So I used to be a big-time conspiracy theorist, but fell out of it over time. Then I watched "V for Vendetta" last night. I then discovered the group "Anonymous". While I do not agree with some of their "operations", they have a point. I continually dislike where our government is going, and I agree that change is needed.
What are your thoughts on conspiracy theories? I don't care if you believe them or not(although its open for discussion), I care if you think they are moral thoughts for Christians.
BTW, I live in the United States of America, and here, we have the Constitution of the United States of America. This was not written by a government, it was written by the people. Therefore, the government serves the Constitution(and the People), so a rebelling against the government is an unwritten "right" of the People. And it is one that I hope I never have to use, but one I am fully willing to use. As "V" puts it, the people should never fear its government, the government should fear its people.
Also, sorry fi I wrote this in the wrong section or something(hate to make more work for our mods!), but I figured it was advice.
There are plenty of real conspiracies in the world, and a massive amount of intrigue and counter-intrigue, so "no", studying conspiracy theories is not sinful.
We are Christians serving the Kingdom of Heaven, all nations are under the Kingdom of Heaven.
We are tasked with obedience to the Holy Testimony of Jesus Christ.
Any nation under the Kingdom of Heaven may be considered a vassal state, at best. At worst, they may be considered a state in rebellion to the Kingdom of Heaven.
However, as it is said that the United States secretly controls many nations, and that their law enforcement and intelligence capabilities are extremely profound -- so much moreso are the capabilities of the Kingdom of Heaven.
People do not understand that God has complete control of all the nations, and when they rebel or where they have corruption they will be brought to justice.
They assume that man is in control, and that where man has great technology and cunning, that God is weak, but this is far from the truth. It is, instead, a trap for man, for his pride and his unwillingness to believe.
There are many conspiracies today, as there have been in the past, and that you have dabbled in this subject can most assuredly be dangerous to you as we are tasked with judging rightly. To judge rightly against such thick darkness as where the great battles of intrigue and counter-intrigue exist is a very difficult area to judge.
'To the cunning, God shows himself as shrewd'.
"Anonymous" has involved itself in some extremely serious crimes which likely have greatly ired the capacities of the United States government. You should understand this fully before aligning your self with this group.
For instance, when the federal government, the FBI, had a meeting with the British government over Anonymous, Anonymous tape recorded this teleconference and posted it online.
Anonymous has also penetrated defense contractors and stolen many classified documents from them, which they have posted online.
They have attacked many major infrastructure companies, including the NYSE and Mastercard. They have attacked the CIA and downed their website, albeit simply by a DDoS which children can utilize.
It is very possible that Anonymous is connected to a major world intelligence or law enforcement agency in order to execute some of their more diabolical and successful missions.
I would imagine that the fact they have hacked the FBI at such a core level as to know when they were having a critical teleconference with an allied state and to be able to hack that teleconference indicates they have achieved extremely deep level penetration of the federal agencies.
This is likely very clear to US and foreign law enforcement and intelligence agencies. And, with the FBI in particular, there are likely a great many secret and powerful resources leveled at Anonymous and anyone who would involve themselves in it.
I will further state that if you are dabbling in conspiracy theories, and considering engaging in direct action activities against major corporations and governmental world powers that you should understand you are entering into a vast, very dark cloud of intrigue and counter-intrigue which you are woefully unprepared for.
It takes black bag operatives decades to learn the arts of intrigue and counter-intrigue. It is not enough to merely read some conspiracy books which tend to be poorly referenced and often the work of disinformation masters. It is not enough to watch conspiracy documentaries.
You would do well to study all of the main open source material out there, on the history of intrigue in this past one hundred and fifty years and understand the morality and ins and outs of the subject.
If you approach the subject assuming you know who the good guys and bad guys are from a singular, subjective religious or political point of view you are blinding your self to the reality of the situation.
And book learning or documentary watching is also not enough.
As for "V for Vendetta", the movie, the writers of that movie skewed the subject to make it an anti-US, anti-Iraq war topic which was topical at that time. While this can be useful to reach people, that is not what the actual material is really about.
The author of that material did not agree with the movie adaptation.
It should be noted that you should not take such fictional material literally, nor polarize it literally.
Far more useful work some in Anonymous have abided by, such as Fight Club. But the Watchmen and the Invisibles, and the graphic novel, Wanted are far more useful in terms of getting an eagle's eye view of matters.
Of course, these are just drops in the sea in terms of studying intrigue, and counter-intrigue and these materials of fiction were actually about far different subjects then some black and white material situation.
