First of all, you don't have to believe everyone's opinions, but at least entertain the idea with an open mind.
I'll start with mine. I've been following conspiracies somewhat since the loose change movie about 911 when I was a kid but I was generally asleep to most other things. Mine happened last summer when I'd open Facebook or Instagram and everywhere I looked I'd be bombarded with some girl named Greta Thunberg, everyone praising her like some prophet of God or something. It got so bad that I finally asked myself why is every media station cramming this down my throat? Why do they want me swallow this up so bad? So that's where I started researching, I found a website called realclimatescience and started reading his research and articles. It was actually real scientific research and mentions facts that no other media has told me. I won't get too specific on all this but after a lot of research I came to the conclusion that I've been lied to about the climate crisis. Massively. By so many different institutions and media companies, it's mind boggling to comprehend that so many people are either in on the lie, or have also been duped by it. This started another awakening. From then on, I learned that when the mainstream media are all forcing the same narrative all over, you should always question it, and basically, lean in the opposite direction. Next thing I know, covid happens, then George Floyd, then the election. Once you catch on and wake up to the lies, they're easy to spot.
For whoever read the whole thing, I'd be happy to go deeper into anything I mentioned that you disagree with. Otherwise, what's the story of you waking up to the lies?
9/11.
I initially believed whatever I saw on TV.
Then someone showed me a short clip of the pentagon footage and the many discrepancies.
I went down that rabbit hole and learned about building 7, the "hijackers" who were alive and well in their home countries, the passports that magically flew through the fireball and survived, Larry Silverstein, the dancing you-know-whos who just happened to be there to document the event etc.
Too many loose ends for the official explanation to make sense. The scary part is that within only a few years, most people forgot about it and went about their lives normally.
Same here. 9/11 was what woke me up to the evil and deceit of MSM, govt, and the deep state. Then came realizing that they really worship Lucifer. Unreal the reality of the world. But all we can do is continue to wake people as much as we can, because it is now literally life vs death for all of us. Fighting on the side of light,
After 9/11 I remember the Discovery Channel was to put on a program addressing the conspiracy theories surrounding the attack on 9/11. I watched it, and not one of the 'theories' addressed I had ever heard, and they were the most outlandish and poorly thought out conspiracies ever contrived.
Then it hit me. They are literally not going to address the real conspiracies. They set up this straw man and painted everything that went against the narrative as stupid. They weren't allowed to even recognise anything counter narrative.
Nobody bought it, just like no one believes Joe Biden won or Epstein killed themselves. But in 15 years, what's going to be on record?
When I was a teenager my first redpill was that capitalism is bad and the elites don't care about us. I became a typical college anarchist for a good decade. I knew there was something up with the world, although my perception of what was wrong at the time was limited.
I figured that 9/11 was probably an inside job, that we probably didn't go to the Moon, JFK was probably assassinated by someone else, etc etc, but never really delved into it too much, never really paid too much heed to what seemed like the crazier type of conspiracies. Just continued with my "capitalism is destroying the planet free the working man!" mantra.
Then when one day I was in Vietnam and I met this American guy who was really into conspiracy theories. He had interviewed John Lear himself (famous former CIA pilot) and one night when we were drinking he started telling me about 9/11, from perspectives I had never even considered before and I just found it all so nuts. This is what set me down the rabbit hole.
I went home that night, drunk, and did some reading into 9/11. Fast forward to 6am and I'm stone cold sober, freaked out and mindblown, having read about and discovered all the occult links, the Satanic symbolism, the DEW technology, the insane amount of fake science and disinfo that followed it, the corruption, Israel, the NWO, etc etc etc.
Life hasn't really been the same since. I have naturally moved far away from communism since then. I've managed to redpill a few people. Since going down this rabbit hole I've discovered so many truths, so many mysteries, so many lies... I find it insane when I think back to myself all those years ago, totally plugged into the Matrix. That American guy changed my life, and even though we moved to different countries again we remain good friends and stay in touch.
Moon landing was real. The footage was fake. Dont ask me why
How come?
Paranormal/supernatural encounters as a young lad.
While I watched the looting and burning non-stop raw video footages
9/11
I was a long time democrat voter and always believed that lie "the news has a left leaning bias". In 2016 I was a heavy Bernie supporter. Then I saw the massive fake news operation used against Bernie. I saw the massive online shill campaigns. Then I saw the exact same thing done against Trump. At that point I started seeing through the propaganda everywhere. Every time I see an article, I look for the lies.
You mean "science has a left leaning bias", right? That's what I always hear, but it doesn't make any sense.
I HATE that its so difficult to circumvent major media when discussing stuff
Years back I found it interesting that people truly thought, in some occasions, the complete opposite of popular opinion on spectacular events like the moon landing or the September 11th attacks on New York in 2001. More interesting than I actually believed it myself.
I believe though, that under pressure and watchful eyes, people don't always have the mind-power to stop themselves from accidentally saying what they really mean to say about certain things. That's why when I saw a multiple videos of breifings/meetings where people slipped up saying that "we'll finally be able to leave low Earth orbit" or "when United 93 was shot down", I really started to pay more attention.
