posted on Jan, 30 2010 @ 04:44 PM
Hello ATS!
I’m one of those (and one of the many) who has been lurking here for weeks. I was afraid to start posting at first due to feeling noobish when
reading a lot of the posts and if I didn’t want to portray something it was being a knows-quite-nothing. However, I’m not an expert on most
matters nor did I study any of my interests officially; I’m a simple IT student and never studied history or the occult in such ways the
certificates are decorating my wall. I came to the conclusion that would also never be the case; no matter how long I decided to lurk here thus I took
a dive into the deep… and signed up.
I came across ATS while doing internet research on World War II. I’ve been interested in the wars waged on this planet ever since I was little, as
my grandmother lived in the old city of Maastricht (Holland) which was occupied by the Nazi’s. She used to take me on long walks through the city
and while telling her stories she showed me where exactly what happened and other details regarding her life there. The renewed spark of interest
happened after watching the movie Letters from Iwo Jima by Clint Eastwood. Like most movie freaks I rushed to the internet to see detailed information
about the cast (of course you are sure you saw that actor before in a movie, you just forgot which one) and as with most topics regarding WW II the
forums were a mess of the people versus the people about the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Putting all defensive ideas (thus personal opinions) from
people aside they saw as fact I started my own study trip with the question on ‘how the bomb was ever justified’ which dragged me all the way from
Hiroshima back to Manchuria, the Sino-Japanese wars and pre-war Japan and China. After reading tons of information about these wars I moved across the
globe ending in Nazi Germany. At that point you know it won’t take long before someone will say to you; do you know Hitler might have escaped that
bunker!? Did you know about Heinrich Himmler and the Thule Society!? Thus I ended up here on ATS where my interests were widely discussed, and also
gained a lot of interest in subjects I’ve never heard about or knew almost nothing about.
Outside of all this I enjoy playing videogames, reading horror stories (Lovecraft and Barker), watching movies (war movies and horror movies), and
studying the occult. The basic information I’d normally cover on the internet would be something like… I’m Panny, 23 years old woman and living
in Maastricht
Sorry for the long rant! I’m not that good at keeping things short
[edit on 30-1-2010 by Kyouki]