Are All “Conspiracy Theories” Weird?

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• GM

  • 3 years ago

  BTW I don’t know if you have read anything about “bitchute” ... but originally seeing where this was hosted made me all the more suspicious when I first received it. Here’s Wikipedia on “bitchute”:

  BitChute is a video hosting service founded in 2017. It was created to allow video uploaders to avoid content rules enforced on other platforms, such as YouTube. The platform accommodates far-right individuals and conspiracy theorists; with the Southern Poverty Law Center saying the site hosts "hate-fueled material". Some creators who have been banned or had their channels barred from receiving advertising revenue ("demonetized") on YouTube have migrated to BitChute.

• GM

  • 3 years ago

  I guess my point is the above pours even more “water on the sacrifice”, so to speak! lol!

  For further irony, at least to my way of thinking, it was me happening to see an article on Fox News *denouncing* this whole “conspiracy theory” that actually got me interested in checking out this article that I had been sent (but never tuned in to)!

• CH

  • 3 years ago

  This is the same video that's been going around here, too ... probably everywhere. It's an interesting take on the 5G theory, but I think this guy's logic has some big holes in it, as does his research, or lack of it (he doesn't really document his statements and allegations). And he skips over other elements of the Coronavirus issue that have been documented, but which don't fit into, or disprove, what he's saying. Is it a case of "if you pound hard enough a lot of people will believe you?"

  I think an article SD sent from The Verge (https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/9/21214750/5g-coronavirus-conspiracy-theories-radio-waves-virus-internet) makes a strong statement disputing the 5G-Coronavirus connection, as did the previous Reuters article (https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-coronavirus-5g/false-claim-5g-networks-are-making-people-sick-not-coronavirus-idUSKBN2133TI).

  I don't know, but my personal opinion is that I'd encourage folks to give their time and attention to stuff like the answers John Lennox gave during his interview with Michael Ramsden posted under the Devotionals tab (Where Is God in a Coronavirus World?).

• GM

  • 3 years ago

  This guy’s theory on COVID and 5G is in many ways neither here-or-there, IMO.
  I guess what struck me most is that this fellow, whoever it is that is doing the talking, seems to represent a Christian undergrounder who is “aware of the devil’s devices” and anti-Christ plan, and appears to be working with others to counter it. Plus alluding to the possibility that the chip/Mark of the Beast could be contained in the vaccine the whole world is anxiously awaiting. All this kind of brought “the End-time” into a closer timeframe somehow.
  Guess it made me self-analyze if I was still “discerning the signs of the times” or being lulled asleep by the deception of the society in which I live, part of the very elect who could be possibly be deceived, etc. In any case,“Knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep.” Romans 13:11

• CH

  • 3 years ago

  Good point, GM. I hadn't looked at it that way and how news like this brings the framework of EndTime events closer. That's a good thing. I guess my question then pertains to a Christian, maybe even inadvertently, giving themselves to something that (to me) is highly suspect ... the three fingers pointing back at me are some of the predictions I used to preach. :-)

  While on the subject of conspiracy theories, here's an article someone just sent from the Fort Russ News website (hadn't heard of them before): https://www.fort-russ.com/2020/04/robert-f-kennedy-jr-exposes-bill-gates-vaccine-dictatorship-plan-cites-gates-twisted-messiah-complex/

• DH

  • 3 years ago

  I believe that this CV pandemic is real. It isn’t caused by 5G but perhaps possible that 5G weakens the immune system somewhat. I don’t know how CV got started and I don’t think that is all that important. Sure, if China released it on the world, or the US released it on China, or that it is all engineered by the WHO, or some such that would be important to know. But I believe the fact that it is rampant now is real and hard to dispute.

  However, I think it is becoming more and more evident that “they” are going to use it to put more and more control on individuals. I don’t know who “they” are, but I think it is pretty obvious that it’s happening and has happened. Who would have thought 2 months ago that it would be possible to bring the whole world economy to a virtual standstill and to get almost every country around the world to move in lockstep?

  I don’t really think that it is a Democrat vs Republican, a liberal vs conservative, a left vs right, a Christian vs whatever thing. There probably are elements of all of that, because it is good to dived people, but everyone has surrendered their personal freedom and rights and I really wonder how much of it will ever be regained? Probably none.

• CH

  • 3 years ago

  DH, I agree with you. I think you pegged it just right!

• DH

  • 3 years ago

  Just curious CH, what is your take on Viktor Orbán and his taking pretty much complete power in the wake of CV?

• CH

  • 3 years ago

  That's the question of the day ... maybe a sort of foreshadow of things to come? So far it's okay. The affects of the virus have been pretty well contained due to how the government's handled it, so so-far-so-good, some, but not many huge restrictions. From my distant perspective some folks think it's too dictatorial, others don't care because it's been pretty good and he's taking pretty good care of the country--maybe sort of like a benevolent dictator? The big question is what'll happen afterwards, when the "need" for total control has passed. Let's revisit the topic then ... I could have a whole different outlook. heh