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Date Posted: 15:51:53 09/16/04 Thu
Author: jago25_98
Subject: Tips for questioning yourself

Tools for assessing consiracy thoeries.

Every consiracy thoery has it's own different links and technical reasoning.

But there can be one feature of consiracy thoeries that is a much more reliable test of thruth; censorship.

Why are some things censored while others are not?

For example, Kennedy consiracy theories have reached mass media in the UK and elsewhere. The same can be said
of 9/11 with the film Fahrenheit. From this we can determine 1 of 3 things about the issue:

1) Government(s) don't care about the matter; it's not important any more
2) Government(s) failed in its censorship
3) It's incorrect

Yet other things have been censored. For example, shortly following the 9/11 Pentagon crash film of the event
from all round was confiscated and hasn't been published.

If we get a glimse of some evidence shortly before it is removed then we know we _might_ be on to something.
It could be possible that the evidence has been removed for a purpose but we may not know that purpose. We may
form a pre-opinion in our minds before really thinking it through, possibily as fashionable cynicism.

Example if we see evidence from the 9/11 pentagon crash we _may_ think they don't want us to see what happened
but what we DON'T know is why, unless conbined with similar evidence for censorship.

Lessons:

- Look at what's censored; it points to the really interesting stuff. Don't jump to the conclusion of
censored=bad guys at play

- Don't believe the government is `out to get you` as this will obscure your results. You see what you expect.
Go in with a blank mind or accept that your results are tinted with a bias too deep in your subconcious possibily
for you to deal with. When you then look at the evidence and perhaps form a thoery do you feel energised too much
to affect your view of the thing? Mental outlook is the biggest variable in any scientific test but it's rarely
addressed.

- What is the motive? Are people in government really nationalistic? Do they really care for thier' people more than
other nations; i.e. US invading Iraq for Oil presumes that the US favours its own prosperity. This is an assumption
to be addressed before moving forward. So they're trying to take over the world, why?

- Why are you against the conspiracy? So what if there is a secret society running the western world? Why do we care?
Are acting in our interests? Why do we not thrust them?
Is your reaction to fight against it without thinking `why am I doing this?`

If you genuinely have principles supporting your disagreement can they be explained logically without boiling down to
emotional reason?

The mind is where is at when it comes to these things and you have to be a master at questioning.

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