authfriend wrote: >--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>new.morning wrote: >> >> >> >>>--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>new.morning wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>new.morning wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> Remember today's conspiracy theory may well be tomorrow's news. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>Actually, no. You have it backwards. >>>>> >>>>>There are 10,000's conspiracy theories -- few ever come to >>>>> >>>>> >anything. > > >>>>>But a few do. >>>>> >>>>>It is a huge logical fallacy to think that because some event was >>>>>presaged by a conspiracy theorist, that therefore most conspiracy >>>>>theories are valid and come true. Unfortunately this is a common >>>>>defect found in the mind-set of many conspiracy nutes. >>>>> >>>>>Tomorrow's news periodically will be based on a conspiracy >>>>> >>>>> >theory -- > > >>>>>but today's conspiracy theory seldom becomes tomorow's news. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>Your proof? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>HAHAHA. Great imitation and parody of a die-hard conspiratist. You >>> >>> >got > > >>>the dumb-struck cluelessness of many conspiratorists perfectly. >>> >>>Only a total fool would look at the 10,000's of conspiracy theories >>>that were present in the 60's and/or 70's and/or 80s that have not >>>panned out -- only a few have born any seeds of credibility -- to >>>realize there is far from a 1:1 correspondence between conspiracy >>>theories and their actual fruition 10-30 years later. Its maybe >>> >>> >closer > > >>>to a 1:1,000,000 correspondence. >>> >>>"Ya know you dodn't need a weatherman to know which way the wind >>>blows." :) >>> >>>HAHA. keep up the great work on these parodies. They are killing >>> >>> >me. :) > > >>Great I'll keep posting what you believe to be "conspiracy >>theories" then. I know a lot of New Age folks and Indiaphiles >>find such things entertaining so that's why I post them. I >>suspect if I had told you back in the 70's that the Gulf of >>Tonkin was a false flag operation you would have thought me >>nuts. But we know now it was. >> >> > >FWIW, a lot of the '70s conspiracy theories turned >out to be true, the biggest, of course, being >Watergate and its revelations of Nixon's evildoing. >Then Iran-contra turned out to be true, and of >course Clinton-Lewinski. Most of the big scandals >don't just come out of nowhere; they're almost >always conspiracy theories before they're exposed >as fact. > > > >>The reason some people reject what they feel are conspiracy >>theories is that they don't want to be seen as "kooks" >>themselves if they entertain them. >> >> > >On the other hand, Bhairitu, some people are just >selective about which conspiracy theories they'll >entertain, on the basis of whether they make sense >or not. > > > Hence the use of the word "some" in my statement as for "some" it is about image. In fact I think that is true more often than not.
>And then there's the meta-conspiracy theory, which >*I* think makes sense, that a lot of the conspiracy >theories are based on *disinformation* put out by >people who are trying to distract attention from >real dirt. The unselective conspiracy theorists >get all excited and go after the red herrings, which >keeps them from investigating what the disinformation- >pushers want to keep hidden. > >The "inside job" theory of 9/11, in all its many >forms, is one example. > Certainly disinformation agents will post other conspiracy theories to distract and further confuse the issues. But 19 hijackers taking over airplanes using box cutters sounds more like a conspiracy theory to a lot of people. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
