August 29, 2006
the moon and beyond
Went along to the free Crazy-ass Conspiracy movie at the Cross again. Less of a turn out than last time. This time it was about NASA (run by ex-SS baddies), and the moon and aliens and stuff. They managed to get freemasons and satanism in there, too. I didn’t know Buzz Aldrin was a 32nd degree Scottish Rite freemason when he landed on the moon, or that Neil Armstrong’s father was a 33rd degree mason. That was pretty weird. Though the makers didn’t seem to be able to make up their mind if the landings were faked – it seems NASA certainly had the means, what with the giant replicas and models they made – or if Aldrin and Armstrong did make it to the moon to perform a Masonic ritual claiming it for Lucifer 33 minutes after landing. But they really missed the point of Crowley and Jack Parsons (ah, hell, maybe they really are part of a satanic conspiracy) which does make me wonder a little about their discriminatory abilities, or what their implicit belief system is. So it goes.
There was lots of footage, from NASA and the soviets (ah, Mir, we miss you), of quite weird things flying around in orbit. Probably the highlight was the light that looked like a UFO coasting along, a BIG flash off screen, the light changing course and speeding away and a streak of light passing through where the UFO had just been, emanating from planetside. They argue it was a plasma weapon being used against UFO’s by earth governments. And there was a bunch of really strange lights gathering around spaceships footage. Definitely very WTF stuff I hadn’t come across before.
Since I reckon this sort of thing is worth supporting as a local social phenomena, here’s a plug. The nights are apparently being run about monthly, usually but not necessarily on Mondays, so look out for posters. So far they seem to have sourced their material from enigmatv. While I have my differences with some of the material they present and conclusions being drawn, it’s still more interesting than anything on TV. Get ye to your local pub and meet like/open minded peeps.
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“Get ye to your local pub and meet like/open minded peeps.”
Though from experience, anyone who actually believes this stuff is even more likely to be closed-minded than a lot of people who would dismiss it out of hand. Because they have The Answer, you see, and anyone who doubts is either brainwashed or actively fvcking with them.
Alternative/sub cultures can certainly be as insular as the culture they are reacting against, but I think the nature of conspiracy stuff tends towards not believing anything too hard and questioning everything, if for no other reason than you have to question whether it is disinformation coming from “them”
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I agree with Pearce. The times I have tried to argue against conspiracy theory believers have been head v wall generally. There is a very fine line between healthy skepticism and outright paranoia it seems
For the record I decided a while ago after seeing a ‘documentary’ about the faked moon landings that it would be easier to actually go to the moon than fake it convincingly. There are proofs which would be extremely difficult if not impossible to fake that conspiracists tend to ignore. The evidence presented just doesn’t support the hypothesis, in that ‘flaws’ used to support the conspiracy don’t require a conspiracy for them to exist.
One of the James Bond movies with Sean Connery (possibly You Only Live Twice) features a scene where a chase goes through what appears to be a faked moon landing, complete with bounding astronauts. It was pretty hilarious.
There seems to be no shortage of people who believe in their own conspiracy theory as dogmatically as any religious fundamentalist. Robert Anton Wilson has told many stories about encountering these people, including those who conclude that because he does not agree with their particular theory he must therefore be a CIA agent.