Stephen Colbert Stands up to the media and the President (Page 2 of 2)

I'm bringing this thread back up to draw attention to a phenomenon that may interest folks here, and maybe also enlist some help.

A few things have happened since my last post above.  On the Colbert pseudo-fan site they moved the message board to its own domain, http://www.colboard.com and added a sub-forum titled "Conspiracy Theories" to dump all the 9/11 stuff in since it was starting to bother the normal people.  Of course 9/11 is hardly the only subject of conspiracy theories, so before long myself and a few others started posting all manner of intricate Illuminati-type schemes illustrating how our world is constructed.  It's not huge but there is a receptive audience for this material, plus it is a *comedy* forum so there is always the underlying desire to lighten things up and make funny what normally isn't very funny.

So eventually discussion rolled around to what is sometimes crudely called the 'ultimate' conspiracy, namely that the Earth is under the control of energy-stealing reptilian aliens or whatever they are and this is the driving force behind the Illuminati/NWO.  Run-of the-mill stuff if you're versed in it but probably a little much for the average cable viewer to handle in one swallow.  Not too many people there seem to buy into this, which is probably a good thing, but there is now a running joke about reptiles/lizards ruling the world.

It's encouraging to even see this discussion taking place on a corporate-owned forum but it tends to reach a plateau pretty quickly.  As people here know, there are so many more elements to what is going on other than just reptiles or something like them helping the NWO cause 9/11, but the forum title "Conspiracy Theories" tends to keep the discussion from branching out into the more complex elements of the big picture.  They recently added another sub-forum entitled "Religion" which is a step in some direction but I don't need to tell you folks the problems that go with using that word.

I know cross-promoting message boards is a dicey netiquette issue but I have posted links to NR over there a few times.  I am trying to get a better idea of how to connect the idea of reptiles ruling us to the more positive aspects of metaphysics and spirituality.  I know it can be simplified down to the reptiles being a symbol for evil in terms of religion but this type of over-simplification seems to be what keeps people from thinking about things more broadly and trying to figure out what's really going on. 

It's quite an interesting time right now in so many respects.  The legislative balance of power in the U.S. appears to be about to shift to the other party, over 3/4 of people in the U.S. have trouble believing the official story of 9/11, and theories about reptiles ruling the earth are in theory getting used as material for comedy show writers.