Popular Mechanic’s magazine sent an intrepid reporter for an inside look into the fascinating world of conspiracy cruises. This one took place aboard the Ruby Princess in January 2016. For $3,000 US attendees indulged in a full week of "alternative science". Some of the lectures by conspiracy experts:
--Astral
Possession, Psychic Vampirism, and Exorcism
--Gaia-Sophia,
Timelines and Global Alchemy
--How to
Control the World with Mind Machines
--Are GMOs and
Roundup Causing Disease in Millions?
Secret truths
are revealed for all the world’s global treacheries and cover-ups, including:
GMOs,
bee colony collapse, global warming, climate change, HIV, autism, big pharma, vaccinations,
fluoridation, forbidden archeology, Federal Reserve, World Bank, JFK, September
11, Star Wars agenda, nuclear plants, chemtrails, crop circles, IRS, Fukushima,
NASA, pentagon, Waco, Malaysia 370, Gulf Oil Spill, Halliburton, Ruby Ridge,
Vatican, New World Order, surveillance, Area 51, population management,
subliminal ads, identity chips, 2nd amendment, and much more.
One of the
presenters was Laura Eisenhower—great-granddaughter of Dwight. Her homily was
on aliens from other planets living among us in disguise. These imposters
include prominent U.S. politicians.
New
York Times
best-selling author Dannion Brinkley told the audience he had died and risen
from the dead three times. The first time he was struck by lightning, which
sent him on a surreal journey to the great beyond.
Discredited
anti-vaxxer Andrew Wakefield continued on his vaccines cause autism diatribe.
Author
Leonard Horowitz “theorized the AIDS and Ebola viruses are genocidal weapons
engineered by the U.S. government to depopulate the planet through vaccination
programs.” He also pontificated that
mankind was evil and violent because of the Rockefeller Foundation messing with
the universe’s vibrations. World peace could be achieved by tuning all music to
a frequency of 528 hertz. The current 440 hertz of standard tuning “aggravates
the pineal gland, making all of us emotionally distressed, sicker, and more
destructive.”
Another
presenter became very emotional, as the Popular
Mechanic’s reporter wrote:
"I am living a nightmare!" he sputtered, his
voice rising like water starting to boil. "Every day of my life is like a
roller coaster in The Twilight Zone.
But I do this because I will not stand by and watch
this genocide!" His eyes began to fill with tears. "I
think that people should be able to choose how they are going to die, and not
be wiped out by the government!"
A
documentary was shown about the Paris terrorist attack on the Bataclan concert
hall in November 2015. The sinister, secretive, and multi-layered shenanigans
going on are truly mind-bending. A summary of the conspiracy:
“Hollywood
super-agent Ari Emanuel (who represents Eagles of Death Metal, the band that
was playing at the Bataclan when it was attacked) was in cahoots with the
Lagardère Group, a French media conglomerate that had purchased the Bataclan in
September 2015. Because Qatar Holding has a stake in Lagardère, and because the
government of Qatar has been criticized for tacitly allowing terrorist groups
to do their banking in the United Arab Emirates, and because—and this is where
they totally lost me—Ari Emanuel is the brother of Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of
Chicago, the Horokane believed that Lagardère must have orchestrated the attack
with the help of Ari Emanuel.”
The writer
concludes with an attempt to get behind the motives and the psychological need
for conspiracies:
“The
conspiracy community does the same thing. Its emotional power is much stronger
than facts. It offers a worldview in which chaos, randomness, happenstance—the
messy, frightening qualities of life that science depends upon and our minds
find so hard to accept—simply do not exist. For some, a sinister reason for
life's disappointments is more satisfying than no reason at all.”
Inside the mind of conspiracy
theorists
Two studies
published in the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology
by Jan-Willem van Prooijen, associate professor in social and organizational
psychology at VU University Amsterdam, have concluded that believers in
conspiracy theories have one important factor in common: they feel a sense of
powerlessness and a lack of control over their lives. According to the Time article:
“Conspiracy
theories often crop up during times of uncertainty and fear: after terrorist
strikes, financial crises, high-profile deaths and natural disasters. Past
research suggests that if people feel they don’t have control over a situation,
they’ll try to make sense of it and find out what happened. ‘The sense-making
leads them to connect dots that aren’t necessarily connected in reality,’ van
Prooijen says. He and his team showed that the opposite is also true: feeling a
sense of control is protective against believing conspiracy theories.” http://time.com/3997033/conspiracy-theories/
Research
published in a 2010 issue of the scientific journal The Psychologist found that believers in conspiracy theories “are
more likely to be cynical about the world in general and politics in
particular. Conspiracy theories also seem to be more compelling to those with
low self-worth, especially with regard to their sense of agency in the world at
large. Conspiracy theories appear to be a way of reacting to uncertainty and
powerlessness.
“Economic
recessions, terrorist attacks and natural disasters are massive, looming
threats, but we have little power over when they occur or how or what happens
afterward. In these moments of powerlessness and uncertainty, a part of the
brain called the amygdala kicks into action. Paul Whalen, a scientist at
Dartmouth College who studies the amygdala, says it doesn’t exactly do anything
on its own. Instead, the amygdala jump-starts the rest of the brain into
analytical overdrive — prompting repeated reassessments of information in an
attempt to create a coherent and understandable narrative, to understand what
just happened, what threats still exist and what should be done now. This may
be a useful way to understand how, writ large, the brain’s capacity for
generating new narratives after shocking events can contribute to so much
paranoia in this country.” http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/magazine/why-rational-people-buy-into-conspiracy-theories.html?_r=1
Primary Sources
Come Aboard,
Ye Who Seek The Truth http://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/a21919/conspiracy-theory-cruise/
Additional Resources
21 Quick &
Undeniable Facts Exposing Conspiracy Theorists ……. …. http://www.mybestbuddymedia.com/2013/12/conspiracy-theories.html
Sinister Schemes: Unmasking Conspiracy Theorists …….. http://www.mybestbuddymedia.com/2016/01/sinister-schemes-unmasking-conspiracy.html
Anti-Vaccine: Fraud, Paranoia & Vulnerable Children at Risk ….….. http://www.mybestbuddymedia.com/2014/12/anti-vaccine-fraud-paranoia-vulnerable.html
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Jerry De Luca is a Christian freelance writer who loves perusing dozens of interesting and informative publications. When he finds any useful info he summarizes it, taking the main points, and creates a (hopefully) helpful blog post.
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