Post subject: Your favorite conspiracy theory?
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These are a couple of my favorites: The Mad Revisionist (the moon is not real) How I Healed My Child's Cavity (the dentists are lying to you!) And some stellar excerpts:
The tide myth is one of the oldest and most absurd lies that the Lunar establishment has tried to push on a gullible world. Do they really expect us to believe that the moon - an object that allegedly resides at an average distance of 240,000 miles from the earth - has the power, from that distance, to lift how many billions of cubic meters of water? Do an experiment: take a rubber ball and suspend it above a bathtub full of water. Now slowly move the ball closer to the water. Does the level of the water change? Not even slightly. So much for the tides myth.
Shouldn’t the body be able to heal a cavity just like it heals a broken bone or a cut on your arm? Why would teeth be any different from a broken wrist after all?
I've always been curious as to what the motivation behind these utterly insane claims are. For these two in particular, it looks like they're both trying to sell something; preying on the fact that people get easily excitable about these concepts will help their sales.
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Why are you saying these are conspiracy theories? They're obviously true. Have you or anyone you know personally set foot on the moon? It's obviously just some kind of optical illusion. Of course the body can heal cavities, that's why most people who eat properly don't have them. It's only those who destroy their teeth faster than they heal that have a problem, and they need to switch them out for titanium molars which can withstand the torture they put their body through.
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I can't find the original quotes, so I'll just post from memory.
There are no cheats in RuneScape
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jlun2 wrote:
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There is no war within the walls. I don't know many conspiracy theories, but the 9/11 ones are pretty interesting. I don't believe them, but they bring up some interesting questions. Why did Bush keep reading to those kids instead of protecting the country?
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CoolKirby wrote:
jlun2 wrote:
There are no cheats in RuneScape
There is no war within the walls.
Reminds me of a certain episode(s) of Avatar the last airbender (or whatever it was called). Edit: Brb, off to dupe items and bot dungeoneering so I can get rollbacked.
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jlun2 wrote:
CoolKirby wrote:
jlun2 wrote:
There are no cheats in RuneScape
There is no war within the walls.
Reminds me of a certain episode(s) of Avatar the last airbender (or whatever it was called).
Yep, you got the reference.
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Mitjitsu wrote:
The eggs and ice key in Banjo Kazooie.
Oh god, these haunted me forever back in the day. Are you referencing the rampant theories for obtaining them and their subsequent use? They actually are obtainable (which you probably know). More generally, I've noticed that a lot of arguments for a conspiracy theory tend to sport major fallacies or lack common sense. People still are drawn in by them. The two examples I posted are great at illustrating my point, the one about the moon especially. The most amazing thing about that as well is that elsewhere on that site, the author uses math as an argument ("Newton's Formula") but completely disregards it when explaining his "experiment". One of my favorites was one I watched during a documentary about 9/11. There was a team of conspiracy theorists and a team of "experts" (whatever that meant), and they basically went (indirectly) back and forth. One of the conspiracy theorists suggested that the Pentagon ought to have had a plane shaped hole through its walls, rather than the "missle-shaped" one that everyone saw. The expert's response was something along the lines of "REALITY IS NOT A CARTOON. PLANES DO NOT PUNCH PLANE SHAPED HOLES THROUGH WALLS."
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I started watching that video just to see what it was about. About 3 minutes in I noticed it was an hour long. Anyone have a tl;dr version? Anyways, my favorite conspiracy theory is definitely the phantom time hypothesis. Mostly because the more you think about it, the less sense it makes that anyone would try to do this.
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petrie911 wrote:
I started watching that video just to see what it was about. About 3 minutes in I noticed it was an hour long. Anyone have a tl;dr version?
A compilation of the same conspiracy bullshit we're already tired of seeing, in a Extra Credits format.
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Drama, too long, didn't read, lol.
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Oh, there are so many conspiracy theories out there, from small to large. It's difficult to choose one. If I had to to choose one particular aspect of some conspiracy theories that I find particularly amusing and interesting, then perhaps it would be those that are really, really hard to distinguish from parodies (in other words, where Poe's Law is in full effect.) A prime example of this would be flat earthers. When you read their arguments, it really reads like a parody, and a quite poor parody at that. It's not even all that funny if it were a parody. However, apparently at least some people take those arguments seriously and believe them. It's quite amusing to see to what lengths they go to try to dismiss simple everyday experience that any person can experience themselves, and the level of global conspiracy that would be required to keep up the things they claim. Inventing their own fictitious laws of physics is a common staple among most (if not even all) conspiracy theories, but not many go to the absolutely ridiculous lengths as flat earthers. Basically nothing we know about physics is true, according to them.
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petrie911 wrote:
I started watching that video just to see what it was about. About 3 minutes in I noticed it was an hour long. Anyone have a tl;dr version?
I watched little more than you did, and skipped straight to the end. -Our ancestors were telepathic. -They were given the island of Atlantis to live on. -The super rich are not human. And lots of other crazy things I didn't get to see.
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-The super rich are not human.
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The moon is hollow and Elvis killed JFK who in turn was killed by Chuck Berry.
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The moon is hollow and Elvis killed JFK who in turn was killed by Chuck Berry.
But I thought Elvis lives!
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Elvis is dead, but before he died, he went back in time and Became Charlie Chaplin.
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jlun2 wrote:
There are no cheats in RuneScape
Perhaps it's just me, but I differentiate between cheats and glitches in that the former are intentional on the part of the programmers and the latter are not. If you have any examples of Runescape cheats by that reasoning, please share.
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fluoridated drinking water
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chemtrails
A dishwasher at a restaurant I used to work at would go outside each day and take pictures of "chemtrails". I asked him what he was doing once... I learned my lesson, fast.
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fluoridated drinking water
All drinking water where I live has fluoride. Am I missing something?
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Back when flourinated water was introduced, some people saw it as an attempt by the government to introduce mind control chemicals into the municipal water supply or something.
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Ferret Warlord wrote:
Back when flourinated water was introduced, some people saw it as an attempt by the government to introduce mind control chemicals into the municipal water supply or something.