“You can’t handle the truth!” - Why “Conspiracies” Are NOT Crazy at All

Conspiracies aren’t “conspiracies” at all.

They aren’t “crazy” - It’s not the “tinfoil hat” folks who investigate or propagate them.

“Conspiracies” represent the truth. The real truth.

Why are “conspiracy theories” so fascinating, debated and (in many instances) true?

Because people lie. A lot of people.

You’re rarely going to get all of the truth about anything. That’s a given. People tell other people what they “need to know” on a given subject - more-less instinctually as a matter of social awareness/societal norms/etc. That’s it. If you give more, you sound like me and end up with a stream of consciousness “eureka!” moment post (long… quite long).

If you word vomit as much as I am doing right now on a sensitive subject, you’ll inadvertently share enough information to be used against you, questioned, wondered about and more.

But, you have to use enough words to satisfy the listening party - which is the tricky part. Say too little and that invites questions…


The idea of not saying too much might actually be the point of Twitter - limit the characters such that you leave minimal room for over-sharing. That’s an aside…

Since typically more needs to be said than a tweet, but the truth can’t/don’t/won’t be share(d)… so lies occur because you need a “story” - enough to fill a response to something that makes it seem believable to the casual to casual plus observer.

Big things happen sometimes and agenda’s need forwarding - so you’ll need lots of lies and “stories”.

Since the masses, “Can’t handle the truth!!!” (Or it would hurt the “agenda”), the masses get lies, deception, double-talk and stories that make them “feel good” or the story “make sense” to the minimally curious, non-critical-thinking and “pop culture”/daily life-engulfed masses (which is most people). Most people means “the majority” which means society can basically be leveraged against itself by putting people in the minority and socially forcing them to conform with the majority. It’s literally society being played against itself and it’s a virtually unstoppable force because of human nature.

Thus, the “official narrative” is the truth - and the lie - all at the same time.

“Conspiracy theories” are actually just a hunt to understand “what actually is” as opposed to what people are TOLD it is.

One can’t overshare for various reasons because it could reveal true intentions/knowledge, falsehoods become endemic and foundational to forwarding an agenda/cause/interest, truth Is kept tight (and “You can’t handle the truth!!”) - so we get lies that don’t stand up to analysis via data/context/history/etc.

“Conspiracies” or “conspiracy theorist” is just a pejorative term for those “Seeking Logical or Real Truth” - which isn’t crazy in the slightest - and (opined on by people without legitimate psychological disorders) is not in the least bit “crazy”.

“Conspiracies” only become dangerous when people blindly follow them - these are the folks who are consuming “conspiracies” the same say the masses intake the “official narrative” - meaning without critical thought or research. These folks buy and enjoy the “fantasy” aspect of conspiracies. It may be a form of escapism for them. These are the people who become the “crazy conspiracy theorist” who dons the tinfoil hat.

Sadly, they are kind of the “proof” we can’t handle the full truth.

For those of us who are simply seeking “what actually is”, “conspiracies” are simply an Avenue to explore. Something may have gone off in your head one day over a given subject that says “wait a minute, that makes zero F’ing sense…” and you started looking into it. You found out that, indeed, the thing you read makes zero F’ing sense. But why doesn’t it make sense? It should! Now you need to know why the thing that didn’t make sense doesn’t make… sense. And down the rabbit hole to the broader truth you go - amassing tons of knowledge and developing a whole different view of our Earthly world…. And also have to learn to live with that knowledge and still find happiness in this contrived world we live in (a little talked about point - the side effects of “reality”…).

Next time someone says a person is a “conspiracy theorist” about something (that isn’t completely unsubstantiated) I’d say you can confidently respond “They’re just interested in what’s really going on because human nature and society more/less is built on lies - which means the truth is different - and not a conspiracy in the slightest.”

And certainly not crazy.

When has the truth ever helped anyone?

originally posted by: Infinitis
When has the truth ever helped anyone?

The beholder whose eye truth was in?

originally posted by: Infinitis
When has the truth ever helped anyone?

