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Originally Posted by Stu
I believe that certain people are half right but that the end goals aren't as sinister of diabolically driven as they are making out.
In a broad sense governments mess up, impose far too much social control and commit heinous acts not because they are driven by evil but because ... well ... they're a bit daft like that, really. A lot of this stuff is still worth pointing out and still worth listening to. You just need to learn to discern.
Someone like David Icke in all honesty has a few interesting things to say on the nature of reality. It's when he gets into dogmatic specifics about his entire overarching world view that things get hilarious. It's well worth sifting through his content though if you have a few hours to spare on an empty weekend.
As usual the truth lies in the middle. Just like hardcore atheists and the dogmatic adherents of the patriarchal religions equally alienate me, so to do the ardent "everything can be answered by a conspiracy theory" bedroom experts and those who want absolutely nothing to do with alternate information because it's for weirdos like me.
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The truth rarely lies in the middle. More often than not, one side is simply wrong. Hardcore atheist as a weird term to use. Not believing in a god is a position based on what we know - if that changes tomorrow then so would my opinion. It's a common misrepresentation, and is why people get to throw around "atheism is just another religion". It isn't - it just means absence of belief, and it makes no more of a grand claim than that.