(For those of you who believe the official story is what actually happened, bear with me for a moment.)
I was thinking about how it was possible that so many people could be lied to about something and believe it. But, as I stewed on it, I realized that we all do that with new information as long as it doesn't conflict with our current beliefs. Very few of us would have had any reason not to believe what we were being told at the time and certainly not those who didn't live through it and have thus only learned about it from the official narrative.
This willingness to accept a story as truth is dependent upon our beliefs already matching the background of said story. In other words, it can't be too far fetched. It has to fall in line with what we already believe reality to be.
There is a long-standing debate whether or not people are generally good or inherently bad. I could easily get distracted by starting this now, but I will restrain myself. Instead, I will state that, universally, all of us want to believe that people are generally good even if we fall into the camp that don't actively believe that to be the case. This can be proven true simply by observing our expectations with social interactions. We expect people, generally speaking at least, to adhere to a set of social norms and when people don't do this under our watch an emotional reaction takes place whether that be surprise, sadness, anger, annoyance or any combination of many emotional possibilities. Ultimately, we want to believe that people want to be good and will be generally good.
So, all that said, it is easier to believe that a handful of bad people got together and coordinated a very successful attack on a country with a very capable defense system manned by a collectively incompetent set of people. It's easier to believe in a small amount of evil and the incompetence of the many because that fits relatively close to what we all want to believe, as aforementioned. Conversely, it's incredibly difficult for us to fathom the possibility that many more people were involved, had foreknowledge of what would happen, and even assisted in it being carried out. And even more difficult to believe that these people were from our own government, assigned to protect and serve us. We feel justified by our doubt because we also know that others would have found out about this along the way and we believe that all those "good" people would speak up and the truth would come out because that's what it always does, right? The truth shall prevail. Goodness will shine. The good guy always wins.
Whether we want to admit it or not, we all have been taught a worldview where goodness wins in the end. And, we believe that we can just be lazy, sit back and let the truth come out and take over and when everyone else sees it and is on board then we can get on board, too. "I won't believe it till I see it", they say. But, what they really mean is: "I won't believe it till I see that everyone else sees it, too."
I have really strayed from my intended subject which was considerably shorter. What I wanted to share was the epiphany I had. As I wondered how history could possibly be written incorrectly, I realized that 9/11 is hardly the only place that this has happened. Then, I realized that I have many beliefs that fly in the face of the "official" historical narrative. I believe in a history that others don't.
I believe that there was a global flood. I believe that all humans are related to the first two humans, one who was formed from dust, the other from the rib of the first one, most certainly not from a previous less-human version which came from a previous even-less-human version and so on. I believe that all material and immaterial was created by the God of the bible. I believe it was created in 6 days. I don't believe that any of it formed "naturally" which really only begs the question of "What is nature?". I believe miraculous events happened throughout history including the rampage of ten plagues upon Egypt, the parting of a sea, a man born of a virgin, the instantaneous healing of blindness, leprosy, the lame. I believe the corpse of a man named Lazarus was made to wake from the dead and be alive again. I believe that Jesus was crucified, died and yet rose again by his own power confirming that he was and is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus walked the earth and visited hundreds of people after his well-publicized death. I believe the earth is thousands of years old, not older. I believe that the earth is a few days older than the universe. I believe that life begins at conception and that we are fully human at conception and are thus afforded basic human rights at that time. I believe that angels exist. I believe that demons exist. I believe that heaven is real. I believe that President Kennedy was murdered by factions of the United States government that couldn't control him. I believe that governments have utilized terror events to manipulate civilian consensus so often that it has assumed the name of an old pirate tactic, false flag. And, yes, I believe that large factions of the United States government were directly involved with the coordination of the supposed terror attacks on September 11, 2001.
None of the previous paragraph's content can be found being taught in public school's textbooks as actual history and yet I believe that it to be just that. But, it's not just a set of beliefs. I have evidence. I have proof. I have extensively studied all these subjects and know why I believe them to be true. I didn't just blindly accept it due to some sort of upbringing or education. Rather, I believe them despite my upbringing and education.
It's easy for people who don't agree with my beliefs stated above to assume that I've been led to believe these things by others and that I'm simply a gullible person. They might even figure that I believe these things in blind faith. I get it. I grew up much like everyone else and I remember believing quite strongly about things I didn't even really know much about. I trusted what was taught to me through repetition. I know others do this, too, so I don't blame them for sticking to what they think they know. I only fault people for resorting to ridicule when presented with something that they don't believe to be true.
9/11 for me will always be a time to remember the lives needlessly lost and grieve for them and the families that lost them. It will also be a time that I strengthen my resolve to teach the next generation in my circle of influence the true history of the world. Without knowledge of the truth of where we came from, we cannot understand nor prepare for where we are going.
