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Old 26th July 2018, 02:36 PM   #1
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The Endless Font of Conspiracies

Today I learned the following from a new hire at my work:
  1. 9/11 was faked. In particular, there was no plane that hit the Pentagon and the towers were clearly controlled demolitions.
  2. You don't actually need to have a drivers license to drive, or any kind of license to do anything.
  3. You can buy things using your social security number, because the government (which is a corporation) keeps money in a special secret account that should be yours by right.
  4. Amazon accepts Secret Government SSN Account as payment, though it may get reversed afterwards.
  5. Nobody has ever gone to the moon.
  6. The Earth IS round, probably, although the flat earthers do make some really good points.
  7. We have advanced cloning technology, and celebrities have used it. Magic Johnson, George W. Bush, Dave Chappelle, etc.
  8. Our government is in control of the whole world.
  9. Despite this, most of our taxes go to the Queen of England.
  10. That shooting in Vegas? Yeah that's some sort of government conspiracy.
  11. Enemy of the State with Will Smith was, essentially, a documentary.
  12. ISIS is entirely run by the CIA.
  13. MKUltra is responsible for any number of odd behavior by any number of people in some vague way.

Who knows what knowledge tomorrow will bring?
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Old 26th July 2018, 02:51 PM   #2
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Quit your job now.
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Old 26th July 2018, 02:54 PM   #3
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Quit your job now.
It's okay, I'm training him for one more day and then we'll be on different floors. And he's a good enough guy, and doesn't mind when I just smile and tell him I don't buy into any of those theories.
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Old 26th July 2018, 03:12 PM   #4
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Make up conspiracy theories about your workplace, see if he buys the ******** when it's front and center in his life.
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Old 26th July 2018, 03:25 PM   #5
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Make up conspiracy theories about your workplace, see if he buys the ******** when it's front and center in his life.
Oh that's fascinating. Very tempting. Not saying I'll do it, but if I do my guess is that he won't bite for just regular rumors. He seems to have a certain skeptical filter, it's just that it's got some really really big holes. So I think I would need to come at him with a certain volume of information, links to sites that back me up and everything.
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Old 26th July 2018, 03:30 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by SOdhner View Post
Oh that's fascinating. Very tempting. Not saying I'll do it, but if I do my guess is that he won't bite for just regular rumors. He seems to have a certain skeptical filter, it's just that it's got some really really big holes. So I think I would need to come at him with a certain volume of information, links to sites that back me up and everything.
Or just leave it alone. If you're OK with your employer staking your paycheck on the judgement of guys like this, then probably you should let it ride.
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Old 26th July 2018, 08:17 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by SOdhner View Post
Today I learned the following from a new hire at my work:
  1. 9/11 was faked. In particular, there was no plane that hit the Pentagon and the towers were clearly controlled demolitions.
  2. You don't actually need to have a drivers license to drive, or any kind of license to do anything.
  3. You can buy things using your social security number, because the government (which is a corporation) keeps money in a special secret account that should be yours by right.
  4. Amazon accepts Secret Government SSN Account as payment, though it may get reversed afterwards.
  5. Nobody has ever gone to the moon.
  6. The Earth IS round, probably, although the flat earthers do make some really good points.
  7. We have advanced cloning technology, and celebrities have used it. Magic Johnson, George W. Bush, Dave Chappelle, etc.
  8. Our government is in control of the whole world.
  9. Despite this, most of our taxes go to the Queen of England.
  10. That shooting in Vegas? Yeah that's some sort of government conspiracy.
  11. Enemy of the State with Will Smith was, essentially, a documentary.
  12. ISIS is entirely run by the CIA.
  13. MKUltra is responsible for any number of odd behavior by any number of people in some vague way.

Who knows what knowledge tomorrow will bring?
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Old 26th July 2018, 09:36 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by SOdhner View Post
Oh that's fascinating. Very tempting. Not saying I'll do it, but if I do my guess is that he won't bite for just regular rumors.
Just quietly drop the fact that the entire board of directors are Freemasons and that they have an annual conference at Bohemian Grove.
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Old 26th July 2018, 09:40 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by SOdhner View Post
Today I learned the following from a new hire at my work:
  1. 9/11 was faked. In particular, there was no plane that hit the Pentagon and the towers were clearly controlled demolitions.
  2. You don't actually need to have a drivers license to drive, or any kind of license to do anything.
  3. You can buy things using your social security number, because the government (which is a corporation) keeps money in a special secret account that should be yours by right.
  4. Amazon accepts Secret Government SSN Account as payment, though it may get reversed afterwards.
  5. Nobody has ever gone to the moon.
  6. The Earth IS round, probably, although the flat earthers do make some really good points.
  7. We have advanced cloning technology, and celebrities have used it. Magic Johnson, George W. Bush, Dave Chappelle, etc.
  8. Our government is in control of the whole world.
  9. Despite this, most of our taxes go to the Queen of England.
  10. That shooting in Vegas? Yeah that's some sort of government conspiracy.
  11. Enemy of the State with Will Smith was, essentially, a documentary.
  12. ISIS is entirely run by the CIA.
  13. MKUltra is responsible for any number of odd behavior by any number of people in some vague way.

Who knows what knowledge tomorrow will bring?
All in one day?

Did you do any work?
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Old 27th July 2018, 01:36 AM   #10
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I suppose that when somebody's known to exhibit one of the symptoms of a serious disease, it's not uncommon for them to present with all of them.

