RE: Conspiracy Theories
January 22, 2010 at 1:18 am
(This post was last modified: January 22, 2010 at 1:18 am by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
(January 21, 2010 at 5:50 pm)Meatball Wrote: The JFK shooting was shifty as fuck, but other than that I think it's almost always just cases of bad/incomplete info blown out of proportion.
Unless it's total batshit stuff like reptilian rulers and mind-controlling water supplies. That's just wack.
The JFK was my favourite,because I was convinced for years there was a conspiracy. I still don't know for a fact,but am a lot less dogmatic about the issue.
It took me many years to realise my position was in classic conspiracy theory fruitcake territory.IE argument from personal incredulity. My main argument was: Oswald could not possibly have acted alone.---BECAUSE I was rated marksman with a 7.62 semi automatic rife AND I could not have taken those shots with that weapon and a scope in that time. THEREFORE,Oswald could not have done it with an inferior bolt action weapon. My logic was flawed. The correct answers is; difficult ,but doable for a trained sniper. ( a sniper is a marksman,but a marksman is not necessarily a sniper; I was not)
The only questions which still bother me are (1) the so called 'magic bullet',and that(2) one the hits seems to come from the opposite direction of the other.BUT not only do I not have access to all of the evidence, I am not competent to assess all of it. That also seem to be the case with most conspiracy theorists,whose theories tend to be based on a combination of ignorance ,hearsay and supposition,not evidence.