Any Conspiracy Experts?

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And the gobbuluns’ll gitcha ef ya don’t watch out!

This is what the Bible says about conspiracies:

Isaiah 8:12
"Do not call conspiracy everything that these people call conspiracy ; do not fear what they fear, and do not dread it.

(BTW–do you believe everything you see and read on the internet? It’s the world’s greatest source of misinformation.)
 
okay that was pointless. As complex as our worlds history is you can make a whole lot of stuff appear to be one way or another and the I net is a perfect place to spread it around because there are no fact checkers.
 
I’ve seen David Icke. He’s a nut-case. He believes that certain people in the world, and this crosses all sorts of groups, change form into 12-ft reptiles and, if I am not mistaken, eat babies. Both Bill Clinton and Queen Elizabeth are said to be in this group (the Illuminati) which tends to be comprised of world leaders.

Nibiru is something else, unrelated, but also most likely imaginary. It’s supposed to be a planet from which people came to bring about life on our planet. They supposedly worked with existing humanoids and genetically engineered them into the human species of today. Very fanciful and without any scientific basis.

I don’t know about the other items mentioned in the OP.

You cannot possibly take this stuff seriously. It’s all nonsense. Just because something is on YOUTUBE doesn’t make it so. In fact I would venture a guess that if it IS on YOUTUBE it’s probably NOT so! 😃
 
youtube.com/watch?v=7Lr4mCcIh6s

What is this? Scared the living daylights out of me.
Fear not. This stuff is a bunch of nutty conspiracy theories with virtually no evidence to back it up.
David Icke
This guy is really on the fringe. Most of his ideas are so nutty they are often not worth the time to debunk. He makes outrageous claims and offers no evidence or proof of any significance. Really, don’t let this guy scare you.
This is a part of Babylonian mythology, a place in the heavens, if I am not mistaken. I think a man by the name of Sitchin has proposed it is actually a distant planet, based on some faulty and/or questionable research on his part. His theory about Nibiru is viewed as pseudoscience by actual scientists and academics.
Reptillians
There are a lot of different “theories” about Reptilian humanoids. Besides a few guesses by some legitimate scientists about what dinosaurs might have evolved into, these theories are crackpot theories supported by virtually no evidence.
the Illumanati
This is an alleged secret society that manipulates and ultimately controls the governments and corporations of the world. There’s no evidence of its existence. I wonder how this organization can wield so much power and influence and yet leave no discernable trail of any kind. It is not humanly possible for that kind of massive, extensive, and frequent cover up of the many far reaching conspiracies the Illuminati are allegedly behind.
Satanism is real, as evidenced by the existence of verifiable organizations and individual practitioners of this “religion.” If you’re interested, there are probably several excellent books on this subject by reputable Catholic authors.
Babylonian Astronomy?
That is exactly what the name implies, a form of astronomy that flourished in ancient Babylon. Some of its methods were later used by the Greeks. It was fairly scientific for its time. There is nothing ancient Babylonian astronomers discovered that modern astronomers would be unable to discover themselves. So I doubt there are any Earth shattering discoveries to be made by analyzing what we know of Babylonian astronomy.
 
I’ve seen David Icke. He’s a nut-case. He believes that certain people in the world, and this crosses all sorts of groups, change form into 12-ft reptiles and, if I am not mistaken, eat babies. Both Bill Clinton and Queen Elizabeth are said to be in this group (the Illuminati) which tends to be comprised of world leaders.
Hey. I have a pet Ball Python and an Asian Painted Frog. My daughter has several Bearded Dragons and a variety of frogs. I resent you lumping Bill Clinton in with these fine creatures. 😉

Gary
 
Hey. I have a pet Ball Python and an Asian Painted Frog. My daughter has several Bearded Dragons and a variety of frogs. I resent you lumping Bill Clinton in with these fine creatures. 😉

Gary
Well, I didn’t, David Icke did. So you’ll need to be resentful towards him. 😃
 
I think Mr. Icke spent alot of time with Timothy Leary, tuning in, turning on and dropping out.:eek:

He should check the leftovers in his fridge before he consumes them…😃 LSD in the making…

what a nut case…

reminds me of the “end of world” people scaring everyone about Revelations…
 
of course, anybody can be a conspiracy expert
George Bush did it
or, alternatively, Al Gore did it.
 
of course, anybody can be a conspiracy expert
George Bush did it
or, alternatively, Al Gore did it.
And the common denominator, at least for most, is that they write books and go on speaking tours, making millions from a public that seems to prefer conspiracy theories to reality.

