Dansen said:
Still you got to admit it could be the plot point for an interesting sci-fi show. In order to cover up a disasterous alien/supernatural encounter the government uses a school shooting as a pretext to get rid of all the evidence in one large swoop. If I ever go into writing maybe I should use conspiracy theories for insparation...
To be honest, I'm a fantasy/sci-fi author and I love to let my imagination run wild with this shit. I looooooove it. The thing is, at the end of the day, I can put it away as flights of fantasy, instead of demanding the government come clean.
I love to dream about a world of weird and creepy things. I'm caught between an analytic mind and an overactive imagination.
So yeah, I will totally admit it. XD
Strazdas said:
Precisely my point. Something that we now know exists, we can create it, was a conspiracy theory before.
Except it wasn't. there's a difference between "unproven" and "conspiracy theory."
I'm sorry you don't seem to get this, but that doesn't make it true.
There were leaks of a workign exoskeleton, public remaining unaware.
Not "leaks," news.
there were experiments on sleep removal (synthetically stimulating brain to stop needing sleep, thought little is know about this project that can be confirmed), yet the public is obvliviuos.
Except the information has been there for a long time. People not knowing about it doesn't make it a conspiracy theory, dude. The average person doesn't know how nuclear power works, either. Doesn't make it a conspiracy.
I gave examples. i even quoted one of the responses in this very post.
You've failed to demonstrate the meteroite was labelled a conspiracy theory by the scientific community. Should I take this dodge as concession?
No, it does not. Freedom of speech does not allow you to insult people.
Err...Yes it does. Demonstrate, concretely otherwise.
I didn't say that. I merely pointed out what was wrong with your statement.
The part of my response that you quoted for this dealt exclusively with him saying he wants to rant and insult in this post and thats why he came here, therefore i responded by showing him it is agianst posting guidelines.
While making free speech claims.
I think you misunderstood me. I got no problem with scientific scrutiny. I was referring to cases where they were not even willing to listen to the proposal before writing it off as "conspiracy".
Again, prove it. You listed a specific example of the scientific community calling something a conspiracy theory. Give some actual examples.
nepheleim said:
As for people milling around, it's already been said above. But go find a firefighter, or your local police, or CERT people after an emergency and they'll all tell you that panic makes people do weird things. Behavioral analysis of an immediate post-crisis individual won't tell you too much about that individual.
Hell, go talk to someone who's lost a loved one.
When my grandfather died, my grandmother spoke to me like she was reporting the weather. Now, part of me was mad at the time. I was mad that she wasn't more upset. But that doesn't mean my grandfather is still alive, or he was murdered instead of dying from stroke complications. I went numb when my uncle died, because we were so often compared. I knew people who lived close enough to ground zero to scare the shit out of me, and I just bottled it up for two days. One of them had to get part of a passenger seat removed from their building before it was deemed safe to get their stuff. I didn't know this, with all the panic going on, they could have been dead.
Yeah.
Which makes me wonder if these people have ever lost someone before, of if they're truly that isolated.