The Conspiracy Theories Thread(was: 911 Conspiracy theories) — Page 7

the person who wrote the critique has more patience than I do.

Perhaps if you actually thought about things a bit more you would learn patience (it is a necessary life skill).

One thing I have noticed about the more Crazy and Asinine end of the Conspiracy Theory racket (the New World Order and all that) is there is an element of cultish religiosity about their arguments.

Everything is encapsulated in the grand conspiracy so when their predictions are wrong it's because the powers that be are trying to trip those in the know.

It's like the Creationists who think God put the dinosaur bones there to test the faithful.

They see the cabal of evil geniuses so eager to be seen to be working that they dangle odd clues in plain site like the gnostics thought God hid messages in the shapes of leaves.

If there was a single world conspiracy it wouldn't need to conspire to steer the sheep. It would already have remote control sheep.

Anyone who has played Diplomacy (the board game) knows that real conspiracies (and there are plenty of them) backfire, smack into each other, fall down a ditch and usual cock-up the plans of the idiots behind the scenes and have very little to do with genius at all.

I hope that is not yet another swipe at my religion.  I am really tiring of you Bingo. 

Warbler said:

I hope that is not yet another swipe at my religion.  I am really tiring of you Bingo. 

Are you a follower of gnosticism or a literal creationist who believes the Earth to be thousands of years old?

Are you a member of a cult?

The Rand Corporation, in conjunction with the saucer people -- under the supervision of the reverse vampires -- are forcing our parents to go to bed early in a fiendish plot to eliminate the meal of dinner.

We’re through the looking glass, here, people.

Bingowings said:

Warbler said:

I hope that is not yet another swipe at my religion.  I am really tiring of you Bingo. 

Are you a follower of gnosticism or a literal creationist who believes the Earth to be thousands of years old?

I don't how old the Earth is.  I do believe God create it.

Are you a member of a cult?

 no.

Warbler said:

Bingowings said:

Warbler said:

I hope that is not yet another swipe at my religion.  I am really tiring of you Bingo. 

Are you a follower of gnosticism or a literal creationist who believes the Earth to be thousands of years old?

I don't how old the Earth is.  I do believe God create it.

Are you a member of a cult?

 no.

If you believe the Earth to be literally 6000 years old as stipulated in the Bible and not 4.5 billion as estimated by science you are more daft than most conspiracy theorists, they at least try and bend the evidence to their views.

IMO, it's better to be uncertain about the age of the Earth than to flat-out believe it is 6000-10,000 years old.

Bingowings said:

Warbler said:

Bingowings said:

Warbler said:

I hope that is not yet another swipe at my religion.  I am really tiring of you Bingo. 

Are you a follower of gnosticism or a literal creationist who believes the Earth to be thousands of years old?

I don't how old the Earth is.  I do believe God create it.

Are you a member of a cult?

 no.

If you believe the Earth to be literally 6000 years old as stipulated in the Bible and not 4.5 billion as estimated by science you are more daft than most conspiracy theorists, they at least try and bend the evidence to their views.

 I didn't say I believe the Earth is literally 6000 years old.  I said I didn't know how old the Earth was, and that I believe God created it.

btw, what about the argument sometimes put forth that maybe the six days that the Bible says the Earth was created in, weren't literally 24 hour days?  That maybe each of those days could have been millions of years?  

No where in the Bible does it say how old the earth is.  It is an interpretation that leads to 6,000 years.  And yes, it is foolish to see it as purely literal.

^You're just ignoring the plain language of the Bible.

;-)

darth_ender said:

No where in the Bible does it say how old the earth is.  It is an interpretation that leads to 6,000 years.  And yes, it is foolish to see it as purely literal.

It's an interpretation based on the unbroken lineage listed in the Bible and the foolishness of believing it purely literally seems to be something we can all agree on.

But there are people foolish enough to believe it that way ergo my description of the similarly foolish of the extreme end of the conspiracy crowd as deploying a 'cultish religiosity'.

Which isn't even a swipe at the cultish. It's a like with like comparison.

Believing stuff that goes against the established paradigm and defending it against reason or evidence is the same thing be it a cult of God or a cult of Liz Windsor the blood sucking lizard Queen from Draco.

All perfectly valid human ways to pass the time.

fine ok

I'm nuts and the conspiracy theorists speak the gospell truth. 

satisified?

I'm putting you on ignore temporarily just so I can take a break from you.   I am sick and tired of your bs.

Warbler said:

fine ok

I'm nuts and the conspiracy theorists speak the gospell truth. 

satisified?

I'm putting you on ignore temporarily just so I can take a break from you.   I am sick and tired of your bs.

 

Fair enough but the plane has now been reported as diverted by mainstream news, (which would account for the 'crazy asinine' phones still dialing) and Malaysian PM is now calling it a deliberate act.

It's not the first time a GPS tracked plane vanished either.

The world is still round, not the only centre of the universe and not held up by pillars the corners of which guarded by giant sea monsters. I'm sure you don't believe any of that to be literally true.

http://youtu.be/1wcrkxOgzhU?t=10s

Bingowings said:

The world is still round, not the only centre of the universe and not held up by pillars the corners of which guarded by giant sea monsters.

There's more than one?!

Warbler said:

http://youtu.be/1wcrkxOgzhU?t=10s

 

 Yeah because everything that isn't an official story is exactly the same as the someone being pushy about the lunar conspiracy.

Here's a crazy made up story for you :

DuracellEnergizer said:

Bingowings said:

The world is still round, not the only centre of the universe and not held up by pillars the corners of which guarded by giant sea monsters.

There's more than one?!

Yep technically speaking everywhere is the centre of this universe.

And this guy can bend spoons with his mind so that makes him prime suspect for everything if you ask me.

I think that with the universe being as huge and infinite as it is, the conspiracy to convince people that the only intelligent life in this whole universe is all on this little planet right here is pretty insane.

Not going the whole "Oh I was walking in a field and got probed by aliens" route, I'm just saying that thinking that we are the only intelligent life in the WHOLE universe is very short sighted and closed minded.  

However, the chances of intelligent life evolving without a supernatural force guiding the process is extremely slim, which is why it is doubtful that there is other intelligent life in this universe which is only finite, not infinite. In an infinite universe, the chances of life would be infinitely higher.

The universe probably isn't infinite, but it's still so immense that in the end it doesn't really matter.

The chances of intelligent life evolving on other planets in our universe without a master designer is, are I said, incredibly slim, even in a universe this size. This wouldn't be the case in an infinite universe, though, which would be infinitely larger than ours, and thus have an infinitely greater chance of producing multiple intelligent life forms.

With an intelligent designer, the chances of intelligent life elsewhere are significantly greater, though that depends on the nature of said designer.

Somebody time-traveled to 1999, saw Jar Jar, went back to their own time, and created Vampires so that Jar Jar would look good in comparison.

darklordoftech said:

Somebody time-traveled to 1999, saw Jar Jar, went back to their own time, and created Vampires so that Jar Jar would look good in comparison.