We have been arguing about the 9/11 conspiracy stuff in the Extended Discussion forum. I think conspiracy theories are a trip, and my favorite book is about the secret world government, the Illuminati. I love the stuff. However, as for where I stand in reality, I don't think the 9/11 conspiracy notion adds up. Here is a summary of where I stand on this whole thing.
Originally Posted by Universal Mind
If my government pulled that superhorrendous act, which really wigged me out personally and shook up almost all of the people I know and care about for a long time, making us worry our asses off about our country having to go to war, possibly a world war, and face future terrorist acts where tens or hundreds of thousands of Americans or more could be killed in single attacks, then HELL YEAH I want to know. That would be very huge. I'm not shutting out the possibility of it. I am asking questions to try to understand the concept better, and I get almost nothing but evasiveness and insults. Do you know what the conversation in the last few pages of this thread reminds me of? It reminds me of the Religion forum. I am talking to people who passionately spew out their extreme views, and when I ask the most relevant questions that can be asked, I get flipped off and avoided. I am not merely trying to cross examine people and back them into corners. I really want to understand the areas where I think the logic fails, just like I do with Christianity. This is just like arguing with Keeper and Jeremysr. Since the very interesting and extremely serious notion has been thrown at me like I am a bastard of the universe for not believing it, I want to know how airplane and airport staff were fooled into thinking there were pilots on those airplanes. I want to know why construction and demolition experts all over the world are not engaged in large scale chatter, or even small scale chatter, just trace chatter. The only evidence I see has to do with tiny minorities of experts and large masses of nowhere near experts saying stuff about how boards and beams should have fallen and how a few firemen heard a loud noise when what used to be the two tallest buidings in the world were in the process of collapsing, and how some of the information about our most serious national security issue of all time is classified. That doesn't cut it for me, so I have to ask questions. I want to know why my government would take such an INSANE risk in order to bring about an incredibly controversial war. I want to know why government officials have not leaked that they were involved in the biggest horror stunt of all time. Not one wife or best friend! I want to know who is leading the major terrorist organization our soldiers are fighting in Iraq if it's not Bin Laden and Al-Zawihiri. I want to know who Al-Zarqawi really was. I want to know who Khallid Sheik Muhammed really was. I want to know who all of those people in Guantanamo Bay and the Iraq POW camps are. This is the most insane conspiracy theory I have ever seen masses of people take seriously, outside of religion. I want to understand the idea in such a way that all of my doubts about it have been cleared up. But I don't get much more than evasions and insults about how closed-minded I supposedly am, when really I am begging for my mind to be filled with answers. I am not getting them. I am dealing with a religion.
So my biggest issues are...
1. Who was flying those airplanes? Who would have been willing to die for Bush's supposed conspiracy? If the planes were being flown by remote control devices, how were airport and airplane staff fooled into thinking they were human pilots? Remember, pilots talk to air traffic control, follow the signals of the flag guys on the runways who are looking right at them, and talk to and know the stewardesses. They also report to airport officials before flight. How could remote control devices pull off all of that?
2. Why do so many of the friends and family members of the victims report that they heard the hijackings taking place and heard from the passengers about the hijackings? Who could have possibly been pulling the suicide hijackings? Could remote control devices do that?
3. Why is there not an overwhelming amount of chatter and outspokenness from the masses of people who are demolition/construction experts? I am not such an expert, so don't try to pull me into an argument about how boards and beams should have fallen. The world is full of experts on that stuff, and I want to know why they are not going off about this in astronomical numbers. We are talking about the biggest news story of all time.
4. Who are/were Bin Laden, Al-Zawihiri, Al-Zarqawi, and Khallid Sheik Muhammed? Are they fictitious characters played by actors?
I have others, but those are the four biggest. I am very open to ideas on those issues, but I have had absolutely zero luck getting any. I cannot swallow the conspiracy idea until those questions have been answered. Please don't respond unless you are going to at least attempt to answer my questions. You are not going to answer my questions by asking me questions about classified government information and how boards are supposed to fall in specific circumstances in enormously complex works of architecture, and insulting me personally for being a nonbeliever will answer nothing.
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