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Just met my first hardcore conspiracy theorist

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ElectricBlanketFire

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So last night at a New Year's Eve party, I met a friend of a friend and apropos of nothing, she blurts out, "You know, the Sandy Hook shooting was orchestrated by the government."

She then proceeds to link me to some blog that outlines the supposed plot. I won't link it here as I don't want this person to get more views.

Among other things, she believes:

-9/11 was an inside job
-The government spies on you with your laptop webcam
-There are mind-altering chemicals in public water supplies

Ever meet one of these people in real life? How did you deal with them?
 
All those live cam streams on those, uh, websites have me covering up my MBP cam sometimes. PARANOIA OOGA BOOGA!
 
Problem with conspiracy believers is that they become obsessed with finding more conspiracy theories to the point where they will believe anything written on the internet.

And yea some of them can be preachier than those Mormon guys knocking on doors.
 
ClosingADoor said:
I'd hate to be the guy watching those feeds...
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You'd be surprised at how many people believe in conspiracy theories. Most believe in at least a couple. Whether it's Area 51, chem trails, 9/11, the Illuminati, etc.
 
ElectricBlanketFire said:
So last night at a New Year's Eve party, I met a friend of a friend and apropos of nothing, she blurts out, "You know, the Sandy Hook shooting was orchestrated by the government."

She then proceeds to link me to some blog that outlines the supposed plot. I won't link it here as I don't want this person to get more views.

Among other things, she believes:

-9/11 was an inside job
-The government spies on you with your laptop webcam
-There are mind-altering chemicals in public water supplies

Ever meet one of these people in real life? How did you deal with them?
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My Sociology professor was a hard core conspiracy theorist. The entire semester was taught using conspiracy theory videos and straw-man logic.

I debated him everyday and each time I brought up a fact or referred to an independent survey, he'd ask where I got these numbers from. No matter how credible the source was, he'd say that the government got to them to report "their side of the story."

It's pure cognitive dissonance. Even when facts and reason shit on the theory, the theorist will believe that those facts that disprove it actually reinforce the theory.
 
A friend of my sister's friend tried to sell her some shit that there is some Hollywood elite that orchestrated Aurora and Sandy Hook and had messages of it in TDKR.

Crazy people are hilarious.
 
Mully said:
Even when facts and reason shit on the theory, the theorist will believe that those facts that disprove it actually reinforce the theory.
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Two seconds of Googling showed that the blog she linked me to was an almost word-for-word ripoff of another conspiracy theory about the Dark Knight Rises shooting.

She didn't care.
 
Laptop webcam? No, but it's grounded in reality and thus not outlandish. Telcos were pretty much caught red-handed in helping gov't agencies spy on their users. Also recall a legit news piece on intelligence agencies routinely spying on regular individuals' emails and phone messages, occasionally goofing off and doing the TSA equivalent of oogling, sharing and keeping racy emails or images.

IceCold said:
You'd be surprised at how many people believe in conspiracy theories. Most believe in at least a couple. Whether it's Area 51, chem trails, 9/11, the Illuminati, etc.
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"Area 51" (or whatever its official name may be) is 100% real. UFO stuff aside, it appears to be a classified AF aircraft testing facility and you can't approach it from quite a large distance. People who have tried are made to turn around with warnings of force.
 
conspiracy theories that turned out to be true

revelant and interesting read

the site is a little crazy, but It seems that the article's claims are legitimate.

I mean, if someone had told me before that the CIA were running experiments trying to use LSD as a truth serum, I would've thought you were indeed crazy. but no. thats exactly what happened.
 
IceCold said:
You'd be surprised at how many people believe in conspiracy theories. Most believe in at least a couple. Whether it's Area 51, chem trails, 9/11, the Illuminati, etc.
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Area 51 isn't so much a conspiracy anymore, the aliens/UFO part is though.
its certain though that they are testing next gen F-117s, B2, SR-71 type jets there.
the F22 which is still state of the art is atleast a 25 year old design.
 
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