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Old 27th July 2018, 07:47 AM   #11
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Or just leave it alone.
Which is what I'm actually going to do.

Originally Posted by theprestige View Post
If you're OK with your employer staking your paycheck on the judgement of guys like this,
1. My paycheck will be fine.
2. Maybe he'll be the best inbound sales guy ever! I mean, as long as he doesn't offer to let them pay with their secret government SSN account.

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All in one day?
Almost. The comment about Enemy of the State was actually the day before. It just kinda all came out in a flood.
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Old 27th July 2018, 01:16 PM   #12
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Oh that's fascinating. Very tempting. Not saying I'll do it, but if I do my guess is that he won't bite for just regular rumors. He seems to have a certain skeptical filter, it's just that it's got some really really big holes. So I think I would need to come at him with a certain volume of information, links to sites that back me up and everything.


Do you have any "missing floors" in your building, like no floor 13, or an extra mechanical floor above the "top floor" that the elevator doesn't go to? If so, use that as the basis for your claim. We had a hidden 6th floor in the physics building at my university, and I always told people that this was where the Secret Government Labs were hidden. I just noticed this week that we have just such an extra 25th floor in my current building, so I may revive that one...especially since it's a government building! Bwahahaha!
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Old 27th July 2018, 01:45 PM   #13
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Do you have any "missing floors" in your building, like no floor 13, or an extra mechanical floor above the "top floor" that the elevator doesn't go to? If so, use that as the basis for your claim. We had a hidden 6th floor in the physics building at my university, and I always told people that this was where the Secret Government Labs were hidden. I just noticed this week that we have just such an extra 25th floor in my current building, so I may revive that one...especially since it's a government building! Bwahahaha!
Oh that's great. No, the closest I could do is use the 6th floor because relatively few people have access to it and so I could pretend something was up there without it being easy to disprove.
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Old 28th July 2018, 03:02 AM   #14
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Oh that's great. No, the closest I could do is use the 6th floor because relatively few people have access to it and so I could pretend something was up there without it being easy to disprove.
You probably don't have to worry about the ease of disproving anything.
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Old 28th July 2018, 07:36 PM   #15
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He believes in the MK-ULTRA stuff

Just freeze up one day at work like Shaq.

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Originally Posted by SOdhner View Post
Today I learned the following from a new hire at my work:
  1. 9/11 was faked. In particular, there was no plane that hit the Pentagon and the towers were clearly controlled demolitions.
  2. You don't actually need to have a drivers license to drive, or any kind of license to do anything.
  3. You can buy things using your social security number, because the government (which is a corporation) keeps money in a special secret account that should be yours by right.
  4. Amazon accepts Secret Government SSN Account as payment, though it may get reversed afterwards.
  5. Nobody has ever gone to the moon.
  6. The Earth IS round, probably, although the flat earthers do make some really good points.
  7. We have advanced cloning technology, and celebrities have used it. Magic Johnson, George W. Bush, Dave Chappelle, etc.
  8. Our government is in control of the whole world.
  9. Despite this, most of our taxes go to the Queen of England.
  10. That shooting in Vegas? Yeah that's some sort of government conspiracy.
  11. Enemy of the State with Will Smith was, essentially, a documentary.
  12. ISIS is entirely run by the CIA.
  13. MKUltra is responsible for any number of odd behavior by any number of people in some vague way.

Who knows what knowledge tomorrow will bring?
It appears that he is living on the net, and that he watched/believed too many episodes of the X-Files.
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Originally Posted by SOdhner View Post
Today I learned the following from a new hire at my work:
  1. 9/11 was faked. In particular, there was no plane that hit the Pentagon and the towers were clearly controlled demolitions.
  2. You don't actually need to have a drivers license to drive, or any kind of license to do anything.
  3. You can buy things using your social security number, because the government (which is a corporation) keeps money in a special secret account that should be yours by right.
  4. Amazon accepts Secret Government SSN Account as payment, though it may get reversed afterwards.
  5. Nobody has ever gone to the moon.
  6. The Earth IS round, probably, although the flat earthers do make some really good points.
  7. We have advanced cloning technology, and celebrities have used it. Magic Johnson, George W. Bush, Dave Chappelle, etc.
  8. Our government is in control of the whole world.
  9. Despite this, most of our taxes go to the Queen of England.
  10. That shooting in Vegas? Yeah that's some sort of government conspiracy.
  11. Enemy of the State with Will Smith was, essentially, a documentary.
  12. ISIS is entirely run by the CIA.
  13. MKUltra is responsible for any number of odd behavior by any number of people in some vague way.

Who knows what knowledge tomorrow will bring?
What's he think about Helvetica or Times New Roman?
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Old 30th July 2018, 09:54 AM   #18
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Conspiracies have their own font now?
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Conspiracies have their own font now?
Comic Sans.
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Conspiracies have their own font now?
Albertus.
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Old 1st August 2018, 01:11 AM   #21
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Originally Posted by Matthew Best View Post
Conspiracies have their own font now?
If so, it would have to be a script font. The thread title specifies "endless".

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If so, it would have to be a script font. The thread title specifies "endless".

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Do you have any "missing floors" in your building, like no floor 13, or an extra mechanical floor above the "top floor" that the elevator doesn't go to? If so, use that as the basis for your claim. We had a hidden 6th floor in the physics building at my university, and I always told people that this was where the Secret Government Labs were hidden. I just noticed this week that we have just such an extra 25th floor in my current building, so I may revive that one...especially since it's a government building! Bwahahaha!
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