We know from the astronauts who landed on the moon, and every one at NASA who built the equipment and conducted the mission, tracking the spacecraft as they went to the moon and landed on it. There are thousands of people who watched the spacecraft launches in person, was that just some magic trick? And we have moon rocks and photographs and video of men on the moon. Was the Soviet Union in on the conspiracy? They didn’t claim it was a hoax. Was that because they were in on the whole thing because they were our good buddies? And you can reflect a laser off the moon because we left a mirror up there, or is that just because of some random space mirror that landed on the surface of the moon?
Honestly, he would have to admit he doesn’t believe the earth is flat - this is a man who served as a meteorologist on an aircraft carrier on multiple overseas deployments…yeah, I know…he’s generally pretty easy going, personable and engaging, but, in his videos, he ramps up his personality to convey the message in a well-delivered, concise and well-reasoned way using their crazy sense of reasoning so that, if a well-informed person would watch, they would simply dismiss him as just a silver-tongued snake oil salesman…but, to the true believers, he’s a priest, he’s someone to follow, they send adoring comments and e-mails, and drive up his subscribers (and YouTube ad revenue, LOL)…
If there is a derangement, it’s his need to be followed and lauded, he’s not a narcissist, but after two bad marriages, we think it fills some emptiness in his life, he’s good at being the smartest guy in the room full of morons, honestly, if he was an evil person, he’d make a pretty good cult leader…
In my wife’s family, they see it as harmless, they’ll tease him but not too far, they generally just avoid it, sometimes not fighting ignorance is an okay way of keeping the peace in the family, sometimes people make the choice to be ignorant and they have that right…
Deranged? I guess…willful obfuscation as a path to emotional fulfillment, that’s his derangement…if he starts talking about having to meet the mother ship, then we’ll have an intervention…
Oh, that was hysterically funny! Best laugh I’ve had in weeks!
And Australia was in on it?
And Canada was in on it?
And the Soviets were on on it?
And the UK?
And every other nation with radio telescopes?
And 400,000 plus people who have clammed up to-date?
Wow.
It’s a sad symptom of the paranoia sweeping this country.
Some of the public doesn’t trust anything anymore. The media, government, their church, nobody. The web fuels paranoia and distrust like gasoline on a campfire.
Every time a major news event happens, there’s deniers and truthers out there saying it’s a manipulated hoax.
Did you see the one where the guy put a carpenter’s level in the luggage compartment above his seat with his cell phone camera filming it and then used this to prove the earth was flat?
His clearly not being a malignant narcissist, does not automatically make him not a narcissist. Messing with people in a supposedly nice way, is still messing with people. I don’t want to meet him. I don’t say he’s dangerous, but for myself I wouldn’t bet against his being dangerous.
It’s not paranoia. It’s gullibility. Millions are not hallucinating, millions are not believing that their neighbour is secretly a lizard. Instead, they are believing exactly two very simple lies (the two lies fit together) from neoconservative politicians:
- You are being lied to by “the media” and “the state”.
- I’ll save you.
Note that both are necessary, and note that both are lies.
Film director Stanley Kubrick admitted to directing and managing the fake. But he was such a perfectionist that he insisted in filming on site.
The only conspiracy theorist I know personally is such because he refuses to believe what’s in front of his eyes: he can’t believe burning jet fuel softens support beams so he thinks the World Trade Towers were rigged for demolition; he can’t believe people would behave as those in the Trump Administration behave or that you would tolerate it so he thinks everything about it from the campaign rallies and election results on up is all a put-on. By whom? Goldman Sachs, of course.
He thinks moon-landing conspiracy nuts and flat Earthers are full of beans. Go figure.
Now that’s funny. Especially since I just read the recent book about filming 2001.
Your GP doesn’t CALL it child abuse, it IS child abuse. Of other people’s children as well as their own.
I’m guessing that the two “bad marriages” have been heavily edited for your consumption, and that the truth of what happened in them was vastly unbelievably different from anything you’ve ever heard. And I’m guessing that a lot more goes on behind the scenes than you’ll ever hear about, to keep him appeased. Probably those closest to him are quite used to being held to ransom by his crazy, and it sounds as if they just accept that this is how things are.
Emphasis mine.
David, please stop thread shitting on a thread that is about lunar landing deniers - I simply offered up my BIL as an example of the type of person that contributes to these types of harmless CTs…people want to deny that the lunar landings ever occurred, so be it…people want to think the earth is flat, OK, so what?
People have a right to an ignorant opinion that has no bearing on the life, liberty or pursuit of happiness of anyone else…it doesn’t mean they are deranged or dangerous as you have stated about him - you know nothing of my BIL other than the few paragraphs I offered…
You know nothing of my BIL’s marriages, but you’re more than willing to guess, you know absolutely nothing about what happened “behind the scenes”, but you are more than willing to guess…“vastly unbelievably different from anything you’ve ever heard”…Really?? Yeah, ah, um, wow…no.
“Probably those closest to him are quite used to being held to ransom by his crazy,”, is not only a bit nonsensical, we get your point, but it’s truly insulting - this just exemplifies your utter lack of knowledge of my BIL’s life and the family members around him…stop…look up at the banner in the far left, it says, “Fighting Ignorance…”, not “Spouting…”
I didn’t post a thread entitled, “DavidwithanR, Please Psychoanalyze My BIL”, so stop derailing this thread with your suppositions of situations where you have absolutely minimal knowledge and that are not relevant to the OP.
Okay, DavidwithanR and betterlifethroughchemistry, I think you both need to drop discussion of the BIL and move on. It has become a hijack at this point.
And betterlifethroughchemistry, please just report a post if you feel someone is threadshitting. Thanks.
Oh, no. Not Australia.
Why would you bring in a comment on a fictional place?
You should know perfectly well that no flat-earther believes Australia is real.
Must point out, the neocons are just as much a derided part of “Them” these days.
I think there are some people who just believe that they’re “smart” for rejecting the official story and believing the “real truth” of the conspiracy theory.
You, personally, can go and buy a powerful enough laser and telescope and, on your own time, bounce the laser off the moon. When you hit one of the manmade retro reflectors that we put there, you’ll have your own proof that we’ve been there. If you still don’t believe it, you’ll have to add the telescope and/or laser manufacturer to the people in on this CT.
Granted, the cost to buy/rent this equipment is probably out of the range of most civilians, but the technology is there and in use.
Just to be clear, those videos are being suggested to you 100% because you’re watching them. You’re also providing those content creators with additional views (and money if they’re monetized) each time you watch them. If you like watching them and want to watch more, that’s fine. If you don’t want them suggested to you, I’d suggest either logging out or going to private/incognito mode to watch them.
It will be interesting what they say as the moon is colonized and the Apollo landing sights become tourist attractions.