What's your favourite off the wall "conspiracy" theory?
Not the real stuff, like Monsanto taking over agriculture, which we know is happening. No, this thread is strictly for laffs. I'm talking about really bonkers ideas, like the following a friend of mine shared with me. My friend is an aerospace engineer. A relative of his (BIL, I think?) tried to convince him of the following:
"This group in the UK (we're in the USA) claims that there is a secret society living on the dark side of the Moon. The leader there is John F. Kennedy. His assassination was "faked" so he could fly there and rule the Moon. The Apollo Moon series of launches were all staged to keep the public thinking moon travel was impossible. From the early fifties and into the seventies, almost every scientist, doctor, physicist, geologist, farmer, etc., that died - didn't really die. Their deaths were faked and the real body was shuttled off to the dark side of the moon, where they live today. This video went on for an hour, telling example after example of deaths, and secret bases, etc. Mind you, all with no proof, no corroboration, no nothing.
When it ended, I had to tell him that I didn't believe any of it. He said he expected that because I was "in" on the secret. He also reiterated that my life was now in risk. 25 years later...I'm still doing okay."
I put this here, on Food Fight, because...well, because. I've run into a lot of duh--rrammma on a couple of other web communities I've been participating in lately, and I just felt safer putting it here. Do not take it seriously. Share your favourite giggle-worthy tinfoil hat type "theories".
I love all the talks of demons, ghosts and aliens. Shit gets so real.
I know its scaryyy sometimes!
uhh... 9/11 is "fake"
here is a more convincing argument:
http://www.ae911truth.org/
Many believe our reality (or what we perceive as reality) is not reality at all. Many believe everything around us is controlled or programmed. The people that surround us are put there. The things we do are because we are programmed to do so. These theories go so far to claim that our circumstances are already planned.
It may seem that we have freewill and are in control of our destiny but (according to some) we don't. Our jobs, our successes, our failures, our lifestyles, our habits...all prearranged for us. For the god-fearing folk, this sounds familiar to their teachings. But the thing about the conspiracy theory I just discussed is not god-controlled..it's all controlled by man, by business, by money...but certainly not controlled by the individual who thinks they are perceiving true reality.
Now if you'll excuse me.....I have a black helicopter to catch.......
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Love it! This .gif explains it all! :)
anyone mention David Icke..ancient race if lizard people including George Bush running our country...AWESOME.
I love all the talks of demons, ghosts and aliens. Shit gets so real.
I was abducted by aliens. ;)
:-D These are great. There was a man who lived down the block from me in NH that built earthworks in his front lawn, covered his ENTIRE roof in tinfoil, and addressed me as "nice alien lady." He was utterly convinced I was from Proxima Centauri. He offered me produce from his garden and asked if "people from my planet" ate Earth veg.... ???
:-D These are great. There was a man who lived down the block from me in NH that built earthworks in his front lawn, covered his ENTIRE roof in tinfoil, and addressed me as "nice alien lady." He was utterly convinced I was from Proxima Centauri. He offered me produce from his garden and asked if "people from my planet" ate Earth veg.... ???
Revvie, see if you can find online an old radio play called "The Garden of the Moon." That would have sent him into orbit...
bgs, I love coast to coast. I used to listen every weekend driving home from my late night gigs.
I listened to it every night while Taj had it on, for the past 4 years, (now he listens with headphones,) but back then , Taj would fall asleep and leave it on, but he would somehow wake up if I tried to turn it off. It usually ended up freaking me out! 2/3 of the shows were about ghosts and aliens. Do you have any favorite past episodes? The Hollow Earth was definitely a favorite of mine!
Oh man! You got to the Hollow Earth one before me! I actually had a boss at one of my prior jobs who loved to talk about this. At first I thought he was being funny... but then it turned kinda creepy, and finally funny again, because we all laughed at him behind his back. Seriously, some days he would talk more about the Hollow Earth theory than work. :)
In the language school where I used to work there was an American girl teaching who swore she had contact with aliens, to the place that they told her she was going to get pregnant, and that it would be a boy, and that she was supposed to name him Marco.
I don't know what kind of alien issues her naming her son Marco would resolve, but there you are.
She actually brought this up for the first time in class, when the discussion topic was life on other planets. The students thought she was joking. She wasn't. They freaked.
When she did get pregnant, she told the teachers at the school like it was the most normal thing in the world to say that the aliens were right, etc. etc. Apparently she did name it Marco. But then she wasn't working there anymore.
Wonder why.
I knew a kid named Marco from Germany. I wonder if he's part of the alien brotherhood of Marcos ;D
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