Conspiracy Corner
I started this convo but it turned into a news service on anything suspicious i spotted on the net or on tv. Its amazing what people will call conspiracy these days. I could assemble a list of about ten things, all well known, that you will call conspiracies, however they are all factual with official evidence widely accepted by historians and scientists.
Heard any good conspiracies? Or perhapse you have descoverd one on your own. Lets try and disprove them together and see if we actually get something interesting out of it at the end.
Do you know someone who is:
1. Mistrustful of others
2. An outsider or loner from general society
3. Prone to making assumptions
Then they are likely to be a conspiracy theorist, they you shouldn’t be offended by your profiling, there are good reasons why they exist, and will always exist. But the above explains why they feel drawn to conspiracies, which for them are a method of explaining the world without having to trust it. The most influential part to their psychology is the assumption making, which re-enforces their mistrust. But this is a problem that everyone has to face in their own way.
Below are some resources to help with drawing the right ‘information’ and use it undoubtedly and effectively.
http://www.criticalthinking.org.uk/
http://www.austhink.org/critical/ - mirror
http://www.idebate.org/debate/start_debate_club.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method
Other descusions started by me:
The International Daring Syndicate
http://fans.askaninja.com/forum/topic/show?id=1181368%3ATopic%3A267482
Ultimate Challange: Construct a Country
http://fans.askaninja.com/forum/topic/show?id=1181368%3ATopic%3A266298
Heard any good conspiracies? Or perhapse you have descoverd one on your own. Lets try and disprove them together and see if we actually get something interesting out of it at the end.
Do you know someone who is:
1. Mistrustful of others
2. An outsider or loner from general society
3. Prone to making assumptions
Then they are likely to be a conspiracy theorist, they you shouldn’t be offended by your profiling, there are good reasons why they exist, and will always exist. But the above explains why they feel drawn to conspiracies, which for them are a method of explaining the world without having to trust it. The most influential part to their psychology is the assumption making, which re-enforces their mistrust. But this is a problem that everyone has to face in their own way.
Below are some resources to help with drawing the right ‘information’ and use it undoubtedly and effectively.
http://www.criticalthinking.org.uk/
http://www.austhink.org/critical/ - mirror
http://www.idebate.org/debate/start_debate_club.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method
Other descusions started by me:
The International Daring Syndicate
http://fans.askaninja.com/forum/topic/show?id=1181368%3ATopic%3A267482
Ultimate Challange: Construct a Country
http://fans.askaninja.com/forum/topic/show?id=1181368%3ATopic%3A266298
Tags: conspiracy, debate, government, religion
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Permalink Reply by PseudoNinja on
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Yea, i know this song... um, its... yea...
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Permalink Reply by Parola Mörder on -
incredible? Yes.
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Stop and Search... your soul
Yes, it was inevitable i suppose. I was finally a victim of stop and search by two rookie pcso’s. Not only that but they wanted my details; birth address, rank, file, blood group etc. Of course you know that your other would take acception to this. It started when I investigated an abandoned building, I had only reached it and taken a picture with my phone when I noticed two officers approaching me from different directions. I knew they were both coming to me because they were on their own. I could have easily escaped by running into a housing estate, but like all law abiding citizens, I wait to be attacked.
We wasted valuable three quarters of an hour in which i was straight and honest with them about everything but my personal details. This perturbed the older, more agitated of the two and his partner went along with it.
However, my behaviour was modified in three ways; I treated them as equals and was understanding of their stresses, I find this works best with the police. I pretended to have trouble articulating myself and acted embarrassed by their presence. I find that although I live my life being forcefully honest about everything, that now was not the time. However I did not abandon my position.
Later set a real policemen arrived by car and threatened me with arrest and even the terrorism act. I explained to them my position, without going into too much details of the justifications as to why. He was still forceful and I complied, however he must have read the situation as he only checked my pockets and bag. The place where I usually store my deathray wasn’t even mentioned. He even chose to ignore a set of prescription antibiotics.
What did I do to deserve such suspicion? Well I took a photo of the exterior graffiti of an abandoned ‘sports center’ with my phone. I learnt many things about police training that I didn’t already know. Including their use of flanking officers to ambush me if I ran in one direction. The real policeman asked me to move to the main road before they searched me, I actually stopped them from completing herding me onto the main road by professing embarrassment. I had suspected that they were not allowed to search me on private property, so I gained a useful fallback argument should more serious action be taken.
Overall I am satisfied that I defended my area, but annoyed that I did not listen to their codes and radio conversations. I had gathered, at the time that he was corresponding with another unit in the close vicinity, I watched their faces and spotted the ‘flankers’ near some bushes. So maybe I didn’t do as bad as I thought.
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While explaining my point to them i came accross another point of view by expressing it differently.
If i need an identity card to obsolve me of suspicion and gaurantee my rights then the card itself has more authority than i do. It in fact has more of a life, except it can be stolen, copied, forged whereas i personally cannot be.
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Drugs
I really don't care, have you heard that guy talk. He's an idiot and with his increased lung capacity he probably gets an 'ultra high'. But your right, it does seem that public figures can get away with stuff for longer.
I personally am against addictive drugs but i'm also against the aggressive pursuit of enforcement agencies.
Scientists even question the reasons behind the drug laws in Britain, because they arent based on scientific tests. Cannabis was downgraded, which purportedly led to a decrease of incidents with it (same things true with self defence). Then it was upgraded again, probably due to the letters from stupid mothers whining "oh the streets will be filled with people, FORCE them, you MUST force them to stop so they can stay away from me wherever i go and take MY CHILDREN!!!" This has the same effect as the dark side.
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Jesus Nebula
Yea! Of coarse! That lump totally reminds me of jesus, especially since you super-imposed that face on it. What’s that lump to the left? Is it a little jesus? Its just like finding the US presidents in crisps. What strange force is behind this!? Is it a cartel of mystical companies?
http://www.skyimagelab.com/jesus-nebula.html?source=jesuslab
The most important thing about seeing jesus in a nebula is that, why isn’t he in all nebula? I can't remember ever seeing a purple jesus. If jesus could appear anywhere, then why isnt he here, with me, now? Maybe i should try the voodoo tealeaves thing.
Neurologists say that the human mind is programmed to recognise fasces, how else would we be able to recognise the people we love from the rest? Its just we can't actually turn that part of the brain off, so we go around treating objects as people and hills as human fasces. Why not a gigantic willy, or an ear. Why don't people go around seeing ears on everything... I’m pretty sure Van Gogh did, and Picasso's facial recognition was probably broken.
Afterthought: Would jesus's own hair have an image of jesus in it?
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*steps out of the shadows*
I've been here the whole time...
*bows and steps back into darkness*
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Permalink Reply by Tacitus Argall on
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Oh nothing... Forgive the intrusion.
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Permalink Reply by Yaway Mega Farfella on
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Severel says later....
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