r/conspiracy, What are the best guides, books, concepts, tools, or resources for new or advanced truth seekers/conspiracy theorists who are trying to sort out what is real?

17  2011-05-21 by Mumberthrax

Things like

  • how to identify and handle disinformation,
  • how to establish good PR,
  • how to organize data or check for sources,
  • how to effectively engage friends or family,
  • profiles on people to be aware of (regardless of whether you think they're disinfo or not, e.g. Sorcha Faal, Alex Jones, David Icke, David Wilcock, Bill Cooper, Richard Gage, James Randi, David Ray Griffin, Robert Anton Wilson, Al Bielek, Richard Hoagland, Phil Schneider, Phil Plait, Judge Napolitano, Jesse Ventura, etc.),
  • maps of the popular theories or ideologies in the fringe or conspiracy theory world,
  • critical thinking resources,
  • coping with paranoia and the shock that some information can cause,
  • glossaries of common conspiracy theory terms and abbreviations,
  • internet tools to help with information retrieval and archival
  • etc.

I want to compile a list of the best of such resources and have it linked on the sidebar here. r/conspiracy is cool, but with a little more organization it could be so much more valuable and educational.

Here are a few things that I have found useful:

Conceptual tools:

Internet Tools:

Data Organization/presentation:

I think that a really valuable tool would be a good timeline application that can filter data by attributes set for each entry (such as the originating source) or can show different hypothetical histories overlaid and highlight the conflicts between each source.

Here are a few lists of conspiracy theories that turned out to be true:

Additionally any specific information resources or internet communities that you access regularly or consider to have interesting if not necessarily always credible or verified information

Examples:

edit: grammar

37 comments

4  Reozo 2011-05-21

This is great. I find it quite a challenge myself sifting through the endless number of narratives pertaining to either specific events or facts, to the larger scale of all reality. I agree, compiling good critical thinking and analysis resources would be of great use here.

I do like r/conspiracy, but I still am unsure weather some things I hear are actually what they seem to be, or are more wild goose chases and dead end theories. And though it is probably safe to say there are some counter truth collaborates and contributors (aware or not) among these forums, the people of this forum have my thanks and gratitude for furthering the fight to know what is really going on in our world today.

3  Mumberthrax 2011-05-21

I like the way you put that. :)

3  love_each_other 2011-05-21

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/watch-online/ Has a ton of free streaming docs- check out#78 Wake Up Call for sure. Good luck in your quest for truth, its a brave yet scary one. Wake up as many as you can so we can stand up together.

2  SovereignMan 2011-05-21

Pilots for 9/11 Truth

Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth

Edit: Perhaps the Wikipedia page on logical fallacies would be of benefit too.

1  Mumberthrax 2011-05-21

Excellent. Thank you. :)

2  SovereignMan 2011-05-21

You're welcome.

2  [deleted] 2011-05-21

http://rigint.blogspot.com/

1  Mumberthrax 2011-05-21

Thanks. :) Any articles in particular that you enjoyed from that one?

2  [deleted] 2011-05-21

Check out the indexed list of topics on the right hand side, scanning down. I like deep politics and The Military-Occult Complex, ritual abuse/mind control, and "High Weirdness".

2  [deleted] 2011-05-21

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1  EtherDais 2011-05-21

Blogger sez it's not there?

2  Sroek 2011-05-21

http://theintelhub.com/

2  [deleted] 2011-05-21

www.deoxy.org

1  [deleted] 2011-05-21

http://whatreallyhappened.com/

2  Mumberthrax 2011-05-21

Thanks. :)

0  SovereignMan 2011-05-21

One of the best. The site is down right now due to construction though.

-1  Sophialala 2011-05-21

http://whatreallyhappened.com/

very obvious dissinfo...

3  Mumberthrax 2011-05-21

Can you elaborate on how you came to this determination?

2  [deleted] 2011-05-21

How do you determine disinfo from regular idiots?

1  Mumberthrax 2011-05-21

I just found this post from a few days ago regarding conspiracy blogs/news sites: http://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/hehx9/rconspiracy_what_are_some_of_your_best_conspiracy/

Sites listed there are:

I think these kinds of lists are good, and I'm still really mostly interested in guides and tools and things to help sift through the misinformation and disinformation.

1  MarkhovCheney 2011-05-21

Just read Illuminatus! and make sure you fucking understand it.

1  Mumberthrax 2011-05-21

Haven't read this yet. How do I make sure I fucking understand it?

1  MarkhovCheney 2011-05-21

If you think you understand it, you don't fucking understand it. That's the point!

1  Mumberthrax 2011-05-21

hmm... so it isn't to help us to understand things then? My sarcasm detector is broken and joke-meter is too, so it's hard for me to tell what you're actually saying.

1  MarkhovCheney 2011-05-21

Get off the internet and read Bob's books. Go! GO!

2  [deleted] 2011-05-21

I've been looking for Illuminatus! forever and I can't find it in stores. Do I have to order it online?

2  EtherDais 2011-05-21

It's all on amazon, or in an independant/interesting bookstore (not Borders) Or you could torrent it. I would have said go buy several of his books up until a few years ago but I'm not sure who gets the cash now that he is deactivated.

1  MarkhovCheney 2011-05-21

I don't know anymore, either, but his website is an amazon partner. Better that than just ordering through amazon. Sometimes you'll see Illuminatus! or Schroedinger's Cat in used stores, but they tend to go quickly. If you order from amazon, jsut be sure do do it through a partnership like Bob's website or cryptogon.

0  Sophialala 2011-05-21

By reading Robert Anton Willson's other books, especially Prometheus rising and the Schroedinger's cat & Cosmic trigger trilogies.

1  MarkhovCheney 2011-05-21

It's still pretty easy to get lost in crazy theories.

1  Hughjarse 2011-05-21

I posted this just the other day:

NARCAP great studies of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena. OK maybe not quite from a conspiracy point of view, but these guys are generally above ridicule from the debunkers, due to the fact, they do not endorse their studies for the support of UFOs or extraterrestrials.

I call the UFO phenomenon a conspiracy of silence on the part of most governments.

0  mvlazysusan 2011-05-21

Nice try All-CIA-du.

1  Mumberthrax 2011-05-21

I beg your pardon?

2  EtherDais 2011-05-21

I think he was just joking around. But seriously - read some Robert Anton Wilson. Actually, start by watching Maybe Logic. Google it up, and you won't be let down.

-1  Sophialala 2011-05-21

  • critical thinking resources,

Might want to add:

http://www.armageddonconspiracy.co.uk/

https://the-movement.info/

1  Mumberthrax 2011-05-21

Thanks for those. I'm not certain I would classify them as specifically about critical thinking per se, but they are definitely topics that require some strong critical thinking before making any firm decisions upon.