Conspiracy theories

Stories travelled in Biblical days too - they were a bit slower than the internet, but people have always loved to sit around listening to tales of wondrous happenings.

A traveller from far away, stopping for the night in a wayside dwelling, would "pay" for his meal and bed by recounting the strange things he had encountered. Some of those encounters were true, but embellished for the ocasion, some were ones he had heard other travellers tell - which had themselves been edited and improved in the repeating.

A good story would spread faster than a boring one (just as on the internet) so no wonder legends in many areas have great similarity.

I did mention myths and legends, Eglantine and in fact the Bible stories you mention corroborate those legends of the ancient Greeks, Romans etc
Interesting.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio!

Who can't sing!

You’ve all forgotten the Paul McCartney one, where he died in a car crash and has been replaced by a lookalike. (Yeah, as if!)

I’m convinced we evolved because aliens visited (or maybe were stranded) and spliced their DNA with ours.?

Anybody interested in what the Bible says?

“The sons of god saw the daughters of men were fair and took wives.”
“The Nephilim (giants?) were on the earth in those days and afterwards when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them.”

Genesis 6.

Curleywirly
Why no more men on the moon? Possible ? theory that mod tech has come 'down to earth' and that its resources are better spent getting its own world sorted before looking at others ?

Who is Alex Jones?

I had thought you meant the presenter from the One Show and thought that I'd never heard her propounding any conspiracy theories!

Give your head a wobble, Americans are communicating with space craft outside of our solar system. In real terms the moon is not that far away.

I suggest you watch '8 Days to the Moon and Back' Chemtrail. And why would it be 'physically impossible' to get to the moon and impossible to communicate from it? We have since travelled a lot further than that, so do you think all space travel is faked?

It is physically impossible to get to the moon and impossible to communicate from it .as for history ,it is always documented by the winners,so conspiracy theories or propaganda?

@vampirequeen didn't you know that the Earth is a giant supercomputer made by the mice! H2G2 42 is the answer!!!!

Alex Jones is in a class of his own and to say ‘he’s always good for a conspiracy theory’ is horrible given Sandy Hook. The average conspiracy theorist is not interested in uncovering state secrets or fighting for justice. Specific campaigns to uncover serious truths are one thing, the utter vile conspiracy theories re the McCanns and Sandy Hook are quite another. A bit more light and shade doesn’t come amiss.

But it appears that some of the events which are, orwould have been described as "conspiracy theories" are, or may be, true.

It took a long time for the British government to admit that soldiers had been exposed to dangerously high doses of radiation during nuclear testing.

A recent programme on the TV suggested that the attack on Pearl Harbour was either allowed to happen in order to convince the American people that the US should join the war, or happened due to poor communications.

In the US, many poor people - particularly black people, prisoners and disabled people - were the victims of numerous secret - and life-changing experiments.

Not all conspiracy theories are ridiculous.

The only aliens I know of are those on here who think Alex Jones and what he did to the Sandy Hook parents is ‘good for a laugh’ and a bit of fun’.

Oh dear suziewoozie has dropped in to throw a wet dishcloth on the conversation. Lighten up dear, it's just a bit of fun. Not everything has to be serious or relate to politics. Peace to you ?

Love it!

The only conspiracy theory I don't dismiss is the one about aliens visiting the earth.
I have an open mind about that as there are many unanswered questions about our origins.

DS can do that so obviously inherited alien traits from DS and me.

I still can't do that Chestnut although I keep persevering. Yes, I was thinking of the charisma thread ?

Did your U3A talk mention the many stories of people creating crop circles, quizqueen?

I think it’s something to do with having a casual relationship with the truth

Generally speaking I have a theory that there is a direct relationship between being right wing and loving conspiracy theories. I think there is some evidence to support this theory on this thread.

I love conspiracy theories and some have been proven to have a lot of truth in them over the years, so shouldn't just be poo-pooed. I went to an excellent talk about crop circles last week with the U3A.

I used to think it was aliens causing all matter of strange things but, because of the distance of travel involved and the fact that we have searching for signals within our galaxy and beyond for years, unsuccessfully, I am more inclined to open my mind now to the possibility of beings from our future returning to contact us, or something inter-dimensionally happening. We would be truly foolish to think our planet is the only one which contains life.

Moon landings: there have been dozens of them
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_the_Moon#Missions_by_date
They were stopped because of cost, and also because they were a bit of willy- waving by the US, Russian and Chinese governments and they weren’t really getting anywhere.
I agree, most of the other conspiracy theories are very hurtful to some people. My brother in law lost dozens of friends and associates in the Twin Towers. He had been there the week before. For people to claim that the US government carried it out is incredibly painful. Princess Diana was killed because her chauffeur was drunk and she wasn’t wearing a seatbelt. The inquest in Paris exonerated the paparazzi, but some ( I think two) were charged because they took photos of the crashed car. (They arrived after the crash.) The Sandy Hook conspiracy theory was disgraceful and I think Alex Jones should have been jailed.

There is a thread about charisma Callistemon so maybe Mr Spock belongs there. Although sadly I've never met him in person to judge first hand ?
PS: there is actually an emoji for the Vulcan salute which shows how much he has influenced our lives! ?