Favourite Things Friday

Welcome to this little linky party we like to call Favourite Things Friday. It's simple to join in. Write a post about one of your favourite things and link up at the bottom of this post. Then people will troop around and look at your favourite thing. I never cease to be amazed by some of the favourites that pop up each week. FTF is all about writing about something you love. 

So this week  I was surfing the Internet for lack of anything better to do. (I really need to go back to work - I can just see that if I didn't work I'd turn into a complete Internet /couch potato ) when I stumbled across a  reference to a conspiracy theory and before I knew it - I was googling like a mad woman to see what other conspiracy theories were out there. There are heaps. I'd never really thought about them in depth before.

The definition of conspiracy is a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act /a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose.

There's the kind of "out there " conspiracies. There are utterly ridiculous conspiracy theories. And there are some "there -could-be-a-grain-of truth-in that " theories too.

Did you know that Elvis didn't really die in '77? He's in witness protection because he got fed up with being famous.  Paul McCartney was replaced by a look a like in '66 when he died in a car accident, there  are photo's on the Internet that allegedly prove it, and apparently 20% of Americans believe the moon landings were fake.

The biggest conspiracy theory in Australia's history is that Harold Holt (Australian Prime Minister 1966-67) was murdered or became a communist spy for the Chinese when he allegedly disappeared off Cheviot beach in 1967, while in office. The likely outcome , that he drowned and was eaten by sea creatures, is too simple to be true apparently.

In Australia we have our own Area 51 and it's called Pine Gap. If you believe the conspiracy theorists we're doing all sorts of secret experiments /living with the aliens there.  Ditto Area 51 in Nevada US. That's where the Roswell UFO wreckage /weather balloon (take your pick ) ended up. The governments involved are keeping it from us because they don't want a mass panic or to share the alien knowledge with us just yet.

Two of the most well known conspiracy theories arose after the assassination of JFK and the 9/11 attacks.  If you google any either of those subjects it brings up a ton of references. One reference on the Internet states that over 50% of people feel Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone. The 9/11 attacks have conspiracy theorists all in a lather for two possible reasons, did the government have advance warning and do nothing to stop it or were they involved?

Princess Diana's death was not an accident if you believe in conspiracy theory. Nup - she was done in by members of MI5 because she was too popular and might have married someone the Queen didn't like.

Some supposition is just downright wacky- like the people in power such as world political leaders and royalty are in fact lizards in human disguise, and bar codes are intended to control people.

So my favourite thing this week is conspiracy theories. Some of them may well have some merit- some are just downright ridiculous but whatever the case is they provided me with hours of amusement and entertainment this week. Some also stimulated a lot of thought.  

The truth is out there. What do you think?