11 years ago today, the world felt like a much different place. America was under terrorist attack and even up here in Canada there was chaos.
No one had any answers, we didn't even know if the attacks stopped or was every plane overhead a new attack?
In time, people calmed down, but the search for answers intensified.
The government was under pressure to get answers, and answers take time.
The first real serious movie I saw on about the attacks was Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore
At the time, the movie raised some questions I found compelling.
Why were Saudi nationals flown out of the country on Sept 13th? What was the deal with James Bath? Why did we attack Iraq if the terrorist were mostly Saudi and Bin Laden was in Afghanistan?
The second movie I recall seeing on the subject was Loose Change
That movie presented a vision of events that would lead anyone to question the official story, and perhaps suspect the government itself of causing the attacks.
But my flirting with Trutherism was short lived.
After Loose Change I looked for more documentaries on 9/11 and that was how I found the movie Screw Loose Change.
Never before did I see one movie so thoroughly debunk another movie.
I watched all 4 hours of Screw Loose Change, and by the end I was a changed man.
I saw how easily facts and anomalies can be presented to build a narrative of events, I saw how I fell for the half truths and outright lies.
This was my first official step into skepticism.
It was not long after my viewing of Screw Loose Change when I found James Randi.
And through the videos of James Randi I found skepticism and I decided to call it home.
I never did find out who made the movie Screw Loose Change, but whoever it was did me a great service.
I look back with a slight tinge of embarrassment when I remember the videos I watched over and over, hoping to find a glimpse of the truth.
I watched Alex Jones inside Bohemian Groove, I watched videos on the New World Order by enigmaTV, I even watched videos about the prophecies of Nostradomas and the Mayan 2012 predictions.
I can understand now why those videos left me wanting more, there was no glimpse of truth to find.
I only ever found 1 thing in a conspiracy video that made me pause
At the end of a DVD by enigmaTV video there was a half second image that was shown at the end of the video
I had to pause the video to even see what it was
It was an american flag with the stars replaced with stars of david and a caption that said "Who are you fighting for?"
That shocked me, nothing in the video previously mentions jews or jewish religion, so why the blatant anti-semitism?
That put a sour taste in my mouth and made me step back a little from conspiracy videos at the time
Perhaps I owe that anti-semitism thanks, it helped keep me from sinking too deep in the culture, which allowed Screw Loose Change to open my eyes and helped to make me the man I am today.
- Sent From My Blackberry
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