• TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    One day I’d like to pick your brain (not today, I’m drinking). I’ve always been nutjob adjacent but the only time I believed was as a kid and that stopped when the pastor of the church my family attended started using stupid math to force the letters in COMPUTER to add up to 666. That was literally the beginning of the end for me. I was also into conspiracies in my 20s but I thought it was like no_sleep where we pretended to believe in wacky things because it was funny. Turns out it wasn’t funny to most of them, which I found out during some fiasco where people were sure the military was about to take over because of Obama or something.

    I always wanted to hear from someone who was deep into some shit but figured out it was all bullshit. Keep spreading that knowledge because it is super interesting and it’s important for others to see that you can absolutely get out of it.

    • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net
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      14 hours ago

      I wrote more about it a while back in this post, if you’re curious. But it’s more on how I got out of it, and not the specifics of all the crazy shit we believed, which would be lengthy.

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      10 hours ago

      not today I’m drinking

      looks at your user name…. Yup, that fits