What is your favourite conspiracy theory?

[julieca]

I love the crazy conspiracy theories. So my favourite ones are that birds arent real and that Paul McCartney is dead and the man we see now is a lookalike.
What about you?

I would love to start a conspiracy theory that sheep are really highly intelligent and control the world, just to piss off all the idiots that call everyone who doesn’t believe their daft conspiracy theories sheep.

"Cats are more intelligent than humans. They are the dominant species on this planet, & keep us as pets."

Ridiculous! They keep us as to open tins and doors!

Fascinating thread, lots of new conspiracies I'd not heard of.

I had a chuckle when I heard flat-earthers were going on a cruise.....

5g causes Covid.

Somewhere in China they can turn the internet/gas/power off because they sit on the board of some internet/gas/power company in the UK.

The royal family and politicians are lizards.

Prince Philip had Diana killed.

9/11 was an inside job by the US government.

I don't believe the moon landing happened. I think the technology was far too basic back then. I'm genuinely convinced of this.

@notimagain
Thanks. That's helped me understand. I wasn't quite sure on the footage lengths etc - I thought it was live... although the upside down part... not a bit of theatrics with the prerecorded bits?!? I mean you wouldn't have to lie to the thousands involved to do that bit fake. Prerecorded is pretty standard TV fare. I kinda think it didn't happen in my gut but I do think the rockets launched and they were in space...so maybe I just stay on the fence on this one.

[quote Itsalmostanaccessory]@DaisyNGO

The, "we're living in a simulation" idea isnt exactly what I would call a conspiracy theory. No one is conspiring to hide/cover up/lie/manipulate.

It's just a scientific theory. One which is studied and discussed and considered. Physics has all sorts of theories which are just that, theories we cannot prove but people have been discussion and experimenting for 50 odd years.
The simulation idea is just another science theory which lots of people have studied or touched upon in their studies.[/quote]
And before science picked up the baton religions and spirituality had similar ideas, we’re just some ones dream, we were dreamed into being, we’re small parts (like microbes) on a larger body, we’re basically play thing of the gods, we’re a reflection of something going on somewhere else.

@Iwantacampervan

We are all living in some kind of computer game being controlled by a higher being. No, we're an experiment run by the white mice.

But we never found out what the question is.

A moon-landing non-believer asked me - "If Nasa invented a computer advanced enough to take men to the moon and back in 1969 then why, with all the technological advances since, hasn't anyone managed to do it again?! I mean, if a single mobile phone has more computer power than all of Nasa's computers in 1969..." 🧐

Also, Queen Elizabeth I was a man who replaced the real child Elizabeth after she died in order to maintain the royal line and that's why the ruler remained unmarried.

Anyone seen the clip when a moon landing nut confronts either Armstrong or Aldrin and despite being a goodly age, the astronaut decks him?
Having a bil and Dnephew who believes in this and inflicted an afternoon of documentaries on us, I know how he feels.

Lord Lucan!

There’s a documentary film, ‘Room 237’ (various wild conspiracy theories surrounding Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Shining’). One of the segments is all about how Kubrick placed clues that he took part in the.Apollo conspiracy in the film, including Danny wearing an Apollo 11 jumper and the ‘All’ in Jack’s typed ‘All work and no play…’, spelt ‘A11.’

@FanGirlX
And social media.

As an aside Jim Morrison would have been 78 today

@TattoedLady

A moon-landing non-believer asked me - "If Nasa invented a computer advanced enough to take men to the moon and back in 1969 then why, with all the technological advances since, hasn't anyone managed to do it again?! I mean, if a single mobile phone has more computer power than all of Nasa's computers in 1969..." 🧐

Also, Queen Elizabeth I was a man who replaced the real child Elizabeth after she died in order to maintain the royal line and that's why the ruler remained unmarried.

But humans have been to the moon more than once and 12 people have walked on it in total.

All men by the way

That lady gaga is amy winehouse!

Also covid was made to stop planes in the sky because of global warming/climate change

I used to be friends with a woman who believed that the sensors on top of street lights were spy cameras from aliens so we could be observed 24/7 so that they could live amongst us and blend in! She also believed the Chemtrails one too

Hollow Earth Theory

This could be an urban legend, but I believe that Buzz Aldrin once "admitted" they were fake when asked in an interview. He said the whole thing was staged but it was so difficult to get the lighting right that they ended up having to go to the moon to stage them. I can imagine the reporter thinking they had found something huge, only to be owned seconds later.

Michelle Obama was a man.
Flat earth too, that's so mad.

I haven't worked out what quite happened with the 9/11 attacks but in my view they were dreamt up by the US goverment. You are quite right about that daft idea that a Boeing 757 went into the Pentagon. Amazingly, into the segment which was empty due to refurbishment! Building 7 collapsing due to 'fire' (after it was announced that it had collapsed) was also bollocks (it was empty and had been used by the FBI and due for demolition), as were the images of the airliners which went into the Twin Towers which did not even have the right airline livery.
I could go on and on, but notably much of the evidence has been removed from U-tube, and what remains has been edited down and the images 'blurred up' as the US goverment continues to hope that everyone accepts the official explanation and time passes.
A reason for it all is an attempt to disguise the unexplained disappearance of 3.2 TRILLION USD that the press were asking Rumsfelt and Cheney about days prior to the event, and an opportunity to access oil reserves in the Middle East (Iraq, who had no involvement in the event), and as a cherry in the conspiracy the Twin Towers building risks and insurances were signed over to European insurers (principally the City of London) days prior to the 'attacks'. So WE ended up paying for much of the destruction. Unfortunately our PM at the time was a stupid sucker and accepted it all, and embarassingly aligned us with all this nonsense. He has since made millions in the US for his lecturing and consulting expertise, plus a million dollar salary from a US bank. (He is now worth $60 million.)

@Roxy69

Michelle Obama was a man. Flat earth too, that's so mad.

I like the flat-Earth theory. It's great for proving people wrong who set enormous store by "common sense". It's absolutely common sense that the Earth is flat. But total nonsense!

Elvis is alive

Jews made up the holocaust, can't call this my favourite
WTF
people are evil to have even thought it