Conspiracies Megathread | Now With A Nicer OP

[Candy Apple]

This is a serious topic. Please don't just be a handicap and come in and go "hur dur... all conspiracies suk!""

☢|Conspiracies Megathread
as in, "The government's lying to us about chemtrails, and nukes, and TWA 800, and 9/11... and, you know, everything that's ever happened..."
Index
I. Summary
II. About/History
IV. Famous Conspiracies
V. True Ones/Result of Conspiracies/How They're Percieved
Summary
Conspiracy theories are theories about popular or important events, global scale events, or linking many conspiracy theories. Put simply, if you have ever conspired that your teacher was giving you a bad grade on purpose, you've made a conspiracy theory, but on a much smaller scale.^[1]
About/History
The origin of the word can be traced back to the Oxford English Dictionary in 1909, which is when it was first an "official word".^[1], and can go far back as Texas newspapers in 1855^[2]. However, the conspiracy theory is most common now a days about the government and most theorize about the government's secretive side, considering that we truly do not know that much about our government. But why do we make conspiracies? I theorize that it's because human nature is to know about all that goes on, and sometimes information is displaced, lost in the void, or a number of people are just insane.Famous Conspiracies
Some of the most famous conspiracy theories include those like the JFK assassination, 9/11 being an inside job, reptiles running the government, the fakeness of the Holocaust, and the overall screwing up of the world via the New World Order and chemtrails.^[3]. You can view a full list of the most popular conspiracy theories here.
True Ones, the Results of Conspiracies, and How They're Percieved
Conspiracy theories sometimes turn out to be true. This is a very rare occasion, but several actually have. Including the toxicity of Asbestos, the Manhattan Project, and Area 51 ( a more recent one ), and also MK Ultra II, the government has sometimes done some stuff behind the back of its citizens.^[4]

Conspiracy theories don't turn out so well sometimes, though. The result of conspiracy theories is still disputed, but some believe that believers of conspiracy theories, like aliens and the belief in the Men in Black, have actually been snuffed out by the government. Also, some conspiracy theories lead men to commit evil crimes, like the Oklahoma City bombing. ^[5].

And while conspiracy theories are sometimes regarded to be true, like in this thread, the idea of the general public is that conspiracy theories are nut job ideas created by idiots who live in trailer parks. Sure, this may be true for many, but it's truly not and you shouldn't believe what they say. Some really intelligent people have worked on or believed in the research of conspiracies.
Sources
And finally, here are the sources I used.
[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory
[2] - http://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/1/
[3] - http://list25.com/top-25-most-popular-conspiracy-theories/
[4] - http://www.cnn.com/33-conspiracy-theories-that-turned-out-to-be-true-what-every-person-should-know/
[5] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing

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[AfterShock]

The moon landing was fake.

[WaffleCake]

area 51
im really curious if that actually exists

[Markey]

agenda 21 and fema

[Qwepir]

area 51
im really curious if that actually exists

Yes. Area 51 is an actual place. The knowledge of that is just a google search away.

[Steve5451²]

The moon landing was fake.

I hope you don't really believe this.

[Boink!]

area 51
im really curious if that actually exists

area 51 exists lol

[sir dooble]

area 51 exists lol

But do they have Brent Spiner working in there on aliens?

[Char]

The moon landing was fake.

ha ha no
care to elaborate?


I don't believe in any conspiracy theories, but I would accept conspiracies that are true. Which turns out to be a very small number, considering the batstuff insane things people dream up on their toilet seats.
Though, usually a conspiracy that actually happened is just called a fact or something to avoid association with the nonsensical conspiracy theories.

[Kimon²]

The moon landing was fake.

you know some guy went up to neil armstrong and told him that and neil armstrong knocked him the forget out

[KoopaScooper]

[The Magical Dunes]

George W Bush sold the USA to moonpeaple in exchange fore a barel of oil. But the moon people betrayed him & gave him a barrel of vegeteble oil's... tats y we fired a missel at the moon (forget NASA).

[Candy Apple]

area 51
im really curious if that actually exists

It was actually mentioned by Obama during a speech iirc.


Oh yeah, I also believe in HAARP, the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program. I think that it is(was) technological research into the changing of weather, possibly for weather warfare.

[AfterShock]

you know some guy went up to neil armstrong and told him that and neil armstrong knocked him the forget out

So much respect for that man, so much respect..

[Char]

you know some guy went up to neil armstrong and told him that and neil armstrong knocked him the forget out

Correction: Buzz Aldrin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wptn5RE2I-k
He punched Bart Sibrel in the face after being harassed for a little over a minute.
I read that Bart tried to sue Buzz for that, but it was found that in the unedited video, Bart looked at the cameraman and asked "Did you get that?" like five seconds after being punched.

Oh yeah, I also believe in HAARP, the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program. I think that it is(was) technological research into the changing of weather, possibly for weather warfare.

I'm not sure how they can even control the weather, since it's just a high-frequency wave, and also because every other attempt we've made to alter the weather directly generally didn't work.
Of course, there is stuff like CO₂, and deforestation that do affect the weather.