Every time it is spoken. Every time!

P

The main thing against CT is that the media only highlights the things most of us consider outrageous

This Is intentional ofcourse you rarly hear about the CT that are acctualy true thats not a subject the plebs need know about

originally posted by: Infinitis
When has the truth ever helped anyone?

Pretty sure when the truth came out about concentration camps it stopped a genocide ....
Soooo....

a reply to: VulcanWerks

Ok. But the snake oil salesmen that push a product for attention and profit to groups of people with no discernment have cratered many a grass roots movement’s credibility. Ufology, Flat Earth Society, the disinformation pushed By Architects and Engineers. And the inability of a “truth movement” to police itself.

It’s one thing to question. And one should always question. It’s another thing to use a conspiracy theory for attention and profit.

Luke 20:46-47
King James Version
46 Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts;

47 Which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.

www.biblegateway.com...

Funny how Richard Gage and AE come to mind when I read the above Bible verse, and lots of politicians come to mind too.

Not much has changed in 2000 years.

a reply to: VulcanWerks

Is “a small percentage of the people will shamelessly lie about anything for attention and profit”, or “use a narrative for personal gain” conspiracy theories?

a reply to: VulcanWerks

I read on here a while ago, that some 3-letter agency started the term 'conspiracy theories/theorist ' in order to vilify them/us as idiots/loons etc. Off course most lefty loons fall for this and therefor dismiss the truth instantly when they hear it from 'us'

originally posted by: neutronflux
a reply to: VulcanWerks

Is “a small percentage of the people will shamelessly lie about anything for attention and profit”, or “use a narrative for personal gain” conspiracy theories?

No. They’re the reason conspiracy theories exist.

originally posted by: Infinitis
When has the truth ever helped anyone?

This is a sarcastic I suspect.

To answer your question - the truth helps everyone.

What you do with it is what determines if it’s beneficial or not.

a reply to: VulcanWerks

Sigh…

Alex Jones’s Attorneys Argue That No Reasonable Person Would Believe What He Says
www.texasmonthly.com...

No. It’s the reason snake oil salesmen have a market for fabricated narratives that people latterly buy into.

What’s the the phrase? Follow the money? And there’s lots of money in telling a target group what they want to hear, not much money in reality. How big is the entertainment industry vs actual ethical reporting…..

Then add in there is no policing element for Ufology fir example to set standards of investigation.

There’s a sucker born every minute willing to pay for what they want to believe / hear.


Bottom line.. don’t trust anyone.

7 Ways Flat Earth Conspiracy Will Make You Look Silly

newcreeations.org...

Bigfoot tracker admits body is a hoax
www.mysanantonio.com...

The six most blatant alien hoaxes - and the people who fell for them

www.mirror.co.uk...

Another blow for WTC conspiracy theorists

www.machinedesign.com...


Their conclusion: There is no evidence of individual elemental aluminum particles that you would expect to see from a thermite burn. They say the red/gray chips found in the WTC dust at four sites in New York City are consistent with a carbon-steel coated with an epoxy resin that contains primarily iron oxide and kaolin clay pigments. And there is no evidence of individual elemental aluminum particles of any size in the red/gray chips, so the red layer of the red/gray chips is not thermite or nano-thermite.

a reply to: VulcanWerks

There should be another word to replace "Conspiracy" in "Conspiracy Theories".

For those who believe Biden didn't win in November 2020, what component of their theory is the conspiracy?

originally posted by: pheonix358

originally posted by: Infinitis
When has the truth ever helped anyone?

Every time it is spoken. Every time!

P

Really? Every time?

Clearly you've never been married and answered the "do i look fat in this?" truthfully.....

a reply to: VulcanWerks

If conspiracies aren't conspiracies as your first sentence claims, then what's going on with this thread? What is your point? It must be absurd.

Humans plan and conspire all the time. Always have and always will, especially humans in positions of power and government.

As Madison noted, "in truth, all men holding power ought to be mistrusted". Wise words indeed.

Conspiracy theories in so many cases become conspiracy fact.