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Darkayne | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
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It also doesn’t help many grew up watching the Discovery channel to further fortify their believe in “Ancient Aliens”
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🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @5661329e 

Yea that channel did soooo much harm.

Thi g is when i was younger i was into it and it was good for me as it gave me a "what if" mentality. I was mature enough to know it was speculative despite being sold as fact... 

Despite that seems it was quite a bit more harmful for others it seems
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Darkayne | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
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People think it's rather weird, considering what the show itself was about, but The X-Files is what created my skeptical mindset every night. I knew aliens or shapeshifters were bullshit but it was the way Scully and Mulder worked together. Two parties that seldom see eye to eye still getting shit done.
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🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @5661329e fantasy is good so long as we can understand its fantasy... and also nothing wrong for searching for fantasy in the truth, so long as we are objective enough to recognize we usually wont find it.