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  1. Gretchen

    9/11 Conspiracy Theories: Inside The Lonely Lives Of Truthers, Still Looking For Their Big Break

    The demolition claim does seem to be one of the most enduring, probably because it's a dramatic visual when accompanied by a soberly convincing narrative on YouTube. The fact that y'all are talking about making models seems to bear this up. Jenga might work. Putting aside the validity of the...
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    WHY do you debunk?

    He tells me that what he actually said was that conspiracy theorists have already found God and that their task is to convince the world of it (God = "Truth" in this sense.) Here's the rest, pasted verbatim. Basically I was thinking about Fox Mulder, Your Honor, because there's a new X-Files...
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    WHY do you debunk?

    A friend of mine says that conspiracy theorists are looking for God. On the absence of simplicity from history; that fact that we arrange fictional events into an easy-to-follow narrative to make stories - in an attempt perhaps to explain and pass on basic philosophical/psychological 'truths' -...
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    WHY do you debunk?

    It's true that the imagination required has served a purpose, bringing us stuff like The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (not The Da Vinci Code) and various Dr Who episodes. Paranoid conspiracies are not so much a failure of the imagination as its failure to recognise itself.
  5. Gretchen

    WHY do you debunk?

    I'm certainly not a 'professional' debunker like some of you guys, but definitely enough of a smartass to want to go "Errr..." on some of the posts I see around. Like I said in the other thread, the volume and sheer ridiculousness of it caught me by surprise. And it's the friends who think...
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    Welcome Thread - New Members Post Here

    I only say "mental" on the internet of course. At work we have terminology. :cool:
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    Explained: Hampton Court Ghost Photo [iPhone Panorama Glitch]

    More importantly, that is a very, very tall ghost, and everyone knows that people in the old days were really short.
  8. Gretchen

    Welcome Thread - New Members Post Here

    Hi, I've been a frequent visitor to this site but first landed during research for a chemtrails argument. A couple of years ago I finally hit social media and was very surprised to find that some of my old friends are still thinking like we did when we were sixteen. Which is quite a while ago...
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