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> they believed 911 was an inside job. steel beams and all that. 911 is definietly a conspiracy. A bunch of telecom engineers acting in unison with dispatchers

> they believed 911 was an inside job. steel beams and all that. 911 is definietly a conspiracy. A bunch of telecom engineers acting in unison with dispatchers and first responders. There is no other explanation how else police/emt/fire brigade shows up when you dial that number and tell them about an emergency. But what it has to do with steel beams I don’t know. \s Joking aside: I have noticed that sometimes when I preceive that everyone around me thinks X i feel an urge to think the opposite of it. I only had mild and inconsequential cases of this (opinion about shows, products, etc), but I can imagine that this type of contraryness in edge cases can convince people that everyone is wrong about some important historical event. And it seems once they convinced themselves their belief is stable enough to make them stick with it. Obviously hating Game of Thrones when everyone was raving about it feels very different from subscribing to conspiracy theories, but maybe the phenomena is similar, just one latches on to a different subject?

Fnoord 4y ago
> Joking aside Good thing you mention or I fell for it (that you meant it seriously, not that I believed in the conspiracy). Poe's law in effect. But that's the thing. People who believe in conspiracies are susceptible to them. For example, they could've lost their trust in society, or smoke a lot of pot, or have a friend or two who are into it. Very much like a cult. And I am saying that as person who was into conspiracies, who lost faith in society, who used drugs (psychedelics, mostly), and had a severe psychosis (not at all related to the previously mentioned though but stress from another factor).
tshaddox 4y ago
Funny that that's the conspiracy you reach for to make the joke. Not the one where people planned in secret to send people to the United States to learn how to fly airplanes so that they could hijack commercial airlines and commit suicide attacks.
mcguire 4y ago
Hating Game of Thrones is perfectly justified. :-)
- ThePowerOfFuet 4y ago
  It's a shame they ended it after seven seasons and left most of the plot lines hanging.

Fnoord 4y ago

> Joking aside Good thing you mention or I fell for it (that you meant it seriously, not that I believed in the conspiracy). Poe's law in effect. But that's the thing. People who believe in conspiracies are susceptible to them. For example, they could've lost their trust in society, or smoke a lot of pot, or have a friend or two who are into it. Very much like a cult. And I am saying that as person who was into conspiracies, who lost faith in society, who used drugs (psychedelics, mostly), and had a severe psychosis (not at all related to the previously mentioned though but stress from another factor).

tshaddox 4y ago

Funny that that's the conspiracy you reach for to make the joke. Not the one where people planned in secret to send people to the United States to learn how to fly airplanes so that they could hijack commercial airlines and commit suicide attacks.

mcguire 4y ago

Hating Game of Thrones is perfectly justified. :-)

ThePowerOfFuet 4y ago
It's a shame they ended it after seven seasons and left most of the plot lines hanging.