Why Is Conspiracy related to Paranoia?

Discussion in 'Paranoid?' started by Angel_Headed_Hipster, Apr 9, 2006.

  1. Angel_Headed_Hipster

    Angel_Headed_Hipster Senior Member

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    Why do people relate paranoia and conspiracy together? Conspiracy researching is just like any other legitimate political study...it isn't paranoia.
     
  2. themnax

    themnax Senior Member

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    people 'conspire' with each other all the time. it's generaly called 'networking'.
    it is indeed absurd to discredit the likelyhood, even possibilty of 'palace intrigues' involving people doing so.

    where reasonable doublt comes in is when anyone claims to know and have traced ALL the POSSIBLE connections. it would litteraly take a god, or one hell of a great computer to do that.

    but to know that something is afoot. well something is always afoot. and so called concervatives, i'm talking 'neo-cons' here, not real conservaties, whoever and what ever if anyone they might actualy be, WANT you nation to have powerful enimies, because they know, that without them, no one in their right mind would ever even consider voting for them.

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  3. DarkLunacy

    DarkLunacy Senior Member

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    Its paranoia based on the belief that facts are inacurate mis-representations. For example.... There is a possiblity that Kurt Cobaine did not 187 his own dumb self but more than likely he did. Chasing down a bunch of junkies who "knew" him and say he wouldnt have done that doesnt make it so. Listen to some JFK conspiracy theories such as "JFK was shot by the secret service men in front of the limo" and then ask yourself again. Goverment putting flu in the water is paranoia (but I believe it.) Most "theories" are the result of paranoid delusions...
     
  4. Angel_Headed_Hipster

    Angel_Headed_Hipster Senior Member

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    Yes those theories are good examples of "CONSPIRACY THEORIES" because there isn't much proof to back them up...saying JFK was shot by the secret service man in a swer, or the driver of his car is a conspiracy theory because it is a theory about what happened...but on the other hand if you approach the situation with questions...like "How could oswald have shot JFK if ballistics tests said he didnt even fire a rifle that day?" or "How come the parade route was changed just a day before to include a strange turn onto elm street going less than 10 miles an hour sorrounded by open windows when this is a direct violation of the most basic security codes that the secret service has", you still are branded a conspiracy theorist and paranoid when you are stating no theory...you are just stating the official story is full of holes and you want to know what really happened. How is that paranoid?
     
  5. DarkLunacy

    DarkLunacy Senior Member

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    Its not. But when you start talking about Roswell and secret societies... It seems like your a little out there
     
  6. Angel_Headed_Hipster

    Angel_Headed_Hipster Senior Member

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    Roswell i'll agree...but you think it's paranoia for people to look up secret societies like skull and bones? MANY young yale graduates who attended that society have gone to be VERY successful politicians...that seems to coincidental to me.
     
  7. Green

    Green Iconoclastic

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    Paranoid people or people with a paranoia personality disorder interpret the actions of others as threatening to themselves.

    There is plenty of real things to be paranoid about in this world. You don't need to make up far fetched impossible to prove conspiracy theories to be scared. There are certainly some true conspiracy theories, and there are people who aren't paranoid who believe false conspiracy theories.
     
  8. joo kyle

    joo kyle thisandthat

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    becuase if paranoia gets called a consipericy it get's shrugged off.
     
  9. trippedelia

    trippedelia wow

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    because if conspiracys get called paranoia is gets shrugged off
     
  10. prismatism

    prismatism loves you

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    the linking between paranoia and conspiracies is in itself another conspiracy
     
  11. Grim

    Grim Wandering Wonderer

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    There is no such thing as paranoia, dude. The very word itself is just a big conspiracy meant to make conspiracy theorists look bad.
    *Solemn nod*
     
  12. prismatism

    prismatism loves you

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    fear in general is a conspiracy tactic, a way to control and make people do things that are in no way beneficial to themselves
     
  13. themnax

    themnax Senior Member

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    fear and cooperative effort are both natural. associating them with each other is itself a tool of those who wish to manipulate others.

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