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JiveTurkey
06-20-2008, 06:46 AM
con新pire (kn-spr)
v. con新pired, con新pir搏ng, con新pires
v.intr.
1. To plan together secretly to commit an illegal or wrongful act or accomplish a legal purpose through illegal action.
2. To join or act together; combine:


the搗斟y (th-r, th褳)
4. Abstract reasoning; speculation: a decision based on experience rather than theory.
5. A belief or principle that guides action or assists comprehension or judgment: staked out the house on the theory that criminals usually return to the scene of the crime.
6. An assumption based on limited information or knowledge; a conjecture.


Conspiracy Theory: An assumption, based on limited information or knowledge, that persons or groups plan together secretly to commit an illegal or wrongful act or accomplish a legal purpose through illegal action.



At what point did this simple phrase come to mean "nut jobs or crazies who believe that any and everything was planned and carried out by a dark and evil force in the hopes of totally ass raping the human race"?
Martian Exile
06-20-2008, 07:02 AM
When Bush got elected!
Slim
06-20-2008, 07:55 AM
I think the notion that "conspiracy theories" are the product of deranged minds was started up in the aftermath of John Kennedy's assassination; at least in terms of how many uninformed people now define "conspiracy theory" in the modern era.
Yo Mama
06-20-2008, 10:58 AM
Considering that a lot of CTers are of the "hilary is a reptilian" variety, it's no wonder CT has a bad rap.

I mean, really; look at some of the thread quality at the "top" CT site.

While the meat and potatoes, serious threads have good points and have truth in them, those threads aren't as common as "D00d! Ima Indigo."

Lowest common denominator is always the largest base, and usually the most vocal.
JiveTurkey
06-20-2008, 04:25 PM
Considering that a lot of CTers are of the "hilary is a reptilian" variety, it's no wonder CT has a bad rap.

I mean, really; look at some of the thread quality at the "top" CT site.

While the meat and potatoes, serious threads have good points and have truth in them, those threads aren't as common as "D00d! Ima Indigo."

Lowest common denominator is always the largest base, and usually the most vocal.



Most vocal? Agree 100%.
Largest base? Not a chance.

There are loads of "CTers" out there who keep their mouth shut and their fingers still so as to avoid being lumped in with the morons who spout off about the reptilian eyes in blurry youtube vids and a nigga called indigo.


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Yo Mama
06-20-2008, 04:48 PM
Until they come out of their tinfoil towers and join us, the idjits are the vocal majority.
Bitchkoma
06-20-2008, 05:37 PM
Stereotyping produces poor quality data.
1972
06-20-2008, 06:02 PM
Stereotyping produces poor quality data.

That explains Jesus.
JiveTurkey
06-21-2008, 06:50 AM
Until they come out of their tinfoil towers and join us, the idjits are the vocal majority.


It has been my experience that the skeptics are the total majority.



Referring to some conspiracy related sites.......however........I can agree that the "tinfoil hatter idjits" are the vocal majority. But I still insist that they are NOT the base majority.


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Yo Mama
06-21-2008, 11:05 AM
Hey, Jasn, wait, I have a couple hairs left that haven't been split. :P
anarch
02-16-2010, 11:44 PM
GOD DAMN JASN CONSPIRACY BUMP!!!!