Comments | gram_negative: In which I rant about physics, psychology, and 9/11 conspiracy theories.

gram_negative

In which I rant about physics, psychology, and 9/11 conspiracy theories.

Sep 17, 2009 13:54

zaarwin_devolve and I are on very much the same page about 9/11 conspiracies. In his recent entry, he quoted at least one source so crazy that I HAVE to reply, or the effort of suppressing my rage will cause me to split in two.

From this synopsis, which posits that there were no planes used in the attacks, and the planes were digitally added for the news... ( Read more... )

conspiracies, terrorism, paranoia, politics, 9/11, the illusion of safety, psychology, physics

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belgarath42 October 7 2009, 03:01:03 UTC

Alright, but look: There are two kinds of conspiracy theorists: Those who are stupid and those who are not. Can I even use two colons in the same sentence? I can ( ... )

gram_negative October 7 2009, 04:18:12 UTC

While I don't really disagree with anything you said, I would contend that there is a fairly wide line between having a healthy, participatory interest in one's government and endowing them with supernatural evil powers. Naturally, I myself have plenty of questions about the government's handling of the whole situation, and it would be utterly naive to think that they never misled us...unless someone found a WMD in Iraq, since last time I checked...