Rational thought based on objective observation. Ever tried it?

That pretty much is what conspiracy theories do. Percy is dead on with it. What is your issue?

Ok, it is possible space aliens have addressed Congress;




Of course that is right before the aliens vaporize Congress...not that that would be a bad thing...

Well, according to someone on another thread, that it occurred in a movie, makes it factual!!!

Which thread? There are so many.

You're a lemming, read about yourself below.



There are of course those who have fallen under the hypnotic spell of the TV talking-heads and "experts" whom they worship as authority figures. Unaccustomed to thinking for themselves, no amount of truth can sway them from their preconceived prejudices and conditioned reactions. They will even deny that which they see with their own eyes. Individuals that have been thusly conditioned can only parrot those opinions which have been implanted in their minds by outside suggestion. In effect, millions of American minds have been reduced to the intellectual level of a CD player, spinning an implanted disc designed by outside forces of which the intended target has no awareness. They soon become victims of a psychological affliction known as "the lemming effect". Lemmings are small rodents who have been observed to follow each other as they charge to their deaths into raging rivers or even off of cliffs. Lemminghood is an innate psychological phenomenon, present in most mammals and observable in common people as well the most sophisticated and educated elites.

Lemminghood is not an intellectual phenomenon - it is psychological. As such, no socio-economic class is immune to its strangulating effect. A grant- seeking university scientist can be a lemming just as much as a fashion obsessed teen-age girl. One blindly follows the latest trendy theory while the other follows the latest clothing style. What's the difference? Neither can resist the force of nature. The power to fit in with one's social peers can be irresistible. To a human lemming, the logic behind an opinion doesn't count as much as the power and popularity behind an opinion. Man, like lemming, behaves collectively. And it could be no other way. Naturally, the individual must be equipped with this trait. Otherwise, the smallest steps toward civilization could never have been made. Lemminghood is a necessary, sociological survival trait, an inborn instinct in the majority of people. However, as with all natural phenomena, this tendency can be manipulated and used for harmful purposes. The same lemming effect which enables the masses of a justly governed society to make progress all at the same time, can, in an unjustly governed society, cause the masses to lose their sense of judgment, all at the same time.

This research paper will likely be wasted on many lemmings. For lemmings, denial is a basic psychological defense mechanism used to not only shield themselves from unpleasant realities, but also to reassure themselves that they will still fit within the acceptable range of opinion held by their peer group. At all costs, their beliefs must always be on the "right" side of the issue and conform within the boundaries of their lemming peers. Lemmings simply cannot bear the burden of responsibility, or the social discomfort, which comes with thinking independently. They are capable only of repeating that which they hear from the talking heads and "experts" on TV. Lemmings will not only resist efforts to change their misguided beliefs with all of their mental energy, but they will usually attack anyone who dares to question their myths. Lemmings are absolutely terrified at the thought of being labeled as an "extremist" or a "conspiracy theorist". Ironically, the very same lemmings who instinctively ridicule all "conspiracy theories", are always the first ones to blindly swallow the most ridiculous conspiracy theories imaginable when the government and media present them!

We can try to open the closed minds of lemmings and free them from their self-imposed blindness, but it's not easy fighting the forces of Pavlovian conditioning and human nature. The chains of ideological conformity have too strong of a grip, and breaking them is a difficult task. With the limited resources at our disposal, it is next to impossible to compete with the media lemming-masters. Lemmings have been conditioned to obediently grovel before the "authority" of their media and government masters. For this reason, the lie of the emperor is always believed before the truth of the peasant. Nevertheless, some of us must make the meager attempt, and thus lay the foundation upon which the truth might one day rise again.

Merely being misinformed does not makes one a lemming. Anyone can be fooled. There is no shame is being misinformed. But, to persist in erroneous thinking, even in the face of irrefutable evidence and logic, is the height of lemminghood. There are those few among us who do possess the intellectual capacity to break free from lemminghood, the nobility of character to admit that we were once badly fooled, and the internal courage to then face the sad fact that we are inmates trapped in a global insane asylum. Those individuals who can muster up these moral and mental virtues will then be ready to accept the truth when it is presented in clear and logical sequence. To those open minded, independent thinkers I wish to state clearly and unequivocally. I intend to set forth in this paper an overwhelming body of evidence which should forever destroy the ridiculous notion that a Saudi caveman and his band of half-trained, nerdy Arab flight school students, orchestrated the most sophisticated terror operation in world history. The very idea is utterly laughable. And yet, due to the blithering barrage of propaganda and disinformation dished out by the government/media complex, millions of "patriotic" A sheeple now accept this fantastic fairy tale, this moronic mendacity, this silly superstition, this dangerous delusion, with a zealous conviction bordering on mass insanity.

As an admittedly useless public service to my helplessly doomed countrymen, and as a gift to a posterity which will hopefully be more enlightened than my bewildered, blood-thirsty, flag-waving contemporaries, I have published this research in the hopes of liberating as many people as I can from the oppressive yoke of media brainwashing and state sponsored lies.

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The jews need to throw a holocaust, they owe us one.
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>>>Outside of the fact that conspiracy theories do not "rely on a specific sequence of separate events happening together", or that they do not depend on each event having a "low individual chance", I really don't have an issue.

Well, they do generally rely on a specific sequence of events (read more interpretation of events), but I do agree that they individually do not need to have a low chance. Though collectively they do.

>>>The chance that there always have been conspiracies is very high. The chance that there always will be conspiracies is also very high. Both approach 100 percent. Why try to diminish conspiracy theories?

You are trying to hypnotise me with bold characters. It wont work.

Look into the crystal and repeat after me...



I am a conservative.....

I will write in a vote for 'Percysunshine' in November...

I will never vote for a liberal again in my natural life...



OK...Open your eyes and be happy for a day.