{"quotes":[{"text":"MacMillian pinched the bridge of his nose. Conspiracy theories, secret societies... What the hell had he gotten himself into? What was next? Vampires? Werewolves?","author":"Laura Oliva","tags":["conspiracy-theories","secret-societies","vampires","werewolves"],"id":4611,"author_id":"Laura+Oliva"},{"text":"The problem arises when a society respects its scholars lesser and lesser and replaces intellectualism with anti-intellectualism. Such society forces the most intellectual members of its, toward alienation and instead develops populism and irrationalism and then calls it anti-elitism. On the other hand, scholars, due to being undermined by the society, find any effort hopeless and isolate themselves into their work. For a scholar, personally, nothing changes because the scholar always is a scholar no matter having someone to share the knowledge with or not, but the true problem forms in the most ordinary sections of the society, which eventually creates an opportunity for propaganda, conspiracy theories, rhetoric, and bogus.","author":"Kambiz Shabankare","tags":["alienation","anti-elitism","anti-intellectualism","bogus","conspiracy","conspiracy-theories","intellectual","intellectualism","irrationalism","knowledge","problem","propaganda","respect","rhetoric","scholar","scholars","society","undermined"],"id":9115,"author_id":"Kambiz+Shabankare"},{"text":"The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for the baroque.","author":"Philip K. Dick","tags":["conspiracy-theories","mentally-disturbed","religion","science"],"id":39022,"author_id":"Philip+K.+Dick"},{"text":"...This cryptic game of hide-and-seek is what makes it one of the greatest historical mysteries. So many of the symbols can be interpreted in so many different ways, there's always the possibility that all we're really looking at is a blank slate onto which anything can be read.","author":"Brad Meltzer","tags":["blank-slate","clues","conspiracies","conspiracy","conspiracy-theories","conspiracy-theory","critical-thinking","cryptic","following-clues","hide-and-seek","interpretation","interpreting-literature","mysteries","mystery","possibilities","projecting","reading-into-everything","reading-into-things","symbolism","symbology","symbology-transference","symbols"],"id":39806,"author_id":"Brad+Meltzer"},{"text":"Culture, religion, and education, are conspiracies to standardize worldviews.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["conspiracies","conspiracy","conspiracy-theories","conspiracy-theory","culture","education","religion","worldviews"],"id":43948,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"She was born under the sign of Gemini. And that stands for the good and evil twin. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde both hiding and residing inside her heart. Her good twin was not bad at all. But her evil twin was even better, and showed up to be way too fatal!","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["actress","aspects","astrological","astrological-omens","astrology","astrology","behavior","blond-beast","blonde","celebrities","celebrity","cinema","conflict","conspiracy","conspiracy-theories","conspiracy-thriller","culture","discussion","dispute","double","double-agent","double-personality","dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde","duality","entertainment-industry","fame","famous","film","gemini","good-and-evil","gossip","heart","hollywood","hollywood-culture","intellect","intellectual","intelligence","literature","marilyn","marilyn-monroe","misery","misticism","model","move","movies","murder","murder-mystery","murderers","murmur","mute","mystery","opposites","psychological","psychological-thriller","psychology","split","split-personality","spy","spy-thriller","spying","twin","twin-towers","twins"],"id":53593,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"Nine had heard whisperings that the secretive Bilderberg Group was effectively the World Government, undermining democracy by influencing everything from nations' political leaders to the venue for the next war. He recalled persistent rumors and confirmed media reports that the Bilderberg Group had such luminaries as Barack Obama, Prince Charles, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, Tony Blair, Bill and Hillary Clinton, George Bush Sr. And George W. Bush. Other Bilderberg members sprung forth from Nine’s memory bank. They included the founders and CEOs of various multinational corporations like Facebook, BP, Google, Shell and Amazon, as well as almost every major financial institution on the planet.","author":"James Morcan","tags":["amazon","amazon-com","barack-obama","bilderberg","bill-clinton","clinton","conspiracy","conspiracy-theories","conspiracy-theory","facebook","george-w-bush","google","hillary-clinton","microsoft","morcan","the-ninth-orphan","the-orphan-trilogy","thriller","tony-blair"],"id":59871,"author_id":"James+Morcan"},{"text":"... The reader is probably wondering that if Tolkien did indeed fashion two of his heroic characters from Catholic prophecies, what about the evil protagonists? Were any of them inspired by these little-known revelations concerning future times? The answer is yes, but to discover the links between the myth and the prophecies, we must venture not only into the realm of unnerving revelations, but also into the murky world of secret sects, dark plots, occult signs, bloody revolutions and conspiracy theories ~ we must probe deep into the burning Eye of Sauron.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["-on-","catholic","catholic-","catholic-prophecies","conspiracy-theories","conspiracy-theory","evil-characters","eye-of-sauron","fantasy","fantasy-fiction","future-times","history","jrr-tolkien","lord-of-the-rings","prophecies","sauron","sects","sources-of-inspiration","tolkien","writing-books"],"id":64000,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"I just got another kitten, you know. Found another trademark. It's quite embarrassing I misse.","author":"Marisha Pessl","tags":["cats","conspiracy-theories","crazy-old-man","film"],"id":69360,"author_id":"Marisha+Pessl"},{"text":"You see, it doesn't matter if they're wrong. From 9/11 to recent shootings here in the United States, there's nothing more dangerous than a true believer on his own crazy mission.","author":"Brad Meltzer","tags":["belief","conspiracies","conspiracists","conspiracy-theories","conspiracy-theory","danger","dangerous-minds","fundamentalism","fundamentalists","missions","radicalism","radicals","terror","terrorism","terrorists","true-belief","true-believers","warfare","zealotry","zealots"],"id":74928,"author_id":"Brad+Meltzer"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":29,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}