The Conspiracy Cancer

The forums on this site used to be fun and informative. All I see now are endless postings based around conspiracy theories. Society unfortunately has a lot of sad and sick people, the lucky ones who know they are sick get treatment and can again live a healthy and normal life. The others with nothing else in their lives feed on conspiracy theories and regurgitate them onto these forums. What I find astounding is that people respond. Why would any sane person bother to reply to this garbage, all you do is encourage them and give their arguments some kind of validity. All you have to do to cure this conspiracy cancer is simply treat it with the contempt that it deserves and ignore it. Eventually without a host it will simply infect itself and die.
why not give it a try!

Nah. Those pics are just part of the Photoshopper's conspiracy trying to convince me that other women possess more beautiful buttocks than that of my wife and thereby lead me to the dark side by invoking the "seven year itch", "the grass is always greener" etc,etc.

You can't fool me with that one. It has sent me a little cross eyed though.

It's cold and there is no wind in Bundaberg today, if you hadn't already guessed.

Why do I respond?
I think you have answered that yourself when you refer to it as a cancer.
Very rarely does a cancer self extinguish just by ignoring it.
It does happen, but not often.
More commonly, you ignore it for a while but while you are doing that it is gaining strength and momentum until finally it takes over the host organism, which in this case is the society we live in.
It poisons society to react against the system which is set in place to benefit it, and that can't be a good thing.
There is nothing wrong with a healthy scepticism but this conspiracy rubbish breeds more than that. It fosters a deep seated distrust and disrespect for the governing powers and therefore creates an excuse to work against them.
Governments make enough genuine errors worthy of criticism without having to invent fictitious ones.

If you think our society is actually doing not too bad then it is worth defending. Specially when it is so easy to do so
It would be very sad to see it infected by such gross stupidity and negative intent as is displayed in some of these conspiracy theories.
You might think this would be an unlikely outcome but because they now have such an effective way of spreading their poison by way of the internet and U tube, it is clear that even the most stupid conspiracy scenario can gain a lot of traction over a very wide audience.

The original conspiracy rubbish used to be under the heading of "POISON".
I think this was appropriate because that's what it is.

I do agree that it now seems to be infecting too many threads , but then they are clearly marked so if you have no interest in them then they are easy to skip over.
I think the thread heading of "Stupid Theories" was appropriate but then what self respecting conspiracy theorist would want to post their pearls of wisdom under a heading like that.
Maybe forum admin might like to transplant any similar topic to that thread heading.

From another aspect, they do offer a very good insight into the human condition.
And that condition is the ability to firmly believe in something which has no basis in reality, even in the face of undeniable proof that the belief is wrong.
Once the belief has been firmly established it is unshakeable, even after every cornerstone of their argument is demolished.
There are a number of things in society which take advantage of that flaw in our make up.
If you recognise this you will see it coming and not be taken advantage of by it.

i think gypsydrifter is doing a great job on these forums!

Geez the mum in the middle with the black top and shiny head would take a few bourbons to cross the attraction line!

+1

I find the conpiracy stuff pretty funny on here BUT, have you ever dealt with one of these people face to face. They are condescending pr1cks. They carry on like religious zealots trying to save you from hell (yourself). They are offended if you arent intersted in the crapolla they are spurting. If civilization does come to an end next year I would rather go down with it than live on an island somewhere with those d1ckwits !.....

boardswa.......The forums on this site used to be fun and informative. All I see now are endless postings based around conspiracy theories. Society unfortunately has a lot of sad and sick people, the lucky ones who know they are sick get treatment and can again live a healthy and normal life.



Cisco,the Doc,flysurfer,few others....... i hope you realise that you are sad and/or sick and get Big Pharma to help you out here.

a tablet or two a day of Prozac or Paxil and you lucky three '' can again live a healthy and normal life''.

^^^

@Pete,

For chrissakes man, learn how to click on the "quote" button. It won't bite you and nothing bad will happen. God's honest truth, I promise.

maxm, you are glowing, are you pregnant?

Na its the chemtrails

Here we go! Whats the bet this person is not new to this site?

Bananas are radioactive.

No. I took off my foil hat to wash my hair. Forgot to put it back on before I went to bed. Next thing I know I woke up and some kind of creature was looking at me and I couldn't move. THEN I got whisked off in some kind of craft. There they got a real unhealthy fascination with my nether regions that's best not talked about in polite company. Next thing I knew, I was back home looking like this.

Do you think I could be pregnant?

Keanu Reeves is immortal:



Keanu has been quoted as saying he has enough money to "last many lifetimes".


P.S. Bananas really are radioactive.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_potassium

with the Stockmarket crash about to happen [50% to 80% drop], the government then will implement austerity measures.

cutting pensions + wages while increasing tax across the board.

result....an economic crash soon!

get out of debt now!

certainly could not be contrived by the international bankers/elite or could it?

forgot not allowed to mention the 'C' word on this forum again.

perhaps when this stockmarket crash/else starts to unfold in the coming months it might help to wake the people up over those weird chemtrails forming in a deep blue sky.