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user-inactivated  ·  2833 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Have you ever known a conspiracy theorist before?

MY CHECKLIST OF PEOPLE I('VE) KNOW(N)

- The government is spying on you (pre-PRISM) ( I stopped counting ) [VALIDATED]

- Western Civilization is going to fall because of the EuroZone crisis ( 2x )

- Obama is a Muslim / Not a citizen ( 1x )

- TUPAC IS ALIVE ( 1x )

- Vaccines cause autism ( 5x )

- The military did secret testing of chemical weapons on its troops during Operation Desert Storm ( 2x )

- ... which lead to the test subjects having children with autism ( 2x )

- Aliens are real ( 2x )

- Ghosts are real ( 3x )

... I'm sure a couple of these also believe 9/11 was an inside job.

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I also had a friend go down to Dallas last year and spend a day checking out the historical sights to be seen from the J.F.K. assassination. His trip report when he got back?

    Some people still think there was a second gunman. Some people think it was the FBI, or the CIA, or the Cubans. Fuck the grass knoll. Fuck the FBI. Fuck the second gunman. You wanna know why? Because some times shit just happens. People want reasons for things. But you know what? Some times shit just fucking happens.





nowaypablo  ·  2832 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If Tupac is dead explain this:

user-inactivated  ·  2833 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    - The government is spying on you (pre-PRISM) ( I stopped counting ) [VALIDATED]

Validated long before Snowden, if not almost from the beginning of modern postal services. I'm not sure this one ever counted as a conspiracy theory.

OftenBen  ·  2833 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The 'Ghosts are real' bit is tricky. Depending on how you phrase the question, I'm sure you could get tons of people to admit they believe in supernatural entities as part of their religious beliefs. When does that cross over into 'conspiracy' thinking?

user-inactivated  ·  2833 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I tacked it on because of the overlap between the ghosts people and the UFOs people, but you're right. Stepping back, I don't think anyone I know would assert a cover-up of ghosts. My bias on that subject is showing.

mahava  ·  2832 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Am I a conspiracy theorist for thinking alien life might be real somewhere in the universe?

(I mean that genuinely, no sarcasm intended)

user-inactivated  ·  2832 days ago  ·  link  ·  

No at all. If you told me that you thought that alien life was visiting earth, and the government was hiding it, though, I might think that.

I'd be shocked if we were alone in the universe.

mahava  ·  2832 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh ok I see what you mean now!

I'm in the same boat as you, I don't doubt there's something out there, but I don't think that the government is trying to cover up alien life and pull the wool over our eyes...