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I am curious what peoples most wierd proported Conspiacy Theories.

One Conspiracy Theory I heard was from a person I used to work with. He told me that he had a friend who went down to look at Mayan temple carving and stated that they were no carved but molded. He made a big deal about it that the scientists are creating some sort of conpiracy and I really don't know how much even if it was true, it would make any practical theory. He was the type who believed the Biminany Road was Atlantis and I thried talking to him about Thera and he would never listen.
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Nobody knows where Atlantis was or even if it did exist.
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Montcalm wrote:Nobody knows where Atlantis was or even if it did exist.
I agree but just Thera at least existed as what seems like an intersting society and if "Atlantis" did exist, it is one of the better possibilities.
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Kitsune wrote:I am curious what peoples most wierd proported Conspiacy Theories.

One Conspiracy Theory I heard was from a person I used to work with. He told me that he had a friend who went down to look at Mayan temple carving and stated that they were no carved but molded. He made a big deal about it that the scientists are creating some sort of conpiracy and I really don't know how much even if it was true, it would make any practical theory.
Stupidest thing I've ever heard.

(edit) The Maya DID mold plaster a great deal, but what the hell was this guy trying to prove?
He was the type who believed the Biminany Road was Atlantis and I thried talking to him about Thera and he would never listen.
I watched a documentary that made a more convincing case for Hellice. A city that was destroyed by tsunami not too long before Plato. An event like that happening within recent times could easily be inspirational for a story like Atlantis, and it made more sense than Thera. Which, in and of itself, is a much more sensible idea than a "real" Atlantis.
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Well, one of my favourites is that Elvis shot JFK. Closely followed by Marilyn Manson (and his band) and the Spice Girls being one and the same.
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Frank Hipper wrote:I watched a documentary that made a more convincing case for Hellice. A city that was destroyed by tsunami not too long before Plato. An event like that happening within recent times could easily be inspirational for a story like Atlantis, and it made more sense than Thera. Which, in and of itself, is a much more sensible idea than a "real" Atlantis.
Do you know any good online sources or books for "Hellice"
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I told him he was an idiot. Still, if that did happen it would be cool. :wink:
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Kitsune wrote:
Frank Hipper wrote:I watched a documentary that made a more convincing case for Hellice. A city that was destroyed by tsunami not too long before Plato. An event like that happening within recent times could easily be inspirational for a story like Atlantis, and it made more sense than Thera. Which, in and of itself, is a much more sensible idea than a "real" Atlantis.
Do you know any good online sources or books for "Hellice"
Boy, did I spell that one wrong! :oops:

A page on Helike.

A nifty article on Modern Atlantis Myths in general. You might enjoy that site, I recommend it highly for debunking all manner of pseudo-historical quackery. :)
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I've seen some pretty good evidence that Atlantis was in Asia Minor. I believe the connection to Thera has been largely disproved, though Helike looks interesting. Honestly it seems like Plato just constructed it out of several legends floating around in the oral history of the time; or, it was completely true and entirely false at the same time.
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Kitsune wrote:I am curious what peoples most wierd proported Conspiacy Theories.
I've heard somebody claim that Kate Moss is in fact a Grey Alien. (she sure looks like one, but biologically she's still human. She's definately not a human-alien crossbreed, otherwise she wouldn't have gotten pregnant)
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Frank Hipper wrote:A nifty article on Modern Atlantis Myths in general. You might enjoy that site, I recommend it highly for debunking all manner of pseudo-historical quackery. :)
Modern Atlantis Myth, eh??

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Gary Busey's on I'm With Busey was a weird hodgepog. It began with the Atlantians having giant circuar construction vehicles that created the Pyrmiads at Giza. Then, the Egyptians try to enhance our life force by sending lasers from thde stunnels of the Pyrmaids towards heavrenly bodies. And it backfired because in the Bible we could live for 200 but now just for ninety. And then their is the Illumanti conspiracy.
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No one can find Atlantis because Plato was a total dick at measurements. :P
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They're not particularly weird, but they're certainly stupid...
  • The Apollo program was a hoax; man has never been to the moon; we just faked it to make the Russians look bad; the money actually funded secret government projects.
  • Scientists are engaged in a world-wide conspiracy to promote the false Theory of Evolution. Scientists in all fields participate in this massive ruse because they want to destroy religion.
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Captain Lennox wrote:Gary Busey's on I'm With Busey was a weird hodgepog. It began with the Atlantians having giant circuar construction vehicles that created the Pyrmiads at Giza. Then, the Egyptians try to enhance our life force by sending lasers from thde stunnels of the Pyrmaids towards heavrenly bodies. And it backfired because in the Bible we could live for 200 but now just for ninety. And then their is the Illumanti conspiracy.
250 actually.

But dude, it's Gary Busey. It must be true.
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neoolong wrote:
Captain Lennox wrote:Gary Busey's on I'm With Busey was a weird hodgepog. It began with the Atlantians having giant circuar construction vehicles that created the Pyrmiads at Giza. Then, the Egyptians try to enhance our life force by sending lasers from thde stunnels of the Pyrmaids towards heavrenly bodies. And it backfired because in the Bible we could live for 200 but now just for ninety. And then their is the Illumanti conspiracy.
250 actually.

But dude, it's Gary Busey. It must be true.
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My favorite is still that scientists of all disciplines tailor their discoveries to support evolution.
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There are several Atlantean type towns that have sunk into the sea and have turned into myth all over the world.

I think there's one that plato refers to once that some guy says he's founf, but noone can be arsed funding him.
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The Duchess of Zeon wrote:I've seen some pretty good evidence that Atlantis was in Asia Minor.
This guy seems convinced it was in Indochina.

There sure is a lot of material on that site. Anyone care to comment?

Looking at his resume, he seems to be a nuclear physicist. Strange hobby?
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Frank Hipper wrote:Boy, did I spell that one wrong! :oops:
A page on Helike.

A nifty article on Modern Atlantis Myths in general. You might enjoy that site, I recommend it highly for debunking all manner of pseudo-historical quackery. :)
I have watched a program (I think it was PBS Nova Episode) about Helike.

The other links are helpful as well. The person who I was discussing with also believed strongly in Edgar Casey stuff including a secret chamber under the Sphinx with the secret of the ages. I told him that they found a chamber under the sphinx and that ti was empty. He then stated that the secrets were written on the wall but I had read that the walls are blank.

The concept of Egypt seociety being started by some space race and it being 10,00 years old is selling humans short
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Master of Ossus wrote:My favorite is still that scientists of all disciplines tailor their discoveries to support evolution.
Not just evolution but all scientist will support the status quo
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Atlantis is off-topic for this thread. That is a silly myth, but it is not a conspiracy theory.

I have to agree that the various "scientific conspiracy theory" claims are the silliest. Arguing that scientists all strictly support the status quo when fame and fortune in science are derived from changing the status quo is simply ridiculous.
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One of the many conspiracy i`ve heard,is the unmarked black helicopters in the South West.
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