Mine was a flurry of articles on fluoride, and a personal look into the psychology of manipulative and emotionally abusive relationships. I realized the media uses the same dark triad tactics on us, and surreptitously lies all the time.
What inspired you to seek the truth? What made you no longer wish to bathe in the beautiful lie?
I've followed "conspiracy theories" for most of my life. It started when I had to write my first term paper in my senior year of high school as preparation for college. I decided to write mine on JFK's assassination. My assertion was that Lee Harvey Oswald wasn't the sole shooter and I was going to prove it. The teacher completely shot down my theory and sources, so I was forced to write the paper to prove only Oswald could have done it. I didn't believe a word of what I was writing, but I got an "A" on my paper. How ironic in hindsight!
In September of 2020 a like-minded fren, whom I've gone down many a rabbit hole with, told me he was going to research the voting machines that were being used in his area. He was all worked up about them...and I thought he was nuts. LOL! Nevertheless, I joined him on his journey. It didn't take long to dig up the dirt on Dominion and Smartmatic. We had the whole thing figured out long before the November election. I ended up taking it farther than he did and in the process I started looking into Q and stumbled upon GAW. The rest is history.
For me, the lightbulb went on when I came to realize that all of these various conspiracy events that I'd been reading about over the years, all originated from the same source. This is when my mind was blown.
As for bathing in the "beautiful lie," I don't think I ever really did this. I've always viewed things with a skeptical, and somewhat untrusting, eye.