What Year Did You Stop Your Cognitive Dissonance Towards The 9/11 OS ?

For me it was the year I signed up to ATS back in 2006, didn't know about WTC7 until then.
Watched 9/11 Mysteries just because it was ranked in the top 100 videos at goggle at the time, that was October 2006.
In researching the topic I came across ATS the next month and signed up.
Took me 5 years.

stand by one minute while I look up dissonance...
let's see cognitive diss......
be rightback

I never had conflicting beliefs to start with. Soooooooo????¿¿¿¿

a reply to: GBP/JPY

It's the feeling you get when you hold two or more conflicting beliefs.

I don't believe in unsupported ever changing conspiracy theories.

a reply to: samkent

There you go.

When we decided that we were going into Iraq to bomb the tar out of it and take out Saddam Hussein, when it had NOTHING to do with 9/11. I knew right them it was a false flag and being used as an excuse for another imperialistic invasion. It took a few years, as I wasn't on the internet then.

Then I began to watch the documentaries and there was no doubt. I was angry, I felt sick, and I finally realized that we have a government who will kill almost 3,000 of its own citizens and consider them 'collateral damage' to further their twisted agenda.

never experienced any. knew from the moment the first tower fell that something was rotten in denmark.

a reply to: Blue_Jay33

Like you, it took a few years until I started doing a little research. I was just starting to get into the whole "conspiracy theory" thing shortly after. Not because of 9/11 but just in general.

ID

a reply to: Blue_Jay33

Never really had much Cd as I have been online since 1978 and ARPA, cruising Usenet.

Cheers - Dave

My ex worked in demolition. It never made sense that 3 buildings would fall into their own footprint so well.
Setting up tall buildings to come down neatly takes a lot of planning.

It amazes me that some people knew the very day it happened.

Was is it a gut felling based on previous historical false flags?

originally posted by: samkent
I don't believe in unsupported ever changing conspiracy theories.

The NIST report on WTC7 hasn't changed nor has our perspective on it.

Oh! around 1996...97.

originally posted by: snowspirit
It never made sense that 3 buildings would fall into their own footprint so well.

As none of the WTC buildings fell into their own footprint.... what are you on about?

originally posted by: Blue_Jay33
It amazes me that some people knew the very day it happened.

Was is it a gut felling based on previous historical false flags?

I'm curious as to why we needed a false flag?

The previous African Embassy bombings and USS Cole attack were enough reason for war ? They were both larger incidents than the Gulf of Tonkin . I can never figure out why anyone would think we needed a false flag after incidents like that ?

originally posted by: snowspirit
My ex worked in demolition. It never made sense that 3 buildings would fall into their own footprint so well.
Setting up tall buildings to come down neatly takes a lot of planning.

Yes. That's always been the OS deal-breaker for me.

originally posted by: FissionSurplus
When we decided that we were going into Iraq to bomb the tar out of it and take out Saddam Hussein, when it had NOTHING to do with 9/11.

This is something I have never really understood and seems relevant when the question is about cognitive dissonance. If it was a false flag to pave the way to invade Iraq why didn't the people who thought it up make it Iraqi nationals who did it? That seems like an obvious thing to do if the intent was the invasion of Iraq.

originally posted by: Blue_Jay33
For me it was the year I signed up to ATS back in 2006, didn't know about WTC7 until then.
Watched 9/11 Mysteries just because it was ranked in the top 100 videos at goggle at the time, that was October 2006.
In researching the topic I came across ATS the next month and signed up.
Took me 5 years.

Goggle.com?

From the moment the 2nd plane hit the WTC I knew something wasn't right.
When the Pentagon was hit I knew it could not happen without government approval.
When the 1st tower crumbled in to dust I realized there was nothing some people inside our halls of power would not do.
I haven't had a moment of doubt since that we attacked ourselves.
I had always believed this before but never had evidence thrust in my face like that.
What baffled me was how many could believe anyone outside the US could orchestrate and pull off such a feat.