I’m known for being a fan of conspiracy theories. As a man whose first tv viewing was the Watergate hearings, and is on record for having seen UFO’s and ghosts, this should not surprise anyone.

Now this post is a rehash of a post from my previous blog, but I’ve been mad deep in the conspiracy trenches for decades. A fan of people like Art Bell and Peter Levenda. It was Robert Anton Wilson who really first tripped me into the rabbit hole of conspiracy theory. And he taught me a valuable lesson:keep an open mind, but also keep a sense of humor.

That sense of humor is missing from a lot of conspiracy theory. I generally find the less of a sense of joie de vivre, the worse the ideas are. And the less actual intelligence there is behind the idea, and more dogma than anything else.

So in an effort to regulate and not go too deep down the hole that has swallowed half this country, it seems, I developed a scale. And also, when I say half this country, I consider some of the things that the liberals have fallen for nuttier than squirrel poop too. Anyone else feel stupid thinking, even for a second, that Trump was just using the GOP? Hey, I drank that water for a second, too.

In order to deal with a lot of this, I developed a ten point scale, that I egotistically call the Trevor scale. On that scale, 1 is the lowest, ideas so dumb you have to have had a railroad spike shoved through your skull to believe it.

The other end, ten, is stuff that I believe to be true beyond a shadow of a doubt. I say I believe, because some of them I can’t explain to you why I do, and are a result of what my friend Miles calls UPG, or an Unverifiable Personal Gnosis. I know this to be true, and I can’t prove it to you.

So what’s a one on the scale? Anything Qanon, the Walmart of conspiracy theory. The guy who believed that who went and shot up a pizza parlor? Used to be a customer when I was a vendor. Not the brightest bulb in the sign. Also, anyone claiming the Earth is flat,that Elvis or Tupac is alive, and Satanic messages are backwards recorded on metal records.

A better question to ask is, what’s a ten, at least for me? First off, UAV’s are real, and the government has admitted this. Ghosts are real, I’m just not sure if the explanation is supernatural. And also, Jim Morrison faked his death. I’ll explain that one sometime, if you ever meet me in real life.

So, what about all the other crazy stuff? JFK? It’s a ten that the official story is bullshit, and a three that aliens had something to do with it. It’s a nine that the mafia were involved, and a two that Marilyn Monroe was killed becuase of what she knew about it. So everything is relative.

And maybe that’s the lesson in me having the scale. That we shoudl all look at what we believe in, and question it. Not just about conspiracy theories, but about what our ideals are, and what’s important to us. And not be afraid to adjust our ideas , based on new evidence, or changing our minds. And hopefully, use that reasoning and thinking to do better, be better, and love each other better. Good night.