Hello,
I've registered with the username "NotRappaport". This is a reference to a corny joke from the 1996 movie, "I'm Not Rappaport". I chose it because it was the first name I thought of that probably isn't already in use.
I've been lurking for almost a year now and finally decided to take the time to write a "Handshake" so I can register.
I'm in my 40's and live in California, USA. Before coming across Clues Forum, I was at the end-stage of investigating the supposed events of September 11, 2001. For the longest time I had simply accepted the mainstream narrative that the buildings collapsed because planes crashed into them. But not until sometime in 2015 did I become aware of the "Building 7 problem", at which point I began looking into the whole story anew.
Within a few months I had gone from thinking Arab hijackers crashed the planes into the WTC, to thinking it was actually Mossad, then finally (after watching a couple of YouTube videos dealing with the 'no planes' idea and finding this forum) coming to the shocking realization that there were almost certainly no planes at all that crashed into the WTC and the whole thing was a media perpetrated illusion in which likely no one was killed.
Which is to say I finally realized the truth - we live in a world of mass-media lies.
Now I am always skeptical of media stories and am no longer taken in by their mass-killing psy-ops. Sadly, practically everyone I know believes the media. They read one story and they fully believe the narrative and are blind to obvious inconsistencies even when they are pointed out.
The latest mass media hoax, the "Las Vegas Mass Shooting (2017)", is what finally brings me here. I need to interact with people who can see these things for what they are instead of behaving like a bunch of lemmings who only believe what everyone else believes.
My time lurking on this forum has shown me you guys have your heads on straight. You legitimately question things, use extensive documentation, and don't dismiss deviations from the mainstream as "Conspiratard" or "Tinfoil Hat". And you don't go off the deep end with lizard men or flat earth.
I look forward to being part of the Clues Forum community!

-NotRappaport