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18th April 2018, 02:27 PM | #1 |
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I'm surprised Truthers don't doubt the WTC ever existed
Given that the cult of Trutherdom many people are no planers and have a questionable grip on reality- how deep down the rabbit hole does the delusion go? I have encountered Truthers who thought the events in NY were 'Hollwood production' so presumably they think the collapse of the Twin Towers never happened, and was just a made for tv CGI event. Are there Truthers who go a step further and question if the WTC ever existed?
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18th April 2018, 03:01 PM | #2 |
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Compare AE911 truth, who ostensibly claim to be rational, with the flat out bonkers Judy Wood. Sure, they don't agree at any point, but they will defend one another, wrong or wrong no matter what. AE911truth claims demolition, Judy claims space beams and yankee451 claims embedded nukes. These are all mutually incompatible claims, but they will all support each other nevertheless.
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18th April 2018, 03:12 PM | #3 |
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18th April 2018, 05:49 PM | #4 |
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I never met a twoofer who wasn't either a nutcase or delusional.
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18th April 2018, 07:31 PM | #5 |
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Remember that "truther logic" is NOT algebraic additive. For most of us opposing claims cancel out:
1 -1 = 0. Truther logic 1 -1 = 2 OR a more complicated example 1 -1 +3 -4 = 9 << The signs don't matter to a truther. OR - leaving the algebraic metaphor - the claims for conventional steel cutting HE, DEW and nuclear - three claims THEREFORE 3 times as strong as one claim. Hence taking it a step further - the recent move by a top level AE911 executive member to support "No Planes" does NOT indicate a "split at the top" of AE911. It merely incorporates a different perspective which adds to what they see as their position. Planes PLUS No Planes is stronger than either taken on its own. |
18th April 2018, 07:46 PM | #6 |
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Actually, it was actually an actual secretly produced hologram!!!
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18th April 2018, 07:55 PM | #7 |
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Well it's easier to deny the Holocaust than to deny that the WTC ever existed, so no, no Truther is that dumb. Categories of crazy still exist.
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Didn't we have someone here recently who claimed that the towers had been hollowed out and empty of tenants for months before 9/11? That just seemed to me to be an impossible thing to think.
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18th April 2018, 09:25 PM | #9 |
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Rule #1 of CTs is that no normal person can come up with a theory so outlandish that there are no actual CTers who believe the CT. https://answers.yahoo.com/question/i...1154415AA6LwAj |
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There are plenty of people who believe the towers were hollow... empty and prepped for demolition with zero people dying when they collapsed..... so yeah I guess it is possible to get somewhat as crazy as to believe they were never there at all...
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Or that it is just a giant film set, maybe?
https://viewing.nyc/illusion-a-short...fake-film-set/ |
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Noooo..... Don't give them any ideas!
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Oh you think New York City exists?
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Why stop there? I'm pretty sure in about 30 years (depending on how much the technological world will be developed by then), you'll have a nutter screaming that the earth is fake and is just a hi-tech CGI thingy that has the power to keep people on it by some gravity pull device.
I have no idea how crazy a truther can be, but I'm pretty sure what I just said could be believed by a few nutters in the future... |
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Awhile back we had a guy convinced the Hubble had been "lost" for years and all the pictures from it since then have been faked.
I asked why if they were unscrupulous to do that and clever enough to pull it off why bother building and launching the thing the first place? Fake all the photos in Photoshop and spend the 1.5 billion on hookers and blow. I never got an answer. |
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I think if I ever meet a truther in person that is going to be my position: silly truther, there were no buildings, you've bought the party line and now your just a sheeple.
I mean, is there any sense in trying the opposite approach? |
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Alternatively, you could take their side, agree that it was controlled demolitions, and the burning jet fuel weakening the structure theory is an obvious lie. There is after all, no such thing as jet fuel...
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