Dubh Linn wrote: » I'm simply asking a question - why are there so many conspiracy theories? Is there any proof?
Dubh Linn wrote: » I still don't get it...
Jobs OXO wrote: » And in other news I did the mother of all farts this morning. Guess a dinner of refried beans and sauerkraut with a 6 pack of Guinness really does mess with the aul gullet
El Weirdo wrote: » You fart through your throat?
Dubh Linn wrote: » Can somebody answer my question? This is by far the most pathetic conspiracy theory I've ever come across. It was al-Qaeda, nobody else! So why do people come up with these unfounded theories?
Dubh Linn wrote: » Two 767s, two 757s, operated by AA and UA, which is in hot water at the mo anyway, crashed into four locations killing thousands. That's the real truth.
Noddyholder wrote: » Are you trying to say hot water brought down them planes
Samaris wrote: » Huh, I was just mulling over a similar post about why do people believe such ridiculous stuff in the face of all available evidence. I was looking at it from a climate change point of view, but it works as well for 9/11, Sandy Hook, vaccinations, evolution, etc. It was the same thirty, forty years ago for smoking and probably the ozone layer. There are patterns, if you'll excuse my going on a wider viewpoint of all of these "contentious" subjects. They're roughly split in two, science-based [evolution, vaccination, climate change, smoking] and non-science/social/political [9/11, Sandy Hook, anything being called a "false flag". Frankly, the science-based ones interest me more, but the political ones are more relevant to the topic. Two driving factors work across both - people don't want to believe it (that something like Sandy Hook or 9/11 could hurt ordinary people like them, that sometimes, no matter what precautions you take or how good a parent or person you are, bad stuff can happen to you and your family) and people in positions of influence lie (which has reached a peak with an outpouring of "fake news"). And as we've all seen in the last year or so, confirmation bias is strong, we prefer to believe what we read if we agree with it. Eventually, it does have to lead to a very stretched view of reality and a glorious ability to ignore logic and the huge organisational difficulties of producing X effect with no-one blowing a whistle on it. Of course, it's pretty important to acknowledge that we all have unfounded beliefs and ridiculous foibles that do not stand up to the reality of the situation - I have a totally unreasonable phobia of crabs, jellyfish and scorpions, ignoring that I've never encountered any scorpions and crabs have never harmed me. Others are absolutely convinced of every word of their religious texts. Other phobias, half-remembered lessons from school that were taken up wrong, etcetera. It is also just possible that a push towards individualism in western nations has something to do with it too. It went through "everyone is entitled to their own opinion" and has, the last few years, settled firmly into "everyone has the right to their own facts". Everyone does have the right to their own opinion, sure, but is it so much to ask that legislation is written on the basis of objective facts rather than opinions?
corner of hells wrote: » If I rearrange the letters in your name , I come up with the word "airmass".