The Sci-Fi channel is less expensive! 😃
 
I think a man by the name of Sitchin has proposed it is actually a distant planet, based on some faulty and/or questionable research on his part. His theory about Nibiru is viewed as pseudoscience by actual scientists and academics.
I have like a dozen Zecharia Sitchin books lying around here somewhere (thanks, grandma…). Haven’t cracked a single one open.
This is an alleged secret society that manipulates and ultimately controls the governments and corporations of the world. There’s no evidence of its existence. I wonder how this organization can wield so much power and influence and yet leave no discernable trail of any kind. It is not humanly possible for that kind of massive, extensive, and frequent cover up of the many far reaching conspiracies the Illuminati are allegedly behind.
The Illuminati really existed and really were a secret society. The past tense is important (they lasted about a decade). They were established in Europe in the late eighteenth century, a place and time in which you couldn’t swing a dead cat without hitting someone who’d swing one back at you, handjive for five minutes, and ask you for your secret decoder ring.
Satanism is real, as evidenced by the existence of verifiable organizations and individual practitioners of this “religion.” If you’re interested, there are probably several excellent books on this subject by reputable Catholic authors.
It’s a little more complicated than that. Most Satanists are Objectivists (as in Ayn Rand) with a taste for the theatrical. They’re atheists; if they worship anything it’s the self. They’re much more common than actual devil-worshipers. One of the latter posts here every now and again, very nice person.
 
The Illuminati really existed and really were a secret society. The past tense is important (they lasted about a decade). They were established in Europe in the late eighteenth century, a place and time in which you couldn’t swing a dead cat without hitting someone who’d swing one back at you, handjive for five minutes, and ask you for your secret decoder ring.
Yes, I should have mentioned there was an historical society by that name. If memory serves, it was founded in the 1770s in Bavaria. I’m drawing a sort of blank but didn’t it cease to exist by the late 1780s, after the rulers of Bavaria took a disliking to it?

I guess this is one of the ways conspiracy theorists add legitimacy to their claims. They pick a defunct, somewhat obscure historical group and claim it survives to this day. Dan Brown did it with the Priory of Sion, others have done it with the Knights Templar, etc.
It’s a little more complicated than that. Most Satanists are Objectivists (as in Ayn Rand) with a taste for the theatrical. They’re atheists; if they worship anything it’s the self. They’re much more common than actual devil-worshipers. One of the latter posts here every now and again, very nice person.
Yeah, there are quite a few different varieties of Satanism. I was once read the Satanic Bible. I noted some similarities between LaVeyan Satanism and Objectivist ideas. There are a lot differences even among the more theistic Satanists. Not all of them believe they’re worshipping Satan as depicted in Scripture. Still, I’m sure there is a book or two out there that covers the subject of Satanism, in all its varieties, from a Catholic perspective.
 
Yes, I should have mentioned there was an historical society by that name. If memory serves, it was founded in the 1770s in Bavaria. I’m drawing a sort of blank but didn’t it cease to exist by the late 1780s, after the rulers of Bavaria took a disliking to it?
Yeah, that’s about how it went down.
I guess this is one of the ways conspiracy theorists add legitimacy to their claims. They pick a defunct, somewhat obscure historical group and claim it survives to this day. Dan Brown did it with the Priory of Sion, others have done it with the Knights Templar, etc.
The Maltese Falcon was a great movie 😉 Another favorite is the Rosicrucians, although there are modern Rosicrucians and spinoff groups – but their connection to the original bunch is rather tenuous. And let’s not forget the Bohemian Grove!
Yeah, there are quite a few different varieties of Satanism. I was once read the Satanic Bible. I noted some similarities between LaVeyan Satanism and Objectivist ideas. There are a lot differences even among the more theistic Satanists. Not all of them believe they’re worshipping Satan as depicted in Scripture. Still, I’m sure there is a book or two out there that covers the subject of Satanism, in all its varieties, from a Catholic perspective.
The major ones, maybe, but there are so many flavors out there cataloguing them would just be a waste of time.
 
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