I don't necessarily have a belief system. My system is simply to question everything.
Why?
Well: I used to be like every other person. I was into my work; I came home and done the normal stuff - ate meals, showered, watched the news and went out for a few beverages. You know, that kind of stuff.
The biggest arguments or talking points were simply political or religious, with the odd news item discussed about whatever the days news was.
I accepted it all as it was. I never even give it enough thought to question it in any serious form and I had no reason to go in depth to do so, because my life was taken up with everyday living, like most others.
Bills and transport, plus working shifts and a lot of thought into my work, mentally.
If someone came up to me and said, "hey they've launched a rocket to mars and are landing a rover." I would say, "it's amazing what they can do in this day and age."
The same as seeing a globe on TV and just accepting it for what I was told. Looking at acclaimed scientists who told us about how we can colonise other planets and such. It didn't require much thought from me. It was a given from early age till that point that it was what they said it was.
If anyone came up to me at that time and told me the world was flat and not a globe, I'd have reacted like people do on here and thought the person was frigging nuts or one of those doomsday predictors. Basically the classic force fed name for those people, being tin foil hat wearing fruit and nut cases, or loners with mental issues.
You see, that wasn't me thinking for myself. That was me simply parroting what mainstream media and other people parroted. I just blindly went along with it because - well - "how silly does it get when people are saying the Earth is flat?" I thought.
It literally takes a person a long time to actually dare to gear his/her mind into even thinking on the smallest level of where the belief that we are being lied to by the very people we've been brought up to put all our faith in.
It's almost like finding out that your parents have been feeding you certain medication to keep you ill whilst they claim money for your illness.
Imagine someone trying to tell you that. You would tell them where to go and to stop trying to blacken your family name. You would back your parents because you would never believe they would be capable of doing anything like that because they have your best interests at heart.
It's just like people think their government and authority in general have their best interests at heart. Most people just accept they do, unconditionally.
Up until about 15 years ago, I believed only one moonlanding had happened. Neil Armstrong was the fore-front of my thoughts.
I didn't even know about the other 5.
The reason was because I didn't give any of it much thought and didn't feel the need to dig into it.
Once I started to have more time on my hands, I started listening to people. I then started to look up stuff; especilly the moonlandings.
It looked dodgy but that's all it did at the time. I saw the footage and it immediately peaked my interest.
I remember listening to Bill Kaysing who worked at rocketdyne. I studied all of what he said, which made things more clearer.
Anyway, not one to simply dive straight in at that time; I had to look at both sides. I used a person like Phil Plait and people like that to give another take on it all.
It started to be come much clearer as to who was making stuff up, just by the way it was being told and the tone it was told in.
As time went on, it simply became clearer and clearer that they never even went at all.
Once I understood this, I started wondering what else we've been lied about. Little did I know that all this stuff would pour down on me like a bucket of stinking fish as to how much we have been lied to.
This is when I came across this site. I looked at it like other's do. I thought it was a spoof site. Just people who were simply playing a game of saying " if you can say it's a globe, we can say it's flat."
I studied what they had to say and at first things made some sense. I still didn't accept it but one thing I did accept was that there was no globe spinning in space.
The trouble is, I believed it was a stationary globe with stars and the sun, etc, going around the Earth. Yeah, that's how naive I still was because my mind was so indoctrinated with the one model, I had to choose an alternative to that spinning one, yet replacing it with something equally as silly, like a non spinning one.
This is where you have to really search your senses. It becomes time to seriously look at stuff and not just dive right in. Question everything. Look for a better fit even if it's simply hypotheses.
The same goes for other stuff put out. Don't just go with one thing. Study through it all and weigh up the actual logic and odds.
Also be aware that there are many theories to one thing Questioned. Some can be genuine hypotheses and some can also appear legitimate but can be nothing more than mis-information by perps who at first appear trustworthy.
I can't 100% trust everyone. There are few that I trust entirely. I would imagine that most do not trust me. I accept that and would expect nothing else, because I could be playing games to other people just as I believe many are to me.
The issue isn't about that though. The issue is about learning to actually think for yourself. To do this you must start from the beginning. You have to literally look for the most common sense answers to the science that is set out on a plate and don't just gobble that up and ask for more.
The next science meal requires you to pick at. It requires you to tease it around that plate until you feel it's worthwhile to put a fork full into your mouth.
If not, then go hungry until you find something worthy of gobbling up that you know will go a long way in satisfying you.
If that meal is bread and butter, then that's where you need to start, because by eating that basic meal, means you can add to it as time goes on, knowing that what you are feeding yourself is a meal that you carefully selected and not one that simply looks delicious and well set out on the plate yet not only costs you a fortune, it may have no real nutritional value.
These are the meals we are being fed by the science world, only the meals are supposedly meals of knowledge that are anything but.