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What's your favourite?

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I’m bored with Bigfoot. Alien abduction doesn’t move me any more. The moon landing hoax can still raise a giggle now and then and the 9/11 ‘truthers’ just scare the ◊◊◊◊ out of me.

So what’s your favourite. Which conspiracy really gets you going nowadays? The New World Order? The British Royal Family as alien lizards? Dark Side of the Rainbow?

My favourite is the small but perfectly formed ‘Paul McCartney is dead’ conspiracy.
Give it a Google.
Harmless fun. If only all conspiracies were as entertaining.
 
I think mine is the no-planes at the WTC Truthiness. Just for the sheer wacked out impossibility of it all.
 
Elizabeth I said:
I don't know if it counts as a conspiracy but I find the whole "freeman on the land" lunacy absolutely fascinating.
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I would have to agree here. Freeman on the land woo is my absolutely favorite nutjob fantasy of the week to read about. There is just something special about FOTL wackiness that is fascinating to read - the whole idea that the government is engaging in some massive plot to hide that its really operating under admiralty law, that you can break free of the law by acting like its a maritime court when you deal with the court system, etc. I'd say it definitely falls under the conspiracy category: believing the government created all of these laws that don't really apply to you, as long as you chant the magic legal words and file the appropriate frivolous legal documents that no one will do anything with (like the FOTL Notice of Intent).

Previously, I would have said the New World Order - and its still a close match. The NWO nutters (whom believe a giant, vast global conspiracy to murder us all for no apparent reason) versus the FOTL nutters (whom believe that the government has no control over you if you simply tell them that you do not contract with them).
 
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My favorite is that there is an advanced civilization out in the galaxy that we are not part of yet. Either because we are sheltered from them by someone, or that we are not yet worthy of their recognition.

Why? Because it could mean that one day, over night, we could end up part of a galactic community, and I could conceivably get out and explore the galaxy. I know damn well we won't get there on our own in my lifetime.
 
LightinDarkness said:
I would have to agree here. Freeman on the land woo is my absolutely favorite nutjob fantasy of the week to read about. There is just something special about FOTL wackiness that is fascinating to read - the whole idea that the government is engaging in some massive plot to hide that its really operating under admiralty law, that you can break free of the law by acting like its a maritime court when you deal with the court system, etc. I'd say it definitely falls under the conspiracy category: believing the government created all of these laws that don't really apply to you, as long as you chant the magic legal words and file the appropriate frivolous legal documents that no one will do anything with (like the FOTL Notice of Intent).

Previously, I would have said the New World Order - and its still a close match. The NWO nutters (whom believe a giant, vast global conspiracy to murder us all for no apparent reason) versus the FOTL nutters (whom believe that the government has no control over you if you simply tell them that you do not contract with them).
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Well, LiD, I have you to thank for bringing this particular form of entertainment to my attention.

What fascinates me is why pick on admiralty law? Why not voodoo law or medical law or engineering law? Any of them would make just as much (or as little) sense. Why admiralty?
 
Oh the Freeman is a hoot but my all time favorite is the nameless conspiracy that somehow causes all the archaeologists and specialist who analyze the pass to hide all the evidence of aliens, advanced humans, advanced technology, etc, I call it the cloak of hiding stuff conspiracy
 
The best one for me is "The devil planted fossils and dinosaur bones as a test"

Lucifer... that dirty dawg.
 
I have to admit to finding most conspiracy theories amusing. A few that really stand out for me as being real hardcore crap are:

Anthony J Hilder's Illuminati fairytales.

Anything by Erich Von Daniken - ancient astronauts, etc.

Bohemian Grove/Owl worship/Owl on the Dollar Bill.

and, last but certainly not least,

Moon Landing fakery.

They all they make me laugh (a lot!).
 
Favourite piece of batcrap craziness? FOTL, I suppose, which I only encountered recently. Perhaps it's the novelty, but it's the thread I consistently monitor. It has a certain je ne sais quoi all of its own. There's only so many times you can read the same stuff about holographic planes before your eyes glaze over.

I quite like the moon landing hoax as well though.

Favourite "there might actually be something fishy going on" has to be Lockerbie, because that's the one I'm interested in studying. I find the anthrax attacks intriguing too, if someone would only tell me what actually happened.

Rolfe.
 
I think the reason FOTL is up there is that it actually gives them a chance to test their theories, something which doesn't apply to the other wacko ideas.

So a 'Freeman' stands up in court, prattles on about statues and admiralty law, refuses to acknowledge himself as a human being etc. etc., and the judge bangs him up for 30 days. The thing is, even though it fails every time, they never, ever learn. Surely this fits the definition of stupidity. Anyone can make mistakes, but if you continually keep repeating the same mistake over and over again in the belief that the outcome will somehow be different, then you truly are a lost cause.
 
I'm going to go old school and nominate JFK assassination CTs, because they're like the Kelloggs Corn Flakes of CTs - always reliably deranged, and with a certain pseudoscholarly classiness that is entirely missing from today's argument ad YouTubium.
 
Nick Terry said:
I'm going to go old school and nominate JFK assassination CTs, because they're like the Kelloggs Corn Flakes of CTs - always reliably deranged, and with a certain pseudoscholarly classiness that is entirely missing from today's argument ad YouTubium.
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That's a very good point. Before the internet people had to at least do a small amount of actual research before spouting their deranged guff. Now it seems any fool can knock up a youtube video and pollute the minds of the easily persuaded.
 
My favorite is chemtrails. The government, for no good reason, is spraying chemicals from commercial airliners to poison us.

That, and fluoride nonsense.
 
FEMA death camps and HAARP are my two favorites. They are my favorites because both of them are completely good and beneficial yet they get turned into the worst evils ever by the pure ignorance of the paranoid set.
 
The anthrax and Kursk conspiracies are probably my favourites.

Government involvement in the anthrax attacks is at least vaguely plausible and the Kursk stories make for interesting action adventure reading.
 
"Immunization leads to illness" or autism or zombification or something... after the evil gubment does away with us all, what's left to gub?!
I actually had a co-worker who sincerely believed all the conspiracy nonsense. But she couldn't answer when I asked her what comes next. After we're all a race of dependant, spoon-fed, tumors with boils, who's going to pay taxes?
 
The most original - to me - is the "everything nuclear, reactors, bombs and stuff is a hoax, teh joos make money with it!!!" - dude.

http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=65869

Its comedy gold. And he never ever explains how that hoax even generates the revenue and who from :D

What gets me going in a rather unpleasant way is AIDS-denialism as it's a real killer.
 
H1N1 and the government conspiracy linked to the vaccines with tiny tracking devices
 
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