I think there is no God. Churches were created by the government to control society and calm people down and stop so much violence. We have no evidence that God is real, so why believe and waste our valuable time going to church, praying, donating money, etc. I think if we all just be moral, the earth would become a better place, with no need to mention God. They do this so we fear in him, and fear doing bad things. Just think about it, is it really possible that the Earth was created just because God said “let there be…”. I don’t think so. Take a moment to think about it.
In most science fiction, teleportation works by digitizing the person being transferred, destroying the original, and creating an identical duplicate at the new location from the digital copy. To everyone but the person being transported, it would appear to have worked, but that person would be killed as soon as the original is destroyed, and a copy who thinks he’s the original will appear at the destination. He may be identical in every way and completely believe he’s the original, but he is a separate person and the person who entered the teleporter is dead.
This would also apply to “transfer” of one’s consciousness into a new body. It wouldn’t be a transfer, really, but a copy of one’s memories into a new brain, with the original being killed. It’s a new, separate person who believes he’s the original.
In science fiction, cyborgs are biological creatures enhanced by implanting electronic components. Aside from the implantation, most humans are already cyborgs in that our knowledge, processing capacity, navigational skills and other abilities are already tremendously enhanced by electronic devices. The only difference is that they are still external for the time being.
There is no way to describe a color. When we look at something, our brain fills in the lines with a color. I see white, while you see blue. But we were both raised to call it yellow. So think about this: everyone’s favorite color is the same.
Sure, they make your teeth straight, but don’t you find it odd that almost everyone has to get the full set? I’m sure there’s something that the orthodontists aren’t telling us about that can make your teeth straight in a matter of weeks. Plus orthodontists don’t even work during appointments, they come in for one second and say “everything seems to be in order” and then they leave. And now they have all of society thinking that they need to spend a ridiculously large amount of money to make their babies’ teeth perfect.
If evolution really happened then why did it stop. If we evolved from monkeys then why do monkeys stay monkeys and humans come from humans? Why would it just abruptly stop? Think about it.
I think that if you really, really want something, it will happen. And don’t just go off saying something ridiculous like, “Okay, I really, really want the winning lottery numbers”, because your heart’s not in it.
Every time anyone makes a decision, a number of alternate universes are created where every other possible decision is made instead, and where events play out differently as a result. Normally, everyone in each universe is completely unaware of the existence of other universes, but at night, when people are asleep, they can receive a slight transfer of consciousness from their other-universe selves, and these transferred experiences are what we think of as dreams.
Sound and light are both different wavelengths of energy. Therefore, all things are just different combinations of energies that form their own unique wavelength. The soul is also is its own wave length. Energy can’t be destroyed or created. It can only be changed to some other wavelength of energy. So with that being said, reincarnation is much more probable, because the energy that makes up your “soul” has to go into something else.
I think dogs—and perhaps other common house pets, like cats—are aliens or some other sort of intelligent creature and they pretend to be dumb and carefree just to get close to us and spy on us.
Often, they just sit or lie down somewhere, watching people. It’s very creepy when you consider it, but most people don’t pay any attention and so they can get away with it. Also, many times I’ve come into a room to find my dog actively engaged in behaviors that suggest intelligence, only to have him immediately stop upon seeing me and look sheepish. He also acts embarrassed when he has to go to the bathroom with people around—something an intelligent creature might do, but one would not expect from a wild animal.
When you’re young, very young, like a baby, you have primitive needs. Food, drink, sleep, toilet. That’s your life. As you get older your needs start to change—things like education and friendship are added in. That is your life—but if it’s constantly changing, isn’t life a lie?
Get a very, very long stick, billions of miles long. Push it from one end. The other end will move simultaneously, faster than it would take for light to get from one end to the other.
It’s almost too weird, but you made this up in your head. You want this to be, you made it. You read this because you made it up. You made up all that is said, all that you see, all there is… You are alone, but you create what you experience. You make people say what you make up. And if you don’t agree, it’s your head that made that up.
A hole, technically, does not exist. A hole is the missing presence of something, therefore it is nothing. Yet this nothing has a name which makes it something. But if it has a name, it cannot be nothing. Then again, it is something which is not there. Does it exist or not? Mind-boggling.
