CONVOLUTED

complex or complicated

rolled longitudinally upon itself

highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious

SYN - involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous
ANT - uncoiled

"It had become an extremely convoluted conversation and it was important for all of them to step back and try to make sense of it all."

"what most people don't realize when they get their news is that they are just reading one person's interpretation of their journey through the convoluted facts of the story."

"how can anyone get any sort of objective truth about the matter when all the facts are so convoluted."

"he had come to accept that all the lessons one received from christianity where not simple and clear but rather the message was quite convoluted."