24th January 2009, 9:14 AM
(This post was last modified: 24th January 2009, 9:27 AM by Dark Jaguar.)
9/11 was a conspiracy, it was a conspiracy of a terrorist group :D.
What makes this conspiracy different? Evidence. Not only did that terrorist group take credit for it, there's the videos of the planes crashing, the recorded conversations of some passengers describing the terrorists, and records of some of those terrorists booking passsage on those flights as well as taking flying lessons. "Hey teacher, let's say I wanted to land my plane really REALLY fast... vertically, how would I do that?"
It's true that through history there HAVE been actual factual conspiracies, but not a one of them are on the insanely huge scale of the crazy conspiracies most of the deluded convince themselves of today. They're usually much smaller affairs, and the majority of them that involve coverups took place long before our information age, and even then never lasted that long.
Generally, the flaws in things like massive coverups of the JFK assasination, 9/11 being done by our own government, and "Big Pharma" is you have to believe in a PERFECT conspiracy of millions, the idea that everyone in the goverment knows it, and not a single one of them ever had a crisis of conciouse and came forward, and not just our goverment. They require that all the witnesses were paid off to lie, and that every one of them has no morality and would accept being paid off to lie. They require that all engineers, everywhere, across the globe, are "in" on the conspiracy (in the case of big pharma, that all doctors everywhere are in on it). And lastly, that the expertise of the conspiracy theorist, with no training in any major scientific field, or at best training in a field unrelated to the conspiracy, somehow puts them in a better position to say this building collapsed not because of planes, but bombs. That takes utterly massive ego, to fly in the face of all the evidence and still say "I know I'm right because I'm just that awesome", and it takes a very massive dose of misanthropic outlook to say "every single person in the world is evil, except my little group, they are the only ones uncorrupted by the Big Lie".
The DaVinci Code conspiracy is particularly bizarre in that that book was INTENDED as fiction from the start, and somehow people took it seriously, but it's no less ridiculous. Not that the Catholic Church hasn't been guilty of false things before, like that shroud of Turin (which tastes DELICIOUS) that by the dating methods that have been done to it, in those very rare instances where those not already convinced have been allowed to test it, show it as being not old enough (by a few centuries) to have been around during that time.
Edit: The moon landing conspiracy is also stupid.
What makes this conspiracy different? Evidence. Not only did that terrorist group take credit for it, there's the videos of the planes crashing, the recorded conversations of some passengers describing the terrorists, and records of some of those terrorists booking passsage on those flights as well as taking flying lessons. "Hey teacher, let's say I wanted to land my plane really REALLY fast... vertically, how would I do that?"
It's true that through history there HAVE been actual factual conspiracies, but not a one of them are on the insanely huge scale of the crazy conspiracies most of the deluded convince themselves of today. They're usually much smaller affairs, and the majority of them that involve coverups took place long before our information age, and even then never lasted that long.
Generally, the flaws in things like massive coverups of the JFK assasination, 9/11 being done by our own government, and "Big Pharma" is you have to believe in a PERFECT conspiracy of millions, the idea that everyone in the goverment knows it, and not a single one of them ever had a crisis of conciouse and came forward, and not just our goverment. They require that all the witnesses were paid off to lie, and that every one of them has no morality and would accept being paid off to lie. They require that all engineers, everywhere, across the globe, are "in" on the conspiracy (in the case of big pharma, that all doctors everywhere are in on it). And lastly, that the expertise of the conspiracy theorist, with no training in any major scientific field, or at best training in a field unrelated to the conspiracy, somehow puts them in a better position to say this building collapsed not because of planes, but bombs. That takes utterly massive ego, to fly in the face of all the evidence and still say "I know I'm right because I'm just that awesome", and it takes a very massive dose of misanthropic outlook to say "every single person in the world is evil, except my little group, they are the only ones uncorrupted by the Big Lie".
The DaVinci Code conspiracy is particularly bizarre in that that book was INTENDED as fiction from the start, and somehow people took it seriously, but it's no less ridiculous. Not that the Catholic Church hasn't been guilty of false things before, like that shroud of Turin (which tastes DELICIOUS) that by the dating methods that have been done to it, in those very rare instances where those not already convinced have been allowed to test it, show it as being not old enough (by a few centuries) to have been around during that time.
Edit: The moon landing conspiracy is also stupid.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)