What do you consider to be the most outrageous conspiracy theory you ever heard?
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the government setup 9/11.  we're dirty, but not killing thousands of our own type of dirty.
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I don't know about the best, but I've heard a funny one.  To paraphrase, "a hacker has gained control of satellites and is beaming down mind control rays"...then the guy went on to post 'evidence' of this being true (like Bush writing his not asking if it was okay to use the restroom).  The sad part is, this guy was being serious.  See source link for his full description of what he thinks is happening.
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I think conspiracy theorists have been thoroughly discredited.  The terrorist attack was just that: an attack by terrorists.\n\nWe can discuss the root cause of their discontent, but it will not change the facts.
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That has to be the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard
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As a Mason myslef, I know all about the conspiracy theories.  They are quite ridiculous, even funny, but I can understand why people come to those conclusions, since many people don't really understand what we are all about.  \n\nSince there are hundreds of conspiracy theories, I can't begin to address every one of them here, but I would be happy to answer any questions emailed to me.  For now I will only say that we are a group of men who are trying to do good in our lives and in the lives of others, and most of this work comes through charity.  How can a group that treats children all over the world with burns and bone issues FOR FREE, and gives over $2 million a day to charity be an evil group?\n\nFeel free to take me up on my offer to answer any questions you may have, and I'll do so honestly and openly.
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You conspiracy theorists simply can't get enough to give it up.\n\nDo you think the Soviets would have allowed us to get away with such a lie for so long and not expose it?\n\nIf the the U.S.'s most secretive President in history can't conceal the NSA's wiretapping, how do you think anyone could have pulled off what you suggest for so long?\n\nYes, I do believe we went to and landed on the moon, and brought rocks back, too.
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Facts mixed with Fiction...did it confuse you?
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Why is it that anyone could believe any of the conspiracy theories out there? I get that people here aren't structural engineers, but let me give you an example...  Did you know that a bulletproof vest capable of stopping the largest pistol rounds you could stab a knife right through? That a fast moving small round like a 22 is more likely to penetrate than a slow moving big round like a 45? The science on the building failures & fire progression is excellent & very understandable. \n\nAs to some CIA conspiracy… you know most CIA employees are democrats? And even so, there is no way they’d allow an attack on Americans for political reasons. That’s insane! Not to mention what political gain came from the 9/11? If the President wanted to attack Bin Laden, there had been an attack on the USS Cole just months before he took office. Iraq you think? We justified that with WMD violations of UN sanctions, and the world didn’t follow us in there even with 9/11. We could have done the same thing if 9/11 had never occurred. \n\nYou can disagree with what the President has done since 9/11, but if you think he needed that horrific attack to justify the military action we’ve taken since then, you’re wrong. I also love how the same people that say Bush conducted this insanely complicated plot, are also the ones that say he is dumber than a rock. Wouldn’t he have to be an evil genius far smarter than any of us? There were theories back in WWII that FDR (a democrat) knew in advance & allowed the attack on Pearl Harbor so he could take us into the war, or more sinisterly so the military industrial complex could get rich putting Americans to work after a depression. That was stupid & insulting to the people who died then, just as these conspiracies are stupid now. As long as people continue to be so disconnected from reality they’ll continue to hand elections to conservatives.
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People who start, believe in or foster conspiracy theories are dopes!\n\nWhy not use your brainpower to follow an original and constructive line of thought?
