Not My Job

My mission here is not to sway anyone’s opinion or make people believe anything different from what they already believe. It is not my job to make you question what is true and what simply is not. Nor do I want the burden of responsibility that lies in forming the opinions of others. I like to point out small oddities that exist within our society merely to provide some amount of humor in this otherwise dull yet mad world of ours. In fact, it is irrelevant to me what you believe. I may think you’re stupid for believing it, but care, I do not. Okay, enough with the disclaimer.

Conspiracies, especially government ones, are always difficult for me to grasp as being real. I’m not naïve mind you; for I am fully aware of numerous lies that have been told by those we trust to always give us the truth. It is foolish to blindly accept everything the government tells us as fact. Having done so in the past is indeed the reason that such theories of conspiracy exist in the first place. However, some people (you may be one of them) believe nothing as truth unless it is supported by theorists’ opinions of what possibly, could, maybe, in certain circumstances, be likely.

Ben Franklin once said in Poor Richard’s Almanac that, “Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.” That aphorism actually pre-dates his publication by a couple of hundred years to Henry VIII, and probably before that. So, we have known for quite some time that a conspiracy cannot be kept secret; otherwise, it would be an act of an individual, in which case “conspiracy” is the incorrect term. Think of it this way: What person, or group of people, do you trust to keep a secret (even a small, insignificant one) until they die? Now add into account that the public believes something entirely contradictory to your secret. Oh, and plus these people that know the secret are not relatives or even lifelong friends.

There’s no clear place to begin the list of conspiracy theories that I do not believe, but let me just tackle one of the big ones. The John F. Kennedy assassination comes to mind. If, in fact, there were multiple shooters, there is no possible way for me to conceive that they kept silent, or those that silenced them kept silent, for more than forty years. If Jack Ruby was part of a cover-up, then others would also have been involved and would have told of the conspiracy by now. (See paragraph 3 above) If the Warren Commission hid any details of their findings then they would also have been revealed by now. (Again, paragraph 3) And finally, it is my belief that there are no two people alive, then or now, working in concert, with balls big enough to undertake such a clandestine act to be committed in broad daylight in front of so many people, with purposeful intent to remain undetected and unknown…forever.

As for September 11, 2001: 1. It was a terrorist attack. 2. Some people believe there was no plane that flew into the Pentagon. For that to be true, all of the eyewitnesses that saw the plane approaching, flying very low-altitude at a high rate of speed, would have to be part of the conspiracy. Really? (See paragraph 3) 3. There have been much analysis and varied theories in regards to the collapse of the buildings of the WTC. Experts in the field of structural engineering and the most respected architectural scientists are baffled by how the structures collapsed in the manner that they did. My novice opinion (which is merely common-sense), is that there is no possible way for anyone to recreate, even theoretically, the exact circumstances that existed within those structures and the effects that two jet liners crashing into them would have on the integrity of the construction and their material composition. Any event that creates a massive force such as tornadoes, tsunamis, hurricanes, etc; has phenomena occur that cannot be explained. Not only is it impossible to replicate that day to prove anyone’s theory, it is reprehensible and pathetic to drudge up conjectures and suppositions with no founding about that day’s events. Let us heal from that horrible day and move on…and never forget.

The technology and information that exists today for our immediate utilization  should prevent people from believing everything they see, hear, or read without first counterchecking the story with another source. Yet every day there’s another new theory going viral on the internet. Since it’s not my job to change your mind, that will continue and I’m just going to continue to think you’re a bit stupid for believing all of the senseless rubbish. However, that’s just a theory and may not necessarily be true.

“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle