Yay! I found the ol' conspiracy thread! Well I've got a new one ... this time regarding the Cho/VT shooting deal. Didn't really feel right about posting it in the VT thread, so I think this will do.

Following the VT shootings, we all saw the obligatory ?he played counter-strike? argument in the assessments of what caused him to do such a thing. Most notable of the deluded criers, ?school shooting expert? Jack Thompson. According to him and his reports, violent media influences young people to the point of carefully planning and executing a shooting rampage in their school. At first thought, unfortunately, this is an easy pill to swallow. It casts blame when who which should be blamed killed himself.

This tragedy got me thinking about the subject again? and while I?m already well-known for my ?violent media is a product of a violent society, nice visa versa? opinion, I believe there is now another dimension to it? What if games like counter-strike actually deterred Cho from lashing out at the world the way he did?

Jack Thompson, who is lucky I?m even mentioning his name for a second time, suggested that Cho was acting out a fantasy that was created while playing counter-strike. What I?m thinking, however, is that he already produced these fantasies? And that games like counter-strike not only catered to these fantasies, but appeased the possible urge to realize them. I mean, if I were a murderous psychopath, I?d love to play a game where one of the objectives is to kill people. To me, using the common ?blame videogames? logic, this conclusion makes just as much sense ? if not more.

Assuming I?m right, and he was using counter-strike to act out the fantasies that already dwelled in his messed up head, it would explain some of his other behavior. Did games like counter-strike influence his macabre writings like Richard McBeef? Did they cause him to stalk classmates? How about his fixation on the ?upper-class?? Especially in Richard McBeef, where there are strong sexual and incest themes, one can only find that he had problems long before his exposure to counter-strike.

Strangely enough, he wasn?t even playing counter-strike in the period leading up the shootings? He spent his time writing more than anything else. What if, in the absence of the appeasement of counter-strike, he finally realized the fantasy? That would literally mean that the violent media was keeping him from acting out on the real world. That may be a stretch, though.

doc, once again, http://wtc.nist.gov/pubs/factsheets/faqs_8_2006.htm

i created this thread to sport your own conspiracy theories. not some crackpot s**t you spend all day googling for. please gtfo of what was once a thread i was proud of.

You will never get me off of this thread unless you ban me. If you want me to shut up about 911, then ban me. Do what you must so that I won't keep jamming the truth about 911 down your throats. Ignore me. Ban me. But I will NEVER shut up about 9/11.

Read this from a review of Debunking 911 Debunking.

Review:

I declined a friend who begged me to read this book at least three times. I was vaguely aware that there were alternative conspiracy theories, other than the official one, that existed. Any time an alternate conspiracy theory was mentioned in casual conversating I "pfffffft" and chuckled.

Well, about a week ago, against what I thought was my good judgement, I buckled and promised my friend to read this book. I had thought that I'd just skim through it, leaving the TV on in the backround in case it's absurdity became too much to handle.

Well, I haven't put the book down, except for the 9 hours I'm at work during the day. My husband has been completely puzzled by my bookworm behaviour, as I'm not one to keep my nose in a book every free second I have.

Right now, as I write this, I honestly feel sick to my stomach. I've cried myself to sleep the last two nights. Why? Because this book has changed my mind on the events and aftermath of 9/11.

It's almost too much to handle all at once, all the revalations made by Mr. Griffin in this book. I feel like my mind has gone through a polar shift over the last 72 hours.

For over 5 years I've been blind. For 5 years I've been have been down-and-out lied to. Right under our noses, America was stolen by criminals. I'm infuriated, and don't know what to do with myself.

Reading this book was very much a life-altering event for me. I just hope enough people end up reading it. It could be the most important thing they ever do.

A least he is speaking his mind and beliefs. Hay Doc, my dad shares your oppinion to about 911. Let me ask you something, do you belive that man landed on the moon?

Does Aaron's dad burst into book club meetings, spewing 9/11 theory bulls**t? Or maybe he stands up in the middle of church service to do so? I bet my lunch money that he doesn't. Because most people, even 9/11 conspiracy theorists, have some sense of time/place for their rants.

Speaking your mind, I have no issue with.. Speaking someone else's mind every chance you get, no matter how inappropriate, I have an issue with. 90% of your posts are copy+pasted half-baked theories posted in unrelated threads. In this thread, for example, I deliberately examplified the 'fake moon landing' conspiracy theory as inappropriate -- but yet you felt the need to post anyway. wtfm8? Can you not read?

If you want to make your own thread, go right ahead. In fact, please do; I'd love to use my highschool-dropout common sense and limited knowledge of physics to debunk everything you bring to the table. (Again.)

I cant quite remember why he thinks this, but I remember he said to give america power or somthing. I remember him talking about it to me for like half an hour and me thinking (not saying I belive it at all!) that kinda makes sense.

And he dosent "burst into book club meetings, spewing 9/11 theory bulls**t? Or maybe he stands up in the middle of church service to do so? I bet my lunch money that he doesn't. Because most people, even 9/11 conspiracy theorists, have some sense of time/place for their rants." as bewbies said. He just keeps it to him self.

About the moon landing. I dont know mabye it was fake but in Australian TV they ran this program on April fools day where they explained all the things that made the moon landing fake : like the two things crono said and that there are no stars in the background. But then late at night they ran a program explaining that it was an april fools joke and that they explained why the flag was waving and all. Sorry O cant remember the reason.