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Thread ID: 85088 2007-11-29 09:40:00 Controversial poll.. russell108 (7499) PC World Chat
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616437 2007-12-04 02:14:00 How is the military headquarters of the most powerful military in the world hit by a commercial plane?

Because a guy set out to fly a plane into it.

During World War 2, there were anti-aircraft guns mounted on the White House and surrounding buildings to protect it from aerial threat. Only they weren't real guns. No one seriously thought there was a threat, and the guns were needed in more urgent areas of the war.

Up until 9/11, no one seriously thought there was a threat of aerial attack without warning on the Pentagon. They screwed up. That simple. Truth is often sad, simple and anchored in human error. Human history - particularly military history - is littered with examples where battles ere lost via human error, rather than won via super human ability. Was Peall Harbour a conspiracy? No, it was a screw up.

Conspiracy theorists believe, or want to believe, in superman and super government, the infallible entity able to make the seemingly impossible happen. It's just another religion.
Biggles (121)
616438 2007-12-04 02:16:00 well without reading all these posts, and hating conspiracy theories for their habit of being utter and total BS, the circumstances surrounding 9/11, pearl harbour and a few other events a more than dodgy enough for me to doubt the official stories....

Read At Dawn We Slept (all 2000 pages so) to discover the detail of the chain of human error, arrogance and short sightedness that let the Japanese launch their attack at Pearl Harbour.
Biggles (121)
616439 2007-12-04 02:51:00 Read At Dawn We Slept (all 2000 pages so) to discover the detail of the chain of human error, arrogance and short sightedness that let the Japanese launch their attack at Pearl Harbour.

hey i'm not saying the theories are true, but sometimes it seems things are allowed to happen
motorbyclist (188)
616440 2007-12-04 07:16:00 Conspiracy theorists believe, or want to believe, in superman and super government, the infallible entity able to make the seemingly impossible happen. It's just another religion.

Exactly.

Psychologists have studied the mind state that leads people to believing in conspiracy theories, and it is similar to "just another religion", as Bruce points out.

Screw ups happen all the time, by otherwise very intelligent people and highly organized groups. Remember the foam that caused damage to Challenger? And one of the biggest earthquakes - located in the ocean - that led to 250,000+ tsunami deaths? Or hell, lets take something close to home, the varoa mite causing millions of $$ damage to our agriculture. EACH ONE of these could have been prevented or at least the damage could have been lessened. But people screwed up, probably thinking "It won't happen here." No conspiracies, just screw ups.

But religious zealots, I mean conspiracy advocates, will always cling to their beliefs.
Strommer (42)
616441 2007-12-04 07:24:00 now i'm not advocating conspiracy theorists here, but all of your examples lack a vital thing to make them possible conspiracies: some sort of gain for the conspirators, be it political, financial or otherwise

actually, that mite may have been introduced as an act of sabotage....:lol:
motorbyclist (188)
616442 2007-12-04 07:27:00 what about the conspiracy theory about conspiracy theories?

i heard a conspiracy theory about how the US govt started or otherwise encourages the 9/11 conspiracy theories to make people fear that they are capable of such actions and/or that the US is impossible to attack:groan:

and then there's the somewhat even less likely ones with evidence including mathematical co-incidences and BS like folding a dollar note in a particular way
motorbyclist (188)
616443 2007-12-04 07:50:00 That's going a bit over the top, no? wratterus (105)
616444 2007-12-04 07:56:00 I can not believe 5 People voted yes. How appalled I am at those results.

http://www.debunking911.com/

This is just as stupid as the conspiracy theory that man didn’t land on the moon.

People are entitled to vote as stupidly as they can manage. (However, some votes should preclude them forever from being permitted to breed.)
:lol:
R2x1 (4628)
616445 2007-12-04 08:09:00 That's it then SJ, you have hit the nail on the head!

JFK's secret memoirs were buried under the foundations of the Twin Towers to prevent the evil empire (insert EE of the month here) from exploiting them and bring the US Government to its Lewinskis.

These memoirs were so red-hot that they simulated thermite, thus causing a - - -

- - - Oh yeah, I nearly forgot, the plane that was supposed to have crashed in a field? It landed safely but had been shrunk by the alien ray and was accidentally eaten by a cow. It proved somewhat hot (due to extreme compression) and was very indigestible, so it gave the cow severe bowel problems, leading to an exposive discharge that made a bit of a mess of the field and obliterated all evidence except that of the type required by wratterus and others of his ilk.

The cow lived happily ever after.

That's my theory, but heck, if I've left out anything important, just ignore any salient facts or documented scientific evidence and make it up as you go along, after all, that's what conspiracy theorists do all the time.

Cheers

Billy 8-{) :xmouth:
That is almost exactly correct; except it was an Evil Kingdom, not an Evil Empire.

And now that we have a cow injured, it is safe to say the conspirators will all have to be microchipped, but not smacked of course. Now we can put the moon back in orbit again. (They actually found it impossible to go to the moon, so they brought the moon here and faked the travel bits of the mission reports. Vacuum was a bit too expensive, so they used bull dust instead.) :waughh:
R2x1 (4628)
616446 2007-12-04 08:21:00 So what caused WTC7 to collapse? andrew93 (249)
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