Conspiracy Theories

[Fool]

so if all the conspiracies are true, then god doesn't have a plan?

 

[dybmh]

if burgers then what?

iow, what are you talking about?

 

[IndigoChild5559]

so if all the conspiracies are true, then god doesn't have a plan?

I'm not sure what one has to do with the other. The tendency of a person to believe in conspiracy theories comes from a paranoid ideation. It has absolutely nothing to do with whether God has a plan or not.

 

[Massimo2002]

I'm not sure what one has to do with the other. The tendency of a person to believe in conspiracy theories comes from a paranoid ideation. It has absolutely nothing to do with whether God has a plan or not.

Not all conspiracies are false.

 

[Estro Felino]

I think that if some criminal sets up a conspiracy, he does anything to call those who are suspicious visionaries or paranoids.

So conspiracy theory is a term that was invented by such criminals. To silence their own detractors.

It's not true that all conspiracy theories are true...because they are just theories.

 

[mikkel_the_dane]

Not all conspiracies are false.

No, but the vast majority are.

 

[McBell]

I think that if some criminal sets up a conspiracy, he does anything to call those who are suspicious visionaries or paranoids.

So conspiracy theory is a term that was invented by such criminals. To silence their own detractors.

It's not true that all conspiracy theories are true...because they are just theories.

Conspiracy theory "explanation of an event or situation involving unwarranted belief that it is caused by a conspiracy among powerful forces" emerged in mid-20c. (by 1937) and figures in the writings of, or about, Charles Beard, Hofstadter, Veblen, etc., but the degree of paranoia and unreasonableness implied in each use is not always easy to discern. The phrase was used from 19c. in a non-pejorative sense "the theory that a (certain) conspiracy exists," especially in court cases. Its use in general reference to theories of hidden cabals pulling wires behind the scenes of national or global events is by 1871.​

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We shall better understand the ensuing civil war if we study the movements in the four most important of these States, in relation to a theory which asserts that the secession was a conspiracy whose central cabal, composed of Southern senators and representatives in Washington, dictated through its ramifications in the States the inception and the course of the revolution. [James Ford Rhodes, page headed "The Conspiracy Theory" in "History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850," New York, 1893]​

To the Jingo Imperialist "the South African Conspiracy" is the alleged Dutch conspiracy to drive the British into the sea. But, to the man accustomed to weigh evidence and to base his opinions on ascertained facts, it is clear that this conspiracy theory is absolutely untenable, for whatever "evidence" has been adduced in support of the theory is nebulous and shadowy in the extreme. ["The South African Conspiracy," in The Westminster Review, January 1902]​

also from mid-14c.​

 

[IndigoChild5559]

Not all conspiracies are false.

You are right. One in a thousand is a real conspiracy, such as the cover up of the JFK assassintation. But most aren't, and in reality a person who believes in one conspiracy almost always believes in several. Again, it is a psychogical predisposition.

 

[Estro Felino]

Not all conspiracies are false.

Considering that some magistrates who were investigating about some mafia circle were called conspiracy theorists.
Then they were killed by the mafia...but fortunately the videos where they were called conspiracy theorists still exist.

 

[Estro Felino]

You are right. One in a thousand is a real conspiracy, such as the cover up of the JFK assassintation. But most aren't, and in reality a person who believes in one conspiracy almost always believes in several. Again, it is a psychological predisposition.

I think that a prosecutor should have that psychological predisposition.
Which I call suspicious predisposition. In order to investigate. If the investigation leads to nothing, the investigation will be closed.
If it leads to something, some people will be charged with a crime.

But if a prosecutor thinks that being suspicious means to be a conspiracy theorist...it means that no murder case will be solved any more, and jails will practically remain empty. Because no murderer will go to jail any more.

 

[SalixIncendium]

if burgers then what?

Umm...fries?

 

[dybmh]

Umm...fries?

It could be ... anything including nothing.

 

[SalixIncendium]

It could be ... anything including nothing.

In that case, I'm changing my answer to Coke.

 

[dybmh]

I'm changing my answer to Coke.

Classic

It could be ... anything including nothing.

Remember this? Jolt Cola? All the sugar and twice the caffeine?

 

[SalixIncendium]

Remember this? Jolt Cola? All the sugar and twice the caffeine?

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Ahh...yes. The grandfather of the "energy drink."

 

[1213]

so if all the conspiracies are true, then god doesn't have a plan?

Why would it be so?

 

[anotherneil]

Not all conspiracies are false.

Not all conspiracy theories are false, and not all conspiracy theories are true, but there's this rule is that if someone labels something a "conspiracy theory", no matter what it is, no matter if it's possible, probable, or even likely, the rule is that you're supposed to recoil from anything to do with it & if you don't, then you've earned a ticket to the funny farm.

What's staggering is how things can go the other way in some cases, by which I mean that you're supposed to believe the conspiracy theory & you're not supposed to label, characterize, describe, or refer to it as a conspiracy theory & if you don't comply, then that also earns you a ticket to the funny farm. A notable example of this is a particular incident involving 19 alleged suicide aircraft hijackers.

 

[YellowFeather]

When Adam created sin and death, God then put man under the full test of life to see who could follow him and who could not. When the end comes only them that have and followed his word will be saved. The world is getting closer to the end. God tells us as the end gets close the world will get worse. The world is truly getting worse and worse everyday. Satan controls the world till God comes 1 John 5:19 And we know that we are of God and the whole world lies in wickedness. 18 We know that whosoever is born of God and sinneth not; but he is begotten of God and keeps himself, and the wicked one cannot touch him. Following the word of God takes true Faith in God. Only a few will be saved.

 

[McBell]

Classic



Remember this? Jolt Cola? All the sugar and twice the caffeine?

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the Cherry Jolt was the one I stocked up one while OTR driving.

 

[McBell]

When Adam created sin and death, God then put man under the full test of life to see who could follow him and who could not. When the end comes only them that have and followed his word will be saved. The world is getting closer to the end. God tells us as the end gets close the world will get worse. The world is truly getting worse and worse everyday. Satan controls the world till God comes 1 John 5:19 And we know that we are of God and the whole world lies in wickedness. 18 We know that whosoever is born of God and sinneth not; but he is begotten of God and keeps himself, and the wicked one cannot touch him. Following the word of God takes true Faith in God. Only a few will be saved.

Ah, so God is not all knowing...