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[MERIT] 08-27-2018 06:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Exo (Post 1991356)
why does everything have to be a conspiracy with you?

Not everything is a conspiracy theory. But I like to discuss things that are. Like I said in another thread, it would be great for all involved if 99% of the conspiratorial things that I question turn out to be wrong.

Exo 08-27-2018 07:04 PM

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Originally Posted by [MERIT] (Post 1991368)
Not everything is a conspiracy theory. But I like to discuss things that are. Like I said in another thread, it would be great for all involved if 99% of the conspiratorial things that I question turn out to be wrong.

I didn't mean it to be confrontational or judgmental. I'm glad you hope that you're wrong about it all. Discussing things is one thing but I feel a lot of people, sometimes yourself, take things WAY too far into left field with some of these theories of what is really going down. I'm not that much of a sheep either. I'm fully aware of the kind of dirty awful things governments/organizations, ours to the umpteenth degree, have done in the past. I just think it's unhealthy to think there's always a man behind the curtain trying to f*ck people.

Not to mention that countless people I've met who claim the government is lying to us and to not believe what you read. I ask them where they came to that conclusion and they point to Youtube and a user named frostedflakes89

Oriphiel 08-27-2018 07:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Exo (Post 1991370)
I just think it's unhealthy to think there's always a man behind the curtain trying to f*ck people.

*checks behind shower curtain*

Guy with hockey mask and a combover: Yo.

*closes shower curtain*

Yeah, no, he's definitely still there.

[MERIT] 08-27-2018 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor (Post 1991372)
my roommate is on the fluoride in tap water is mind control train

Fluoride is extremely bad for you, and it is added to most public water supplies. It has zero health benefits, which leads many to conclude that it is added for nefarious reasons.

Your roommate is gonna shit his pants when he learns about atrazine.

Oriphiel 08-27-2018 07:26 PM

Omg, Merit is that one dentist out of every ten that disapproves every product.

Chula Vista 08-27-2018 10:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Oriphiel (Post 1991379)
Omg, Merit is that one dentist out of every ten that disapproves of every product.

Cut him some slack. It's actually always 4 out of 5.

grindy 08-27-2018 11:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Exo (Post 1991359)
Maybe.My friend does this too. Although not as passionate and "informed" as our bud Merit. He's always the first one to offer another theory on something even when it's pretty cut and dry what happened. I think it's an urge to be different than others. My friend is a great musician and a decent artist. He's always trying to be unique and throw out a perspective that he can really only call his own. That and an overwhelming urge to be correct all the time. It's almost like an inferiority complex.

If you have to constantly stand up and shout "I'm special", well, how special are you?

It's also out of fear of a chaotic and uncontrollable world.
It's way more calming to think that everything bad happens because of THEM than admitting that the world is ****ed up and complex and the reason for its ****tiness is often the sum of everyone's individual ****tiness and there's not a lot we can do about it.

[MERIT] 08-28-2018 01:07 AM

Gulf of Tonkin

Operation Northwoods

Watergate

Pedogate

9/11

MK ULTRA

Roswell

Operation LAC


These events fail to ingrain trust in the U.S. federal government.

MicShazam 08-28-2018 01:27 AM

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Originally Posted by [MERIT] (Post 1991376)
Fluoride is extremely bad for you, and it is added to most public water supplies. It has zero health benefits, which leads many to conclude that it is added for nefarious reasons.

Your roommate is gonna shit his pants when he learns about atrazine.

As far as I know, fluoride is only harmful in concentrations so high you will only ever reach those level if you live in an industrially fluoride contaminated environment.

I know various places in Africa have problems with too high levels in ground water, which can potentially cause some side effects like brittle bones or something. Long time since I read about it, so you should Google the details for yourself.

MicShazam 08-28-2018 01:28 AM

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Originally Posted by [MERIT] (Post 1991376)
Fluoride is extremely bad for you, and it is added to most public water supplies.

If both of these statements were true (most water supplies, extremely bad for you), why aren't people dropping like flies?


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