who benefits most from the 9/11 conspiracy theories, page 1

Perhaps I should wait until you get scolded for encouraging me for an opinion. Yes my inital response is a bit snarky. In viewing the events and explainations and outright guesses as to what happened on 9/11. You have the offical government story that you can believe or find suspect. If you believe it then it becomes a question of to what level.

If you say 19 arabs highjacked four planes crashed 2 into the WTC, 1 into the Pentagon and one failed to meet its target and crashed in a field in PA. The towers fell, we were all shocked and then got on with our lives because that explaination was good enough for you then you fall inline with the majority of everyone else in the world. You followed the classic five stages of grief: Denial and Isolation, Anger, Bargining, Drepression, and finally Acceptance.

Here is where it becomes interesting. Something can happen during this process. Sometimes a stage gets skipped or runs differently. It doesn't make the person defective or wrong it just happens. As to what exactly is hard to define. It could be that during Denial and Isolation a social circle forms and natural conformity takes over with the Alpha personality driving the stages during the Anger and Bargining stages agreements can be made and depression is skipped or a person may not fully leave the Isolation stage and network into a more advanced group and find early Acceptance while still angery of depressed from still feeling the polarisation of Isolation.

A social group can still be Bargining and begin accepting validity in a brainstorm bargining session. Conclusions begin being drawn that out of phase and then we see some Anger as accusations are drawn from conclusions. Often the rightous anger of "how can they let this happen?" becomes "how did they let this happen?" In answering that question we start to see births of true conspiracy theory.

All that said, not all conspiracy starts this way. Sometimes the bored but influental introduce ideas that are plausable fabrications that become conspiracy theories of their own. Of course there people that truely are paranoid and delusional that invent ideas of their own. With constant reenforcement of these ideas they can become lexicon within weave of theories surrounding a large event or subject.

Now for real fun: As the smaller social groups network and begin sharing ideologies the theories and groups become more intertwined and start tests of validity. As the groups expand into conglomerates then rules of social order develop and it becomes a culture with identity and unacceptance to outsiders that disagree with fundamental ideas. A negative word for groups not accepted by the outside general norm are called Cults. In that sense the Truth Movement could be called a cult.

So could Christianity as that formation was similar as was Islam. As did the Hebrew slaves that existed under a benevolent Pharroh that invented a Monotheistic Religion to the ancient Egyptions that would have released the slaves but died and had almost all evidence removed by his successor. Those ideas could have been kept and became Judaism among the Hebrew slaves. Much like Voodoo did among the haitians combining element of African tribalism with Catholic dogma.

That is why I replied that CT benefits the CTer. Of course the above is only my observational opinion. And is the basis for advocating searching for fact over truth. I fall in the group that I described in the second paragraph. But after all these years decided to check into what the Truth Movement is all about to see if maybe they had something and that is what kept them going. Some ideas are so far out there I fear they will never make it back to reality. Some ideas are not, and have potential of being very valid if they can be examined with less agenda affected minds.

[edit on 31-5-2007 by Ahabstar]