SireJoe SireJoe:
Whether size has bearing or not isnt the point. Its the way things appear or sound. Its like a fly running into you at full speed....or at least thats the way it would appear. Its like 10,000 lbs against 1,000,000 lbs. Its just hard to fathom something so big coming down so fast from a fookin plane.
What about a bullet hitting someone. Mass and velocity combine to make a lot of force. Compound that with the bullet exploding into a ball of fire on impact.
Conspiracy theory is a seemingly solely American characteristic. The conceit of the fiercely independent individual manifests itself in unmatched distrust in their government.
There is a willingness to believe the most elaborate explanations and belief in secrets held from public view, somehow guarded with a discretion and efficacy foreign to our nature - the crueller and more nefarious and offensive to God and Man the better.
Knowledge and Secularism relegates the concept of the literal Satan to comic books and movies so the "modern civilized mind" creates a new unseen "Satan" in the securely guarded and inaccessible offices and mysterious places from which Power is wielded.
One can never convince a CT to give up their faith.