Conspiracy Theories (FLERF)

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It may be called: Dark side of the moon.
It may be called: The dark side of the moon.
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explorer wrote: Thu Jul 11, 2019 3:25 pm It may be called: Dark side of the moon.
It may be called: The dark side of the moon.
You are referencing a mockumentary with paid witnesses giving joke testimonies to ridicule people like you who believe everything they hear like that the moon landing was fake. Dark Side of the moon is a joke. You should not take it seriously.

You can read about it on Wikipedia here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Side ... kumentary)
Dark Side of the Moon is a French mockumentary by director William Karel. It originally aired on the Franco-German television network Arte in 2002 with the title Opération Lune.
It is finally revealed that this is a mockumentary as the end credits roll over a montage of blooper reels, with the main participants laughing over their lines or over their inability to remember them.
William Karel had just completed Hollywood, a film based on lying, when he and the documentary unit of Arte had the idea of making a mockumentary, to play with the serious tonality of Arte but also for pleasure, and to make a funny film based on the idea that one must not believe everything that one is told, that witnesses can lie, archives can be tricked, and that any subject can be twisted by misleading subtitling or dubbing. They looked for a topic that would be universal and historical but not sensitive like a war. Hence the choice of the Moon landing, which had for more than 30 years been a topic of debate regarding the reality of these images. They found it was a fairly funny topic.
Most of the fictitious witnesses are named after characters from movies directed by Stanley Kubrick or Alfred Hitchcock. "W.A. Koenigsberg" is named after Woody Allen, who was born "Allan Koenigsberg". They are listed in the credits along with the names of the actors portraying them.
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fax wrote: Thu Jul 11, 2019 4:11 pm You are referencing a mockumentary with paid witnesses giving joke testimonies to ridicule people like you who believe everything they hear like that the moon landing was fake. Dark Side of the moon is a joke. You should not take it seriously.
The people in it were the actual advisors to President Nixon. They have become advisors to other presidents since. If you watch TV, you also see them in other news stories. They were not actors. There was humour in it.

Possibly the American powers have set up this wiki page.
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explorer wrote: Thu Jul 11, 2019 5:22 pm The people in it were the actual advisors to President Nixon. They have become advisors to other presidents since. If you watch TV, you also see them in other news stories. They were not actors. There was humour in it.

Possibly the American powers have set up this wiki page.
Jack Torrance is a fictional character in Kubrick's The Shining, not a Hollywood producer, and is played by David Winger.
David Bowman is a fictional character in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (film), not a real astronaut, and is played by Tad Brown.
Maria Vargas (lead character in The Barefoot Contessa) is played by Jacquelyn Toman and is not Buzz Aldrin's sister.
Eve Kendall is a fictional character in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest and was not Nixon's secretary (whose name was Rose Mary Woods), and is played by Barbara Rogers.
Dimitri Muffley is a play on the names from Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove (Soviet Premier Dimitri Kisov and American President Merkin Muffley) and is not a "former KGB agent." He is played by Bernard Kirschoff.
Ambrose Chapel is the name of a place in Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much, not an "ex-CIA agent", and is played by John Rogers.
George Kaplan (mentioned by narrator) is a fictional character within a fictional character in the Hitchcock film, North By Northwest.
W. A. Koenigsberg ("W. A." stands for "Woody Allen", as Koenigsberg is Woody Allen's true name) is played by Binem Oreg.
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fax wrote: Thu Jul 11, 2019 5:43 pm
explorer wrote: Thu Jul 11, 2019 5:22 pm The people in it were the actual advisors to President Nixon. They have become advisors to other presidents since. If you watch TV, you also see them in other news stories. They were not actors. There was humour in it.

Possibly the American powers have set up this wiki page.
Jack Torrance is a fictional character in Kubrick's The Shining, not a Hollywood producer, and is played by David Winger.
David Bowman is a fictional character in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (film), not a real astronaut, and is played by Tad Brown.
Maria Vargas (lead character in The Barefoot Contessa) is played by Jacquelyn Toman and is not Buzz Aldrin's sister.
Eve Kendall is a fictional character in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest and was not Nixon's secretary (whose name was Rose Mary Woods), and is played by Barbara Rogers.
Dimitri Muffley is a play on the names from Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove (Soviet Premier Dimitri Kisov and American President Merkin Muffley) and is not a "former KGB agent." He is played by Bernard Kirschoff.
Ambrose Chapel is the name of a place in Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much, not an "ex-CIA agent", and is played by John Rogers.
George Kaplan (mentioned by narrator) is a fictional character within a fictional character in the Hitchcock film, North By Northwest.
W. A. Koenigsberg ("W. A." stands for "Woody Allen", as Koenigsberg is Woody Allen's true name) is played by Binem Oreg.
I can't believe someone like explorer could be so naive... Oh...
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angkorjohn2 wrote: Thu Jul 11, 2019 7:10 pm
fax wrote: Thu Jul 11, 2019 5:43 pm
explorer wrote: Thu Jul 11, 2019 5:22 pm The people in it were the actual advisors to President Nixon. They have become advisors to other presidents since. If you watch TV, you also see them in other news stories. They were not actors. There was humour in it.

Possibly the American powers have set up this wiki page.
Jack Torrance is a fictional character in Kubrick's The Shining, not a Hollywood producer, and is played by David Winger.
David Bowman is a fictional character in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (film), not a real astronaut, and is played by Tad Brown.
Maria Vargas (lead character in The Barefoot Contessa) is played by Jacquelyn Toman and is not Buzz Aldrin's sister.
Eve Kendall is a fictional character in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest and was not Nixon's secretary (whose name was Rose Mary Woods), and is played by Barbara Rogers.
Dimitri Muffley is a play on the names from Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove (Soviet Premier Dimitri Kisov and American President Merkin Muffley) and is not a "former KGB agent." He is played by Bernard Kirschoff.
Ambrose Chapel is the name of a place in Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much, not an "ex-CIA agent", and is played by John Rogers.
George Kaplan (mentioned by narrator) is a fictional character within a fictional character in the Hitchcock film, North By Northwest.
W. A. Koenigsberg ("W. A." stands for "Woody Allen", as Koenigsberg is Woody Allen's true name) is played by Binem Oreg.
I can't believe someone like explorer could be so naive... Oh...
Are you suggesting explorer is not a real person, but in fact a mod conspiracy to have a good chuckle at anyone who replies earnestly to 'his' posts?

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While I do believe the Americans did go to the moon, let's face it, none of us have absolute proof. I believe that the world is a sphere and not flat, but I've never seen it with my own eyes so I don't have any absolute proof to back that up either.

Unless we experience or witness something first hand, with our own eyes, all we have in life is eyewitness testimony from other people, of which we have no idea if they're telling the truth or not, photographic evidence, of which we have no idea if it's been doctored or staged, or video evidence, which, as with photographic evidence, we have no idea how, where, why or who created it.

It's human nature to be skeptical, given the lies we're all told on a daily basis from politicians, companies, advertisers, even friends and loved ones on occasion. I tend not to have strong opinions either way on conspiracy theories. Both official and conspiracy versions of events rely on being told things by other people. What makes one persons version of events any more believable than another?

Often it's not about which is the true version of events, It just comes down to who is the most believable and who has the most credible (real or doctored) evidence.
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Or we could all be part of a simulated TV show... :mrgreen:

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