I wouldn't really consider myself a full-blown conspiracy theorist at this point, because I think that term is, right now, synonymous with "idiot" (sadly). I more just like to see as many sides of any issue as I can and try to form my own opinions on what seems most reasonable and likely based off of the subjects past.
When I was ten I bought a book from the used bookstore called The Day We Bombed Utah. I think it was supposed to be an antinuke book but I was always anti-authoritarian so I got an anti-government mindset from it. They hurt and killed people and covered it up and denied it all. After that I read books about the government and other authorities hurting people and I became extremely cautious. I remember they wanted to fingerprint us in school. I refused and my mom got called. I told her I did nothing wrong and didn't want my fingerprints on record for them to fuck with. My mom said 'honey, it's to identify your dead body but I'll get you out of it.' So I guess I woke up about 30 years ago.
9/11, but only years after the fact. I was quite young when it happened and accepted the official story without a question. Years later, around 2010 I guess, I stumbled upon a youtube video of a physics professor talking about the issues with the official story. I didn't reallyyy believe it at first, but it interested me enough to look for more videos about this subject and I fell down the rabbit hole. Curiously, I can not find about 95% of the videos that I've watched on youtube back then anymore.
JFK. I didn't question it when the media told me that Mark Lane was crazy and Jim Garrison was a grifter. Then documents started being released, drip by drip . There was even a Congressional investigation which came to the conclusion that the Warren Commission was a fraud. It made a skeptic out of me.
Now, I always question the official narrative and look for alternative explanations. If someone wants me believe something, they're going to have to prove it, first.
I've been skeptical my entire life. It's a strange journey .
When I was 5 my older sisters, 9 and 13, woke me up on Christmas Eve and brought me to the top of the staircase to show me that Santa wasn't real. My sister's then made me like about it for 7 years. My parents grew concerned because they thought I believed in santa at 13.
It sucked. It made me question a lot more than I really should have as I grew older. I'd read between every line. Meticulously study every flinch of body language. Body language became my mastery. With it came an understanding of how people speak and what their language patterns meant in terms of the intentions, emotions, beliefs.
Its a terrible thing. I'm grateful to have it, but seeing people's mindset before they talk is a burden. I've learned to not wait. I'd interrupt the teach or my parents or someone more "experienced" with life and beat them to the message they wanted to convey. Most don't like that. People don't like it when they feel you got a glimpse of their psyche. It's a burden.
By the time 9/11 came around, I had already tried to blind my skill . I decided to ignore my intuition and understanding by blurring my vision when people would attempt to speak to me. I wished not to read between the lines. So, I saw 9/11 through my own understanding and it didn't sit right with me. I ignored it. It took me 3 years of suppressing my understanding before I decided to investigate.
It was a pivotal moment in my embracing again of my intuition and natural understanding of my surroundings. I still struggle with the straightforwardness, but I've learned that it's not me who's wrong, it's them for being upset that I saw into their minds.
I guess I rambled.
Merry Christmas
This is a great post,, never put my experience into words. Very similar. What'd you think about covid ? It's been hurting my soul to listen to the media lie and lie and lie some more.
I find covid protocols to be the most anti human things I've ever experienced. I felt like it was blow out of proportion the second my boss began being "worried" about it. She only emphasized propaganda. She flipped after sandy hook. She pushed hard anti trump during 2016. She is like an establishment echo chamber. So, I was really worried about covid reading about it between December and February. The second she sounded the alarm I said to myself " so it's bullshit"
Merry Christmas!
Sometimes I wish I could read people like you have mentioned here, but it also sounds like you wish sometimes you couldn’t see it so clearly.
Podesta's emails. I was mostly asleep until then, except I knew the mainstream media was shit. CNN's "Black in America" helped me wake up to that fact.
Almost ashamed to say this because it's so recent but for me it was the Kyle Rittenhouse situation in Kenosha.
The day after it happened I'm watching raw video of what happened, then simultaneously seeing what's being declared in the media about it and my brain had an internal conflict that woke me up.
From that moment I started questioning a lot, which led me to things like fall of cabal and pizza gate to mockingbird, 9/11 and everything else.
Covid. I know , I'm so ashamed. I used to do market research and stats. When I saw how they were manipulating the numbers and how everyone bought it without question I nearly choked gettin that red pill down.
A few things. The Question of Palestine by Edward Said, recordings of George King on Coast to Coast AM, and The DaVinci Code (somewhat embarassingly).
It's many things over a long period of time until that wall finally breaks. Things that definitely contributed to it:
Game theory (as in pickup) completely changed what I thought I knew about women.
9/11 and the things that didn't match up.
Obama and how nobody questioned him.
Snowden and all those conspiracy theories coming true.
GamerGate.
Feminists and everything they're about.
The news, I think it's called the Gell Mann effect, where you read about stuff you know and see how wrong the media gets it. I saw this with many events I was directly involved in or knew much about.
