Coming out of the closet

[Byrd]

What "conspiracy theories" or "fringe topics" are you willing to discuss, in public, without deriding them?

Not "what ones do you believe", because I'm not asking that.  I mean, if you were to talk with a neighbour, some random person at the pub, a junky on the bus, or something, a normal day-to-day encounter, and they started talking about, could you play along and say "oh yeah, I can believe that, I heard such-and-such...."

I collect fringe belief-systems as a hobby, like marbles, because I lost mine and want them back.

So I will happy rant along with about:

• The Illuminati
  
• Science is lies
  
• The moon landing was fake
  
• Time isn't linear
  
• American satinism
  
• They sunk the Titanic on purpose
  
• Nukes aren't real
  
• The pyramids were built with ancient high tech
  
• The pharoses used the Book of Dead to really reincarnate
  
• The past is mutable and different for everyone
  
• Donald Trump's hair
  
• Pandas are fake and were invented
  
• The earth is not a spinning ball
  
• Tesla and his pigeon
  
• The D's and the R's really aren't that different
  
• WWI was started by England and France
  
• Fluoride is mind control
  
• The universe requires consent
  
• Epstein wasn't really killed
  

and many others!  It is like having a bunch of different shoes to wear!

So, do other people do this?  What are you willing to entertain?  What are you not willing to entertain?  For example, I avoid eugenics and supremacist ideologies, because they can be so hate-adjacent.  That's just practical.

I heard this was a splinter of a conspiracy site, but without the mudslinging.  But you guys seem really in the closet?  It is crazy that everyone is afraid of seeming crazy.

I'm a hardcore skeptic, but I'm willing to discuss almost anything.  Gobekli Tepi, the Tartaran Mud Flood, Earth/pole flipping -- however, I'm likely to drag ancient sources into things as well as mathematics (I'm no mathematician but I can stumble along in geometry and in physics) and I'm picky about sources.

I do get a little testy on some of the ancient Egyptian topics (like the "light bulb" or the "helicopter" "Great Pyramid Ram Jet") but I'm willing to at least read the introductory material.  (I can read SOME hieroglyphs, which means I'm really willing to point at them and say "no, this is what this thing says."


...except when they want me to watch a video.  Give me text and something solid to back it up with.

I won't be harsh or nasty -- I always try to be polite and respectful, even when disagreeing.