I normally try to avoid politics, just because the media has skewed my religious and political views together (when they are supposed to be separate in most instances). But, I find the image quite hypocritical of Trump and the Republican movement. They state that they do not hate like their Democrat competitor, yet post a mocking photo of the Pope, simply because he said something they didn’t like. We all need to turn back to Christ, now more than ever. The worship of political parties has to stop. Neither of completely good or have completely good intentions and this is just one example of that.
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It wasn’t a picture mocking the Pope it was a picture (AI generated ) of Trump as Christ on his True Social post which he removed after the backlash.It was meant to irritate the Pope.
Either way, it shows his true colors. He really did take the comment of “he’s like Jesus” to heart. Plus, if he is such a great guy (I like him for some things and not others), then why does he feel the urge to irritate another person. It feels like he should have better things to do
That is not the reason President Trump gave for why he re-posted it. He said, “I thought it was me as a doctor.”
President Trump is not a Christian. He might have been Baptized in a Protestant Church as a child, but he should open the Bible and actually read what it says, because he certainly is not trying to live it.
President used to be a troll, now he is just a tool. People worship him like he is Jesus though and that is concerning.
I am on Truth Social and it took me three months to get approved when it first came out, but I finally go in 
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I find his excuse of “being a doctor” hard to believe. No doctor, in our modern society, looks like that. Put a stethoscope and a white lab coat on him and I may believe it. He is lying to our faces about it and he knows it, most people know it. I really wish our government would stop always trying to protect themselves and take some accountability.
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He did it right when he started his fight with the Pope it was meant to Insult Pope Leo.
Just like his bombing post of Iran saying Praise Allah to insult them as much as he could.The post laced with vulgar language.
He has a new AI generated image out today with him and Jesus.That’s his way he insults everyone who speaks out against him
I believe that conspiracy theorists are people who project their own character defects onto everyone else. They assume that everyone is a liar. Cade_One I have noticed that you repeatedly insult personally those who disagree with you. You said you know that someone who disagreed with your theory about the moon landing is a “boomer”. Are we to believe that you have made an intelligent argument here?
It is a fact that boomer, more than any other generation buys into the official narrative, that we have put human beings on the moon. And I explained why I believe this is.
I have no problem with an individual who believing we put a man on the moon. I have many family and friends who believe in the moon landing. I used to believe in the moon landing (though I was only about 51% convinced that we did ; )
I am naturally skeptical of most things. I know good people lie and bad people lie more. Does this mean that everyone is a liar? No.
Now let’s talk about people who project and insult those they disagree with. The word “Conspiracy Theorist” is a pejorative and was designed to discredit anyone who asks questions about what the masses are told.
So, like when someone asks, “Why is it that when these space crafts re-enter Earth’s orbit, and we are told that just went 5,000 miles per hour (or whatever they tell us) and seven minutes later it lands in the ocean there is no steam.” And yet, we are to believe that heat is what caused the World Trade Centers to collapse (and I’m not saying that it didn’t, but he two things do not add up).
Have you ever met someone who sounds super intelligent (until they talk about something that you know a lot about and you realize that they are full of crap)? You begin to question the other things they tell you about. If they were that wrong on this thing you know a lot about, then we can assume that maybe they are not as intelligent as we originally perceived. That is how I view NASA. There are some very intelligent individuals who send amazing rockets into space! I am not doubting this. But, when you listen to some of the things that they say, and the way in which they say it, it sounds ridiculous to those who are not under the spell. I do not think that everything NASA does is fake.
I think President Trump’s Assassination attempt was staged. And I do not buy the narrative that the kid they say shot Charlie Kirk is believable either. Now, you are free to disagree with me. You can believe everything [y]our government agencies have told you happened, but the realty is, their are such things as phycological operations that these agencies do in and to other Countries. Do you believe they have never operated within the United States as well?
Yes I have encountered a person who “talks about something that I know a lot about and I realize that they are full of crap”. That person is you.
" It is a fact that a boomer more than any other generation buys into the official narrative".
really? Where did you learn this “fact”? Or did you just make this up like so many other things you post?
How did I know that would be your punchline?
As reported in The Guardian, surveys indicate a consistent trend where doubt in the official moon landing narrative increases as the respondent’s age decreases.
| Generation / Age Group | Believes Landing was Real | Believes Landing was Staged/Faked |
|---|---|---|
| Seniors (65+) | ~95% | ~5% |
| Baby Boomers | ~97% | ~3% |
| Generation X | ~94% | ~6% |
| Millennials (25-34) | ~73% to 89% | ~11% to 27% |
| Gen Z (18-24) | ~79% | ~21% |
In addition to this, my own Parents are of the baby-boomer generation and they consume their news through the mainstream funnel (channels 3, 5 & 8) and believe everything the man on the nightly news tells them. Then it is later repackaged as entertainment on late-night television (on the very same networks they were told the pushed narrative).
Younger generations have a flipped funnel, where the they consume a lot of sources and then have to try to sort out whom they trust and whom they do not trust. And this sometimes is not good either.
When it comes to “The Truth” (Jesus Christ), there are many voices saying all kinds of different things about Jesus. I choose to trust the Church, made up of the Apostles and their successors (the Early Church Fathers), so one could call me a hypocrite, because when it comes to Jesus, I trust a traditional funnel. But, when it comes to the news, I prefer an inverted funnel (many voices and then I have to try to sort out what I believe is true, who is manipulating, and who is trustworthy.
