I just watching a great show called - Futurama (well not as good as Simpsons) but still good!
Well their take on the 1947 Roswell sightings in New Mexico is that it was the Professor and the crew stuck in a time machine who travelled back time and crash landed in Roswell and left Bender's parts behind. This of course is one of the many theories surrounding Roswell and UFOs and all the other conspiracies. Which of course led me to think why we are obsessed with conspiracies. Why with every event small or big a conspiracy theory is born. For example, the "real truth" behind man walking on the moon and Bermuda triangle and crop circles and the list continues. Of course the flat earth society can NOT be classed as a conspiracy theory...! I will not go there ....
One of the greatest conspiracies of our time is The Da Vinci Code. The best selling book of all time is The Bible and The Da Vinci Code is the 12th best selling book (still going), so see we have conspiracy theories for our religions as well!! Do you believe in The Da Vinci Code? Do you believe in Christianity? Do you believe in religion? Although I enjoyed the book a lot and there is riveting information in the book, I am still not entirely convinced that Jesus Christ is a mortal. I am willing to accept that it is one of the possibilities but i am not going to accept its the only possibility. Why? Perhaps because i refuse to accept that a faith that has kept my mother, grand mother and great grand mother alive all these years is a lie. Well lets just say I have good reasons to believe that its only ONE of the possibilities...
What is also interesting is why humans have this innate need to doubt everything they are told. Guess some of the great innovations of our times have come into being due to doubt and curiosity. But that aside, why do we come up with conspiracy theories? More importantly do conspiracy theories benefit us in any way? If not then why do we come up with them???
Your thoughts?
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hey! u seem to be really good at writing! :-) conspiracies... possibilities for some... entertaining for most! how do you go about finding a convincing explanation to certain things that you come across? Da Vinci Code... I haven't read the book but I have seen the movie. interesting? ...most definitely yes... truth? who knows! we are not gifted with perfect knowledge anyway... Life unravels new mysteries for us all the time... does it really change the past? In most cases, it doesn't. Its better to accept things that fall in line with the message that all religions intend to give us humans... conspiracies leading to major controversies... power struggles... as a matured society, we should think before we act or accept anything. Conspiracies... they do kick some minds into action! and who knows... some of them can give us new insights into things we dont have much knowledge about. curiosity... one tendency that has killed many cats! but then people believed cats had nine lives too! big deal if one got used up in finding something out! the bottomline is... you've got a mind... use it... think about and test what you choose to believe in... Life's a big game... play your moves right!! But dont forget to have some fun ;-)
very well written...and how true!
The world is filled with people who'd rather refute other people's faith than build their own.
and its always more interesting to come up with negativity than generate positivity it seems..
But faith is above all so why doubt that just because of some person's theory?
As far as conspiracies are concerned...i've learned to realise that while they make for good entertaining reading they possibly contain 10% reality which then gets twisted as the conspiracy theories deems fit (or the direction his imagination decides to run for those few minutes)
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