moon landing hoax?

[Heir Apparent]

And the strange thing is that conspiracy theorists believe that we never went to the moon, but believe that Obama secretly teleported to Mars.

Haha, that's ridiculous. Everyone knows Obama is FROM Mars. Why else would he avoid the genuine birth issue?

[Captain Colostomy]

How the hell did a Nigerian born Muslim magically become John Carter? Anti-Christ powers?

[Angrboda]

I would agree with the analogy to religion on certain points. Like religion, conspiracy theorism is a self-contained, internally self-consistent and self-validating worldview. I've suggested in the past that it may even border on a thought disorder, but perhaps I was projecting because of my own biases in the same way that I might attribute dishonesty or stupidity to a religious person. In that sense, it's perhaps futile to challenge the worldview, for many reasons. And I'm not sure it's a useful goal. The beliefs themselves are really not important; perfectly sane people believe crazy or unsound things all the time, it's more the patterns of thought and the consequences for their social functioning and so on. And trying to change other people is usually a frustrating and unproductive exercise that can cause more problems than it solves. I don't know that I have a point here other than that it may be more useful, ennobling, and character building to learn to accept them as they are than to see them as a problem to be solved. (On the other hand, a fellow moderator turned out to be a truther, and I hardly get one sentence into a conversation with him before I start swearing like a banshee, so I certainly sympathize.)

[Anomalocaris]

And the strange thing is that conspiracy theorists believe that we never went to the moon, but believe that Obama secretly teleported to Mars.

Haha, that's ridiculous. Everyone knows Obama is FROM Mars.

Especially after the KGB Bugs Bunny fizzled the earth shattering kaboom Obama had meant for Syria.

[Something completely different]

It happened.

End of discussion.



And do me the favor of punching every conspiracy nut you meet in the face.

[CleanShavenJesus]

...but believe that Obama secretly teleported to Mars.

Who believes that?

Andrew D. Basiago and William Stillings.

[Captain Colostomy]

Who believes that?

Andrew D. Basiago and William Stillings.

Amazing coincidence that a future president just so happened to be a part of that. Yessss...

[Faith No More]

Andrew D. Basiago and William Stillings.

Well, fuck me. Just when you thought you'd fully probed the depth of human insanity, someone comes along to point out that you've only waded in.

At least conspiracy theorists give us clear cut evidence that people will believe in anything to use against religious people.

[Doubting Thomas]

...but believe that Obama secretly teleported to Mars.

Who believes that?

Google "Obama Mars."

[CapnAwesome]

The thing that drives me nuts about conspiracy theorists is that they disguise their gullibility as skepticism . Believing, against all evidence, that we didn't go to the moon isn't being skeptical. In fact you have to believe some very very very very very very very bad evidence with a total lack of skepticism to think something so stupid.