I have never had a significant problem with The Artist Formerly Known As ______, presently rejoicing in the username of Krispy Original. If I use the word “troll” of some of his OPs, it is with no pejorative context, simply that he is posting to provoke argument with a viewpoint he espouses, which is the definition I learned for cybertrolling but of which the majority of us have at one time or another been guilty.
Krispy is strongly openminded towards the “fringy” hypotheses, from extraterrestrial UFOs to government conspiracies. In some ways this is refreshing, when confronted (as it always is) by the hyperskepticism of many SDMB regulars.
I submit that it might be interesting to take as a jumping-off point what the world might be like if one of KO’s hypotheses were in fact proved to be true. I urge him to post one, more or less at random but perhaps something previously debated, and the rest of us explore the implications if that were in fact proven as fact.
Aspartame. Previously debated and you’re familiar with my views which are that it’s unheathful and that the link between Monsanto and the FDA is downright conspiritorial.
I’ve asked the question a couple of different times in a couple of different thread, but nobody has offered an answer:
Ou of all the food additives out there, why is it that a significant effort is being made to discredit it’s safety?..why pick so much on this one single additive?..makes me think that there is something there. Is it a conspiracy of a bunch of sugar plantation owners?..what gives?
OK, then by the postulate of my original post: It is clear that the FDA is getting payoffs from Monsanto. Does this conspiracy extend further? What other government agencies are extending favors for money to the companies they are supposed to be regulating?
Well, it is a fact that several high ranking employees of the FDA left the FDA for employment with Monsanto soon after the FDA approved Aspartame.
I thought that you were going to assume my theories were true and then study the implications…you know…like what would happen if tommorrow it is uncovered that yes, Aspartame is unhealthful and ordered pulled from the market and further it is discovered that FDA officials knew it was unhealthful and OK’ed it anyway in exchange for cushy Monsanto jobs…
Oh, that’s no fun, Krispy! If that one were acknowledged to be fact, we’d ban the stuff, Monsanto would pay a $1B+ legal settlement (sending the stock inexplicably higher, BTW), one or two former FDA guys would get offered up as scapegoats and we’d move on.
Choose something like “incontrovertible proof of extraterrestrial visitation” or “‘the New World Order’ guys actually built that monument in Georgia and have a plan to reduce population to 500,000,000” or “Governments are actually hiding trillions in assets.”
No one to limit myself to one topic, here is my rendition of “Krispy was Korrect”:
I would work across the street from Hartsfield Interplanetary Airport. The walls of my office building would be lead lined to guard against radiation leaks from the Boeing 787N fission craft.
The New World Order, after vanquishing the Illuminati in a bloody, secret global war, would be running the One World Government. We would be told only what they wanted us to hear, and I would be shot for typing this message. Don’t feel too sorry for me. If you’ve read this much, you’re next.
All psychics and clairvoyants would be quietly rounded up and eliminated, as they pose a real threat to the OWG. Don’t feel too sorry for them, either. They knew it was coming.
David B. and slythe would be killed, stripped naked, stuffed, and displayed in compromising positions in the Capitol Rotunda. The “Still Skeptical?” display, as it is popularly known, would be changed weekly by Curator Krispy’s personal staff.
KO would own all print, video and audio rights to the phrase “See, I told you so.”
The overwhelming majority of people have more than the average (mean) number of legs. – E. Grebenik
OK. Here’s something more fun. The ancient parchments that Jack Anderson claims that exist that state that God created other races of beings on other planets that have communication and transportation systems between them and that the earth is under quarantine due to the violent tendancies of the human inhabitants of earth…
OK, Krispy, I like that one. We find out that not only are there extraterrestrials, but that we somehow pissed them off and they’ve sent us to Coventry.
Well, you know what? Scrrrrrreeeeewww them! Humans don’t have to put up with that, especially angry American humans. The US, and perhaps other countries, would put a good 10-12% of GDP into the space program, and the existing Pentagon weapons budget would be re-deployed to develop appropriate zappers.
Within 20 years, we’d have the technology and ability (and certainly the will!) to head out into the cosmos to start kicking ass (or whatever they have) and taking names. Violent tendencies? Hah, we’ll show them violent tendancies.
The Bible is proven wrong - or at least woefully misdirected and incomplete - but ‘God’ is proven to exist?
The religious upset would be too much for 10-12% of the US GDP to be effective in developing space travel, IMO. “Proof” that God is anything but how we made him would upset many - including, I predict, those skeptics who would now find themselves forced by the evidence and by the nature of the opposition to be somewhat rabid religionists trying to convert Judeo-Christian counter-reformationists. In any case, even should we launch a fleet of Admiral Manhattan’s Avengers, they’d probably return after some time to find big, glowing holes all over the home world.
Well, if the Government (not to be confused with the current administration, I mean the REAL Government) would ever release the Roswell craft to private industry, we would have had the whole shebang back-engineered by now. The manhatten Project (was that name taken already?) would have our fleet of cruisers working at higher efficiencies and better armament than those wussy Greys.
You can’t mess around with humans-- we’re as nasty as rats and as tough to kill off as roaches. They will learn, as Pratchett said, that sometimes the “helpless” animal you have cornered turns out to be a mongoose…
Kids would have a much easier time in school.
Teacher:“Did you research your science project?”
Student:“Of course. I asked my little sister what she thought, and took extensive notes from the Bugs Bunny Show!”
Medicines would get on the market sooner.
FDA:“Don’t worry folks. This was thoroughly tested by asking people who like our products if they think it would work. Any dissenting views were tossed to preserve the purity of the product.”
And finally, multiple personality disorders would become fashionable. Right Con…Fantas…
Krispy?
