08-02-2020, 01:59 AM
Thanks MisterSpock for creating this thread. When I was 10 years old, I was doing quite a bit of reading already. My Mom of all people got me turned on to the first out there thing - The Bermuda Triangle. A man named I think Charles Berlitz wrote a book on that, and I read it in about two days, after my Mom got done reading it. I was hooked. I looked in the library for other books on the Bermuda Triangle, and found even more books on things like Bigfoot, UFO’s, paranormal stuff like the Amityville Horror, etc. I watched movies too because I was endlessly curious.
Like NightSkyeB4Dawn, I was always questioning things. I never took anything at face value. While my parents and school encouraged me in this, once I graduated high school and joined the Navy, it was a very different story. I was a Cryptologic Technician. I held a top secret security clearance. The military did not take my questioning everything as a good thing. I was supposed to be a good little girl and follow orders. Nope, that didn’t work out very well. I did eight years active duty, but I’m surprised I lasted that long. I had become very cynical in that time period. I did see a UFO when I was stationed in Norfolk VA, but didn’t dare talk about it, because I was afraid of losing my security clearance.
I met my husband in the Navy. Turned out he liked some of the conspiracy stuff too. He would even buy me books on things, and I would read them. We’d spend long hours talking about UFO’s, how we thought the government was totally covering everything up, etc. He didn’t think I was insubordinate or crazy because I liked to question things. He got me. I loved the X Files. I would watch every single episode and then talk about it. I found magazines on UFO’s, and read quite a few of those. I wanted to keep learning more
In 2012, I found ATS and joined. It was like the mother lode to me. I was practically breathless with all the stuff I saw. I could and did spend hours reading. Being shy and introverted, it was a long time before I started a thread of my own. It was kinda intimidating, because people were not shy about telling you if they thought you were full of shit. It was fun for awhile, until it wasn’t. It seems all people do on there now is argue about politics. I like most conspiracy theories, but political ones don’t do it for me.
I’m really glad I found this place. Yeah, there’s some politics, but there’s a lot of other really cool stuff, and people are much nicer on here than they are on ATS. It seems more open. To me, if you’re gonna be a conspiracy theorist, you should try and keep an open mind.
Like NightSkyeB4Dawn, I was always questioning things. I never took anything at face value. While my parents and school encouraged me in this, once I graduated high school and joined the Navy, it was a very different story. I was a Cryptologic Technician. I held a top secret security clearance. The military did not take my questioning everything as a good thing. I was supposed to be a good little girl and follow orders. Nope, that didn’t work out very well. I did eight years active duty, but I’m surprised I lasted that long. I had become very cynical in that time period. I did see a UFO when I was stationed in Norfolk VA, but didn’t dare talk about it, because I was afraid of losing my security clearance.
I met my husband in the Navy. Turned out he liked some of the conspiracy stuff too. He would even buy me books on things, and I would read them. We’d spend long hours talking about UFO’s, how we thought the government was totally covering everything up, etc. He didn’t think I was insubordinate or crazy because I liked to question things. He got me. I loved the X Files. I would watch every single episode and then talk about it. I found magazines on UFO’s, and read quite a few of those. I wanted to keep learning more
In 2012, I found ATS and joined. It was like the mother lode to me. I was practically breathless with all the stuff I saw. I could and did spend hours reading. Being shy and introverted, it was a long time before I started a thread of my own. It was kinda intimidating, because people were not shy about telling you if they thought you were full of shit. It was fun for awhile, until it wasn’t. It seems all people do on there now is argue about politics. I like most conspiracy theories, but political ones don’t do it for me.
I’m really glad I found this place. Yeah, there’s some politics, but there’s a lot of other really cool stuff, and people are much nicer on here than they are on ATS. It seems more open. To me, if you’re gonna be a conspiracy theorist, you should try and keep an open mind.