Why The 9/11 Conspiracies Won't Go Away

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Posted by LazFX on Sep-06-2006 07:38:

Why The 9/11 Conspiracies Won't Go Away

A great article for the people that think the 9/11 was an inside job.

You people just don't want to face the facts that THERE IS EVIL OUT THERE and that EVIL WANTS TO KILL EVERY ONE OF YOU....and its not the American Government,

TIME ARTICLE

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A world in which tiny causes can have huge consequences feels scary and unreliable. Therefore a grand disaster like Sept. 11 needs a grand conspiracy behind it. "We tend to associate major events--a President or princess dying--with major causes," says Patrick Leman, a lecturer in psychology at Royal Holloway University of London, who has conducted studies on conspiracy belief. "If we think big events like a President being assassinated can happen at the hands of a minor individual, that points to the unpredictability and randomness of life and unsettles us." In that sense, the idea that there is a malevolent controlling force orchestrating global events is, in a perverse way, comforting.
You would have thought the age of conspiracy theories might have declined with the rise of digital media. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy was a private, intimate affair compared with the attack on the World Trade Center, which was witnessed by millions of bystanders and television viewers and documented by hundreds of Zapruders. You would think there was enough footage and enough forensics to get us past the grassy knoll and the magic bullet, to create a consensus reality, a single version of the truth, a single world we can all live in together.

But there is no event so plain and clear that a determined human being can't find ambiguity in it. And as divisive as they are, conspiracy theories are part of the process by which Americans deal with traumatic public events like Sept. 11. Conspiracy theories form around them like scar tissue. In a curious way, they're an American form of national mourning. They'll be with us as long as we fear lone gunmen, and feel the pain of losses like the one we suffered on Sept. 11, and as long as the past, even the immediate past, is ultimately unknowable. That is to say, forever.

Posted by Marc Summers on Sep-06-2006 20:26:

That's been my thought for as long as I can remember.

One thing I have always said, "Sometimes, it is that simple", when referring to conspiracies.

Posted by josh4 on Sep-06-2006 21:18:

Re: Why The 9/11 Conspiracies Won't Go Away

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Originally posted by LazFX
A great article for the people that think the 9/11 was an inside job.

You people just don't want to face the facts that THERE IS EVIL OUT THERE and that EVIL WANTS TO KILL EVERY ONE OF YOU....and its not the American Government,

TIME ARTICLE

Well yeah theres that. Personally I think it stems from neither side, the theorists and the critics, being able to adequately prove their opinion beyond a shadow of a doubt. If you could prove a conspiracy theory then it wouldn't be a theory it'd be fact and if you could disprove it then well it wouldn't exist.

Posted by metalgearsolid on Sep-06-2006 21:52:

Same reason why JFK conspiracy won't go away. People want something to believe, in order to make up for their pathetic existance.

Posted by josh4 on Sep-06-2006 22:28:

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Originally posted by metalgearsolid
Same reason why JFK conspiracy won't go away. People want something to believe, in order to make up for their pathetic existance.

no thats religion

ooooh! jk okay i go now

Posted by Marc Summers on Sep-06-2006 23:02:

Posted by metalgearsolid on Sep-07-2006 01:50:

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Originally posted by Temperate
This conspiracy has had years to develope. It's very convincing. Right now, I am at a point where I don't know what to think about this.

What makes the JFK assasination so fascinating? Is it that all the witnesses who said there was another shooter at the grassy knolls died bizardly or is it that the mafia might have been involved?

I'll tell you right now JFK and the classified documents the government have won't declassify them so don't get your hopes up. Accept the fact that Oswald was the only shooter and that when the Cops captured him he was in a cafeteria drinking a coke bottle. Accept the fact that the US government didn't know anything about 9/11. The attack was a complete SURPRISE, and the government had nothing to do with what happened or are not to blame.

Son, we the people have been lied to over and over again and guess what? The majority of people don't want to know the truth or don't even care. B/c what can you expect from the American ppl who don't know who their first 3 presidents were or can't even name 3 current supreme judges.

Americans don't care about politics and with that type of attitude the truth will never be known.