Quote:

...AIDS deniers, 9/11 kooks,vaccines causing autism etc. I personally think all these guys are full of shit. Do any of you follow this stuff?



I used to be very into conspiracies. Not so much as a believer, but I'm just such an info junkie, I just love looking at stuff thru other people's eyes. Plus it was fun to tear down LaRushe people. I always figured if I had to read his dry books, I'd better get something out of it.

I used to be big JFK Conspiracy fan. I was reasonably sure that the Oliver Stone/ Jim Garrison version was pretty close to the truth, but with a few variations. Military/ Right Wing Bircher types/ the Mob with Oswald as a patsy/ hero. But I've read Posner's book, and it really put things into perspective and I'm pretty much now a singe gunman/ Oswald did it person.

I'm not as big into conspiracies as I once was, tho. 9/11 weirded me out pretty badly, as I'm sure it did everyone. When the Truther Movement started, I studied it a little, but there were just so many smoking guns pointing in the direction of Islamac Radicals, that I just couldn't make sense of it. It's like someone else said, that no matter how many times you refute their arguements, they just smirk an say "sheep". Plus the fact I'd seen it with my own eyes, and had spent several days bleary eyed in front of the tv, made it real or more personal. I hadn't even been born when JFK was killed, so it was just a concept, not a "real" event. 9/11 was real, with real people and real pain. It was more than a mental masterbatory exercise. For lack of a better term, it wasn't fun to try to find inconsistencies and holes in the official story. But I'm brutal with people I know who are Truthers, probably for that very reason. When they start spouting the nonsense, it just reminds me of the pain, and I let them have it with both barrels.

Barry
_________________________
Having killed someone doesn't make you a killer- @KINGROCHE