posted on Dec, 1 2008 @ 04:57 PM
Long, long, long time lurker & brand new poster here. I've followed a lot of the 9/11 conspiracy theories for a while now, and have finally found a
question I feel worth speaking up for.
The process of argument & counter-argument is fascinating to me. For at least a year now, I've followed the threads on the subject back and forth.
Watching the theories and the rebuttals evolve is inspiring to me -- it's like watching a high-stakes chess match. How each side probes the other for
weak points, and subsequently revises their own argument is a shining example of the power of collected human thought in action.
But now I've got a question for both sides... and this is just personal curiousity. After all the reading, and knowing only what people post up on a
topic that inspires deep personal feelings, I'm very curious as to what's behind the motivation to pursue this issue.
For the 9/11 Truth Movement adherents - would you classify yourself as devoutly religious, devout atheists, or a middle-of-the-road spiritual
person?
So much of the pro-conspiracy theory writings are seething with distrust of any large organization, and I wonder if that applies to your spiritual
beliefs as well? Do you belong to, or trust a church? If you don't trust the government, what do you trust in? What captures your faith?
And for the skeptics, I'd ask the same question. Those who fight the conspiracy theories, do you trust religion? God? The lizard people? Social
order? Or do you find beauty and solace in the empirical facts of mathematics?
I'll apologize now if I'm off-topic, in the wrong forum, or just completely off my rocker. (I'm also putting on my asbestos suit, because I know
that querying people about religion in a forum that gets this volatile is like pouring gasoline onto open fire.) This is my opening contribution to
the forums here, but since I'm more of an artist than a scientist, I haven't had much to concretely contribute until this question.
And really, my question boils down to trust -- who do you trust, and why? I think the brainpower expended on both sides of the issue is pretty
phenomenal, but I'm not comfortable with the worldview that either side of the issue is proposing.
To my reading, the conspiracy theories seem mostly based around a rejection of improbability... That the military stand-down, the security
checkpoints, the transponders, and the disorganized government response, that it's too staggeringly improbable that it all happened that way by
chance.
The rebuttal arguments, on the other hand, seem rooted in factual data, in a way that suggests we live in an equationally-predetermined universe, that
chaotic events happen and science can explain the outcome of everything.
So that leads to my pondering - what role does spiritual need play in the drive to understanding?
Again, apologies if this is inflammatory or way off-topic... not my intention at all.