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Rant: Hit 10 years of watching moon landing denial videos and something snapped
I spent last Sunday night counting all the unread messages I'd saved from a guy I used to debate on a forum back in 2014. He kept sending me links to films and articles saying the moon landings were faked. After a decade of this back and forth, I realized I had 47 saved conversations with him, all circling the same points. What got me was that he never changed his mind, and I never changed mine. We both just kept repeating the same arguments about shadows and radiation belts. Has anyone else hit a milestone like that where you suddenly see how much time you wasted on a single debate? I am curious if it's just me.
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piper9122mo agoMost Upvoted
Ngl I see it differently - those 10 years weren't wasted if you were actually engaging with someone who mattered to you back then. Sometimes the value is in the connection itself, not who wins the argument.
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the_xena1mo ago
@piper912 you're making me rethink my whole stance honestly. I met this guy online back in 2016 and we talked every day for like 3 years about books and movies and just life. We ended up disagreeing on something dumb and stopped talking but those conversations shaped how I think about a lot of stuff. Even if we never ended up on the same page those connections have their own value for sure.
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