The Titanic Didn't really sink

[Jade Dragon]

So you say. But, for the most part, conspiracy theories are never examined by the people who rush to say, "tin foil hat, conspiracy theory!"

Jade Dragon made my point. There are conspiracies, but only the (unspecified) ones that he believes. The others are all just "fevered dreams."

No I'm saying they're a waste of time, and energy. Even if you could prove something, you won't change that much, if anything really, and you'd have sinfully wasted time, and energy that's not only just your own. For someone that only cares so much about the secular world, it really isn't stuff that even blips on my radar.

[Controlled Opposition]

"Sinfully" you say? Please keep your "sinfully" religious nonsense to yourself. Can you name any conspiracy theories you believe in? Can you identify any that you don't believe in? Or do you just indulge in sweeping generalization?

[Jade Dragon]

"Sinfully" you say? Please keep your "sinfully" religious nonsense to yourself. Can you name any conspiracy theories you believe in? Can you identify any that you don't believe in? Or do you just indulge in sweeping generalization?

I'll keep my religious away from you, if you keep your pretension with conspiracies away from me. Or do you still need to waste time thinking you are in the know of something, and somehow it makes you a one up on others, because of this stuff? Knowing something without basis is basically just thinking you know something. It's seethes with a sort of egotistic desperation.

[Tranquillus in Exile]

conspiracy theories are never examined by the people who rush to say, "tin foil hat, conspiracy theory!"

If you're honest, CO, you will admit that I have taken 9/11 conspiracy theories seriously. For years I have examined what 'theorists' claim, checked their sources, if any, and tried to determine if there could be any truth in their speculations. As a result,
I probably know more about 9/11 conspiracy theories than most truthers.

My conclusion is: it's not just implausible, it's nigh on impossible. The bad guys could not have done it in any of the ways that truthers claim. But don't give up! They may have done it in some other way that truthers haven't thought of yet.

[ThatOwlWoman]

Just one of the things I find ironic about this forum is the number of people promoting, "conspiracy theories" while claiming that there are no conspiracies.

I'm always amazed at the number of people who believe that the government is totally inept when it comes to things like health care, managing taxpayer funds, weeding out waste/fraud/abuse, efficiently providing mandated services, and/or operating at better than a kindergarten-class-full-of-sugar-crazed-kids level..... Yet that very same government is capable of cooking up amazingly complex conspiracies and keeping them covered up for decades, so that only a handful of intrepid bloggers know the real truth.

[Jade Dragon]

I'm always amazed at the number of people who believe that the government is totally inept when it comes to things like health care, managing taxpayer funds, weeding out waste/fraud/abuse, efficiently providing mandated services, and/or operating at better than a kindergarten-class-full-of-sugar-crazed-kids level..... Yet that very same government is capable of cooking up amazingly complex conspiracies and keeping them covered up for decades, so that only a handful of intrepid bloggers know the real truth.

I feel the same with those that think the government is going to take their guns away. How?

[ThatOwlWoman]

I feel the same with those that think the government is going to take their guns away. How?

Exactly. And then there's the whole reality about no matter how many assault rifles and modified semi-auto to fully auto bang-bang dicksticks they have.... the tanks, smart bombs, incendiaries, and troops will roll right over their idiotic last stands like we did to the villages in Vietnam and Iraq and Afghanistan. To put it more plainly for the gunhumpers: Don't matter how many 2nd Amendment solutions you got there, Jethro.... you aren't going to keep "the government from tyranny" that way.

[PostmodernProphet]

I must confess.....I myself am part of a yuuuge conspiracy intended to make the lib'ruls on this board look incredibly stupid.......I will not disclose the identity of those who are my confederates but I will admit that most of the lib'rul posters here are willing participants......

[RB 60]

Exactly. And then there's the whole reality about no matter how many assault rifles and modified semi-auto to fully auto bang-bang dicksticks they have.... the tanks, smart bombs, incendiaries, and troops will roll right over their idiotic last stands like we did to the villages in Vietnam and Iraq and Afghanistan. To put it more plainly for the gunhumpers: Don't matter how many 2nd Amendment solutions you got there, Jethro.... you aren't going to keep "the government from tyranny" that way.

Maybe you should frequent the many current military and veteran websites to see just who our military would support in a civil conflict.
Hint: It's not your liberal/socialist ideology.

[Minister of Truth]

I feel the same with those that think the government is going to take their guns away. How?

Losing elections to leftists.

[Tranquillus in Exile]

Maybe you should frequent the many current military and veteran websites to see just who our military would support in a civil conflict.

The military would serve the lawfully established government, I assume, as is their duty.

[RB 60]

The military would serve the lawfully established government, I assume, as is their duty.

You assume...

[Tranquillus in Exile]

You assume...

Yes, the United States is not a banana republic.

[RB 60]

Maybe you should frequent the many current military and veteran websites to see just who our military would support in a civil conflict.
Hint: It's not your liberal/socialist ideology.

Yes, the United States is not a banana republic.

Again, reread my post to Fowl, keeping in mind many current military and veterans are gun owners, too.

[Minister of Truth]

The military would serve the lawfully established government, I assume, as is their duty.

The duty is foremost to the Constitution.