Ok before I state the premise of this thread, I'd like to offer a free lesson on psychology and the successful sociopolitical strategy known as "discrediting a legitimate conspiracy".
Hypothetical scenario: Let's say that there are individuals who occupy very high positions of world power, and that these individuals are involved in occult ritual practices. One of the motivations behind these occult practices is the attempt to communicate with "non-human entities".
This would certainly not be something that these highly-respected individuals would want to get out to the public, especially in a largely-christian culture. So how can this threat hanging over their collective heads be effectively neutralized?
One method, which has worked time and time again (and again and again) is to widely publicize a rumor that GREATLY EXAGGERATES the controversial topic. In this way, the average man is dissuaded from even approaching the idea for consideration.
In the given hypothetical scenario, the false rumor might be that these same high-ranking political officials participate in occult practices, and during these practices they *turn into reptilian aliens and eat people*.
Viola! The danger has been completely neutralized, thanks entirely to our culture's ever-present fear of being thought of as stupid or gullible by his fellow co-worker at the water cooler. Now no man would publicly touch anything remotely related to this subject.
Ok, those of you who are clever enough to read between the lines probably already see where I'm going with this. There is *something* legitimately shady involved in the Apollo programs.
I'm not speaking from some sort of authority on this. I would not consider myself a visual expert as David deems himself. But I went to school for digital illustration/graphic design, and since then I've been working in the graphic design field with software such as photoshop for about a decade. So I'm not exactly joe six-pack off the street. And I find the arguments very compelling supporting the premise that many photos associated with the Apollo program were in fact taken in a professional studio on earth.
But honestly ask yourself, what does everyone know about this subject?
**We never landed on the moon!** That is all anyone hears!
The theory's been derided so many times on this radio show that it's become pathetic. Please discard it. It's the equivalent of saying that ufos are greys from zeta reticuli, which is basically taking a legitimately strange item and exaggerating it so that it's discounted.
Lesson 1:
YOU DO NOT BEGIN WITH A THEORY AND TRY TO PROVE IT.
Instead, in true scientific fashion you discover something that does not harmonize with prevailing ideas, and you begin there. It may imply some things, but it does not necessarily prove anything.
The most important problem with the Apollo program is that there exists strong evidence to support that several of the most well-known photos associated with it were taken on earth, in a professional studio.
Does this mean we didn't land on the moon? No.
Does this mean we landed, but wanted to hide what was on the moon? No.
What does it mean? It means that the photos were faked. For unknown reasons. That's all that can be concluded with confidence.
I can understand how someone might hastily conclude from this that we didn't land on the moon, but that conclusion is REALLY jumping the gun and making alot of assumptions.
But even resting on the photographs alone, shouldn't this interest people? Our government participated in deceiving millions, something on that scale CERTAINLY must have been for some significant reason! I don't know what that reason is, and we won't reach that point until people start screwing their head on straight and stop looking at things with such a black/white mind-set! This type of thinking is the hallmark of the poverty of western intellectual thought!
In fact, my starting hypothesis was that this was just a relatively benign case of marketing strategy - our government officials were just "glitzing up" the space program with nice fake glossy photos to garner greater public support. That is, until I noticed the ABSOLUTE REFUSAL by intelligent people to even approach the topic. It was only then that I considered that there might be something more to this subject, because I know through observation and personal experience that this sort of complete blindness is something that is often externally conditioned.
People can see conditioning and blindness in everyone else, but never in themselves. We always consider ourselves immune.
So this thread is for any intelligent person who wants to approach *specifically* the topic of the Apollo photos that have been presented as possibly fake. What is your position on the photos? Do the arguments supporting their artificial nature hold water in your mind? Why or why not? I am genuinely interested in another thinking person's opinion. It doesn't matter if you're not involved in the visual or photographic fields, I find that any thinking person can offer a unique and useful perspective.
Non-thinkers need not apply.
Hypothetical scenario: Let's say that there are individuals who occupy very high positions of world power, and that these individuals are involved in occult ritual practices. One of the motivations behind these occult practices is the attempt to communicate with "non-human entities".
This would certainly not be something that these highly-respected individuals would want to get out to the public, especially in a largely-christian culture. So how can this threat hanging over their collective heads be effectively neutralized?
One method, which has worked time and time again (and again and again) is to widely publicize a rumor that GREATLY EXAGGERATES the controversial topic. In this way, the average man is dissuaded from even approaching the idea for consideration.
In the given hypothetical scenario, the false rumor might be that these same high-ranking political officials participate in occult practices, and during these practices they *turn into reptilian aliens and eat people*.
Viola! The danger has been completely neutralized, thanks entirely to our culture's ever-present fear of being thought of as stupid or gullible by his fellow co-worker at the water cooler. Now no man would publicly touch anything remotely related to this subject.
Ok, those of you who are clever enough to read between the lines probably already see where I'm going with this. There is *something* legitimately shady involved in the Apollo programs.
I'm not speaking from some sort of authority on this. I would not consider myself a visual expert as David deems himself. But I went to school for digital illustration/graphic design, and since then I've been working in the graphic design field with software such as photoshop for about a decade. So I'm not exactly joe six-pack off the street. And I find the arguments very compelling supporting the premise that many photos associated with the Apollo program were in fact taken in a professional studio on earth.
But honestly ask yourself, what does everyone know about this subject?
**We never landed on the moon!** That is all anyone hears!
The theory's been derided so many times on this radio show that it's become pathetic. Please discard it. It's the equivalent of saying that ufos are greys from zeta reticuli, which is basically taking a legitimately strange item and exaggerating it so that it's discounted.
Lesson 1:
YOU DO NOT BEGIN WITH A THEORY AND TRY TO PROVE IT.
Instead, in true scientific fashion you discover something that does not harmonize with prevailing ideas, and you begin there. It may imply some things, but it does not necessarily prove anything.
The most important problem with the Apollo program is that there exists strong evidence to support that several of the most well-known photos associated with it were taken on earth, in a professional studio.
Does this mean we didn't land on the moon? No.
Does this mean we landed, but wanted to hide what was on the moon? No.
What does it mean? It means that the photos were faked. For unknown reasons. That's all that can be concluded with confidence.
I can understand how someone might hastily conclude from this that we didn't land on the moon, but that conclusion is REALLY jumping the gun and making alot of assumptions.
But even resting on the photographs alone, shouldn't this interest people? Our government participated in deceiving millions, something on that scale CERTAINLY must have been for some significant reason! I don't know what that reason is, and we won't reach that point until people start screwing their head on straight and stop looking at things with such a black/white mind-set! This type of thinking is the hallmark of the poverty of western intellectual thought!
In fact, my starting hypothesis was that this was just a relatively benign case of marketing strategy - our government officials were just "glitzing up" the space program with nice fake glossy photos to garner greater public support. That is, until I noticed the ABSOLUTE REFUSAL by intelligent people to even approach the topic. It was only then that I considered that there might be something more to this subject, because I know through observation and personal experience that this sort of complete blindness is something that is often externally conditioned.
People can see conditioning and blindness in everyone else, but never in themselves. We always consider ourselves immune.
So this thread is for any intelligent person who wants to approach *specifically* the topic of the Apollo photos that have been presented as possibly fake. What is your position on the photos? Do the arguments supporting their artificial nature hold water in your mind? Why or why not? I am genuinely interested in another thinking person's opinion. It doesn't matter if you're not involved in the visual or photographic fields, I find that any thinking person can offer a unique and useful perspective.
Non-thinkers need not apply.
