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Are there any conspiracy theories you believe in?

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Errors · 22/12/2024 18:07

Inspired by another thread

I find conspiracy theories really interesting. I have never ‘believed’ any of them, more enjoy discussing them and how likely it seems that they could be true. I also think it’s more far fetched to believe that everything we have ever been told or ever will be told is the whole truth.

Are there any CTs you believe in? Lead me down a rabbit hole please!

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SerafinasGoose · 22/12/2024 20:55

That the predilections of Epstein and Savile, as well as Michael Jackson and likely many others who haven't come to light yet, were evidently widely known is not 'conspiracy theory'. It's a sad indictment of a society which protects men at all costs, and allows them to indulge in their sexual proclivities with complete impunity. And despite the fact that he's obviously very disturbed emotionally - which is precisely the defence people use against victims to prevent their ever being taken seriously - I believe every word Corey Feldman says.

The only so-called conspiracy theories I think have legs are two particular suicides of men who had become very dangerous to some powerful people. I don't believe the official line about the suicides of either Dr David Kelly or Jeffrey Epstein.

stargazerlil · 22/12/2024 20:56

Charlize43 · 22/12/2024 20:46

I remember about 10 years ago when Lana Del Rey first appeared on the music scene with her song Video Games, people going on about that she wasn't who she seemed; about her plastic surgery and that she was really Leonard Dilroy from New Jersey...

I think there was a similar theory that Roy Orbison was a woman,

wishingyouwell · 22/12/2024 20:57

9/11 was an inside job.
False flag.

Alltheyearround · 22/12/2024 20:57

FeegleFrenzy · 22/12/2024 18:38

Definitely JFK, no way could he have made that shot and so many people report hearing multiple gunshots.

I’d quite like to believe that a portal to the 5th dimension exists and maybe that’s where the aliens are coming from, but the portal could be very small….like 10cm across so we haven’t noticed it 😁

I quite like the idea of 10cm aliens. Like the Borrowers but from out of space!

I mean obviously they could shrink wrap and then expand again to full size, like those bags where you hoover out the air and store Aran jumpers for winter? As long as they have developed hoover technology...Hang on maybe the Aztecs got hoover tech from them....

SerafinasGoose · 22/12/2024 20:57

wishingyouwell · 22/12/2024 20:55

People who believe whatever they read in the media lack intelligence and critical thinking skills.

Likewise people who believe what they read on crackpot conspiracy sites. A bit of criticality and scepticism about everything they read would serve a lot of people well.

rainydays03 · 22/12/2024 20:58

ILikeItWhatIsIt · 22/12/2024 18:58

Chester Bennington/Chris Cornell didn't commit suicide (only half believe this one)
Satanism & adrenochrome use in Hollywood (fully believe this one!)

So interested in this Adrenochrome one!

Charlize43 · 22/12/2024 20:58

CharlotteLightandDark · 22/12/2024 20:24

I don’t believe the McCanns were responsible but I think Gerry is a controlling individual and dominates Kate which why they come off a bit strange.

I've heard it said that the reason they come off strange is because allegedly they and their doctor friends were drugging their children. If there is any truth in that I guess we shall never know, but the guilt would be tremendous if true as it certainly would have made it easier for the abductor.

Horrible when you think about it.

ThisCosyAquaHiker · 22/12/2024 20:58

Ytcsghisn · 22/12/2024 20:52

Yeah that’s how groupthink, multinational influence and financial heirs by works. It’s not rocket science.

Covid was real. Produced in a lab in Wuhan and leaked from there, as confirmed by the FBA now. It was never going to be a major threat to anyone young or without core morbidities. But it was designed to borrow and print trillions in the name of compliant, docile western taxpayer. In other words, trillions were stolen. And it was funneled to government lobbyists of which big pharma was a major player.

Again, "confirmed by the FBI" - that still isn't true, no matter how many times you repeat it.

Beekeepingmum · 22/12/2024 20:59

TakeMyLifeAndLetItBe · 22/12/2024 18:38

'Fossil' fuels are actually renewable and being produced by the earth all the time. I have no idea on the veracity of that but it's interesting to ponder if it were true.....

Well that is definitely true. It's just they don't renew as quickly as would need. If you can wait 30 millions years to fill your car it will be fine.

HaleyBrookeandPeyton · 22/12/2024 20:59

I'm not sure about the moon landings to be honest. There was a huge race to be the first etc in the 60s and since then no one has landed on it since. Just a bit suspicious 🤔

AwfullyWeeBillyBigchin · 22/12/2024 21:00

shuggles · 22/12/2024 20:53

@AwfullyWeeBillyBigchin No, it's the "cover up" that becomes the conspiracy.

