Obama almost killed

Scary stuff for anybody to go through. Flying makes me a little nervous, I admit it.

Glad nothing happened... I wouldn't be able to deal with the conspiracy subculture just waiting to jump on that one. It's like Alex Jones' wet dream.

 

Interesting that you bring that up, In the Third Quarter edition of the Skeptic Magazine (published by the Skeptics Society), there is an article discussing skepticism and 9/11 conspiracy.

It's entitled "How Skeptics Confronted 9/11 Conspiracy Advocates" by Dr. John Ray. It discussed how skeptical inquiry was able to combat and effectively corrode the conspiracy sub-culture as it arose.

The deepest implications are the withdrawl of fraudulent and fallacious claims made from edition to edition of several viral internet videos support 9/11 conspiracy advocates.

Also, the degradation of the "Journal of 9/11 studies" and the best-selling status of the original popular mechanics debunking article.

Here's the article if you're interested; http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/08-06-04.html

Although, I do get what you mean. The contrast and sub-culture nature of conspiracy theory sure does seem to appeal to a lot of people. I feel that it's the most appropriate venue for the quotation from Spinoza:

"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them."
-- Baruch Spinoza


P.S. -- it seems I cannot give you any more reputation points.

 

It's bad that I cannot give you anymore positive points

 

Flying still scares the shit outta me. But at least Obama wasent a bitch about it.

 

Whaaat. Come on, for a conspiracy theory to be accepted there has to be some reason to believe it. Who would conspire to kill Obama? He hasn't done anything to frighten the "men in power". And if you haven't noticed, conspiracy theorists hate Obama.

Ron Paul, on the other hand... Ron Paul Emergency Landing

 

maybe next time.

 

Off the top of my head, I can rattle off a number of unfalsifiable claims which could be pseudovalidated using a plethora of logical fallacies;

• Republicans
• Chinese
• White Supremacists
• Fanatical Hillary Supporters
• Militant Feminists
• The Industrial Military Complex
• Fascist Kenyan Nationals
• Palestinians
• Iraqi Insurgents
• Various Islamic Fundamentalists
• Random nutjob
• Energy Tycoons

And I mean, that's the beauty of conspiracy theories, you don't really need to back up anything... s'why it remains a conspiracy.

So... wait.... in order for a legitimate assassination conspiracy, it has to be perpetrated by an authority?

I haven't.... so can I add "conspiracy theorists" to the list of potential candidates and conspirators in the event of his assassination?

 

You mean theory.

The only conspirators you mentioned that actually could get away with conspiracy to murder Obama would lose more from killing him than they had to gain. If anything, Obama's death would bring greater attention to third party candidates.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, you would be met with an entirely new conspiracy subculture. One that believed white supremacists had the power to take down a presidential candidate and get away with it, never to be caught or suspected.

But the conspiracy theorists you currently detest would not be a part of that camp. There is a common tie to all popular conspiracy theories, corporate elite in control of politics, manipulating the masses beneath.

I'm sorry, but Obama isn't on the side of the "masses".

 

That's a very reasonble statement.

I concur, fully

 

unknown to obama at the time, the plane served as a metaphor for his presidency .

 

They tend to call us "disinformation agents". I post on a big conspiracy website and regularly debunk their crazy claims. As far as they're concerned I'm an MIB.

 

uh....reviving old threads are we?

 

Oooooollllllldddddd thread.

 

Wow, thanks for the bump. I don't remember hearing about this.

 

Too bad.

 

ya

 

this lol