Monday, December 8, 2008

We're All Wrong! (And yes, that includes you, too)

Here's something interesting. Every human being, since the dawn of time, up until the later 1700 hundreds, is known to have been completely and totally WRONG in their understanding of the way the world works, where it came from, and all the rest. Here's something else interesting. Everyone alive today, seems to think they are some sort of exception. That's the thing that gets to me about humanity. God, we are arrogant. For some reason we think we are somehow close to the peak of humanity, the peak of technology and understanding. But we're not. Every civilization before us has thought it was the greatest thing since the wheel, and everyone has faded into dust, or at least gone through such major reconstruction, it can hardly be the same civilization.

The fact of the matter is this. Modern Science can not be, in any way, misconstrued as "fact". Because, the problem is, it's not. It's just the best wrong answer so far. First we thought the world was flat. Then we thought it was round. A little later, we found out, oh hey, maybe we're not the center of the Universe, and maybe there's other stuff out there. And now? Maybe it's not even a UNIverse, maybe it's a MULTIverse. Most good scientists out there will tell you that science is not concrete, it's always changing, etc, etc. But, they still laugh at the concept of a "Hollow Earth". Have they been there? No. The fact is, until we send something there, we can't rule out the possibility of a ruling race of Mole-People, quietly pulling strings behind the scenes. Yes, it's silly, but silliness is nothing comparable to evidence, which, since we haven't been there, we have none. (Yes, I'm ignoring siesmographic scans, etc, because, hey, those mole-people could be crafty).

And as for you, religion? Have any of you died? If you're reading this, I think we can assume no. And I know I certainly haven't died. So then, if you haven't died, and I haven't died, how do we know what happens after we die? We don't. All religions are based on, at the core, a fear of death. I'm not going to say that after we die, there is nothing but an eternity of purgatory-esque darkness and nothingness. I'm just going to say, STOP PRETENDING YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT IS OUT THERE. That goes for athiests, too. You guys know just as much as the fundamentalist christian who told me I was going to hell because I listened to "Bad Music". The fact is, there have been thousands of religions, which have all dissapeared, and for some reason, most modern religions just laugh and point, call them heathens, and move on with their day, completly ignoring the fact that there are way to many similarities for comfort, and instead finding comfort in various texts, religious figures no one can decide existed, and general tomfoolery.

So yes, I've pissed off a fair number of people in my day, and I'm sure many of those who read this will be equally irate, P.O.'d. or generally insulted. But the fact is, deep down, you know I'm right. Truth is rare, hard to find, and not applicable to reality. All we have is what is less wrong. Which is good. I'm fine with less wrong. I mean, hell.. It's how American's vote, right?

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