{"id":4884,"date":"2006-05-31T10:13:03","date_gmt":"2006-05-31T14:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4884"},"modified":"2022-10-10T09:18:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T13:18:57","slug":"the-creepy-underground-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4884","title":{"rendered":"The Creepy Underground Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not big on conspiracy theories, as fascinating as I find them. (Ahem<\/a>.) But there is a certain organization where I make an exception. You know how conspiracy theorists will believe anything – as long as it supports their view that there is, in fact, a man behind the curtain? They totally believe. It’s not that they believe IN the man behind the curtain. It’s that: they believe that there actually IS a man behind the curtain. I don’t. There is no man behind the curtain. We’re all just trying to find our way. There is no Uber-knowledge. Nobody knows all. You can’t get up high enough to see the whole picture. Even if you are King of the World. You just have to struggle through, try to make a difference in your own small way – however that may be – and take a healthily skeptical stance towards everything you read – and do your best to be reasonable, compassionate, and intelligent. Conspiracy theorists have vast webs of fantasy going on … because they truly believe that there is a curtain out there – and if they could just draw it back – they would come to a place where everything MAKES SENSE. Connections from here to there, A leads to B, and so on. They are waiting for that Uber “A-ha” moment. I don’t quite succumb to that mindset myself.<\/p>\n

Except.<\/p>\n

With a certain band of volcano-worshipping e-meter-reading antidepressant-hating nutjobs, I find myself in the realm of the conspiracy theorists. I’ll believe anything. I believe there IS a man behind the curtain. I also believe that I know his name. I believe the organization itself is capable of keeping a secret (although the Internet is cramping their Xenu-phobic style) … I also believe that the organization itself of which I speak is capable of being – uhm – ORGANIZED (as opposed to, say, any government organization whatsoever. I don’t believe government could organize itself to tie its own shoes if it put its mind to it. I think it’s kind of cute that conspiracy theorists have such a naive belief in the capability of bureaucracy to be efficient, organized, and secretive. So no. I just can’t succumb to any vast conspiracy theory when it comes to government agencies.) But C0$? I leap willingly into Area 51 land.<\/p>\n

So here we go.<\/p>\n

Check this weirdness out.<\/a> I have always had a feeling (based on NO PROOF) that something fishy was up with the deal struck between the IRS and the culty-wulties. It just didn’t feel right to me. (See? Conspiracy theory madness. It’s all based on “feelings”. But still. I trust my instincts. I’m like Miss Clavel. “Something is not right!”)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not big on conspiracy theories, as fascinating as I find them. (Ahem.) But there is a certain organization where I make an exception. You know how conspiracy theorists will believe anything – as long as it supports their view … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4884"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179243,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4884\/revisions\/179243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}