If we are down to guessing what his questions are and what his probable answers might be, then I don’t know what more can be done. Maybe if he joined up and asked us directly, we could help him?
edited to add: In what area of expertise is he really, really smart?
Admit it: You just want another multi-dozen-page poke-the-yahoo thread about what’s otherwise a mostly-dead conspiracy theory. 
He can’t be that smart if he doesn’t know how to use the past participle.
It would certainly be more entertaining than this “debate-by-proxy” going on here.
Mildred! Hand me my special poking stick!
The reader comments on that article are giving me a headache.
Common fact: Office fires melt steel.
It doesn’t seem to be reaching from here.
The theories I’ve heard said that a pretext was needed to do what Bush REALLY wanted, which was go to war with Iraq. More destruction, more pretext. As if either Bush ever needed a pretext for war.
Checking a list of the occupants (tenants) of WTC7 might offer an explanation to a conspiracy theorist
Checking the list of ingredients in Cracker Jacks might offer an explanation to a conspiracy theorist
I found a Coupe de Ville in there once.
There’s also an anti-Semitic angle to the WTC7 conspiracy. Larry Silverstein is the one who told the firefighters to “pull it” and apparently this is secret Jewish conspiracy code for “demolish my evil headquarters so that the evidence will be destroyed and I can collect a fat insurance cheque in the meantime.”
Now when Larry said “pull it” he probably meant “enough firefighters have died today and I don’t want any more dying trying to save a building that looks like it is about to collapse entirely of its own accord.” But since everything around him was on actual fucking fire that day he settled for the more succinct version.
However, the man is Jewish so if he’s anywhere near a tragedy there are dirtbags out there who want to find ways to blame him for it.
Well, yeah, he did. That pretext didn’t rely on 9/11, though. It was just claiming Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.
The war from 9/11 was the one on Afghanistan. And what purpose did that serve, if there was no Taliban attack?
Impossible! I have it on good authority that there ain’t any hiding at the bottom of that box.
He’s in IT.
And a very good musician.
I hope you don’t blame me for that. I had one question, this is mostly a thread where I’m answering questions about a guy I know.
I’ve already said they can close the thread and that “he’s too far gone”.
Everything’s helpful in holding my own In a discussion with him, but I got out what I set to get.
Ben Carson is also a very smart guy, and he thinks the pyramids were grain silos. So clearly just being smart doesn’t make one any less likely to engage in illogical thinking.
Wow. Just…wow. I’m perfectly willing to entertain a good conspiracy theory but this one-that 9/11 was an inside job by our own government-just doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. There is no evidence AT ALL that it didn’t happen the way we’ve been told. None.
OMG, so 9/11 was CHUCK BERRY?! :eek: