I find conspiracy theorists to be so funny, I can't hold back. Whenever a self-confessed conspiracy theorist appears before me, the urge to mock him is too strong. The dam trembles until it completely caves in flooding the surroundings with laughter. But I must confess I am a conspiracy theorist regarding certain cases. I firmly believe, for instance, that the U.S. sells large amount of paper gold backed by the promise to deliver gold that is unaccounted for and is involved in other illicit activities that push the value of the dollar up. However, some theories are sheer stupidity. The uneducated opinions of some raise concerns regarding the quality of education in the U.S. or the level of intelligence of some members of our society.
I often find conspiracy theories funny as well, but first i try to listen to what they have to say, because sometimes they do have good points, especially the 9/11 ones(i dont believe bushed planned 9/11, but there are some weird things about it)
If you take out the term "conspiracy theory" out, you may start believing it. Forget the label, just look at the intent behind it. If a so called "conspiracy theory" has proofs, evidences and credible/verifiable data behind it, then there is no wrong in accepting it as the truth.
That's why they put the word theory behind it. To point out that there are no actual facts, nothing that proves the existance of the conspiracy. And accepting and knowing are two very different terms. There might be nothing wrong with accepting a theory as the truth, but it still proves nothing. No matter how strong your belief is. :/
A lot of conspiracy theories out there can seem pretty absurd and have little to no evidence or sense backing it but some of them do have a possibility in my opinion. The ones i find most believable are the ones that aliens may exist and have visited here and that the government is hiding some advanced technologies. I'm about 80-90% sure about the later, and 50% about the aliens. I mean Galieo that first theorized the earth was not flat was considered a crack pot and jailed etc at the time, even though he was right. I just like to be open to possibites and think about rational ideas why something may or may not be true or false.
@ PancakeChef. Galileo wasn't the first to theorise that the Earth wasn't flat. His works focused on observations that the Sun was the centre of the Solar System, and it'd been taught that the Earth was round as far back as Plato.
Itza is right once more, but you have to admit that Galileo had some of the best proof that the earth was round. I mean, how could the earth be a flat disk-like object, while the sun is an orb? You might want to consider that most people where illiterate idiots back then. None of the general population could read, or had money to hire a teacher. So they did everything with pure logic. Also, the world is still full with these people. Most of you know them as the lobby people, the once against learning children about the teachings of evolution. Note that I avoid the word theory here, there is plenty of proof. But that is not the point I am trying to make. The latter has already been discussed many times on this forum. What I want to say is that people need to think, instead of coming up with lame theories without any facts.
@Itza: Indeed you are correct. But it also goes before even Plato, when they found remnants of ancient civilization in the Sahara Desert during the Ice Age. They had Obelisks or towers with man awakening as if from a sleep and a drawing of a large semi-circle with what would be another smaller semi-circle above that and depicts the sunrise on a circular planet. Fun stuff indeed, this shows without a doubt that man knew the planet was a sphere. However the most accredited first 'idea' or theory the world was a sphere was made by Greek mathematicians. Before Plato's time by measuring the shadows of everyday object and the horizon and made the first recorded account on the theory the Earth was circular.
