Husband insists moon landings were faked and 9/11 was a false flag secret operation the Americans did to themselves

[AmberTigerEyes]

I am désolé
My husband, he tell me he really believe there has never been a moon landing and that the 9/11 attacks were faked too.
I was in New York on 9/11
He knows this
He keeps saying things that have been disproven as conspiracy theory myths.
I wonder if I should be calling for a mental crisis unit.

If people can believe this stuff, it’s worrying what else they can be convinced of.
Drinking bleach to kill germs, exorcisms on children…

It’s not harmless.

I watched a lot of documentaries, and they made sense.

The owner of the TT who got insurance just before the towers went down. He didn't go to work that day for the first time in forever.
Experts in steel and buildings/construction all saying the buildings didn't fall ina way that made sense.
The cheering group of not-Muslims who looked they knew it was going to happen. The surviving passport that looked planted.

Theres plenty of folk who think the moon landing was faked !!

Ain't it the truth.

@AmberTigerEyes, I couldn't live with someone this incapable of logic. I couldn't even respect him, let alone love him. If you're determined to hang in there, keep an eye open as a new commitment to easily-disprovable conspiracy theories can be an early sign of psychosis.

However, you can't get someone taken into hospital for believing the same nonsense as millions of other people.

I don’t think it’s unreasonable to query things that bring more questions than answers, but I would worry if he thought that the recent Artemis 2 mission was fake, for instance, as it’s something that’s been happening in real time and basically irrefutable.

You should write into Katherine Ryan

Could you try to out conspiracy him? Tell him some stuff that gets him scratching his head and makes him think/realise he's being an arse.

The metro doesn't exist is a good one. You just walk the distance through tunnels and escalators, get on a a fake carriage that rattles about a bit, noises are played through speakers, doors open, more walking, another escalator and boom, you're at your destination. It's all for money and to keep the streets clear.

Or that oranges are man made. They were real once but then they got a disease. By that time everyone was used to them so they set up a factory in Seville where they mould them from jelly and soft orange leather. Marmalade is just water with paint and sugar in. Bananas are all grown in a greenhouse in Yorkshire that was used for rhubarb during the war...that's why you couldn't get a banana in the war.

Yes, if he starts building his own moon (or mars) rocket in the garden I will definitely call for help.

I did tell him he could use a tumble dryer to tumble rocks into diamonds once. He didn’t fall for it.

I wouldn't worry too much about this, my husband has a PhD, and he is also sceptical about various different stories, moon landings, and the origin of Covid. I also have one and also don't believe the official versions of much news these days, I mean, if you believe all of those planes, helicopters and so forth went into Iranian airspace to retrieve one man up a mountain...

It's not harmless necessarily when people get obsessed by conspiracy theories or alter their lives around them, I have a friend who did this in Covid and had to leave social media for her own sanity, but if he's relatively functioning and normal, then having a scepticism about news stories and questioning official narratives doesn't seem so bizarre to me.

I’m also sceptical about the moon landings, too many things - flapping flag for one. why hasn’t anyone else landed on the moon since?

Apparently the best thing you can do is ask him what would convince him a) the moon landings were real and b) that 9/11 wasn’t an inside job.

many conspiracy theorists (looking at people on this thread….) just happily go down the rabbithole without critical thought and don’t think about what proof they’d accept to change their views.

so ask him.

Change the router password and don't tell him you've done it. When he can't get access say it's the CIA stopping him. 😂

Did the insurance company pay out? Usually they will find any excuse not to and if what you say is true, there were some big old excuses.

What do you mean by "cheering group of not-Muslims?" How do you know what religion they weren't (or were)?

First time we've flown all the way around it (dark side included).

NASA thrilled that funding for space exploration has resumed. Important to demonstrate success.

Much improved technology tested in action for the first time.

Uplifting proof of sustained international co-operation.

Is Moonwalkers his favourite movie?

On a serious note, I’m sorry, OP. My partner has phases of far too much internet and it always does a number on us (temporarily). I know we’re too old for that but there should really be some sort of class for kids nowadays to understand how to use the internet responsibly and distinguish legitimate news from fodder (although tbf those conspiracies you mention have been around for a while).

If the moon landings were faked, that's a lot of people in on the scam. Like all of NASA, the world's media, the thousands of scientists who analysed the rocks, the technicians who created the bogus pictures and images...

I must admit I’m starting to feel sceptical on the moon landings based on how much technology and effort it’s taken to go round the moon

i don’t wear a tin hat but can someone explain to me how they managed to launch back off the moon and what they did for petrol (or whatever a spaceship uses)

12 people have been on the Moon.
Last two were on Apollo 17: Eugene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt; 1972.

😂

Yes, that’s him exactly, he’s not obsessed at all. He barely looks into anything that isn’t related to his artistic passions. It can be frustrating when I have hear certain misconceptions like the iCloud is run by an AI version of Steve Jobs (he had his brain downloaded) that plans to one day use our Apple devices to create a world government that is made of united corporations.

Wasn't ascension island part of the conspiracy theories of the moon landings? NASA has a base there..or did years ago.

Its not my thing really, but my husband is right into space, rockets going up and all that, i just nod and let him waffle on. He said the other week "thats them coming back to earth now, 10 days it took them" I replied "was that in light years? Or what? They only went away the other day did they not? "Eh no, 5 days there and 5 back" 🤣🫡 ok captain kirk!! 🤣

Definitely, this. Out-weird him every time. My favourite is "birds aren't real". They're robot drones made to spy on us. When you see them sitting on power lines, they're recharging.

Then ask him if he's ever thought of standing for Reform.

I must admit I am sceptical of the number of people who say they believe the moon landings were faked, or say they believe 9/11 was an inside job. I think they just say it for attention. Or are really very very fucking stupid. But surely they can't be that stupid?

Have you never been to Blackpool?