One of the biggest "awakenings" I had was listening to Jordan B Peterson and his biblical lectures. I actually got into reading the bible and realized everything I learned from TV/Hollywood and the "atheist" community was virtually wrong or true enough to really get away with the lies.
As I got older I also realize most adults are retarded and stopped learning new things once they stopped going to school.
In the same vein, "leaedrs" who can't even have a remotely intelligent conversation about technology or guns, for instance, are also highly qualified to impose covid, et al, restrictions ("make public health decisions")
Let's be real, everyone's first "conspiracy" is Santa Claus.
With the "climate science":
"If humans are causing global warming/global cooling, then why was there a mini-ice age before the industrial revolution?"
The political stuff is different for everyone, usually depends how old you are.
I think a more interesting, highly related question is : when did you wake up to the non-physical nature of reality?
The answer for me was this video almost a decade ago:
https://conspiracies.win/p/11R4udaw1w/magic-is-and-always-has-been-rea/c/
Media blitzes surrounding anything negative for the Democrats. Then I saw how deep it goes.
I had always kind of been open to the idea of alternative history and the suppression of the truth by "them" in order to kind of herd humanity to think and act a certain way... But I think if I had to put a single event as the one that really opened my eyes I'd have to say it was the movie theater shooting in Colorado during that batman flick. All the reports of him having been drugged with scolpalimene (sp?) and the fbi agent roommate that was in the wind and the way he was acting during the trials and right after the event.. Was all just so... Off. So unnatural. Since then, I've figured pretty much everything we're "allowed" to see and learn is being spoon fed to us and we've really got to put in some serious effort to find out what the underlying truth really is.
After 9/11 I remember the Discovery Channel was to put on a program addressing the conspiracy theories surrounding the attack on 9/11. I watched it, and not one of the 'theories' addressed I had ever heard, and they were the most outlandish and poorly thought out conspiracies ever contrived.
Then it hit me. They are literally not going to address the real conspiracies. They set up this straw man and painted everything that went against the narrative as stupid. They weren't allowed to even recognise anything counter narrative.
Nobody bought it, just like no one believes Joe Biden won or Epstein killed themselves. But in 15 years, what's going to be on record?
I had millions of followers on Instagram and would push specific narratives to sell products. Everything we did was fake and designed with ulterior motive to generate more revenue. Every once in a while a commenter would realize what was happening and the coordination of it all and comment it and people would call that commenter crazy even though I would read it and know they were correct. I'd also then get more discreet to prevent it from happening again. After a year or so of this I realized the exact same thing was being done outside of social media... Main Stream Media was/is using the same tactics. Every piece of content has a specific agenda and it's rarely the surface level one.
The “underwear bomber” false flag after 9/11, and Lori and Kurt Haskell’s blog. No surprise they left the country. I 100% believe them.
This ushered in evil Chertoff’s TSA body scanners... surprise surprise.
This then made me question 9/11 and everything else. Once you read the air traffic control logs asking “is this real life or part of the exercise?” on 9/11 it’s blatantly obvious.
Gamergate got me started, then the vegas shooting anchored me here.
Lsd
2016 Wikileaks
JFK, but years later.
Studying JFK shows the full playbook of the deep state. As it was early, they weren't as slick, but they didn't need to be, as people were less jaded.
One easily identifiable "bad guy."
Bad guy taken out, tying up loose ends.
Panel of "experts" to get to the bottom of it.
Distractions and easily disproven disinfo thrown into the pile to confuse everything.
Other people dying around the scene, with little explanation.
Catch words and phrases that replace thought processes.
"Conspiracy theory".
"The grassy knoll".
"Back and to the left".
There's one question that always makes people stop and think, though.
Why did a jewish mobster that ran a strip club make a suicide hit on Oswald? He had to believe someone was going to kill him when he made the shot. That was the first question that red-pilled me.
That's where people stop and can't come up with an answer.
Then, show them the photo of Congressman Albert Thomas winking at LBJ after he's sworn in. After they see that, they start thinking. When they start thinking, they start questioning.
The Iraq war
Until then I thought we lived in a fair world and had to handle certain injustice. But the Iraq war charade was too much.
After that I started to be skeptic. It still took me some years before I realized how bad it was. The Corbett Report at David Icke really opened my eyes
I was a hardcore Republican. I donated to G.W. Bush and even had his poster on my wall as a college aged student. I even bet money on McCain beating Obama in 2008.
Fast forward to 2010 and TONS of "tea party Republican" freshmen storm the house. The Rs gained like 60 seats or so. All with promises to stop borrowing money. Well they in there and do absolutely jack shit. Every tough vote, you had Rand Paul and Michelle Bachman standing up against the b.s., and that was it. I realized than something was very wrong. Fast forward to now, and its so obvious that there is so much wrong. The question has to be "why"? Why is so much wrong? And when did it start? That itself will keep you busy for a lifetime.
After reading about Tuskegee.
I grew up on UFOs/aliens and that got me into other things. LSD opened my third eye, though.