Several months ago a very good friend and former co-worker got in contact with me with a site called skeptoid.com. It’s a podcast site that goes into trying to debunk several of the conspiracy theories floating around out there.
At first I almost fell into the trap of making this post a debate or argument against why many of the site’s conclusions are “wrong”. Looking at the comments on various articles from the site I could see how many people agreed and disagreed with the conclusions. However, I made a promise to myself a long time ago to stop arguing with people. It uses up a lot of energy both in research and maintaining patience. In the end I decided to admit that my own conclusions are subject to my own personal experiences and world view.
This is because that often time both sides of these kinds of arguments can have evidence or science that supports either side. Not being a scientist, I have to go with what sounds good, believable, or plausible. Often times this leads me to concluding that many of the major events in history are not quite what popular belief would have them be.
One of my favorite comments about how to approach these topics comes from a clip in an interview with Stan Freedman about researching UFO’s. Watch the 10 minute video and see:
The part I like the most is bit about the judge and having to decipher in a court case whoe is telling the truth and who is not. I think most of the public is in the same boat. In the end each person has to make their own judgements about the situation based on their own experiences.
Personally, I’ve never trusted powerful or large institutions to tell me the truth about anything. Why should they? They are powerful and I am not as powerful. My experiences put me in the category of understanding that is different from those who do believe that JFK, MLK, and RFK were killed by lone gunman, 911 was an Islamic terrorist attack, and that UFO’s are merely unexplained natural earthly phenomenon. As crazy as it might sound I honestly believe that JFK, 911, and UFO’s are all tied together. Some may say that’s nuts but at least it’s honest.
It takes a lot of energy to argue with people. I don’t want to anymore. For now I spend my time trying to decipher an image of the world that make sense to me.
Thank you skeptoid.com for the podcasts you put up filled with alternative points of view, however, I do not accept the conclusions they have come to. They go against my better judgement and I really do not have a better argument than that.
Here are some links that are more towards my line of thinking:
Stan Fiedman on arguments against UFO’s
Kimball and Stan Friedman on media coverage of UFO’s
Richard Dollan – Writer of “UFO’s and the National Security State” does a presentation in 2009. It’s a six part video with the links to the side of the video.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Catherine Austin Fitts – At the Barter Association back in 2008.
Her Analysis of the US and World Economy