Matty said:
Some people are so messed up in the head that they simply have to find conspiracy in everything.
quite true.
they're often also the ones who are shooting up malls, high-schools, and taking people hostages before killing themselves; ie. they're the ones suffering from a lack of common sense, intelligence and ability to think rationally, and much more serious aspects related to their socialisation and ill-at-ease position within society. Fortunately there aren't that many who really tip over the top, but we still have people going off like this pretty frequently, sadly.
and then there's this:-
Dunning-Kruger Effect:
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anyone who espouses conspiracy theories for 9/11 is severely suffering from not knowing very much about how gov'ts really run and who makes them up (INDIVIDUAL PEOPLE) and what it takes (to take one insane idea) to commandeer a military aircraft and disguise it as a civilian one, and then to fly it into a public building in NYC (it would never happen for so many obvious reasons) only to dismiss the most likely and reasoned explanation for an entirely impossible one, and to defend such ridiculous ideas to the hilt and accuse others of being insane and, you have to laugh, 'close-minded'.
give me a break.
so much shit has been argued on this forum about these idiotic conspiracies - by which I'm not including things like JFK (a very real and likely conspiracy) but the 9/11 and moon landing stuff, it's absolute bollocks of the highest order.
it's like you're talking to a five-year-old when you see some of the things people are posting.
this is what is so frightening, and polls that show young people doubting the Apollo 11 mission really took place, LOL.
I'd have a really hard time hiring or working with someone who publicly espoused such ludicrous theories (after you'd quietly and gently talked things through with them) - it would lead me to question their mental capabilities, and capacity to rationally think things through and figure out and LEARN from their experiences and those of others who are a little more competent and experienced than they are.
we all start off at nothing, but if we can't learn things from others (and I don't mean other inexperienced idiots) then we stay ignorant. Much of this conspiracy rubbish is just pure ignorance, and reflects terribly on all concerned.
wise-up folks, and just give things some quiet thought - next time you have a brain fart and believe there's a huge gov't conspiracy at work...
if some jackarse ever came to you and explained a plan to blow-up the Twin Towers do you think you'd get involved in any way (?) or do you think you'd immediately report it to the appropriate security/intelligence forces, or your boss, or your his or her boss?
would you risk your entire career (assuming you're capable of holding one down within the military or intelligence services) to participate in a clearly illegal and insane plot where you personally stand to gain nothing but lose everything?
Really, have a think about all these loony ideas and how they'd have to work in practice... maybe you'll rapidly come to the conclusion that at the end of the day some foreign-based and trained hijackers with box cutters got on board civilian aircraft and over-powered the pilots, flying them into the World Trade Center and the evidence was there for all to see....
(and so what that a passport is blown-out, or this burned or that didn't - it could happen, unlike these totally preposterous and imbecilic grand scheme versions of events that simpletons come up with that are so fanciful it's beyond the bounds of rationality and reason to account for little but surprising things that might have happened)