that way I can see what level of information they have, what questions they may have and what interests them most. Then, I can more finely tune my interaction with them so I have the greatest chance to make a connection and achieve some level of success.

I've worked beside people who are so angry you can practically feel the heat coming off them, they drive folks away faster than a homeless panhandler.

Lately, I usually lead with the need to help those who were exposed to the dust, as this is critically important and a non-threatening issue that everyone can easily get behind. This opens the way for further dialogue about what actually created the dust, which in turn allows them to ask me questions about anything else they are curious about regarding the events of 9/11.

It can be a delicate balance, trying to educate the public while not coming across as a zealot who knows everything or just someone who has a few random questions about some loose ends.

I recommend taking a patient approach, just expose them to a bit more each time and eventually their innate curiosity will usually get the better of them and they will start digging on their own, and that's really the only way most people get there in the end (which is really just the beginning).

I find working with the public the most rewarding and enjoyable part of being in the truth movement.

Thanks for the post, this is a topic we can never talk about too much, imo.

Keep up the good work!

The truth shall set us free. Love is the only way forward.

LeftWright, Richard, I would like to call you friends. The time spent learning in this movement for me has involved extensive personal growth, I think much like what you're stating. In the beginning, I wouldn't entertain this material, and my bro' had to come back and hit on me with it a few times. I had to go through a coming around process in the psyche of the thing.

Today, I know I can look at the video of those towers going down, and it is just so obvious as to what is happening there. Ok, that's also a thousand pages of study on the towers as well. A couple of years ago, I was able to put this page together on them...
My 911 Page

I have to respect what I had to go through to see things as I do today. I had to face the possibility of changing my entire world view, just to consider what truthers had to say. With respect for my bro' as well, that certainly helped in my ability to entertain some of what he had to say, and then, to conduct investigations of my own.

I find self-reliance to break through a lot of problems with my mind of before. I used to have to answer to all kinds of social callings, and of political correctness, and to think in a "societal sort of way", but that just turned out to not be me. I've found far greater happiness in requiring most highly my own personal harmony and integrity within, and by way of this, to de-prioritize the needs of my society. For as backwards as it sounds, I find the experience of my own happiness and integrity, and by such lesser priority on the happiness of others, a way to be more exemplary for others than I ever could have been. That's incidental.

I've struggled with the notion of "what is a friend?", and the funny ways it seems to develop vague and lesser meanings for the word. Come to find out, friend and foe are simple virtues all the world over. A friend is someone who does good turns, and a foe is someone who does bad ones. I no longer hold the notion that a friend is someone who hurts me, such as on the basis of another meaning of the word.

I see more in every person than I ever did before. I used to see a body, and a mind, and now I see more. I used to use people for body and mind, and now I see more. I care about how they feel. I care about things they might not even be aware of themselves. I have put my own harmony, happiness and integrity first, and in this movement, I can have these things, as current affairs go. I simply find my state of being more important than the stuff between anybody's ears.

Having herein said all of this, I can only imagine that, as has happened before, "Mark seems to have walked off the edge of something", but here I am. I'm certainly enjoying your replies.

One of the things that helps me now is to see the plight of a mind that is trapped, or confined, and to avoid the hostility within myself, by formatting said person's statements in such as way as to understand the plight out of which they're arising. It puts the crazy-driving statements into their place, and where they fit in my mind more harmoniously.

Edit-add: I feel I should mention another "truth" development, that has had profound developmental meaning for me. I am reminded of something Socrates once said, that when one forgets all that one has learned, that only the truth will remain. (They say that a lot in the east, too) For me, this is no small affair. It has created a kind of "acceptance faith", where nothing between my ears is sacred, and where I find there to be a covenant, or promise to say that whenever I surrender that which I know, there is a promise of a greater truth to gain. My faith in that promise, as based upon that thinking; it seems to pay so well!

Cheers -
Mark