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Originally posted by coyotepoet
Aloysius also posts saying:
Well there you go then - I "always" knew that "geoengineering" was a possibility. IIRC the first time I encountered the concept that a/c might alter the world's climate was as a young mechanic in the 1970's when a possible US SST was still a hot topic, and the effects of pollution being "injected" into the stratosphere were very much under discussion. Then in the 1980's & 1990's there was a lot of discussion of the effect of the combustion products of a/c on the Ozone layer - particularly "NOX & SOX" - nitrous and sulphur oxides. Engine manufacturers were going to massive lengths to decrease the amount of such products. So for me the concept of "geoengineering" is not new at all - I have not had a blinding revelation.
Which seems very much like:
8. Invoke authority. Claim for yourself or associate yourself with authority and present your argument with enough "jargon" and "minutiae" to illustrate you are "one who knows", and simply say it isn't so without discussing issues or demonstrating concretely why or citing sources.
From another article on tactics other things seen in this thread and almost every other chemtrail thread include:
1) Make outrageous comments designed to distract or frustrate: An Alinsky tactic used to make people emotional, although less effective because of the impersonal nature of the web.
3) Dominate Discussions: Trolls often interject themselves into productive web discussions in order to throw them off course and frustrate the people involved.
4) Prewritten Responses: Many trolls are supplied with a list or database with pre-planned talking points designed as generalized and deceptive responses to honest arguments.
6) False Paradigms: Human beings have a tendency to categorize and label other people and ideas. It is, for better or worse, a fundamental part of how we understand the complexities of the world. This component of human nature, like most any other, can be abused as a powerful tool for social manipulation. By framing a polarized debate according to artificial boundaries, and establishing the two poles of that debate, social engineers can eliminate the perceived possibility of a third alternative.
pakalert.wordpress.com...
Again from Aloysius' first post out of the gate:
Anyone who consistantly presents fcounter-factual evidence must be asked how much they are getting paid. Any site that organises counter-factual evidence must be labelled as "unbelievable", "impressive disinformation", "government paid for", lies, etc. No evidence must be presented to prove this tho - no effort must be made to actually show how the disinfo is actualy wrong -
I know that this was a long post but I hope people have found it informative. Almost every, if not all of the chemtrail threads and the debunkers on them use these same techniques over and over again and you too can do your own deconstruction (though it gets a bit difficult with the 40+ page posts filled with said techniques.)
Obviously I have no proof other than the words and methods the debunkers use to say they are or aren't paid shills but I would have to say that if you don't want to be labeled as a paid disinfo agent or shill you shouldn't use so many of their tactics.
Originally posted by MathiasAndrew
reply to post by Aloysius the Gaul
Are you avoiding the real question or just playing dumb? What does the comment you just made have to do with this conversation? You're getting off topic IMO.
What theory or theories about the suspected use and purposes of chemtrails and/or HAARP's involvement with chemtrails do you think are impossible?
What exactly are you saying is impossible?
The one theory which no-one has yet been able to disprove - and you yourself declined to get involved in a discussion on the subject - is that they are........ ........ contrails
But 'chemtrails' are cirrus clouds - albeit manmade ones. And the whole issue with them is the way they persist and spread across the sky just like natural cirrus clouds.
Contrails are linear ice clouds formed in the wake of aircraft, which, when persistent, can result in the formation of cirrus cloud cover.
Extensive cirrus cloud development has been observed after the formation of persistent contrails. The science on this relationship is still developing, and while cirrus clouds are acknowledged to have a net warming effect, the significance of this effect is still uncertain. The scientific understanding of cloud formation and modification due to air travel is still limited. As the most recent IPCC assessment report notes:
“Because spreading contrails lose their characteristic linear shape, a component of [aviation-induced cloudiness] is indistinguishable from background cirrus” (IPCC, 2007, AR I, section 2.6.3, p 187).
Instead I would like to discuss some of the more controversial and less provable theories about chemtrails. This type of discussion requires no concrete evidence or "proof" because we are all just merely speculating.
Which seems to fit Matty mostly....... Let's go through them:
1/ Emotional response - hell yeah - the whole hoax relies upon outraged screams along the lines of "what are they doing to us? The skies were never like this before", and the like
2/ Not sure what happened to 2 - is there an item 2 in the list?
