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frogmarch

(12,153 posts)
1. Paranoia?
Sun Feb 28, 2016, 12:33 PM
Feb 2016

Within the past week, I’ve discovered that someone I’d considered a pretty close friend, and whom I’d admired and thought was highly intelligent, is a huge CTist. Here are a few of the CTs and other outlandish things he believes:

The moon landing was a hoax.

The Earth does not rotate; it’s stationary. (EDITED to change the "e" to "a." He doesn't think the Earth is writing paper. Thank goodness.)

Lee Harvey Oswald was a CIA-programmed assassin (as in the movie The Manchurian Candidate).

Most, if not all, serial killers are CIA-programmed assassins.

Most, if not all, children who disappear have been kidnapped by a vast pedophile sex ring whose members include high-ranking U.S. government officials and famous people from around the world.

Vaccines are loaded with mind-control chemicals, thanks to the U.S. government.

Chem trails.

ETs are among us.

There’s a good chance (he’s not sure yet) that Katie Perry is Jonbenet Ramsey.

Etc.

He resents being called a conspiracy theorist. He says he’s a Truth Seeker.

As Father Ted would say, Godalmighty.

Paranoia? frogmarch Feb 2016 #1
I enjoy a good CT. 99th_Monkey Feb 2016 #2
Yes, sometimes frightening. frogmarch Feb 2016 #3
I just found this CT'er that believes the Earth doesn't rotate cpwm17 Feb 2016 #4
gawdawmighty frogmarch Feb 2016 #5
I recommended this Opening Post... Jeffersons Ghost Mar 2016 #6
they all appear to be mystic and/or extraterrestrial related Fast Walker 52 May 2016 #7
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