The problem with conspiracy theories is that they are usually presented as
facts and no effort is given to provide serious documentation or support.
Usually the support behind the statements is in the theorist's rationalization
which involves a series of suppositions, each one relying upon the accuracy of
another, like individual dominoes stacked precariously one upon another. As
long as every single supposition/domino is dead on accurate, the whole thing
manages to stay together, but if one is wrong, the entire structure falls.
Generally, theorists don't really have much in the way of facts, but they have
a lot of opinions.
On the other hand..... there really are conspiracies. And the nature of
conspiracies is that the perpetrators do not like them to be discovered.
People attempted to reveal the conspiracy are targeted for discreditation,
ridicule, or elimination.
What do you do? You do your best to listen to what is claimed, attempt to
determine if it has any realistic merit, and make your best conclusion.
Popular conspiracy theories in my lifetime include:
Man landing on Moon is a Hoax
Roosevelt knew about the Pearl Harbor attack in advance
Obama is not born in the US
Katrina Hurricane relief efforts were bungled purposely because victims were
African Americans
Global Warming (now climate change since the earth has been cooling for about 8
years) is due to human activity
And many others.
People who promote these theories are mostly sincere. They are forceful.
They are passionate. But being sincere, forceful, dramatic, or loud does NOT
mean you are correct.
Making claims without any proof by someone who is sincere or loud convinces
many people. The Katrina victims theory is particularly weak because
absolutely no documentation or support exists for the claim. Global warming
theory is particularly suspect, especially now, because the scientists doing
climate change research have been proven to have conspired to for years to toss
data and studies that don't support the theory.
Now, the claims that David Rockefeller owns 85% of the world's pharmacies could
possibly be true I suppose. But, nobody seems to be able to come up with any
documentation, so I ignore this. But let's say it's true. On top of this,
for the conspiracy to be accurate, we need to believe that an incredibly rich
man who will never be able to spend 10% of his wealth is so crazed by money and
power that he will deliberately go out of his way to risk everything to
cover-up or discredit alternative treatments and remedies that may have some
real merit. This is a lot for someone to accept without some real
documentation.
As far as the claim that the WTC were not brought down by terrorists amazes me
since I saw the buildings collapse on live tv. The buildings each took much
longer than 10 seconds to collapse from the time they were struck by the
airplanes. There are a number of well researched papers discussing the
mechanics of how that happened. Imploding experts use dynamite to implode
buildings. This was entirely different and the imploders' expertise is pretty
much irrelevant here. There are tons of evidence that 911 was indeed
orchestrated by Al Quaida terrorists.
Me? I'm just skeptical of exotic claims. I'm willing to listen to just about
ANY theory as long as there is some real evidence to back it up. Evidence
other than someone connecting a bunch of assumptions and opinions.
I think we are currently living through one of the biggest conspiracies on
record right now, namely the efforts to pass the so called 'Health Care Reform
Bill.' I think there is a lot of evidence to suggest that various
politicians are being blackmailed to support it or paid off in one way or
another. I have no proof of this, so I can't promulgate my theory as anything
more than a suspicion. If successful in their efforts, the government will
have unprecedented power over our lives. Anything you might have to say about
911, Rockefeller's banks, the Fed, or the FDA pales in comparison with what
this power grab is likely to do.
That's my take.
Steve G.
--- On Sun, 12/20/09, John E. Stevens <jonellis.steven...@gmail.com> wrote:
From: John E. Stevens <jonellis.steven...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: CS>...these videos are about Autism
To: silver-list@eskimo.com
Date: Sunday, December 20, 2009, 10:05 AM
Yes, Rockefeller owns many of the banks, too. The Fed - corrupt as all hell.
The Bildeburger group, the Rockefellers, JP Morgan and the Rothchild's control
90% or more of all the banks and the Fed. They also control most of the
pharmaceutical companies (the reason millions - maybe billions are dying
needlessly...) and they write the university and college curriculum for our
M.D.'s... Ain't that just grand. Without a Merck PDR where would they be?
And the wars are controlled, too - the "Insiders" want to eliminate the
obsolete "backward" cultures... Those that can't keep up with their measure of
intelligence... Sick... And our kids are the cannon fodder for their evil
ways. And if we think 9/11 and the WTC was brought down by terrorists, one
should do some serious investigation. Seven buildings came down... And, you
can't bring down 110 stories in 10 seconds... That's impossible... Ask any
scientific imploder...