I’m sure you know the rest—the poor are getting poorer. I think the world’s economy is designed just to make these words come true. You have lots of money, invest it, and end up with much more than you started with. As this goes on—if we take real estate as an example—the more the rich invest, the higher the demand is, and the higher the price goes, and the poor can’t even find a place to live.
The whole world could’ve been just one entity. All people could’ve had one goal. You could’ve travelled continents and no one would ask to see your passport or check your color, race or religion. I think the problem started with the first guy that built a fence around a piece of land and said “This is mine. No one is allowed in and I have the right to kill any trespassers.” We need to get together again. But the problem is, even from the most creative imaginations on earth—movie writers and directors—the world unites only because of alien invasion or environmental disaster. Let’s pray we find a more peaceful and true reason to get together.
The entire universe is one big fractal and everything repeats itself. It is never-ending, with the exception of black holes, and we aren’t meant to understand them. Once we understand what they are and how they work, we will understand how the universe was created, and that is when the world as we know it will end, and the cycle will repeat itself. We will then become the Mayan mystery to the people who inherent the earth. All that will be left of us will be buildings and information that they have to try to decipher. It’s the circle of life.
When you feel like you’ve done something or seen something before, either you’ve really seen it or it’s been in a dream of yours. There is no way that we can have such a strong remembrance of something if it hasn’t happened to us.
There is a growing anti-technology movement in some circles, where people suggest we need to return to a pre-industrial way of life and co-exist with nature and stop using technology. The people who propose this are just bad at using technology and it frustrates them, especially since it’s a major requirement for most jobs, so they want everyone to stop using it so they don’t have to learn.
If your computer, phone or other electronic devices slow down or stop working, hitting or throwing them will teach them a lesson and they will speed back up and start working again.
As a kid, I always thought that the ground and roads were like a giant moving belt. Instead of people walking forward across the ground, the ground is moving beneath them!
Yet, somehow, everyone has their own “belt” that somehow interconnects with everybody else’s, which how is people are able to move independently of each other. Call me crazy, but I think I am on to something here!
When comparing two people with equal qualifications of the same gender, age, and race, one is more likely to get a certain job or promotion, based on of their name. A Terrence would be more likely to receive a job than, say, a Demarrious. Or a Jasmine versus a LaTisha. Employers expect certain people to be less educated based on their names.
They say that in 2012 when the Mayan calendar ends, it marks the end of time. They also predict a “new” planet coming into our solar system and causing chaos. I say “new” because the Mayans say this planet has been here before, and will come again in 2012. What if this planet is so large that it will pull all of the planets towards it by their magnetic fields, aligning them in a row? Similar to a metal ball on a ring, sliding towards a big magnet that’s flying towards it. The magnet won’t change its course but will pull anything within its magnetic field that’s attracted to it closer… until they collide.
They say that those who can do, do, and those who can’t, teach. I say, those who can do, do, and those who can’t, write laws about what others can do.
With the exception of a few politicians who did spend much of their life working in the real world before running for public office, the vast majority are bred for or groomed for the role from a young age, or they enter public office after failed attempts at business.
Compared to an honest, productive job, politicians operate through lies and deceit, and spend much of their time sitting around and voting about how to regulate things they don’t understand in industries most of them would be unable to survive in if they were dependent on it as their sole source of income.
We now have technology that our kids will use many years in the future. It is there, ready at warehouses, but companies still have stock of things we use these days. They can’t let the new, innovative things out into the public because of all the money they invested into the current technology. Imagine how much easer and safer and cleaner life would be if the day after tomorrow replaced today!
Like so many other movies (I’m looking at you, The Matrix), Inception was made to create plausible deniability for those that invented and use the technology in reality.
There are those who loudly proclaim that copyrights are evil, and that all copyrighted works should belong to the public upon their creation, with the creator retaining no rights. They often back it up with all sorts of philosophical explanations as to why they’re right, but in the end, they just don’t want to pay for people’s work and want the government to force content creators to give it up for free.
