Never heard this conspiracy theory

[maturestudent74]

Had a woman in a coffee shop tell me that we all have a pot of gold that the government keep from us and it is worth our birth weight. Never heard this one before? Glad I was a nine pounder baby though!
Wish it was true but she also told me the real Putin is dead and the one we see now is an avatar! Conspiracy theories are bonkers!

I've got news for you. There is no such thing as an 'original' birth, marriage or death certificate. All of the paper ones, even the one you are given by the registrar who fills it in at the actual time of registration, are copies of the entry written in the register. The original entry is recorded in the register itself.

What a fascinating idea. I was a big baby so I'm all for it. Pity she did tell you how to get hold of it. Maybe she didn't know or more likely it's a quest. Yes, that'll be it - wonder if each person has their own quest or it's the same one for everyone- answer a riddle or take a sword from a stone.

Any other idioms to take literally? Should we all have quite wide fences? (Easier to sit on.) Is the pund shop ripping us off and making a massive 99p profit on all items?

Ah, FOTL loopers make me laugh. They convince themselves that if they take out a loan (usually tens of thousands of £££ IME) they won't have to repay it because their name is a legal fiction. Despite the fact they were happy to apply and sign for and have it paid into an account using the same name, and when I have to have a conversation with any one of them, they introduce themselves on the call using the same name. Then when there's a bankruptcy or possession order against them, they confidently assert that the court has no jurisdiction over them. So far in my experience it's always men who use this as an excuse to avoid paying back their debts. They all seem to get their script and correspondence downloaded off the same website too as they all use identical terminology. Bless em.

I heard something similar on here just recently.

I'm ridiculously fascinated by the mechanics of this nonsense. Where does the government get the record of what we all weighed at birth? How does it work if we were born abroad? What happens to the gold when we die? Does it pass under our wills or go back into the pot for someone else? If it's supposed to pay government bills, why do they take all that trouble to get us to pay?

Is it connected to the free men types? I have heard of it and it's usually the people who dispute birth certificates and such like.

I'll look it up.

This is something to do with your 'government name'. Apparently if upu put your name all in caputals it's different to your birth certificate so you are not legally the person the government has you listed as so you don't have to pay the bills they issue to your government name.

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I know the original certificates are in the General Register Office, that bit makes sense as there needs to be an official copy. It was the buying and selling of the certificates on the stock exchange that was the loopy bit.

I like the 'McCartney is Dead' theory.
The 'Clumsy Sniper' I think is very disrespectful.

Out of all of them though, Flatearth is the one I really dislike. How anyone can believe such utter nonsense that is so easily disproven is beyond me.

This pot of gold one though, I've never heard that one before. They're all just made up by someone weird sod smoking weird shit.. 😉

In fact, you oewe the govt money!

If conspiracy theorists put as much effort into being a boring old entrepreneur, they wouldn't be needing a "pot of gold".
Life must be exhausting, bless them !

Oh, this common law, don’t need to pay taxes, sovereign citizen thing is a conspiracy theory in New Zealand too.

Nuts.

I've seen something similar, that you don't need to pay bills, and people who believed stopped paying, and obviously got into trouble. I think it was something to do with self-claimed Queen of Canada.

Anyone remember the time that FOTL guy came on to educate all us poor women? He had a nice serving of arse handed to him. But it was massively entertaining.

I'm afraid our individual pots of gold have been sold...

'In 1999, Chancellor Gordon Brown sought to sell off 401 tonnes (56%) of the UK's gold reserves. The logic was that gold wasn't being used as a safe haven as much as it had been before, and that foreign currencies like the US Dollar and the imminent Euro would generate much better returns.'

... but I suppose at least we've still got the pot.

Gold is valuable precisely because it is rare. There is not nearly enough gold in the world to give everyone a baby-sized chunk, and if there were, it would not be worth very much.

This guy has made a very good video here explaining that it's a myth, apparently the same belief exists in America (except it's just lots of money sitting behind your birth certificate rather than actual gold.)

@CourtneeLuv
So is that a real thing then? :0.

I'm assuming they would still cut off the electricity to the house if it wasn't paid?

Conspiracy theories are rife among the people i work with. This FOTL bollocks is one of the nuttiest ones.

I've heard this one...Freeman of the land, don't admit who you are, never say that you understand as that means you are saying that you stand under them and accept their higher authority. Had some crackpot trying to get me to join their meetings years ago...they had leaflets and websites. He spent all night on the internet discussing it with people in America and then slept all day. Error, no thanks!

Not any more, the Tories will have sold them by now. Wouldn't do at all to leave us with a pot to piss in

Yes, I'm half-hoping he turns up again 😀

I love FOTL bollocks, it's my favourite type of moon-howling. 😄

My theory is 😂
I think these people don’t believe what they say but find it funny to spread their ideas

I ditched one quite recently and I admit I am influenced by her inexplicable glee at everything she claims to believe. I quietly faded her out. It’s annoying, boring and tiring.

In the US its Sovereigns citizens (ranging from odd balls to extremist that the police regard as domestic terrorists separatists) and the black community have to suffer Moorish People who claim to have some kind of diplomatic immunity.