As I said, if you believe the powers that be never do anything that the general public has no knowledge of, then you are delusional.

Or believing everything being done is not in our best interests.

That's not a prerequisite for a conspiracy theory.

It's not so much that they never do anything bad. You'd be a fool to believe that. Rather the belief that supposed bad things are being done for bad reasons. Like "COVID lockdowns were an experiment in how far the government could push us". Rather than "COVID lockdowns were a necessary evil because of the lack of prior mitigating actions." (arguably bad but with good intentions)

Msmoonpie · 22/12/2024 21:01

It’s a bit daft to say that all “conspiracy theories” are crazy. Ok some of them are truely bonkers - the one about the queen being a giant lizard for example.

But some of the ones about government cover ups ? It’s not exactly unheard of historically for something to be covered up or rather kept from Joe Public. Plenty of things are on a need to know basis.

I’m not convinced anything could be covered up on a really huge scale/involving different countries and governments but I would have thought most people could accept that some (usually sensitive) information is kept from the general public.

Sometimes it’s not governments - it’s an organisation. The BBC knew about Savile. So did many other people power positions. But they kept it quiet. This is now well known but it took years (and his death) for it to emerge.

Game0fCrones · 22/12/2024 21:01

I don't believe any of them but i find the total and utter bonkersness of it all quite fascinating. For instance, flat earth believers, I feel a fascinated kind of pity for them.

Ytcsghisn · 22/12/2024 21:01

Another major hoax unfolding in real time in front of our very eyes is the illegal migration crisis. It ain’t no crisis. It has been orchestrated in this way to look like one.

Corrupt western governments and officials are raking in billions from this trade. They could stop it tomorrow if they wanted to. But this is organized crime, from which government officials and their cronies in charge are making masses of cash. It’s an industry and there is absolutely no way that it could flourish if those at the top were not actively facilitating it.

And then there is the macro economic manipulation. Why pay real wages to people when you can open the borders, run an illegal underground economy to suppress wages by letting in millions.

A docile population, that has an illusion of control, but can barely afford to heat their homes, is perfectly placed to continually fleece.

WilfredsPies · 22/12/2024 21:01

I generally don’t believe in conspiracy theories, but I do think there’s more than meets the eye about the deaths of David Kelly and Gareth Williams. But I don’t know enough facts (rather than theories presented as facts) to be certain.

I’m also slightly suspicious about the death of Bin Laden. If you’d spent years and millions bringing an organisation down, would you just shoot him? Or would you stick him in a bunker somewhere and get as much intelligence from him as possible? It just seems like a lot of effort to go to with not much pay off. I expect he’s dead now. I’m just not convinced that he died when they say he did.

Newrumpus · 22/12/2024 21:02

IcedPurple · 22/12/2024 20:51

Quite possibly.

But unless you think it was a deliberate lab leak, I don't think it's really a 'conspiracy theory'.

The conspiracy was in the cover up, demonising of anyone who raised this possibility and unquestioning assertion of acceptable alternative theories.

PCOSisaid · 22/12/2024 21:03

theDudesmummy · 22/12/2024 20:48

@RodLiddle

"Covid was real but Gov took the opportunity to see how far they could push us and found it so easy so took the piss"

Which "Gov"? Every one in the world?

This is my favourite line, the government? Haha.

Which one? All of them, even the ones who hate each other, yet doing the exact same thing?

All the world leaders couldn’t organise a piss up in brewery, but they all banded together to cover up a virus to control us for some unknown reason.

Its wild - my theory is all the world leaders are sending each other passive aggressive emails and dm’ing each other in linkendin, slagging one another off

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dixon86 · 22/12/2024 21:04

JFK assassination

One of the shots hit JFK in the front of the throat

LHO was behind him

How does a bullet shot from LHO hit JFK in the front of the throat?

This was left out of the initial report but confirmed some time later

HRTQueen · 22/12/2024 21:05

Arlanymor · 22/12/2024 19:57

Lee Harvey Oswald.

I am aware the Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for shooting JFK

I think it’s far too convenient that Jack Ruby then killed him

Dunnoburt · 22/12/2024 21:06

I got rather engrossed into the 9/11 CT, but surely, no.......

wishingyouwell · 22/12/2024 21:07

David Kelly, Iraq weapons inspector was murdered. Suicide story is bs.
Robin Cook MP heart attack story also bs. He was taken out.

Havalona · 22/12/2024 21:07

MI5/6 and their equivalents elsewhere run our lives. they organise the conspiracy theories/leak of viruses and so on, then assassinate those who may expose the conspiracies as fact. Keep the population under control. What else are they there for?

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