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Originally Posted by Monteroy
Bladesman,
Your posts as a genuine UFO person (a former believer turned skeptic) have been the interesting ones to read in this thread, but you are having a completely different discussion about the topic than Lucky, as he could care less about the alien side and just wants UFOs to be part of his secrete elite whatever controlling the masses belief structure.
That does make me wonder a bit of the dynamic between the genuine UFO believers (as you once were) and the imposters who use UFOs to forward their own conspiracy agenda. When you were going down the rabbit hole in the past as you mentioned - did you see this dynamic much, and if so - how did the genuine UFO people (who wanted to believe in aliens and perhaps the government hiding aliens) deal with the fake UFO people who just wanted to use UFOs to push their personal manifestos (that often times ignored aliens). Was there any divide between those groups? Did pure UFO people look down on the fakes, or did they accept them because the fakes still help talk about the topic in general, like we see in this thread.
Thanks in advance.
I'm not sure I was ever a true believer. I had my suspicions though and I was fascinated, but I probably would've done this exact same thing of if you tried to tie me to any [i]particular[i/] belief then I'd have backed off and said "No, no, I'm not convinced of that but in relation to all these other things I've got to be on to
something.
I'd hazard a guess and say most people are like that. It's how we form a lot of beliefs. We see patterns, we see the things that can't be explained, we have genuine reason to be sceptical of official narratives, we draw conclusions from inconclusive datasets.
Most people buy into some conspiracy at least a little bit. So most people in those groups are, outside of their pet CT, completely normal people. It's not unusual to find someone who has spent a ton of time reading on the Kennedy assassination but has no other weird beliefs. Or what we've seen over Epstein (not taking a position either way on that for this thread's sake). Or climate change sceptics. For the most part it's normal people.
Honestly, I wouldn't say it's a whole lot different to any other forum. There's a whole gamut of opinions, the bulk are somewhere broadly in the middle, and then tendencies further to each extreme. The difference is that the topics are bizarre in comparison. And, just like on here, getting anyone to actually their opinion is far from likely no matter how clear you think your reasoning is.
We live in a world where the US government once tried mind control experiments on people and then developed technology to strike people with drones. The Russians are poisoning journalists on British soil. Conspiracies really exist. It's tempting to dismiss people as crazy but people come to false beliefs all the time (see all those mutually exclusive religions, or the vast array of political ideologies). Conspiracy theories can be pretty crazy but you don't need to be crazy to buy into one.
As for Lucky, all I'm trying to get him to see is that he wants to say something is "diferent" but that's a statement that can only have any meaning as a comparison to something else. But he doesn't even know what he wants to compare and he certainly doesn't have any idea of the past to compare it to. In terms of whether I think it makes him stupid or crazy, it doesn't. He's had his lizard brain activated and now he's deeply suspicious, and it can be very difficult to shake that off.