No such thing as conspriacy theories?

[leemary]

I think there is no validity in 'conspiracy theories'. The term has far too much baggage these days and acts as an all-encompasser, much to the detriment of us all.

Throughout history we have had those in power doing whatever they think they need to do to keep that power, and if greedy, to expand it. It is as obvious as night follows day that those in power conspire to retain and/or expand it. They have to conspire coz what they do is illegal, so they have to fool the public, via the media.

Where distrust of those in power deepens, is when we analyse their past record. Precedence a plenty.

Now I, for one, distrust those in power, particularly in US and UK. Therefore, rather like the Sun, i take whatever they say immediately to be wrong, and then i work from that starting basis. Possibly they were right on occasion, but i arrive at that conclusion from a start of not trusting it.

The other thing i think is that none of us know anything about what really happens, unless we are actually involved. Therefore what helps fan these ridiculous 'conspiracy fans' jibes is when folk call for evidence. None of us have any evidence.

The original single meaning of 'conspiracy theory' i'm sure applies to one where certain people disagreed with the official version of events put forward by the state.

And like i say, the state are notorious for lying to ****. And where the US and UK are involved, bombing to **** too.

On what possible grounds should we believe anything that they tell us?

[audioalone]

consider this here:

www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=4668.2926.0.0

I don't trust those in power either, leemary.

[Naptaq]

I'd give conspiracy theories very little validity, if any.

[gaia]

It's very tempting to believe some conspiracy theories.
But you have to ask yourself what makes it any more credible than the original version, y'know?

[Sweet Pea]

Sept 23, 2008 18:01:38 GMT -5 gaia said:

It's very tempting to believe some conspiracy theories.
But you have to ask yourself what makes it any more credible than the original version, y'know?

some things seem to start off as a conspiracy on a small scale, then grow and become the norm through sheeplike human behavior.

[jai]

Conspiracy theories are true, of course not all of them, but some of them have validity. The government just has enough power to cover the wool over our eyes.

I mean look at the perfection to which an assassination in which a president is murdered. Kennedy is shot, they find the killer, then he dies, then his killer is given the death penalty. Look at Diana's death. Why is it only the good people die. Diana's life was ruined by the royal life, so she's gets close to Dodi, and the government doesn't like this. So what do they do, kill her.

Bush leave New Orleans when the hurracaine hit them, he sends troops the Iraq. He can afford to spend money on war but not his own country? It's amazing that people follow this system that the government and believe its good. They give us cheap labour, we got to work 9-5 to pay for the house which we leave vacant all day so we can afford to pay the mortgage on it. We are cheap labour, we seem to work more than living life these days.