Skeptic Project

You were that annoying. All CTs are.

I was also a CT. My big thing was the Kennedy assassination. (This was before 9/11). I was also heavily into UFO conspiracies. When I was in law school I even wrote a law review article that involved Roswell and other supposed UFO conspiracies (yes, I know it's a stretch to get those into a law review article, but I managed to pull it off).

When I finished law school I began to look more deeply into these things and require evidence. I began to soften on the JFK assassination, and when I really delved into it I realized Oswald acted alone and the CTs were bullshit. I also gave up UFO conspiracies, and that's a big step for someone who has actually seen a UFO in real life. I was out of CT's by the time 9/11 happened, but I wonder, if I hadn't turned away from the dark side when I did, if I might have become a Truther.

My UFO law review article is kind of fun. I had enough skepticism at that time to make it more of a joke than some pathetic CT screed. I've got a copy of it in .PDF, anyone who wants it, PM me.

When I was a really little kid (8 years old or so) i was already into the UFO conspiracy stuff as a result of seeing some nonsense on the History Channel. I would go from being really panicked about the stuff and then forget about it. I finally snapped after seeing Zeitgeist and then the 2012 hysteria. I seriously thought the NWO was coming in 2012. Later the same year I was diagnosed with an Anxiety disorder, my therapist and I talked about it twice, I then kind of realized how I had been suckered by Zeitgeist and I got pretty upset. Since then I have been pretty hell-bent on making sure no claim goes unchallenged when it comes to potentially harmful CTs. I never espoused these theories, I always kept them to myself. But now I'm pretty vocal on how absurd they are.

I wasn't ever really a full blown CT'er. But I first encountered these common CT's around mid-2008. There was a person on this other forum I posted on and he seemed very intelligent and very convinced in the truth of these CT's. The 'debunker's' arguments were very weak compared to his. As a result I spent way too many nights tossing and turning and worrying over the possibility that he might be right.

One of his posts, (and I'm paraphrasing) made me especially anxious... though I laugh when I think about it now.

"Mark my words: There will be riots after Obama is inaugurated, martial law will be declared and people will be thrown into FEMA camps. There will be a nuclear or extraterrestrial false flag attack. Blackwater will make big headlines, and we will all be chipped."

Part of me didn't want to believe it, so I kept struggling... even though part of me kind of did believe it. Then I stumbled upon this site in someone's signature... began reading the articles, doing a little bit of my own research here and there and as you can guess; I too find CT'ers very annoying.

I was one too, Kepp.

"That is sort of refreshing to hear.

Sometimes I feel like a hypocrite. "

There's no reason to feel like a hypocrite, people change. You should only feel like a hypocrite if you were say, a CT'er bashing on other CT's and CT'ers.

When I was a kid I used to see specials about the Gray People and worry they would invade the planet. When I was a freshman in high school, my parents sent me to a Christian school where they taught we were in the last days and the rapture and the NWO were around the corner. Even when my parents pulled me out I believed in them (and didn't even believe I would graduate from high school. Ironically a preacher actually convinced me the rapture was bogus.

I later went to a financial planner to set up an account. He was totally into Austrian economics and believed we were on the verge of hyperinflation and the US would cease to be. I actually bought some silver (not a lot) on his advise. Even though I sold the silver at a modest profit I am still furious about this. Who knows how many other people he is screwing with his nutty idea.