3/ Like YT spam for example, continual postings of long lists of patents, papers and references that it appears he hasn't actually read since they do not say what he seems to think they do.
4/ Such as lists of what constitutes evidence of a disinfo agent perhaps??!! how ironic....
5/ Was there meant ot be a 5?
6/ False paradigms - well what are the false paradigms I hold then? Here's some that the chemtrail hoax holds: a/ "Owning the weather" is an operational plan for the USAF to carry out when in fact it is a thought exercise that imagines some scenarios and invents what would be required to achieve them b/ Millions of people worldwide are part of a plot to achieve [whatever it is you think chemtrails are supposed to achieve] c/ testing sludge at the bottom of a pond, or dust blowing in the air, has anything to do with jet engine exhausts
2) Pose as a supporter of the truth, then make comments that discredit the movement: We have seen this even on our own forums — trolls pose as supporters of the Liberty Movement, then post long, incoherent diatribes so as to appear either racist or insane. Here is a live example of this tactic in use on Yahoo! Answers.
5) False Association: This works hand in hand with item #2, by invoking the stereotypes established by the “Trojan Horse Troll.”
3) Dominate Discussions: Trolls often interject themselves into productive web discussions in order to throw them off course and frustrate the people involved.
the only technique debunkers consistently use is to show that the chemtrail "evidence" doesn't stack up and that the phenomena of contrails is well known and studied, and has been around since long before this theory was started in the late 1990's.
Originally posted by coyotepoet
"Indistinguishable from" and "result in the formation of" are not the same as IS. So which is it? Are they contrails or cirrus clouds?
Originally posted by coyotepoet
So the question of whether or not they are contrails, cirrus, or chemtrails is really immaterial to the intended thrust of the OP. It seems none of you can allow a chemtrail/geoengineering thread to go by without trying to derail it into argument.
I think it is the latest war technology being tested in the atmosphere, that is, using and controlling weather to accomplish economic ends for an elite few. Geoengineering complete control. Certainly they can poison whomever they wish, but until they feel they understand all of the risks involved, they must continue testing. We are Guinea pigs.
One, it is the aliens/ufo spraying it.... Two, it is humans spraying it to counter the UFOs.... wat do you think????
Sylph (also called sylphid) is a mythological creature in the Western tradition. The term originates in Paracelsus, who describes sylphs as invisible beings of the air, his elementals of air
There are four basic rules in brainstorming.[1] These are intended to reduce social inhibitions among group members, stimulate idea generation, and increase overall creativity of the group.
1. Focus on quantity: This rule is a means of enhancing divergent production, aiming to facilitate problem solving through the maxim quantity breeds quality. The assumption is that the greater the number of ideas generated, the greater the chance of producing a radical and effective solution.
2. Withhold criticism: In brainstorming, criticism of ideas generated should be put 'on hold'. Instead, participants should focus on extending or adding to ideas, reserving criticism for a later 'critical stage' of the process. By suspending judgment, participants will feel free to generate unusual ideas.
3. Welcome unusual ideas: To get a good and long list of ideas, unusual ideas are welcomed. They can be generated by looking from new perspectives and suspending assumptions. These new ways of thinking may provide better solutions.
4. Combine and improve ideas: Good ideas may be combined to form a single better good idea, as suggested by the slogan "1+1=3". It is believed to stimulate the building of ideas by a process of association.
Assuming that what everyone sees in the sky is more than a condensate trail left from aircraft exhaust in cloud forming conditions, I would say we are being sprayed with vitamins and minerals meant to increase life expectancy.
Originally posted by MathiasAndrew
1 ) What are some of the other theories that you have heard or read about?
2 ) Why do you think any of these might be true, not true, possible or impossible?
3 ) What do think and what are you basing your opinions on?
edit on 24-3-2011 by MathiasAndrew because: add text
Originally posted by coyotepoet
reply to post by pianopraze
Pianopraze said:
HAARP is also used as a mind control device. Guess who I found talking about it? An army Psy Ops guy, and then later NSA Michael Aquino. In this paper he suggest the army should keep the american people always under mind control and suggests ways which that HAARP is theoretically capable of (some are even in the patents):
Were you aware that this was the same person noted below?
