Conspiracy Theories You can believe
Warning! This entry contains some information that will be offensive to some readers.
This entry was prompted by recent experiences in hearing, reading, and scrolling past the claims, questions, and shouts, of people on many social media platforms. These entries, posts, reels, and statements have rambled forth from folks across the planets, however, most of them are promoted by U.S. citizens. The 4 theories highlighted here are popular and possible and that is the nature of most conspiracy theories. Are they true? That’s up to you to decide. Some of these are “historic”… coming from times in the past and some are current. Some are far more serious for many people than others. Okay…let’s get started.
- A Small Group of People Conspire to Make Most of the Decisions About How our World Should be Ruled
This “conspiracy” has always been confusing as people claim it as something that’s a dark mystery. Any reading of recorded history tells us civilization—the masses—have always been ruled by a small minority of individuals be they known as kings, emperors, popes, dictators etc. and these people have almost always either been related by blood or by some other means. Why do millions of Catholics stay away from eating meat on Fridays during lent? A small group of people secreted away in a room decided that was the way to prepare for Easter. Did the masses of Catholics know what was being decided? Was their a vote on the fish thing? Personally many of us might have voted to stop eating onions or Hostess cupcakes, or maybe beef jerky? Now driving through for a Big Mac can get you an eternal date with the prince of darkness? If you believe this you are not alone, however, consider this. Some of the people in the No Meat” group probably talked about this with some of the fish market folks prior to the meeting so it seems to be reasonable to think that there are groups of people meeting to talk about important things that will change some lives without most of us knowing about it. In most of our families people are making decisions that will impact our lives in big ways and we don’t know it. Most of the humans on the planet were probably not planned by a committee and some of these people have had a great impact on the lives of everyone living today.
So the question is…. (See below)
Conspiracy 2. The World is Really Flat
Most of modern astronomy astrophysics, and space exploration would seem to say “I don’t think so”, but let’s hold off for a minute and ask the real important question—So What? Would there be any more hate in the world if it were a triangle? Would we understand how to grow better relationships, stronger family and community ties etc. if the world were an equilateral parallelogram?At one point some significant portion of people claimed that the sun was a god racing a chariot of fire across the sky. Did it make it any less warm and where did the chariot park at night? There is a lot of stuff on the planet that needs to be disposed of. There are a lot of greedy people involved in Waste Management. It would seem that some of these people would be charging the rest of us to put this trash into a boat or onto a ship and hauling it to the edge to throw out—right? And if not can someone point out the edge because I have a half dozen amazon boxes every month and some potato peels that have to go!
True or false? (See below)
3. We really didn’t send people to the moon and land there.
Again… science says so, however let’s look at a few things those who disagree bring to the table. We didn’t have the technology to relay audio/video from the moon to the Earth. Would someone born in 1890 believe that they could step in a metal tube, sit in a chair, and get from Chicago to Los Angeles in about 4 hours? Would somebody born in Tulsa Oklahoma in 1955 imagine that yesterday they would be speaking in a joint vocal/audio conversation with someone from canada, someone from Manchester UK, and someone from Denmark? Less than thirty years ago most people couldn’t dream of that oh yes and not only that it was done virtually free or for fractions of pennies. Yes there might have been a delay in the broadcast… so were the Earthlings seeing it live? Maybe people didn’t walk on the moon, however, aren’t people trying to get there now? If you doubt it would you be willing to step onto the next scheduled space flight to see where it really goes? Have you ever known someone who didn’t like veggies as a kid but eats them now?
What’s the important question here? (See below)
4. There is a special mechanism built into modern washers and dryers that disintegrates and disposes of socks but has a limiter than ensures only one sock from each pair is impacted…
Who hasn’t had a sock disappear? When we had to knit our own and hall them to the river to beat them against a rock, did they vanish? Do socks either those in modern times and those in earlier times have the capacity to fly, slide, hop, moonwalk, dance, or belly crawl on their own? Can they call an Uber or take the subway? Yet… every third time you do the laundry are you really shocked when the pair you are trying to sort doesn’t have a partner. Didn’t you take them to the washing machine along with those jeans that you hope last just one more time? Didn’t you toss in a dryer sheet so that you don’t light up like Tesla when you tough the bathroom doorknob on the dry winter days? So you were there during the whole process and never saw the great tube sock transporter kick in and energize your argyles up to the Enterprise.
So what’s the Seeking Peace and Joy Conspiracy Here?
Do a small number of people sometimes meet and have a great influence on your life without you having a say or much control? The answer is yes after all two people in some way got together or at least their biology did and had a great deal to do with where you started life, what your body might look like, where you might live in your youth and the list goes on and on .. Yep these people just happened to be your parents and then you can add in your family, your best friends.. etc.. The two actually important questions here (or maybe three) are Now that you’ve been granted this life, how much control over it do you expect and need to be the best self you can be? How many other people will you need to be independent from and interdependent with? And When will you grow up? … or another words what will you do when the control you think you need is not. The control you think you have? Trying to take responsibility matching the control you have is difficult however making the effort is important in seeking peace and joy.
Is the Earth Flat? No… Human beings by nature and especially now tend to push things to the extreme. We have not seen, felt, or experienced the edge. Is it possible for us to accept the shape of the planet in any given form when we haven’t really tackled the issue of accepting other shapes and forms of humans? We judge, we covet, we alter, we put wigs on, and spend time tanning the bodies we are presented with. Even when we like. Ours we find a lot wrong with other people or we fear them, or we want to be like them. Why worry about the shape of the planet when we don’t seem to understand the shape of our accountant? Let’s work on that first shall we? If we come to a peaceful accepting place with that.. we might find some joy and connection with many shapes and sizes of joyful folks
3. Did we land on the moon?
We don’t even know where we left our car in the parking lot so judging where someone else is, has, been, or will be, can’t really be something to argue about. This argument is about trust more than science and the difference between what is happening and what “the government” tells us? The question we must ask is “who is the government?” And maybe “what will it take for us to trust “them”. Do we trust (most of the time) drivers to stop at ed lights and stop signs? The government put those signs there. When you see a sign saying “bridge out ahead” do you just floor it thinking that’s probably a government conspiracy to keep the next section of road from wearing out? Maybe in order to find peace and any Joy we all need to figure out what proof we really need to believe most things and find ways to express that to others so that trust is possible or at least a lot more probable. If we can’t get to the place where we understand what it takes to trust one another then how can we work on things that are simply good ideas now? Finding the lines where you can hang on to and say… I trust this…is a very important step in seeking peace and joy…until then ask yourself “did I ever step onto an elevator that I couldn’t see the mechanics of? Did I ever eat a sandwich I didn’t see someone make? Did I ever drink a beer I didn’t brew myself?… We can find ways to trust..we do it all the time.
The Washer and dryer “eats socks” You are on your own there…
Peace and Joy can happen when we find out what level of control we need to feel secure. Seeking peace and joy can happen if we choose the essential questions to ask ourselves and others and then are brave enough to help each other discover what is true for us and them. If we wish to seek peace and joy it seems we must go places we haven’t been, see things we haven’t seen, agree with some others about what the new experiences were and what they might mean and understand that doing this is worth it. All of these things seem possible….
The sock thing? Buy only two colors of socks one white and one solid… Then wish your socks well on whatever journey they may be on and while you are doing that accept whatever color and shape your fellow travelers are and wish them well on their journey too.
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