Most conspiracy theories

[Elwar]

From what I have seen, most conspiracy theories go something like this:


"Something is very bad. I will show you the bad things going on: <insert list of bad things here>"

"These people benefit from those bad things: <insert list of people that benefit from bad things>"

"Something happened that is bad that those people benefit from."

<Insert crazy huge leap in logic with no evidence to back up the theory>

Conclusion: "Those people made that bad thing happen."

[jaysabi]

I think your theory of conspiracy theories supposes a lot more forethought to them than they usually get.

[Elwar]

I think your theory of conspiracy theories supposes a lot more forethought to them than they usually get.

Perhaps it is a conspiracy...against conspiracy theories.


Use the formula to come up with your own conspiracy theory for a tragedy that you can think of.

[jaysabi]

Use the formula to come up with your own conspiracy theory for a tragedy that you can think of.

I'll leave that for the folks with nothing better to do than imagine incredible reasons for to explain benign things. I'll just point out that it's a rare instance the highly educated are prone to such folly.

[pedrog]

[jyakulis]

What conspiracies in particular are you referencing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny3elI6yMMk

[Brewins]

All conspiracy theories in the sense of this topic explain everything and have answers. The theory explain everything in the reality, wit no doubts and no gradations.

Other legit theories that people call conspiracy theories don't have the explanation for everything, they rise hypothesis and known the truth behind many facts of the present and from the past have no known explanation, and will remain unexplained for long time, or maybe forever.

Since the world is dominated by secrets, let them be by the govern or by secret societies, if not by the sheer complication of the modern world, no one can make seriously study the modern world without conjecturing what is hidden and how to connect the numerous factors one can't study by a physical impossibility

[Elwar]

What conspiracies in particular are you referencing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny3elI6yMMk

Pick a disaster...

Hindenburg, Titanic, 9/11, JFK...

[jaysabi]

What conspiracies in particular are you referencing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny3elI6yMMk

Pick a disaster...

Hindenburg, Titanic, 9/11, JFK...

There's a Titanic conspiracy theory? This ought to be interesting...

[Elwar]

What conspiracies in particular are you referencing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny3elI6yMMk

Pick a disaster...

Hindenburg, Titanic, 9/11, JFK...

There's a Titanic conspiracy theory? This ought to be interesting...

It started the World War, insurance fraud, the Federal Reserve was under attack by some rich patrons on the boat...on and on..

[jaysabi]

What conspiracies in particular are you referencing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny3elI6yMMk

Pick a disaster...

Hindenburg, Titanic, 9/11, JFK...

There's a Titanic conspiracy theory? This ought to be interesting...

It started the World War, insurance fraud, the Federal Reserve was under attack by some rich patrons on the boat...on and on..

Those are great! (And by great, I mean terrible.) First, I've never heard of any of them. Second, the Titanic sank in 1912? Years before WWI started. Not sure how that one makes any sense at all. The Federal Reserve wasn't founded yet either, so that one doesn't make sense either. I particularly like the insurance fraud one though. That's fantastic!

[jyakulis]

What conspiracies in particular are you referencing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny3elI6yMMk

Pick a disaster...

Hindenburg, Titanic, 9/11, JFK...

Did you see the passenger in the video? It's real footage...I've seen the black and white...just updated with 21st century video technology.

[jyakulis]

What conspiracies in particular are you referencing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny3elI6yMMk

Pick a disaster...

Hindenburg, Titanic, 9/11, JFK...

There's a Titanic conspiracy theory? This ought to be interesting...

It started the World War, insurance fraud, the Federal Reserve was under attack by some rich patrons on the boat...on and on..

[conspiracy of an actual alt ending to the movie titantic]

Rose: Jack I'm flying!

(thinks to himself you got to be shitting me)

Jack: Really!??!?



KERPLUNK!!!!!!!!


(thinks to himself shit guess not)

[Cameltoemcgee]

I'm not saying that those conspiracies mentioned are true, but some are...

http://www.cracked.com/article_18955_6-crackpot-conspiracy-theories-that-actually-happened.html

[Elwar]

I'm not saying that those conspiracies mentioned are true, but some are...

http://www.cracked.com/article_18955_6-crackpot-conspiracy-theories-that-actually-happened.html

And I tend to be open minded when it comes to alternative ways of looking at things.

But they usually lose me in step 2, the logical leap/lack of evidence portion.

They usually spend a lot of time on steps 1 and 3 to compensate.

Even in your article about things that "actually happened", they found that the government has done research into transmitting voices into someone's head. There is a huge leap from doing research and being able to transmit the numbers 1 to 10 to the government sending people messages to go kill someone.

The government does research on many things, they just came out with something that can "read your thoughts" (if you're in an MRI machine looking at pictures...being able to see your reaction to those pictures).

I worked for a company that had spent years and millions of dollars on ESP assassinations and ESP spying (back in the 70s). Just another instance where the government can be fooled by con artists just as easily as other people.

[jyakulis]

I'm not saying that those conspiracies mentioned are true, but some are...

http://www.cracked.com/article_18955_6-crackpot-conspiracy-theories-that-actually-happened.html

The government does research on many things, they just came out with something that can "read your thoughts" (if you're in an MRI machine looking at pictures...being able to see your reaction to those pictures).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Jewels_(Central_Intelligence_Agency)

[Morbid]

[jyakulis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTiONdJJRcw

[Elwar]

What conspiracies in particular are you referencing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny3elI6yMMk

Pick a disaster...

Hindenburg, Titanic, 9/11, JFK...

Did you see the passenger in the video? It's real footage...I've seen the black and white...just updated with 21st century video technology.

So...the passenger shot him or the limo driver (like the title of the video says)?

I didn't see anything close to that.

[jyakulis]

What conspiracies in particular are you referencing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny3elI6yMMk

Pick a disaster...

Hindenburg, Titanic, 9/11, JFK...

Did you see the passenger in the video? It's real footage...I've seen the black and white...just updated with 21st century video technology.

So...the passenger shot him or the limo driver (like the title of the video says)?

I didn't see anything close to that.

title is labeled wrong...look at the guy sitting in front of him. He casually ducks....and then...