Comments on: Conspiracy Theorists http://pursuingholiness.com/2007/04/conspiracy-theorists/ pursuing holiness, following politics Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:14:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Thomas Seidler http://pursuingholiness.com/2007/04/conspiracy-theorists/comment-page-1/#comment-34802 Thomas Seidler Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:41:34 +0000 http://www.pursuingholiness.com/2007/04/13/conspiracy-theorists/#comment-34802 Yes brethren. You have serious oversimplified things. Very few people actually need to be aware that is being done is evil or bad, or not the case - take smoking - at one time, very very few people knew it was actually dangerous, certainly not the people driving the lorries distributing them, putting adverts up etc etc. The plot does not require many people to be actively malevolent. Even bad things can be put in a good light, end justifies the means kind of thing - we need to appear to be ahead of Russians, its about fighting communism to have us land on the moon etc. "And all of them – tens if not hundreds of thousands of them – take their secret to the grave." All of them might be ten, not even one single hundred, and of course, one of the main reasons over the years for the survival and development of conspiracy theories is that they DO NOT all take their secrets to the grave. If you want to be serious and historical about this, observe that one of the main reasons conspiracy theories are so prevalent is that they had very serious very educated proponents, who really were in a position to be able to talk authoritatively on their existance. Observe my collection of quotes from top dogs: http://www.harmlesswise.co.uk/conspiracy/quotes Peace and love, in the King, t Yes brethren. You have serious oversimplified things. Very few people actually need to be aware that is being done is evil or bad, or not the case – take smoking – at one time, very very few people knew it was actually dangerous, certainly not the people driving the lorries distributing them, putting adverts up etc etc. The plot does not require many people to be actively malevolent.

Even bad things can be put in a good light, end justifies the means kind of thing – we need to appear to be ahead of Russians, its about fighting communism to have us land on the moon etc.

“And all of them – tens if not hundreds of thousands of them – take their secret to the grave.” All of them might be ten, not even one single hundred, and of course, one of the main reasons over the years for the survival and development of conspiracy theories is that they DO NOT all take their secrets to the grave.

If you want to be serious and historical about this, observe that one of the main reasons conspiracy theories are so prevalent is that they had very serious very educated proponents, who really were in a position to be able to talk authoritatively on their existance. Observe my collection of quotes from top dogs:

http://www.harmlesswise.co.uk/conspiracy/quotes

Peace and love,

in the King,

t

]]> By: Laura http://pursuingholiness.com/2007/04/conspiracy-theorists/comment-page-1/#comment-34522 Laura Sat, 14 Apr 2007 21:05:24 +0000 http://www.pursuingholiness.com/2007/04/13/conspiracy-theorists/#comment-34522 You're right, but it sure does feel futile! You’re right, but it sure does feel futile!

]]> By: Perri Nelson http://pursuingholiness.com/2007/04/conspiracy-theorists/comment-page-1/#comment-34502 Perri Nelson Sat, 14 Apr 2007 00:13:11 +0000 http://www.pursuingholiness.com/2007/04/13/conspiracy-theorists/#comment-34502 How indeed? Especially when the links go away or are diverted to other things. Electrons can be manipulated in so many ways. Maybe a screen shot or two compressed and stored away. Sadly, to a conspiracy nut, it's obvious that you photo-shopped that screen shot of their post. That "can't" have been what was said on that web site, it's not there now. All you can do I suppose is to quote extensively from their post, and present your fisking line by line, hoping that you get the message across to people that haven't been sucked in yet. How indeed? Especially when the links go away or are diverted to other things. Electrons can be manipulated in so many ways. Maybe a screen shot or two compressed and stored away.

Sadly, to a conspiracy nut, it’s obvious that you photo-shopped that screen shot of their post. That “can’t” have been what was said on that web site, it’s not there now.

All you can do I suppose is to quote extensively from their post, and present your fisking line by line, hoping that you get the message across to people that haven’t been sucked in yet.

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