What changed your mind about 9/11? I know some people felt it was a conspiracy the moment the first plane crash was announced. I also know that some people still believe what they did that day and that is what we were all told. Fine, if nothing has changed, then that would be different. For anyone who believed the "official" story to a point and something changed that, or for anyone that believed a conspiracy theory and has since changed your mind. What did it? Was it one piece of evidence? Was it a long series of events or things you came across? I am not going to troll this thread and argue about it with anyone and I do not care which way you lean. I am just curious what it is that changed peoples minds. I am also curious to see if any trend emerges from that.

Please be respectful. There is no reason to argue with anyone in here since this is not about debating or right and wrong. Just a place to collect stories of people that have changed their mind about what they believe really happend.

I will say what I think since it would be unfair of me to even ask without putting myself out there. I am just not putting it here in the OP. I would like people to try to read this as neutral and not be enflamed when they decide to post their story. Thanks in advance.

My first impression was a state of disbelief/shock.
There was something surreal/unbelievable about everything that had taken place.
I don't know how much of the official story sunk in.
I was in such a state of bewilderment over what happened that i think i just took everything dished at me with a grain of salt... much like i do when i review the weather channel forecast.

Being a real documentary buff... i recall seeing some of the very first 911 docs that came out and thinking to myself how the 911 truthers story made more sense then the "official story". Starting with the task of double checking every claim/fact made from both theories, this endless process continues to fuel my desire to know everything possible about that day and all that was attached to that day prior and after.

In conclusion, absolutely without a doubt the biggest lie that has ever been sold to the american people... and i am deeply ashamed of my fellow wo/man for buying it.

When I heard Bush say he saw the first plane hit on TV, before going into that classroom. He said "the TV was on, naturally and I thought to myself, that is one bad pilot." Of course you could argue that he is mistaken or even delusional, but this was only 3 months after the attacks. I still remember the details of that morning and it is 8 years later.

I realised that someting was not right
(1)when the buildings collapsed at free fall speed - basically against all established law of physics.
(2) The stand down of NORAD was too much of a coindence
(3) The claim that a Boeing 737 went into the Pentagon is ludicrous - the hole was 14 feet wide. Where did the two 17 tonne engines go? There was no wreckage that you see after airplane crashes. Many pilots have stated
that it was an impossibility for anyone to have controlled the aircraft on the glidepath that was established

This isn't a man issue or an ego thing with me. I have changed my mind on occasions for various reason. People who know me always have considered me fair and willing to listen. With this said:

I have some people who's opinion I seek and I find very useful at times. Who they are doesn't matter to anyone else. But when I ask them about some other off topic stuff and then a light come on, a "revelation" moment; you just know something isn't right.

I've had that moment in the last 10 days.

What we were talking about doesn't matter. What does matter is many of the peripheral issues and coincidences about any number of things.

Do I think the buildings had bombs planted, hardly. That was plane damage and even Osama was surprised the buildings fell. The plane crashes in general are nothing more than smoke to hide other information.

This is were I'm focused at. Yeah, I'm finding some problems.

Good question, OP.

From the moment I woke up that day, to this very second.

I believe it was a flashpoint to achieve certain goals in the Global Elite/Military Industrial Complex checklist for power.

If it wasn't rigged, it was very, very handy.

Cuhail

For me no one should go any further than they let it happen, anything else is just speculation. That is something they even said and is a fact.

Perhaps my response here is inappropriate, for I suspected it was an inside job when it initially happened. As the day went on and Bin Laden was not only mentioned as a suspect, but was accused, tried and convicted in the media, I was more certain.

But I figured that the reason they would have done this in the first place would be to promp us into giving up rights. I had expected Bush to be out in the media whipping up a "git 'er done!" sentiment to pass laws that cut our liberties, and after a month went by and nothing like that really happened, I was beginning to relax and think maybe I had been wrong.

And then...

Down onto the desks of Congress plopped a 900+ page "Patriot" Act, with a "rush, rush, don't read, just sign!" attitude, which eliminated exactly the things I expected, gave powers to the "Prez" that I expected, and had to have taken at least 2 years to prepare. In less than two MONTHS after 9/11.

I looked at the freefall speed at which all three buildings fell and knew they had had explosives/incendiaries, because gravity alone would have had resistance in an intact building and there was no resistance to be seen.

