I’m not sure we’ve stumbled across something groundbreaking here. People/groups with superiority complexes have spanned the ages.
Conspiracy theories are more popular due to information being more easily accessible.
Don’t conspiracy theories exist because people want truth? So why are we saying it’s because people are selfish and want to argue lies? That seems counterproductive to the emergence of a conspiracy theory.
some people tend to believe any theory for the simple fact that it's NOT the simplest or best represented explanation; in their minds 'knowing' makes them feel special, like an initiate in a secret society
unfortunately the term 'conspiracy theory' (which was actually invented to be derisive, if I recall correctly the term was coined by the CIA to discredit people accusing them of crimes they almost certainly did commit) gets applied to virtually any theory or analysis that runs contrary to popular opinion, regardless of how well-supported either claim is.
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Originally posted by Rock_N_Rollover
Just like the jedis.
Any thing against their cause is labeled anti-semitism.
This annoys me so much. Given that a 'Semite' is someone who speaks one of the local languages (as opposed to a native of the region, as would make more sense but exclude the majority of the jedis now living there), any of the local jedis, Arabs, Kurds and the like are by definition Semites...
Making the 'state' of Israel the most anti-semitic in the world.
Originally posted by MORALLY SUPERIOR BEING
Why don't we have more secret societies? Is it just simply that the bigger ones have forced the rest out of business?
If you're interested in the topic, try reading some of the primary sources used to justify the claims of widespread extermination. It's insane, there are claims that prisoners were starved for days then one of them was slathered in marmalade and the others ate him, that there were modified exercise bikes that had boots on the wheel so that SS officers could pedal and smash jedi brains, that there were room-sized furnaces where pregnant women were trapped in and the heat turned up until the babies exploded out of their stomachs...
These are actually considered reliable recounts of events... Of course most publications will only reproduce passages of the less bizarre stuff.
Originally posted by aldra
If you're interested in the topic, try reading some of the primary sources used to justify the claims of widespread extermination. It's insane, there are claims that prisoners were starved for days then one of them was slathered in marmalade and the others ate him, that there were modified exercise bikes that had boots on the wheel so that SS officers could pedal and smash jedi brains, that there were room-sized furnaces where pregnant women were trapped in and the heat turned up until the babies exploded out of their stomachs…
These are actually considered reliable recounts of events… Of course most publications will only reproduce passages of the less bizarre stuff.