Good journalists used to ask questions and report on their findings. Now asking questions is viewed as conspiracy theories.
Thomas E. Woods (also Catholic Christian), has coined the phrase, “Prepare to set fire to the Index Card of Allowable Opinion.” The news used to fit on an index card and you were not allowed to deviate from it. But, that is not how the world works, since the dawn of the internet. Thomas Woods is far from a conspiracy theorist though.
Joe Rogan (more of an Atheist) invites guests on his show that most legacy networks would never have on, and as a result Rogan’s Podcast has become the mainstream in a sense.
Which way is your funnel pointed when it comes to matters of faith & morals verses how you consume your news? Are your funnels facing the same direction or are they facing opposite directions?
This spring I reread an article in Smithsonian magazine (Robert Wernick, “Don’t Look Now—but All Those Plotters Might Be Hiding under Your Bed,” March 1994) about conspiracy theories. It said that conspiracy theories generally depend on a large number of people keeping a secret. But I read somewhere else that when stealth aircraft were being designed and tested in the desert, the secret was kept, even by civilians who lived in the area and understood the need for secrecy. In balance, my experience when I worked with classified information was that the vast majority of people involved did not improperly disclose it, but there were sometimes a few who were careless or worse.
That is a common belief that is thrown at those with theories, however, we are discovering that the world is much smaller than what we initially thought. You can convince individuals that they are working on something, while a few are actually in on the conspiracy. They have done social experiments, where they have a room of individuals and one or two individuals are plants and they are able to get the other individuals to participate in things and they were unaware that these individuals were in on it.
As far as individuals keeping secrets, there are many instances where individuals are suicided or die in mysterious ways after not keeping a secret or if there is even a potential of a secret getting out.
But, I am sure it is all a coincidence ; )
Aha! There are plants on a shelf next to my laptop computer, and I am definitely suspicious of them.
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Are you speaking in some strange code that no one understands?
How did I know you would pretend to anticipate what I would say?
No pretending. You are just as predicable as I am : )
No 
I don’t think there’s much to “explain” here. Questioning things and researching them is great, I actually think that’s really important. But most, if not all, conspiracy theories feel more like trying to find hidden truths where there aren’t any.
Take the flat earth community (which is obviously wrong). They always say things like “they are lying,” but there isn’t some massive group inventing lies like that. Changing the global understanding of something would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, and it would require an absurd amount of effort and money, and for what reason? There’s no real motive for something like lying about the shape of the Earth.
Of course, some information can be hidden. Just look at the Epstein case. But even then, secrets tend to come out eventually, and investigations usually leave clear signs that something is off, even if the full truth isn’t revealed right away.
In general, most of the time, conspiracy theories are created around absurd themes or themes that wouldn’t have a real purpose. I’m not saying it is always like that, but something like this would only work on a smaller scale and for something that really benefits some group or individuals.
Believing in conspiracy theories usually doesn’t make much sense because they tend to be sensationalist and based on someone’s strange interpretation. They appeal to people’s feelings about a topic instead of presenting solid reasoning. A lot of the time, it feels like people reject facts because they want to believe they’ve uncovered something hidden and be “smarter” for it. In a way, conspiracy theories are like a worse version of real investigations, whether journalistic, detective, or scientific.
The other post I made was only answering the title. Now, about your text…
Well, yeah, I agree that some conspiracy theories can be interesting, just like a good mystery or sci-fi movie. But something being interesting doesn’t make it true.
You said you don’t believe humanity went to the Moon? Really? I’m not great at debates and I don’t want to go too deep right now, but man, yes, we went to the Moon. There is a lot of evidence: footage, equipment, and thousands of people involved, none of whom have ever admitted faking anything. There is also the retroreflector they left there, which we still use to measure the distance to the Moon. That’s something that simply wouldn’t be possible without humans placing it there. It would have been harder to fake the mission than to actually do it. The technology to fake something like that convincingly didn’t exist at the time.
About what you said regarding livestreaming, the connection back then was limited, but it existed. The transmission had delays, but communication worked most of the time. And today, communication is much better. Do you also doubt current missions like Artemis going around the Moon now?
Usually, people who believe things like that are hard to convince, I don’t know if that’s your case. Is there anything that would convince you?
I really like space exploration, so when someone says they don’t believe in something like the Moon landing, it kind of bothers me. Nothing personal, I just feel like showing that it’s real. That’s why I focused on this part.
About the rest of what you said, I won’t comment much because I don’t give it the same importance. And the ones that really matter, like the Holocaust, you said you believe in them, so there’s no need to go into that.
In general, these discussions aren’t that important. Some topics are serious, like the Holocaust, but at the end of the day, your life won’t really change whether you believe humans went to the Moon or not. I just think it’s important to think critically in each case and understand that strange details don’t automatically mean there is a big hidden lie. Sometimes small details are misunderstood or changed, like in gossip, but people turn that into “everything is fake” because they like the idea of being “smarter than the system.”
So yeah, research things and believe what you want, but don’t believe something just because it’s more interesting or feels like you’re going against the system. Try to look for real information.