[Jamie89]

I'm just going to steal other peoples opinions

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

no

humans are not clever enough nor (and this is the crux) able to keep their mouths shut enough for any conspiracy theory to work

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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

There is a difference in wanting to believe something and believing it based on good evidence

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Originally Posted by Lostie!

I find conspiracy theories really interesting. I don't necessarily believe most of them but I find them all really intriguing nontheless (even though I usually end getting creeped out and super paranoid afterwards).

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I bought my dad a conspiracy theory book for christmas because he loves all that stuff, but literally every single one of them, however convincing they appear because of the 'evidence' for them, I found has been debunked at some point. But that never really gets the same level of attention so they continue regardless. Also, conspiracy theories generally only offer one point of view which makes them lose credibility to me. If anything I'd probably say that I have a conspiracy theory about conspiracy theories in that they sell (books/tv shows/web site hits etc) and so they're only there to make money from people, rather than it being because they want the truth to be exposed or whatever. You have to wonder why so many of them are perpetuated when most of the people doing so are intelligent enough to check all the facts or at least recognise that they simply don't have all the facts of something. But the people who 'advertise' conspiracy theories usually have a vested interest in them being believed. That being said though I still think they're fun to read.