Hello from Colorado Springs

Good morning, good people!

My name is Factis, and I currently live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I may have had an account here ages ago, but I couldn't begin to tell you what my username was, so here I am starting anew. I've been on the fringes of conspiracy theory fandom since I was a kid, when the sort of things Spooky Mulder could appreciate caught my attention. Of course, as a young kid I wanted to believe in every theory out there, but in my experience the truth is usually far more mundane than Hollywood would make it seem. That doesn't mean the truth isn't interesting or worthwhile.

I haven't had a chance to "kick the tires," as one thread put it, but I'll be doing so shortly. Because of my experiences I know a little about a fair number of things, but I don't have any claims to knowledge of any conspiracies. I'm here to learn what I can, with an extremely skeptical but open mind. That's where my username comes from: "Fact Is." If I'm going to believe in something, I want solid facts, not just conjecture based on what someone thinks are "common sense" or "obvious" conclusions.

I look forward to getting to know all of you, seeing what's what here, and learning what I can.

a reply to: Factis


Hello! I look forward to your input

a reply to: Factis
Hallo! Welcome back to ATS

Staying open minded but skeptical allows one to collect the threads our reality is woven from. Looking forward to yours.

Hello from across the pond!!

Over here our tin-foil hats are bowler hat shaped!!!

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Thank you all for the warm welcome. I'm slowly getting along here at ATS, finding some interesting threads to comment on. I admit I'm looking forward to being able to start my own topics, though I'm also making a point of using the search function to see if those topics have been addressed recently. I've frequently found some threads that seem interesting, but they're multiple pages into the discussion, and I don't feel it's appropriate to sidetrack the whole conversation and take it in a new direction just to talk about something that interests me.

One thing I want to do is start a hard copy file for different conspiracy theories that interest me. I'm not necessarily interested in whether a specific theory has any merit in reality, but more the folklore around the theory. For instance, we all know the theories about Area 51 housing some sort of alien technology. I don't buy it, but because it's such an old and pervasive theory, there's a lot of folklore and "research" about it. I intend to start files on such theories; I lovingly call them my "X-Files" (because why not).

I grew up on a lot of those theories about Roswell, UFOs, Area 51, the Illuminati, and so on, and they have a special place in my heart just out of nostalgia. Every now and again I come across something about them I think does have merit, but more often than not I think they're a study in elaborate hoaxes, bogus claims, fifteen-minute fame-seekers, and the like. Still, they're fun.