Does anyone read these? ;]
I first heard of alternative history in the late 90s...bits and pieces on OOParts and Atlantis on books and magazines... I began learning more while mostly lurking on the Italian forum Antikitera, and I used to spend time on Google Earth looking for odd places.
After a few years of hiatus, where I got very interested in spirituality, I "relapsed" thanks to the Italian video translator Dino Tinelli who brought several interesting topics together, especially scientific observations that don't fit current models, both at the microscopic and macroscopic level. Only narrow-minded dogmatists close their eyes when information and observations challenge what they think they know, yet - oddly enough - that seems to be the mindset of mainstream academia and traditional "freethinkers," both of whom claim to be our "saviors" from the "dark ages" of "Catholic obscurantism" (ha!). It is so important to be open to new perspectives...and it is very challenging to neither become cynical nor lose (all of) the innocence that we all start with, while realizing there is much out there that seems not to be as we are told...
I see "big pictures," so I can't be bothered with minutiae regarding everyday events, politics (either national, transnational, or ecclesial), symbolism (and propaganda) in mass media, or highly theoretical and abstract topics such as transhumanism...although one cannot manage to be completely unfamiliar with a vast amount of such topics when familiarizing with the many facets of alternative history. After all, we neither know, nor should we think we know...and the more we know, the less we understand...thus it is, that the most learned are those who can truly say, in nil sapiendo vita serena.
Thus I stopped following the news, or watching TV, or studying [almost] anything in depth, because after all these years, the one thing I truly seek is interior peace and my long-term goal is to move away entirely from the Internet, and possibly from computers and smartphones... however I came across your forum and "relapsed" again...see what you did?
Now, I guess, I'm here for a short while, just to learn a bit more about "mud flood" / "Tartaria" (and what some call "antiquitech") since I find it intellectually entertaining for the time being. Thanks for having me.