I heard a story of some people at a gas station or convenience store that had reviewed the footage at the Pentagon in the camera there - just before the FBI showed up and took the footage away - with threats! - and a missile was said to be seen. Can't find that story on the web now...

I discovered that the FBI rounded up all civilian footage of the Pentagon within a few hours after the Pentagon incident - that they knew where to look for all that footage was intriguing to begin with...someone must have cased the city beforehand (why do you suppose?) - and then would not release ANY of it. Since it could not show anything we did not see of the Pentagon in pictures taken of the inside (and likely far less!) there is no logical reason not to release the footage - IF the OCT (Official Conspiracy Theory) is true. If it is NOT true, THEN the refusal to release the footage makes sense.

The way the Jersey Girls (wives of four of the dead from the Towers) were treated - as if THEY were criminals - made me ill, and all the more made me think it was an inside job.

The small amount of debris that was handed over to forensics for examination sure looked odd... Forensics had virtually nothing to work with, and it was disturbed evidence at that! Uyup. I was sure.

The refusal to have an official investigation for 14 months was downright weird! The most heinous crime in centuries and we didn't want an investigation??? If I was in charge, and the OCT was true and unexpected, I would be clamoring for an investigation. The deflection of any investigation is what I would do if I was guilty.

The stacking of the deck of the 9/11 Commission was odd...along with the many pieces of evidence and testimony that were not even considered...

And the coup de gras... The "Prez" and the VP refusing to testify unless...they did not have to testify under oath (what innocent one would demand THAT!?!) and they had to be together (why else but to be sure their stories matched?) and it had to be... Off the record!!!

Ah, geez. There is much more, but I am tired of typing.

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I remember thinking that the world came to an end on that day. Nothing would ever be the same again.

I believed the official story until it was invoked to wage war on Iraq. At that moment I realized that something was very wrong. When I started looking to find out more, the amount of questions I had which remain unanswered was staggering. A whole lot of what happened on, before, and after that day has been covered up. A whole lot of lies has been fed as truth and the 9/11 tragedy has been abused to attain power and to erode rights.

We will never know the complete truth as so much distrust, disinformation and outright lies has been put about by Government and conspiracy believers alike that we would not know truth if it bit us in the behind.

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I only buy into the facts, not the speculations from either side. I have questions, but the fact that the planes were hijacked and used as weapons is not something I question anymore after looking into the evidence myself.

I guess what made me finally start investigating it for myself is that I saw many "truthers" who were 100% wrong and yet they would say things like "I don't care" or they would deny the evidence in front of them. That would be when I realized that I could not take someone's word from either side of the spectrum.

Originally posted by justamomma


I guess what made me finally start investigating it for myself is that I saw many "truthers" who were 100% wrong and yet they would say things like "I don't care" or they would deny the evidence in front of them. That would be when I realized that I could not take someone's word from either side of the spectrum.

yep.. same here..
I initially believed every CT out there.. basically because I wanted to.. I had given up on our "blessed" leaders and just knew that they were somehow responsible.. their complicity is still in question as far as I'm concerned.. but the evidence that CT'rs kept twisting, and editing.. the quotes taken far out of context.. the videos that are used to "prove" the CT's, are usually clipped to not show anything besides what "they" want to present.. I found that those who would patiently try to explain the events from an "official story" point of view always.. and I mean always, presented the better, more logical argument..
so when I saw the engine parts identified as coming from a Rolls Royce RB211-535, which is what it would have had to be, to be from AA77, when all the so called experts, stated that there was either no plane wreckage.. or that it was the wrong engine.. I decided that I would start looking at the evidence myself and not depend on what someone else said.. so now when I read something, I check it out.. I get corroberation from more than one source and I look at the arguments made too.. "truthers" as a group, are just not very thorough when it comes to checking the facts.. and are unbelievably stubborn when it comes to accepting the evidence..
I gradually became embarrassed to be a truther..
I became objective..

Nothing. 19 hijackers took control of the aircraft, killed the pilots and flew the planes into the WTC, the Pentagon and crashed in a field in Pennsylvania.

Nothing changed my mind about that.

I just wanted to say good posts from post sides. I am glad that some 'former truthers' have spoken up too. I appreciate all the posts so far, except for the one that apparently could not be bothered to read what this thread was about or what the short OP stated about people who have not changed the way they think about anything. It is really interesting to see what it is that has changed people's ways of thinking and I really hope to hear from more of both sides. Thanks!