{"quotes":[{"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":"The trouble with believing conspiracies is you start seeing them everywhere, right? And everything becomes a part of them. But, of course, the trouble with not believing them is becoming a dupe.","author":"J. Ross Clara","tags":["belief","conspiracies","conspiracy-theory","truth"],"id":43543,"author_id":"J.+Ross+Clara"},{"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":"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":"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"},{"text":"Indeed, to this day, I think if you blame everything on the government, you're not just wrong, you're being reckless. It's as silly as blaming everything on the Freemasons, or the Illuminati, or insert-bad-guy-here. But I do believe that someone must ask the hard questions, especially of our elected officials as well as powerful men who become members of so-called secret societies. Remember: Governments don't lie. People lie. And if you want the real story, you need to find out more about those people.","author":"Brad Meltzer","tags":["blame","blaming-others","conspiracies","conspiracy","conspiracy-theories","conspiracy-theory","finding-truth","government","guilt","history","investigation","journalism","lies","lying","question-everything","questions","skepticism","skeptics","truth"],"id":93377,"author_id":"Brad+Meltzer"},{"text":"They only let us live in millions for the sake of the economy. I don't know what will happen by the time they figure out how to run the economy without the people.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["bangambiki","conspiracy","conspiracy-theories","conspiracy-theorists","conspiracy-theory","conspire","conspiring","economy","economy-builders","economy-of-nature","end-of-the-world","market-economy","market-economy-as-a-threat","one-percent","survival","survival-instinct","survival-is-the-name-of-the-game","survival-of-the-fittest","survival","survival-story","survivalism","survivalist","survive","survivor","the-great-pearl-of-wisdom"],"id":165928,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"Media is Munchausen by proxy.","author":"Jennifer Sodini","tags":["bill-hicks","consciousness","conspiracy","conspiracy-theory","higher-learning","inspirational","media","psychedelia","psychedelics","about-the-media","the-media","thought-provoking"],"id":187410,"author_id":"Jennifer+Sodini"},{"text":"I can see why people find him [Hugo Chávez] charming. He's very ebullient, as they say. I've heard him make a speech, though, and he has a vice that's always very well worth noticing because it's always a bad sign: he doesn't know when to sit down. He's worse than Castro was. He won't shut up. Then he told me that he didn't think the United States landed on the moon and didn't believe in the existence of Osama bin Laden. He thought all of this was all a put-up job. He's a wacko.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["9-11-conspiracy-theories","apollo-11","conspiracy-theory","fidel-castro","hugo-chavez","megalomania","moon-landing","moon-landing-conspiracy-theories","osama-bin-laden","united-states","venezuela"],"id":230661,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}