Superman wrote:Get help if you have mental problems. If you're in college, you can get it from the campus. There are always options.
Thank you for your concern. I am getting psychological and psychiatric help from the VA. I am making improvements, but they're coming along at a snail's pace.
Sometimes slow and steady does win the race.
Talk to CplKendall. I know he had a long haul before he reached a breakthrough in his therapy.
Nitram, slightly high on cough syrup: Do you know you're beautiful?
Me: Nope, that's why I have you around to tell me.
Nitram: You -are- beautiful. Anyone tries to tell you otherwise kill them.
"A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP" -- Leonard Nimoy, last Tweet
The really sad thing is that even if you could disabuse this guy of this particular conspiracy theory, he would simply latch onto another one. Conspiracy theories come from a certain mindset, and that mindset will always be amenable to new conspiracies.
PS. How do you tell a competent conspiracy theorist from an incompetent one? Answer: His tinfoil hat is grounded.
"It's not evil for God to do it. Or for someone to do it at God's command."- Jonathan Boyd on baby-killing
"you guys are fascinated with the use of those "rules of logic" to the extent that you don't really want to discussus anything."- GC
"I do not believe Russian Roulette is a stupid act" - Embracer of Darkness
"Viagra commercials appear to save lives" - tharkûn on US health care.
I've yet to try this on someone, and I don't know how it'd work (probably it wouldn't work on them unsinkable rubber duckies). But this is something I have wanted to ask conspiracy theorists for a while.
What's keeping the guy on the lowest rung from selling the story? Like the moon landings being fake - surely there was some janitor who thought somebody looked at him funny or got pissed off because he got fired for something that totally wasn't his fault (like sleeping on the job, or walking into the studio during filming). Or heck, maybe things were just fine, but wouldn't it be sweet to sell the story to a TV station and get some new cars?
It doesn't even have to be at the bottom. Maybe some doctor's gal or guy got taken by some other doctor who was also in on the scheme. What's to keep them from blowing the whole thing into the open for spite? Or a million other little things like end up causing leaks in real life (do-gooder wanting to blow whistles, idiot does something remarkably stupid while watching porn on company computers, etc).
I'm cynical enough to think that it probably won't work, but their responses might be humorous, and maybe it'd convince the ignorant fence-sitters.
DPDarkPrimus is my boyfriend!
SDNW4 Nation: The Refuge And, on Nova Terra, Al-Stan the Totally and Completely Honest and Legitimate Weapons Dealer and Used Starship Salesman slept on a bed made of money, with a blaster under his pillow and his sombrero pulled over his face. This is to say, he slept very well indeed.
Darth Wong wrote:PS. How do you tell a competent conspiracy theorist from an incompetent one? Answer: His tinfoil hat is grounded.
Somehow, I doubt a conspiracy theorist will know that a simple wire to ground will NOT ground a tinfoil hat when MHz to GHz frequencies are involved. That requires a proper waveguide/transmission line, and unless the guy's a good EE he's not going to know how to build or use one.
aerius: I'll vote for you if you sleep with me. Lusankya: Deal!
Say, do you want it to be a threesome with your wife? Or a foursome with your wife and sister-in-law? I'm up for either.
