Yes, once you no longer trust authority and have to find the truth for yourself it becomes difficult to determine historical reality

I think the strongest evidence of human lunar landing is not grainy video or astronaut testimony but retroreflectors because they can be tested now - unfortunately these tests pick up something like 1 photon of return signal and false positives are possible (and even the official narrative includes Soviet unmanned craft putting retroreflectors on the moon)

So it's probably best to say I don't know, I don't see any way that I could know for sure, and frankly it doesn't affect my life one way or the other

On the other hand I have pretty strong confidence that some "foods" are toxic and some "unhealthy" foods are healthy, and this does affect my life.

Even more extreme are the cases in which state officials and "journalists" present ideas which are not false but incoherent, like paper money or trans women. These two share the distinction of substituting our perception of a thing for the thing itself - a common inversion

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Once again, I think we're on a similar wavelength.

And tbh I'd argue your last point, that is a "falsity" regardless of if it's incoherent. Flipping truth for falsehood, north is south, left is right, etc.

At the end of the day, I'm a Muslim so I have a worldview that I believe is The Middle and The Straight Path. We hold that behind all of the bewildering multiplicity of things there is The One...Al-Wahid...The Healing Hand of Tawheed for which every human heart craves and is thirsty for.

Alhamdullilah.

I only mention this to make it clear where I stand so as to not further obfuscate the picture. Peace out brothaman ✌️