Reply #20: Human minds desire knowledge and reasons

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Thus when something terrible happens they desperately want to know why. There isn't always a why. But this does not change the emotional need to know why. Thus conspiracy theories are born.

Quakes happen all the time. This is an active planet. Usually they go unreported because they do not affect locations that we in our selfishness are concerned about. But when they do appear in areas that affect us or are so large that they may scare us they get reported. And then people start wondering if they are signs. No. They are quakes. Its what the planet does.

We humans do not control the world. There is not a small group of humans controlling world events. We are at best able to influence the world and hope to influence events. But there are several billion individual wills at play and no one can control them all to the degree necissary for grand conspiracy theories to even have a chance of succeeding.