It is a common belief that some people are naturally better at certain things—whether it be art, sports, math, etc.—than other people. I posit that it is experience, rather than genetics, which causes this, and that at birth, everyone of the same basic intelligence is fairly evenly matched in all areas. As they grow up, the things they and the people around them do affect their interests, which makes them focus more of their time in a certain area, which in turn causes them to be more skilled in those areas. So there is nothing “natural” about it, just time and effort.
Computer manufacturers are constantly releasing new and improved products, each one touted as being faster than the previous. While technically true—the newer processors can generally do more calculations per second than the previous—in the end, computers aren’t really getting that much faster anymore because it’s a race between hardware and software. As hardware gets faster, software developers add more processor-intensive features that couldn’t be done before, and so the computer runs at the same speed as before—or slower—just with new features.
Twitter intentionally found a maximum length just long enough to express the most primitive idea in an effort to eliminate higher thought in all of its users.
Take dogs for example. In the wild, they mostly scavenge for food and rarely eat anything good. They’re filled with disease, sleep in the cold and are at risk of injury or death from predators. But as pets, they are loved and cared for, fed good food and clean water, given places to play and explore safely, taken to doctors when they are sick, and generally live a much happier, healthier and longer life than they would’ve on their own in the wild. This doesn’t apply to all animals, but it does for many.
We now know that Mars used to have liquid water on its surface—the landscape of the whole planet has been sculpted by flowing water at some point in its past. If you have a look for “Mars anomalies” on any Internet search engine you will see odd things strewn about its surface spotted by the rovers that still trundle over its surface gathering data. Some of the things look spookily like building materials, such as bricks, etc. Satellite imagery has shown other strange things that look like structured areas and straight lines that could be ancient ruins.
Just imagine what it’s like there for a minute—if these things are ruins of ancient civilisations, things mist be extremely spooky there… Wind whipping up red dust swirling around barely exposed ancient ruins as the sun sets majestically over a freezing cold Martian mountain, plunging the quiet planet into pitch darkness with only the sound of breeze sprinkling dust over lonely rocks.
Mars could have been the home to intelligent life. Perhaps it could have experienced its “Goldilocks” era many thousands—maybe millions—of years before the Earth? There is a volcano on Mars called Olympus Mons that is bigger than any other known in the whole of the solar system—it’s actually much bigger than Mount Everest! Imagine if that bad boy went off!? It could easily have destroyed any livable atmosphere and kick-started the planet’s death. There are seemingly hundreds of thousands of cavelike areas across the surface of Mars and a certain period of its year the atmosphere is full of Methane gas—a sure sign of life. The life could be bacteria that can thrive in seemingly inhospitable areas under the surface of Mars—or, could the intelligent life whom once inhabited the surface have colonized beneath the surface, away from the deadly solar winds and plummeting temperatures?
Whatever played a part in the demise of the planet was perhaps predicted by the civilisations and some survived under the surface. There could be networks of cave systems and ecosystems unimaginable to us—the inhabitants could all have evolved heightened senses to survive in the darkness. There’s a lot to think about there anyway—what do you guys think?
When you dream at night, you don’t usually remember reality, you have independent memories that don’t exist in you perceived reality. Also, have you ever had a dream within a dream? You wake up in your dream, then you wake up again to your “reality”. And, dreams sometimes seem to last hours, days even, while only seconds/minutes pass in the “real world”. So, how can you say that we aren’t dreaming right now? Dreaming at night is just dreaming within this dream. Then when do we wake up, you ask? That’s what we perceive as death. And when you “die” you will wake back up into the real world, which you don’t know about now, because you are just dreaming, dreaming that you’re reading this, and your memories of your “life” are just part of this dream.
There is not a God, or any kind of higher power. “God” is just a characteristic in people. That characteristic shows more in some people than in others. If God created the universe, then what created God? The universe just is, always has been, and always will be. There weren’t planets at first, but particles. Those particles collided with each other and made more complex, bigger things. Collision of the particle happened so much that planets came along. If Adam and Eve were the first people on Earth, let’s say there were both the same race, they would have kids together. Their kids would have to reproduce with each other, and so on and so forth. This means that everybody would be mentally challenged, and everybody would be the same race. People say that race depends on where you live. Blacks have large noses, Asians have slanted eyes. How does the sun do this? If there was a God, why would he let there be so much evil in the world? Why would he let such bad things happen?
