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Old 01-24-2024, 01:06 PM
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The thing about conspiracy theories, of course, is they glide around on the 'conspiracy mindset,' the conviction that things are pretty must run by evil liars, who are so good at it, and basically all-powerful, that most everyone falls for the lies. If you just try to follow the facts without having the right mindset, they don't glide much.
Having worked 38 years in the Federal government, the last 25 of which were in high level jobs in the DC headquarters of three agencies (two of which are often the target of this conspiratorial nonsense), made me realize the impossibility of successfully pulling off some grand conspiratorial scheme (which would involve a large number of people across multiple agencies) and keeping it secret for years. It's damn near impossible to get any two federal agencies to work meaningfully together to accomplish even the most mundane tasks and it would be even more difficult to keep everybody quiet/cooperative about something deeply malignant/illegal.

Conspiracy theories are for those who cannot handle the complex and often arbitrary nature of real life. It helps them think they understand something that they're unequipped intellectually or emotionally to actually understand. Conspiracy theories are chewing gum for their deranged minds.
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Old 01-24-2024, 01:44 PM
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Conspiracy theories are for those who cannot handle the complex and often arbitrary nature of real life. It helps them think they understand something that they're unequipped intellectually or emotionally to actually understand.
Exactly.
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Old 01-24-2024, 07:20 PM
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It's damn near impossible to get any two federal agencies to work meaningfully together to accomplish even the most mundane tasks and it would be even more difficult to keep everybody quiet/cooperative about something deeply malignant/illegal.
It's a daily routine for the Prince of the Power of the Air.

Puppets for the devil have no idea that what they are doing is wrong. It's a spiritual blindness that's take over once the Holy Spirit inside them dies. The 'zombie apocalypse'.

Like the third Reich, and the pending 4th.
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Old 01-24-2024, 07:31 PM
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The thing about conspiracy theories, of course, is they glide around on the 'conspiracy mindset,' the conviction that things are pretty much run by evil liars, who are so good at it, and basically all-powerful, that most everyone falls for the lies. If you just try to follow the facts without having the right mindset, they don't glide much.
Then again, you think the Christian Bible is a conspiracy in itself.
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Old 01-24-2024, 07:34 PM
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Do you believe the Rapture is coming soon?
You'd see two prophets of God knock the world powers on their butts, prior to a rapture.

That hasn't happened yet.
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Old 01-24-2024, 08:16 PM
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Then again, you think the Christian Bible is a conspiracy in itself.
Well, in a sense. Parts of it construct a sceneario that gives the priesthood tremendous temporal authority. Something like 'what you bind on Earth will be bound in Heaven, and what you loose on Earth will be loosed in heaven.' If I recall right, not pausing to look it up.... Mind, conspiracy happens when bad faith actors consciously run a con or whatever. Someone who believes and means well is not a conspirator, they are just a believer, like an honest Marxist, or an honest Republican.
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Old 01-24-2024, 08:32 PM
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Then again, you think the Christian Bible is a conspiracy in itself.
OK, let's clear a thing up. A 'conspiracy theory' and a 'conspiracy' are two different things. A conspiracy theory is basically the belief that someone is conning you. A conspiracy is an actual con.

People are seen to believe in lots of conspiracy theories that are damned unlikely. For example, people believe that the buildings of the 1893 Columbian Exposition were actually ancient buildings of the Tartarian Empire, and historians and architects are conspiring to cover this up. This is an actual conspiracy theory, it exists. It helps a lot to have a conspiracy mindset as I described above to believe a thing like this.

Now, if an author and a publisher get together to sell a totally made-up history book of the Tartarian Empire, without either of them believing a word of it, they are in a conspiracy.

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You'd see two prophets of God knock the world powers on their butts, prior to a rapture.

That hasn't happened yet.
OK, so not in the near future, but eventually?
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Old 01-24-2024, 08:59 PM
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Now here is an example of an actual conspiracy that, totally by coincidence, just came to my attention:

Colorado Pastor Says He May Have 'Misheard' God's Instructions
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OK, so not in the near future, but eventually?
Yes. Not all true believers get raptured, though. The sky will roll up like a scroll.

It's a created universe, manifest not only by the living word of God, but also by some kind of meta-mechanical substrate. 'Projectors' as seen and described by Enoch. Consistent with modern quantum physics, in theory, involving other dimensions of the known universe.

It's like a complex 'computer simulation', although it is the only reality we know.

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