for them. Hence how we ended up with HD ready tvs, and 3D tvs before there's really much to watch on them. To me it feels like we're being force fed every minor upgrade in technology, hence why there's a new iphone/ipad whatever every few months (it seems) each of which is only marginally more advanced than the other.

I think you answered your own question. And I agree entirely.
 
I believe Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK. I'm not certain he acted alone. What I know of local history tends to make me think the mob might have been involved, but it's not a firm belief or anything.
 
I believe Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK. I'm not certain he acted alone. What I know of local history tends to make me think the mob might have been involved, but it's not a firm belief or anything.

Not only do I believe Oswald did it (cos, you know, he did) but some days I do subscribe to the anti-conspiracy theory that he was actually aiming for Governor Connally (whom he'd threatened before, and went out to try to harm before) and fucked it up...

Some days. Weekends mainly.
 
Hence how we ended up with HD ready tvs, and 3D tvs before there's really much to watch on them.

The difference is: HDTV is an immediate, obvious benefit (as well as the fact that the broadcast space vacated by analog transmissions was also needed for other uses). 3D is not. And HDTVs don't require those damned glasses....

And by the time HDTVs started being heavily marketed, there was a fair amount of content to watch on them. How many cable channels are in 3D now? Not many, I'd wager.
 
. . . i really doubt the masons are secretly up to anything. my great grandfather was high up in the masons in india years ago. he said most of them were drunken imbeciles.
That's probably also true of the rich white dudes who party every year at Bohemian Grove. No secret election rigging, commodity price fixing, or sacrificing of naked virgins.
 
"The Masons"

My late grandfather was a member of them, although it was more in his youth and I can't remember him ever attending any meetings. He absolutely refused to ever discuss about the things they got up to.

In my experience, along with what I've heard, it seems that this secret society is nothing more than an American college fraternity that fronts itself with sophistication and codes of honour, until the booze is flowing...
 
Conspiracy theories are just peoples' attempts to make sense of otherwise meaningless, random events.

It's more comforting to think that there's a plan that's being enacted, whether for good or ill, because then events are organized and meaningful. Conspiracy theories give people the feeling that someone is in control, and that's comforting. The reality is that there's no one in control, and that's scary.

So, no, I don't believe in any conspiracy theories.

Are you on about conspiracy theories or religion ? :devil:
 
That Denver International Airport things is crazy. I live in Denver and have been through DIA dozens of times through the years but I didn't know any of that stuff. The creepy horse statue is bad enough, but the conspiracy theories are crazy. I did vote 'other' because I believe that the Air Force has some sort of portal in Cheyenne Mountain that allows them to travel to other planets. It's possible I'm confusing it with that short lived show Wormhole Extreme, but I think it's real.
 
I believe the US government in concert with several nations is secretly running an intergalactic wormhole travel network and a vast spacefleet based on proto-human and alien technology out of the underground base at Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado.

Care to comment on that, Gen. Jack O'Neill? Or are we still to believe the only conspiracy you're aware of is the dryer eating your socks?
 
I believe the US government in concert with several nations is secretly running an intergalactic wormhole travel network and a vast spacefleet based on proto-human and alien technology out of the underground base at Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado.

Care to comment on that, Gen. Jack O'Neill? Or are we still to believe the only conspiracy you're aware of is the dryer eating your socks?

For the last time, Wormhole Xtreme is just a TV show!
Jeez. You sound just like my barber, Joe Spencer.
 
I don't believe conspiracy theories exist, I think they are just a ruse created by the Reptilians to spread controlled paranoia among their human slave race.
 
I don't subscribe to or believe in any of them, although I readily admit that I reckon many of them provide priceless comedy value. I'm not sure which I find most hilarious - that so many people could shut up about the "fake" moon landing(s) for so long, or the "Paul McCartney is dead" and accompanying "evidence" drivel. Stupidity on that scale is pretty much impossible to grade, really.
 
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