Think about it. If only people who don’t sin go to heaven, it must be really boring. No one has fun or anything. Just like Mark Twain said, you go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.
Think about it: scientists say that getting pulled into a black hole would tear you apart because of pressure and gravity but, honestly, how would they know? Obviously, someone would have to survive going through one to explain what happens. Call me crazy, but black holes have to lead to another universe or no one would be able to explain anything about them or somewhat understand them.
Inside every electronic device, and some other complex machines, are many tiny people whose job it is to control the machine with miniature cranks, pulleys and levers.
Computers have the most—thousands of specialists, one (or more!) for each task the computer is capable of doing.
iPods? Dozens of extremely talented mini-musicians with a vast selection of instruments at their disposal, always at the ready to play whatever song you select.
Cameras are full of realistic painters who each take a section of the image and, very quickly, create the complete image for you.
Email is basically an envelope with wings that flies through a mysterious “internet” to another computer. Sometimes these emails get lost while in flight, which is why they never reach the recipient.
We all know the danger of a black hole: they eat everything around it! That’s why they’re dangerous! The second one shows up, you’re in deep trouble, so you better hope one doesn’t show up!
Like, one time, in this movie, the spacemen were in their station, and someone did something stupid and a black hole appeared. It probably was when he fired that proto-ton missile into the engine of the bad guy’s ship. And they had four hours to close it or the universe would be eaten up.
And now I hear there’s this huge black hole in the middle of our galaxy! I’m glad I’ll die before it swallows Earth. It’d suck to be pulled into a black hole. You’d never get out! But this Large… Headron… Controller thing in Switzerland is scaring me! Scientists say that they might make a bunch of little black holes with this thing! Don’t they know what that means? It means more than holes in their cheese! HA! But seriously, that’s scary! I don’t want to be destroyed because someone is making black holes with science!
Whenever you turn a corner or close your eyes, the world around you ceases to exist. The only part of the world that exists is that which is currently in eyeshot. Whenever you move, the world you no longer see ceases to exist and the world you now see pops into existence.
People, too, only exist whenever you can see or hear them. When someone walks past you, they really have just popped into existence, walked in front of you, and then disappeared as soon as you look away from them again.
Everyone who has prototyped their own circuit knows that the circuit will continue to work as long as you don’t let the good smoke out. As soon as you release all the necessary smoke the circuit will no longer function.
You think it is all CGI? Think again! Now that the show is completed we have a full sized Battlestar in orbit, dozens of Mark II Vipers, and even more Raptors. Why is this? We have come to believe over the past ten years that CGI has gotten so good that it looks real. Nay, I say. The so-called effect houses cannot come up with anything better than clay animation. So they trick their shareholders by building full sized battlestars, star destroyers, starships, transformers, etc., just so that their artists look good!
When playing a video normally, media player applications load a certain amount of data into RAM ahead of time as a buffer to prevent skipping during playback. However, as soon as each frame has been played, it gets removed from RAM to free up space for more future frames.
So, when you suddenly want to rewind, it’s suddenly nowhere near as smooth, because it has to hunt down all the data on the hard drive again, frame by frame, and that takes considerably longer, since it doesn’t even seem to try building up a buffer when rewinding.
While growing up in the eighties, people tended to be suckers for all kinds of self-help groups, gurus and books.
One theory that kept going around amongst those folks, and even some who did not actively partake in self-help activities, was that everything happened because you wanted it to.
That theory went as far as saying that a blind person was blind because he or she did not want to see, and that all good health was in the will.
Using that theory, if those migraines would not go away, it was simply because you did not wish them away hard enough.
That same mode of thinking also included believing that nothing happens by chance, like winning the lottery because one really wanted to win, or if one broke a leg slipping on ice, it was because that person wanted to get hurt.
When you die, you find out that life is one long dream and that everything you did didn’t matter. For ten minutes, you talk to god, then some random person gives birth to you again and it starts all over, repeats one hundred times, then you go to heaven or hell.