Conspiracy Theories

In my foray into the groups that rally around Ron Paul this past election cycle, I encountered several such people as Brady describes. There was actually a disturbing number of them who were all but quoting directly from David Icke and his delusions about shape-shifting lizard people who drink human blood.
The worst offender, in fact, was the appointed director of the Michigan campaign, Paul Garfield. He was later kicked out of the campaign, which I'm guessing was due to how much of a paranoid delusional nutjob he was.
All of these people, of course, are Truthers, and despite my detailed descriptions of the properties of strength of materials, complete with calculations and anecdotal evidence, still persist in asserting that 9/11 was a controlled demolition.
I have since parted ways with all of these people.

And this isn't so much of a conspiracy theory as general paranoid wackiness: my uncle, who has formal theological training, is of the firm belief that the rapture will occur in 2012, quoting all sorts of unrelated bullshit in recent and ancient events. This is in contrast to numerous scriptures which state that such an event will not be anticipated, as well as the numerous times various christian groups have "predicted" the rapture throughout history to no avail.

Jam it back in, in the dark.