somebody wrote:
> "Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message
> news:4a6f1f7e$1@news.povray.org...
>> Chambers wrote:
>>> My favorite quote:
>>> "Conspiracy theorists view logical argument as cheating."
>> I was hoping for 44 funny conspiracy theories. I liked the Rambo quote
>> better, myself.
>>
>> Altho it's funny. I've started seeing religion in these types of articles.
>> When people make fun of conspiracy theories, and then you read exactly the
>> same thing and put the word "religion" in there, it sounds the same to me.
>> Maybe that's just me, tho.
> 
> Ironically, religions provide the antithesis of some of the arguments of the
> anti-conspiracy theorists, in that while it's near impossible to make
> everyone believe the story, with a little bit of luck, it's relatively easy
> to fool the majority for centuries at a time, and it needn't even take that
> much logistics and effort. Of course failure rate of religions is high
> enough and results are not fully predictable, so it's not the ideal model to
> plant a conspiracy surely and speedily.
> 
Well, the issue there is, religions deal with the intangible and 
undefinable, by conspiring to provide, tangible and definable 
characteristics to them, and they do this based on a fear of the 
unknown. If people where scared to death of space aliens from the dark 
matter parts of the universe coming here to eat them, they would fall 
for the conspiracy just as effectively, as long as it told them how to 
*avoid* getting eaten with everyone else, and they would do almost 
anything to get that result. The problem most other conspiracy theories 
have is that they attempt to invent the silly and insane, to describe 
events in the "real world", for which it is possible to define, 
describe, or give evidence of the reality of the situation, and where 
only their own cherry picked bits of wacky point to what they think it does.


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