Originally posted by FirstCasualty
then i guess the mafia doesnt exist cause they didnt spell it out for you.
No, I agree that there is corruption. What you see as an "Illuminati" or a "New World Order" I just see as common corporate greed and corruption
of business and government.
I am looking at the evidence and the facts, and everything tells me that all of what people are paranoid about can be more adequately explained by the
revolving door or Washington and Corporate business (or Downing Street and Corporate business - or any other government and corporate business).
Am I more likely to believe that a secret cabal or Satan worshipping Immortals, or lizard people, or some clandestine group of men a couple of hundred
years ago are responsible for it all, or am I likely to choose the more LOGICAL explanation that corruption has been legalized to the degree where
corporations and bankers have effectively held a coup and hijacked our governments?
Please, all I ask is that you think logically, intelligently, and with all the facts and proven information in contrast to the unproven fantasy of
mythical groups of bogeymen.
Originally posted by FirstCasualty
you hillarious! really a funny boy.
No, I'm just stating facts and using common sense, which leads me to see that all of these things can be explained by boring old corporate corruption
of government and the greed of men in positions of power.
This has happened throughout Human history, it happens in every country, and it has happened repeatedly to our own elected too. This has been PROVEN
again and again by the constant shuffle of men from business to government and back again.
Originally posted by FirstCasualty
you claim there is no proof then when someone posts something you use a media talking point to retaliate.
No, people keep telling me there is proof of something, then they offer a YouTube video of someone giving their opinion, or s blog post of someone
giving their opinion... just because someone agrees with you does NOT MAKE IT EVIDENCE.
As is often the case on ATS, people have completely forgotten what the words "proof" and "evidence" mean. Someone echoing your opinion without any
evidence is not proof or evidence of anything other than someone else believing what you believe.
I'll tell you what, I now believe that a purple lion is stealing underwear from my washing line in the afternoons, but only on a Wednesday. I'll get
someone along any moment to make a YouTube video about it. maybe even pay a couple of people, then release my book about purple lions and the massive
government cover up about it.
Prove to me the purple lions don't exist.
Originally posted by FirstCasualty
corruption... sure that is true and that is what this is.
thank you for agreeing with me that the elite are running things because
they have created corruption to suit thier needs of controlling power and wealth.
Yes. But this does not immediately mean there is some secret cabal, a club or an ancient tradition of men who planned for their great, great, great
grand-kids to be rich and in control of the entire planet. It doesn't mean that there are FEMA "death camps", it doesn't mean population control
and genocide, and it doesn't mean that there is any club for all this to be planned.
There is not enough evidence for 90% of the BS these "theorists" believe, and there is plenty of cause to accept that it's actually just boring old
corruption.
Originally posted by FirstCasualty
this was a good collaboration. thanks bro. i knew we agreed just using different words is all.
No, it's not just the words that are different.
I base my opinions in probability, facts, evidence, the available information and the most plausible conclusions.
Many others on ATS base their opinions on the most elaborate, fantastical, unproven, outlandish and unlikely theories because they want the excitement
of everything being the result of the big bad government or a secret organization.
Some people see a cow in a field, and it is just a cow.
But many on ATS seem to look at that cow and immediately imagine that it's really an alien disguised as a cow, and employed by the Illuminate to
gather intel on the dissidents who plan to stop them from gassing people in FEMA camps