at what age did you discover there was a global conspiracy..

[Sweejak]

Robertreed, i'm a military brat myself. My father had bookshelves lined with history books in many languages. He never flat out told me about conspiracies but often corrected historical films sometimes bitterly and dropped a lot of hints. Kennedy's assassination was the first time I saw him cry. He didn't buy any of the whitewash theories. He has massive journals written in Russian yet to be translated. <p></p><i></i>

[Sweejak]

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[maggrwaggr]

I had no idea this thread would get so interesting.<br><br>Seventhson, your post was pretty intense.<br><br>I, too, am a military brat. My father worked on absolutely top-secret weapons projects. When I was in kindergarten he was at Livermore Radiation Lab, and he spent almost his entire military career developing new weapons, then did the revolving-door thing out of the military and went to work in the private sector until he retired.<br><br>He was always extremely tight-lipped about what he did, but sometimes he'd just blurt something out like "hey, did you know a pig and a human being will explode at the same sound frequency?" Then he'd go onto explain that they had figured this out in his line of work. <br><br>I think it was because of him that I realized that there was a whole hell of a lot going on behind the scenes that most people just didn't know about.<br><br>Interestingly, he's also a rabid right-winger, yet he always said that Reagan was just a puppet. He used to not be such a kool-aid drinker, but in the last ten years or so, after remarrying a fundie evangelical type, he's started to spout a lot of the bullshit propaganda. I used to be able to have really interesting conversations with the guy, but no longer. It's sad, really. We can't talk politics anymore because we just get all pissed off at each other. Wasn't always that way.<br><br>His point of view, back when he was in the thick of it, was always unique and extremely interesting. <p></p><i></i>

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[jenz]

This thread set me wondering why we encourage and reward gullibility in our children. (like we are preparing them for a lifetime of wearing blinkers). I'm also impressed by the relatively early percipacity of many posters, 'fraid I kept on firmly jamming my blindfold back in place each time it slipped, until incontravertible evidence of r.a knocked me for six. <p></p><i></i>

[sunny]

I was 9 years old the summer of the Watergate hearings. It was then that I realized that those in charge may not be the good guys, that the heroic hype about a president may be a lie, and for the sake of truth, you better look further than abc,cbs,nbc. Still, at the age of 22, I read my first JFK conspiracy book;you know, the one by Jackie's cousin claiming it was Carlos Marcello and the mob, which nevertheless contained a lot of verifiable evidence, and I could not believe the media totally ignored so much, no, make that nearly all, of it. I was infuriated, and I have been ever since at the willfully propagandistic filth that pours forth from <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>our</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> airwaves in order to protect the worthless ne'er do well elites who are busily trying to suck the life out of this planet their every waking moment!<br>Whew, thanks for listening, I needed that!<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :p --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/tongue.gif ALT=":p"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p097.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=sunny@rigorousintuition>sunny</A> at: 7/17/05 5:41 pm<br></i>

[smiths]

childhood is a magical time in some ways, where myths and reality can melt into one stream. some people encourage gullibility but a lot i think just try to allow this childsview of the world to last as long as it can cos once its gone its gone, (excepting the use of certain really quite fantastic drugs),<br><br>i have a little boy of four years old whom i will continue to allow to have the santa myth once a year. <br>but on more important issues i will tell him the truth as close as i can manage. he sat with me the other day and he watched the first reports of the bombs in london and he concluded they were idiots which also applies to bad drivers, petty criminals and vandals.<br>he asked why they had done it and i tried to explain that it was possible those men had not actually done it and there was false information. try explaining the cocepts of propoganda and media conspiracy to a four year old child.<br>i also told him that it was 'possible' the bombing could be linked to the war in iraq which i have told him about.<br>but you can go too far with this. if i push it becomes a different form of indoctrination. and he'll end up rebelling against me as a sixteen year old by going conservative.<br><br>for me personally i am 32 and for ten years have got gradually deeper into trying to understand how things really work, always trying to make sense of things that seemed to make no sense.<br>i understood the hidden power that corporations weilded, i understood that intel organisations got their hands pretty dirty but for me a casual enquiry into the 'facts' of 911 really blew the door open. what started only six months ago just launched me into non stop reading binge on the bush', the windsors, the nwo, madrid, bali and it really got going when i found a link to the coincidence theorists guide to 911. that sent me here and here i have been ever since, with very much clearer eyesight.<br><br>so while i am at it thanks jeff, and thanks everybody<br> <p></p><i></i>