The Temple of Set was established in 1975 by Lt. Colonel of the US Army Michael A. Aquino and certain members of the priesthood of the Church of Satan,[1] who left because of administrative and philosophical disagreements with its founder, and, as Aquino said, because he was disgusted at the corruption within the Church of Satan.[1] The Temple of Set was incorporated in California that same year as a nonprofit church.[2]
en.wikipedia.org...
Interesting person to be writing about mind control don't you think?
S&F coyotepoet well said. I wanted this thread to try and focus more on the theories that are out there more than I wanted reasons why they might or might not be true. I wanted to see what themes or theories were the most repeated ones. To get an idea of what most people think the reasons that something like this might be happening.
I suggest to all of the people who want this thread to remain true to the intent of the OP that we simply go back to ignoring their attempts at derailing the thread, which is to say that no matter how much they whine like toddlers we just ignore them. They may scream louder and try to derail the thread even further but if we don't pay attention to them or respond to anything they say we can't be drawn into an argument and can continue to keep the thread on topic.
He/she/they figured there had to be someone "doing" this to them - clearly it wasn't themselves doing it. So they started to think that maybe the sun, or the moon might have control of the weathe ....and perhaps they could influence those by way of doing something for them. And so on and so forth in the evolution of religon. Esssentially, religon began as the primitives wanting to improve their crops, get the rains arrriving on time, stop winters being too cold. What is that if not attempting to control teh climate?? Religon - humanity's first, longest running, and least successful attempt at geo-engineering!!
The truly wise live by the maxim, “the more I know the more I know I don't know.” Of course some of the lines in the sky are simply contrails, some may even be persistent contrails. To deny all that science has to say about the topic is, in fact, ignorant. Of course some of these trails are simply contrails, but not all of them. To turn it into an all-or-nothing prospect on either side is equally ignorant. People, at least those who are open minded, intuitively understand/feel/know that something is not right about some of these lines in the sky. If they are indeed not all innocent contrails that then begs the question, why? What purpose do these lines serve? Many ideas have been put forth as people seek to understand what their intuition is telling them. Some may be correct, some may not be. These ideas include (in no particular order)
1) Geoengineering
2) Mind Control/dumbing down
3) Eugenics/population control/sterilization
4) Increasing the number of sick people to benefit the pharmaceutical company
5) Aspect of HAARP or Bluebeam projects
6) Using weather as a weapon
7) A new type of weapons technology being tested on unsuspecting guinea pigs
8) GMO's (like Monsanto's aluminium resistant crops)
9) Creating rain/drought/etc (an offshoot of geoengineering)
10) To block the sun/blue sky for whatever reason.
Or, as one debunker sarcastically suggested
11) Benignly spraying us with vitamins and minerals to help us live longer and be more healthy
Any one or all of them could be possible and valid reasons for the trails that aren't contrails. Yet the debunkers say that they are all contrails.
As I have stated, of course some of the lines in the sky are simple, harmless contrails. To argue otherwise would be foolish. So here is my question and challenge to the debunkers: Are you willing to admit that at least some of the trails across the sky are indeed “chemtrails” whatever their purpose may be? If the answer is yes then we can open up a new form of dialogue and you can take your place among the great scientists who believed that intuition is at least as important as “hard” science. If the answer is no and you still persist in the belief and the argument that all of the lines are simply “persistent contrails” Then your stand places you in the same small and closed minded space that you accuse “chemmies” of occupying. So which is it? Yes, regardless of purpose, some of the lines are chemtrails instead of simply contrails. Or, No, none of the contrails are chemtrails and you are as small and closed minded as you accuse us of being? Yes or no? It's a simple question.
I recognize them (the thought police) here on ATS, they are very predictable. I am not afraid to call them like I see them, my gut instincts are rarely wrong especially when each post they make reinforces that instinct.
Originally posted by Nobama
OP Chemtrails are not real, if you view a Jet with a telescope or binoculars, you will notice that the "chemtrails" are being produce from the jet's engines...now why would that be if its chemicals? wouldn't there be nozzles?