Conspiracy theories, who starts them and why?

Noobie said:
Some people will spend their entire life looking for those conspiracies and most will never exist but in the mean time, they will have missed some of the happiest moments of their life because they were busy being angry over something they can't change, won't change or never existed
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Again who are these people? friends of yours? acquaintances or someone you read about in The Mail?
 
Hugo Magnus said:
Again who are these people? friends of yours? acquaintances or someone you read about in The Mail?
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There are many on both sides I reckon. Who are the in-betweens? The Conspirationists, the Mainstreamers and the Others. I dare not name the nameless.
 
Flat Earth
Holocaust Denial
Twin Towers were blown up by the US
Moon Landings didn't happen (interesting this one though)
Nato were surrounding Russia with intentions of invading.

Just for starters :) (y)

Any more the Noobster? :unsure:
 
Websters defines a conspiracist as One who believes or promotes conspiracy theories. Would you agree with that

Certianly during this thread and the covid one, when conspiracist sites were offered up as an example, pretty much most came from the USA with the next group from the U.K. so using yours and other members offerings, they seemed to be the main locations

This is just a general offering, click on the countries to see Category:Conspiracy theories by country - Wikipedia
 
I thought you were going to answer the question rather than try another squirrel Al , le sigh 😅
 
I put forward websters definition as it covers the basics. Conspirists tend to be from the west/first world and angry white men, why is that?
 
Noobie said:
Websters defines a conspiracist as One who believes or promotes conspiracy theories. Would you agree with that

Certianly during this thread and the covid one, when conspiracist sites were offered up as an example, pretty much most came from the USA with the next group from the U.K. so using yours and other members offerings, they seemed to be the main locations

This is just a general offering, click on the countries to see Category:Conspiracy theories by country - Wikipedia
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Noobie said:
I thought you were going to answer the question rather than try another squirrel Al , le sigh 😅
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"One who believes or promotes conspiracy theories"

Would that be all conspiracy theories? or does someone who believes in just one count as a "conspiracist"?

Convid is such a complex subject that no two people seem to have the same opinion about it (including the so called experts).

Are you saying that Wikipedia is your source? 🤣:rolleyes:
 
No, as you saw on the post, I used real time examples within this forum and when traced back they mostly came from the usa and the U.K., I did say that, perhaps you missed it by accident?:p
 
Noobie said:
No, as you saw on the post, I used real time examples within this forum and when traced back they mostly came from the usa and the U.K., I did say that, perhaps you missed it by accident?:p
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Was this addressed at Al? or me? if me, you need to be more specific.
 
Noobie said:
I put forward websters definition as it covers the basics. Conspirists tend to be from the west/first world and angry white men, why is that?
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That just says 'someone that believes or promotes conspiracy theories', not much help to a simple man like me. :)

I suppose one has to decide what is a conspiracy theory first, is it denying or trying to disprove something that is widely believed in and promoted by media / scientists / politicians / postmen / experts of a field ?



Exige said:
That's Nature Al, that is why I left it off the list :) (y)
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or 'weather' yes, but you knew what I meant, the whole 'we're all gonna die if we don't stop the postmen doing.......'
 
Noobie said:
Conspirists tend to be from the west/first world and angry white men, why is that?
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To be fair that's a good question, I don't even know if that is the case. Assuming it is I have no idea why that would be, do you have a theory (pun intended) on that ?
 
Alan Williams said:
That just says 'someone that believes or promotes conspiracy theories', not much help to a simple man like me. :)

I suppose one has to decide what is a conspiracy theory first, is it denying or trying to disprove something that is widely believed in and promoted by media / scientists / politicians / postmen / experts of a field ?





or 'weather' yes, but you knew what I meant, the whole 'we're all gonna die if we don't stop the postmen doing.......'
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The postmen have stopped themselves from tomorrow, feckin' strike for 2 days innit :mad: it's normally all over the news, I think there is a news block on reporting it just to upset them :ROFLMAO:
 
Alan Williams said:
To be fair that's a good question, I don't even know if that is the case. Assuming it is I have no idea why that would be, do you have a theory (pun intended) on that ?
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A feeling more than a theory Al. In the western/first world, we have too much time on our hands in a way say the Bangladeshies haven't at the moment.

We have become accustomed to a way of life that we now expect, in a way others in other countries would see as their utopia.

This is why many western (mostly white) kids are being diagnosed with mental health issues and many white western angry males spend so much time on conspiracy sites

That's just my opinion
 
Noobie said:
A feeling more than a theory Al. In the western/first world, we have too much time on our hands in a way say the Bangladeshies haven't at the moment.

We have become accustomed to a way of life that we now expect, in a way others in other countries would see as their utopia.

This is why many western (mostly white) kids are being diagnosed with mental health issues and many white western angry males spend so much time on conspiracy sites

That's just my opinion
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You may well have a point.

I’d like to know what defines a conspiracy theory though. 🤔
 
Dox said:
See post #300

Don't know what defines one...but apparently they stop being one if authorities / MSM acknowledge it (ie, the ones usually involved in the conspiracy). Commonly known as a 'limited hangout'.
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Thanks, I was hoping for something simpler than that. :)

What concerns me is the trend seems to be to stop people from thinking for themselves, simply by saying it's a conspiracy theory.

I seem to remember we used to encourage thinking for oneself, did anyone else do that 'test' at school (or college) where there were 10 of you and the other 9 had been instructed to all give the same incorrect answer, to see if you followed the crowd.
 
Alan Williams said:
Thanks, I was hoping for something simpler than that. :)

What concerns me is the trend seems to be to stop people from thinking for themselves, simply by saying it's a conspiracy theory.
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Hit the nail on the head.

Alan Williams said:
I seem to remember we used to encourage thinking for oneself, did anyone else do that 'test' at school (or college) where there were 10 of you and the other 9 had been instructed to all give the same incorrect answer, to see if you followed the crowd.
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The Asch Experiment - no. 3 - 5 Psychological Experiments That Explain the Modern World
 
Alan Williams said:
Thanks, I was hoping for something simpler than that. :)

What concerns me is the trend seems to be to stop people from thinking for themselves, simply by saying it's a conspiracy theory
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What has become quite obvious during the tooing and throwing is that the conspiracy side if you will, call others sheeple if you do not agree with the conspiracist and it doesn't seem to register to those, that they are in fact sheeple themselves just on the other side

Alan Williams said:
I seem to remember we used to encourage thinking for oneself, did anyone else do that 'test' at school (or college) where there were 10 of you and the other 9 had been instructed to all give the same incorrect answer, to see if you followed the crowd.
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In the thinking for yourself category, conspiracists will push as I mentioned above, as that they are the free thinkers but as we've seen in multiple threads, often what is pushed as free thinking, has been little more than lies, half truths and pure sillyness with other motives driving the claim.

How often have we seen information put forward that if they were truly free thinkers, would think, what exactly am I pushing forward and I have I checked it? Not often as we have seen too many times certianly in here. far too many examples
 
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