Do people who believe in A conspiracy theory believe in ALL conspiracy theories?

Question

I am just wondering!
If you believe for example that we never landed on the moon, do you think that people who believe that the earth is flat are mad? Is your conviction absolute? Does it make you more tolerant of other people's believes or more suspicious?

Answer 1

I think at least some conspiracy theories are just too incredible to be believed. I have no source from which I can quote, except to say that there is a general and increasing disrespect for authority of all kinds. This may in part be due to our believe that those authorities must be hiding something from us. I think ever since the JFK assassination in particular, it has been open season on authority. Government are, of course not going to give credence to any of these CTs, but their taciturnity only makes the CTists want to shout louder. It's a vicious circle in which conspiracy theories will only get more bizarre and extreme.

Answer 2

I don't have anything against conspiracy theories, I just have a problem with conspiracy theories that don't have any evidence. I'm sorry... JFK was shot by Oswald, men landed on the moon, the earth is round, and 9/11 was carried out by terrorists. Discussion is good but it just reaches a point where you can't argue with the facts.

Answer 3

You seem to be comparing religion to conspiracy theories which is not comparing like with like. A conspiracy theory could be true, they are usually within the bounds of science as we know it. Religion however often relies on magic or miracles which are not scientifically possible. Conspiracy theories often question official events whereas religion strongly discourages this.

Answer 4

even nonetheless my decision for first answer would be emphatically no, I do learn conspiracy, and have come to a end that in basic terms approximately continually holds genuine: whilst analyzing the objective for the perception of a conspiracy I usually observe a certainty someplace interior the breakdown of reasons that doesn't ring genuine. That certainty would properly be a word taken out of context, someones misstatement a pair of historic incident or something that has got here approximately that rather did no longer. as quickly as i'm waiting to locate those/that certainty, it is going to tear down the conspiracy one piece at a time. something as risk unfastened as taking a politicians word out of context is amazingly person-friendly to do, and till you're responsive to each thing of the assertion you have a tendency to have self belief what you're listening to exceedingly if that's popping out of the mouth of somebody who you think of is to clever to be caught up in a faux conspiracy. the comparable holds genuine for a historic journey; till you recognize the history you have a tendency to have self belief what you come across a very psychological individual is asserting. those that make their case for the conspiracy are everywhere, they do no longer look to be all nut jobs the two. greater many times they have been confident via that one handy lie it is the alternative of an inconvenient certainty.

Answer 5

hmmm i take into what ive researched to influence what i believe. however if we did land on the moon how come we cant see the flag they planted up there from a telescope? are we to think that they were smart enough to land on the moon and dumb enough to plant it on the backside? *shrug*

im naturally suspicious of things. i think its cause around 6th grade i started to research and read the bible a bit more and found out that everything i been taught isnt necessarily the truth. what can i believe... ? lol i just like to question and debate things regardless to what i believe. i debate for the thrill of it !

Answer 6

I believe Kennedy was asssassinated by our own gov't. Why seal the investigatory files until all possible players are dead (2025 or around there sometime)? So, I see secrets are very probable. With a grain of salt, it might go down.....

Answer 7

All those theories have their merits, but I would have to go with what the bible says, and the part of the theories that don't match I have to discard as false.

Answer 8

Sometimes its helpful to start with the etymology of a word like 'conspiracy' that comes from the verb 'to conspire' which literally means to 'breath together' con - with & spire - breath. Conspiracy is used in the negative sense, wrongly. All kinds of people 'conspire' behind closed doors. Marketing people, journalists, corporate executives, parliamentarians, ministers, (secular and religious), senators, doctors, wardens ad infinitum. They agree together to do something that is not necessarily agreed on by a majority, which has a wide impact on society. The negative connotation has been introduced by lexicographers.

The negative aspect to 'conspiracy' is when the motive or intention behind the secretly agreed action is deemed to not be serving a cause beneficial to common good. Up to this point, before a value judgement is introduced, the conspiracy is technically a noun for 'agreeing together - usually in secret, though not always', which may be for good but arguably, if done in secret, is for bad. Theory evolves from pontificating over whether the people conspiring are 'bad' in their motives, especially when events 'they' have orchestrated have had a 'bad outcome. In the absense of truth about motives, i.e. no observable evidence to prove a bad intention, the only recourse is to piece together what is known and construct a convincing argument to support a case for 'badness'. Its a lawyers' practise, this.

In a world where Kings and Leaders are accepted as norm to protect the wholly idiotic idea of possession of goods, lands, objects etc as an absolute condition of personal status and worth, it is inevitable that secret plans for defence and/or assault is going to be decided on by such people to 'secure the borders' that hem in your possessions. (In the old days the borders consisted of wooden fencing. Nowadays they are economic) As such, these schemes, systems, plans, policies, strategies necessarily need to be kept secret so that the 'enemy' - i.e. the one who wants your possessions, can't get them so easily. War cabinets are run by conspiracists..

The conspiracy theory about what precisely precipitated the 2nd world war focuses on the idea of Corporate power manipulating thugs like Hitler to create the economic and political conditions for their businesses to thrive in supplying goods and materials for the highly consumptive war effort. As in Iraq.

I believe in ALL conspiracy theories because it is in human nature, in the survival of the fittest, in the natural selection of the savage animal homo sapien, to lie, cheat and kill in order maintain the status quo of master and slave.

My conviction is absolute, based on observable evidence of the social and cultural practices of generations of races and civilisations spanning thousands of years, whose obsession with materialism is expressed in an idolisation of dust & atoms, which produces nothing but a constant state of fear and oppression and the perpetuity of the master/slave system of social organisation. (From my book 'DNA of SIN'.)

Answer 9

i wasn't a believer untill i saw 9/11. 9/11 was an inside job.

Answer 10

Are you implying that people are conspiring to spread conspiracy theories?