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Bilderberg: The ultimate conspiracy theory\n \nBy Jonathan Duffy \nBBC News Online Magazine  \n\n\nThe Bilderberg group, an elite coterie of Western thinkers and power-brokers, has been accused of fixing the fate of the world behind closed doors. As the organisation marks its 50th anniversary, rumours are more rife than ever. \nGiven its reputation as perhaps the most powerful organisation in the world, the Bilderberg group doesn't go a bundle on its switchboard operations. \n\nTelephone inquiries are met with an impersonal female voice - the Dutch equivalent of the BT Callminder woman - reciting back the number and inviting callers to "leave a message after the tone". \n\nAnyone who accidentally dialled the number would probably think they had stumbled on just another residential answer machine. \n\n \nLeiden in Holland, the inauspicious base of the Bilderberg group \nBut behind this ultra-modest façade lies one of the most controversial and hotly-debated alliances of our times. \n\nOn Thursday the Bilderberg group marks its 50th anniversary with the start of its yearly meeting. \n\nFor four days some of the West's chief political movers, business leaders, bankers, industrialists and strategic thinkers will hunker down in a five-star hotel in northern Italy to talk about global issues. \n\nWhat sets Bilderberg apart from other high-powered get-togethers, such as the annual World Economic Forum (WEF), is its mystique. \n\nNot a word of what is said at Bilderberg meetings can be breathed outside. No reporters are invited in and while confidential minutes of meetings are taken, names are not noted. \n\nThe shadowy aura extends further - the anonymous answerphone message, for example; the fact that conference venues are kept secret. The group, which includes luminaries such as Henry Kissinger and former UK chancellor Kenneth Clarke, does not even have a website. \n\n DISCREET AND ELITE \nThis year Bilderberg has announced a list of attendees \nThey include BP chief John Browne, US Senator John Edwards, World Bank president James Wolfensohn and Mrs Bill Gates  \n\nIn the void created by such aloofness, an extraordinary conspiracy theory has grown up around the group that alleges the fate of the world is largely decided by Bilderberg. \n\nIn Yugoslavia, leading Serbs have blamed Bilderberg for triggering the war which led to the downfall of Slobodan Milosevic. The Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, the London nail-bomber David Copeland and Osama Bin Laden are all said to have bought into the theory that Bilderberg pulls the strings with which national governments dance. \n\nAnd while hardline right-wingers and libertarians accuse Bilderberg of being a liberal Zionist plot, leftists such as activist Tony Gosling are equally critical. \n\nA former journalist, Mr Gosling runs a campaign against the group from his home in Bristol, UK. \n\n"My main problem is the secrecy. When so many people with so much power get together in one place I think we are owed an explanation of what is going on. \n\n \nTimothy McVeigh was among those who believed the conspiracy theory \nMr Gosling seizes on a quote from Will Hutton, the British economist and a former Bilderberg delegate, who likened it to the annual WEF gathering where "the consensus established is the backdrop against which policy is made worldwide". \n\n"One of the first places I heard about the determination of US forces to attack Iraq was from leaks that came out of the 2002 Bilderberg meeting," says Mr Gosling. \n\nBut "privacy, rather than secrecy", is key to such a meeting says Financial Times journalist Martin Wolf, who has been invited several times in a non-reporting role. \n\n"The idea that such meetings cannot be held in private is fundamentally totalitarian," he says. "It's not an executive body; no decisions are taken there." \n\nAs an up-and-coming statesmen in the 1950s, Denis Healey, who went on
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Yes, Everyone loves a conspiracy theory!
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That just proves how nuts your conspiracy theory was!
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My guess would be Ronald Reagan's assassination attempt...\n\nBut I think that today nobody would want to miss the hilarity that is our ridiculous leader
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I have this video.  It is thought provoking.  Check out the one he (Alex Jones) put out about the Bohemian Grove.  That, too, is a secret sect that many of our presidents have belonged to as well as leaders from all over the world.  As for the Illuminati being a group of "intellectuals," that was said in The DaVinci Code and should not be taken as fact.  It was a wonderful web that Dan Brown weaved.  (I must say, though, I couldn't put that book down, very entertaining.)
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"...From my own intelligence work within the military, I can say WITH ALL CERTAINTY that one of the main reasons the public has been kept in total darkness about the reality of UFOs and 'aliens', is that the truth of the matter actually exists TOO CLOSE TO HOME TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT.  How could a spokesman for the Pentagon dare admit that five or ten thousand feet underground EXISTS AN ENTIRE WORLD THAT IS 'FOREIGN' TO A BELIEF STRUCTURE WE HAVE HAD FOR CENTURIES? How could, for example, our fastest bomber be any challenge to those aerial invaders when we can only guess about the routes they take to the surface; eluding radar as they fly so low, headed back to their underground lair?"\n\n"...the 'Greys' or the 'EBEs' have established a fortress, spreading out to other parts of the U.S. via means of a vast underground tunnel system THAT HAS VIRTUALLY EXISTED BEFORE RECORDED HISTORY..."\n\n--Milton (William) Cooper, ex-Naval Intelligence officer
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The Onion!  I find it hilarious that quite often some of their stories somehow are taken for real and vast numbers of gullible people become indignant, horrified, etc.
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yeah...'fraid so, sista!  Pyramids on Mars, huh?  oh!...and don't forget the GIANT FACE on Mars!  Keep believing BS without even studying the facts, or wake up to reality- the choice is yours.  Do conspiracy theories make you feel important or something?