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More Conspiracy Polls
That poll I took about the most played-out conspiracy theories was a lot of fun. The thing that really struck me about it is that between all of us, we seem to be tired of pretty much every conspiracy theory under the sun. What’s left then? Where do we go next? It’s also interesting how some people “like” certain conspiracies, either mythically or for some other reason, and other people don’t get anything out of them at all. I wonder why that is.
To continue the discussion though, I thought it would be fun to do a couple other polls. First off: What conspiracies do you hope really are true, and why? Second, if you were a member of the rich and powerful elite pulling the strings from behind the scenes, which conspiracies would you take part in? Maybe the answers for both of these are the same, I don’t know.
For me personally, I’d be really stoked if Philip K. Dick’s VALIS / Secret Gray Robed Christians thing was really literally true. Sentient satellites blasting people with information, overlapping time periods, gnostic messages hidden in pop culture… that’s all just too awesome.
July 15th, 2005 at 4:28 pm
I would love it if new age stuff were true, if I really could “create my own reality” in the way they say. The reason I hate that idea so much is they’re fucking lying and it gives me false hope. Same thing with 2012 bringing magical universal enlightenment. And I’d love it if we really were in something like the Matrix, where there was a very simple and clear-cut way to “wake up,” instead of years doing tedious exercises that produce little benefit.
And if I were one of the elite, I would be doing exactly what Jeff Wells thinks Maurice Strong is doing: trying to crash industrial civilization and funding eco-communities to survive it.
July 15th, 2005 at 4:35 pm
That’s hilarious, because I was going to actually say that I thought you would do what Maurice is apparently up to. I’m really curious to find other “elites” who have that as their agenda too. I never considered until earlier this week that there must be people in power who think the same shit we do, but just have access to more money and influence to make it happen.
July 15th, 2005 at 4:38 pm
“We must not allow a mineshaft gap!”
The truth is ineffable, and far more bizarre and wonderful than conceptual thought can approach.
July 15th, 2005 at 5:15 pm
I was listening to Pinback’s Tres about four minutes ago and, personally, I’d really like to find out more about 27 means.. I think it’s gonna change the world..
July 15th, 2005 at 8:01 pm
I wish that De-evolution were 100% scientifically true. I know, I keep bringing it up to you in these comments, but it’s such a wacky, pataphysical take on all things scientific that I can’t resist.
I was writing an online novel on the ol’ blog about an imaginary group called Council Corp, who use sound frequencies to manipulate world events. Therefore, if I were a multi-millionaire, I’d be doing just that. The Cold War-era Soviets made huge scientific leaps and bounds in the area of sound and vibration, without the kind of money that the U.S. had during the same time period. Leon Theremin figures largely in that legend.
The online novel is unfinished.
July 15th, 2005 at 8:07 pm
Bored to death of:
- JFK
- satanic ritual abuse
- illumianti, trilaterals,bildernbergers, Freemasons, ad nauseum
- anything involving Malachi Martin
- 2012
True but not excited by
- election theft
- 9/11
- cia mind control
excited by
- superstring theory, the many world interpretation of quantum physics, etc
- the triune brain theory as an explanation for atavistic human behaviors
- any kind of alternate fringe scientific theory about origins, eg the Aquatic Ape scenario, the idea that evolution is propelled by showers of extraterrestrial viruses, etc
July 15th, 2005 at 8:42 pm
I’m right on with rev max.
On that note, I am a big fan of the End of Days. Bring on the inferno, bitch! So either 2012-12-21 is gonna bring some sort of peculiar event — perhaps subtle, perhaps not — or that mother is going to reign some sweet-ass hellfire down as the sky opens up and the legions pour forth to devour human souls.
At least it’d give us something to do…
July 15th, 2005 at 9:07 pm
If You Are Not A Conspiracy, Whose Reality Are You?
I must admit, I’m a sucker for a good conspiracy theory. In general, I believe most people can’t keep their you know what together enough to conspire to have lunch together, let alone to run the world. But I love…
July 15th, 2005 at 11:01 pm
i would like it very much if david bowie were actually an extradimensional entity.
i pretty much am all for anything that explodes consensus reality.
i like the theory that dolphins are actually more intelligent and evolved than we are.
July 16th, 2005 at 2:02 am
The only problem with what maurice strong is doing, is the part where he’s made the price of admission living in his personal new age paradise of kabbalah water and crystal channeling. And I imagine he’s not gonna invite too many poor folks.
Ong’s hat is my personal favorite conspiracy. I’d love to be kicking it in my own personal parallel earth, man. Too bad it was delibrately manufactured, alas. It was fun while it lasted, and that was the point i think.
July 16th, 2005 at 4:02 am
Wow, pataphysics - as Obi Wan would say “I haven’t heard that name in a long long time”
My fave conspiracies are the ones that aren’t really conspiracies - just alternate explanations for things we take for granted that are so fucking freaky they rattle yer brain cage a bit.
Anything with a date or an actual historical event attached to it - or anything that has to do with politics - seems like a door that opens into paranoia and useless pattern formation
So aliens killed JFK or whatever. So what? WHat does that tell me about human life? How will that make me a more spiritual person, a more powerful sorceror, a better lover, a wittier guest at cocktail parties etc?
useless information. I’d rather ponder whether life on this planet is the accidental byproduct of the garbage left behind after some extraterrestrial picnic
July 16th, 2005 at 4:22 am
Nice call, Ong’s Hat/Incunabula was a good one.
July 16th, 2005 at 7:09 am
the electro-magnetic theory of the universe, though not a conspiracy, is interesting if for no other reason that it sends nasa and the rest of the science community into spasms at the mention of it`s name. see www.jmccanneyscience.com for lucid explainations of astrophysics.
July 16th, 2005 at 11:45 am
and http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~panugant/downloads/chineese.wmv is totally off topic but beautiful to watch…………..enjoy.
July 16th, 2005 at 12:05 pm
i have been impressed by such things as david price’s essay “energy and human evolution” and “is it the future yet?” by jeff wells. wells’ work on maurice strong is interesting.
i would like to know what the plans are to manage or otherwise influence the dieoff.
July 16th, 2005 at 1:32 pm
Zac:
If you were building a secret hideaway, you wouldn’t invite poor people off the street either. And don’t try to tell me you would. You would invite your friends, family and people you trusted.
July 16th, 2005 at 4:46 pm
That all of time is presently accessible through our information overload in a McLuhan sense. Because that means my theories of us being able to time-travel by simply imersing ourselves with the information we have into a state of mind (ala Remote Viewing) of those percieved times (past-present-future) are as “real” as being in that perticular time frame.
Second, if you were a member of the rich and powerful elite pulling the strings from behind the scenes, which conspiracies would you take part in?
Whatever point they are at with respect to psychic experiments, to put in my two cents…
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