Awhile back, in my post "Who To Trust", I explained how we determine who gives us information. A majority of the time, if the person is influential and convincing, even without any real evidence or proof for a claim, most people will believe them. For example:
That got me into thinking that maybe the best way to know who's intelligent, is to test how they determine who to trust. I might sound a little cocky or something, but I think it's true. If you can't figure out who is telling you the truth, then you can't be very intelligent.
So, with knowledge of how to control the less intelligible people, someone could easily gain presidency simply by being very influential and aspiring. If I was a very influential and aspiring person, believe me, I'd probably be able to pull it off. This might just be a great weakness to Democracy. Sure, we all have our own voice, but how do we know our voice is not just a repeat of something we heard on tv.
There must be some way around this issue, but either way I look at it doesn't seem very pleasant. We could either limit who gets to vote, or limit what is said on tv. Either one would be a direct obstacle towards freedom, which is what this country is all about, supposedly. But if the programming on tv is capable of making up our minds for us, then is that really freedom either? Honestly, I think the whole system should probably be reworked, but that would require the creation of a new country. Maybe when I'm a millionaire and buy my own island I'll get to work on that. Lol
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Friday, April 9, 2010
Do you know what "IT" is?
If you've heard of "the game" (Haha you lost it) then you'll know how this works.
Basically, just say that you know what "IT" is and you win. "IT" is not really anything at all. And if someone tries to imply that "IT" really is something real then say to them "I don't think you really know what IT is...are you sure you know what IT is?"
Basically, just say that you know what "IT" is and you win. "IT" is not really anything at all. And if someone tries to imply that "IT" really is something real then say to them "I don't think you really know what IT is...are you sure you know what IT is?"
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Have aliens visited Earth?
I was just watching this video and it got me thinking...
These kinds of videos are very convincing. Although, I don't particularly buy it for a few reasons. For one, I think the people that believe in extraterrestrial's visiting Earth are simply so hopeful that this is true that they may stretch the truth or simply be purposefully ignorant.
Many of the clips in the above video could very well just be satellites passing by, a glare on the lens, or even a computer generated fake. The truth is we've never seen an extremely detailed and reliable photo/video of any such extraterrestrial craft and to think a small blurry dot floating across the screen is proof is just not enough.
I admit some of the clips are quite miraculous and I would very much like to know if we have E.T. watching us from the moon, but as far as we've experienced and learned so far, such life and intelligence is rare in the universe. Not to mention traveling several light years in a craft of some sort is virtually impossible.
Although, I have hopes that somewhere out there a planet has sustained a life form smart and powerful enough to create warp drives or inter-dimensional worm holes or whatever and has decided to help us out a little on our evolutionary path. I can only hope though, and like praying, it doesn't do shit :(
These kinds of videos are very convincing. Although, I don't particularly buy it for a few reasons. For one, I think the people that believe in extraterrestrial's visiting Earth are simply so hopeful that this is true that they may stretch the truth or simply be purposefully ignorant.
Many of the clips in the above video could very well just be satellites passing by, a glare on the lens, or even a computer generated fake. The truth is we've never seen an extremely detailed and reliable photo/video of any such extraterrestrial craft and to think a small blurry dot floating across the screen is proof is just not enough.
I admit some of the clips are quite miraculous and I would very much like to know if we have E.T. watching us from the moon, but as far as we've experienced and learned so far, such life and intelligence is rare in the universe. Not to mention traveling several light years in a craft of some sort is virtually impossible.
Although, I have hopes that somewhere out there a planet has sustained a life form smart and powerful enough to create warp drives or inter-dimensional worm holes or whatever and has decided to help us out a little on our evolutionary path. I can only hope though, and like praying, it doesn't do shit :(
My 'Pessimistic' Prediciton of the Future
Well I just made a post like this a few days ago, and I got to thinking that there are a lot of bad things that could kill us in the future. I'm going to try and list as many of them as I can and when they might take affect.
10-50 years from now:
-War with Iraq blows up into WWIII / Crusade War II
-War with North Korea (Nuclear Apocalypse)
-Global Climate Change starts to really take affect and cause major natural disasters
-Glen Beck's followers form a cult and try to take over the world. (It's possible)
-Illegal Mexicans become majority of population, middle-class virtually wiped out.
-Large corporations take over the world and we become their peasants. (Oh wait this is already true)
-390 meter wide asteroid Apophis hits the Earth causing debris to black out the sky all over the world. (predicted around 2036)
-We're well overdue for a Yellowstone eruption and with recent quakes it may be sooner than we think. It would obliterate most of North America.
50-100 years from now:
-Oil runs out in its entirety. A majority of people fall to the dark ages (if we don't switch power sources)
-Advances in robotics replaces workforce with robots. No jobs for anyone.
-Human overpopulation will cause every city to be much like the overpopulated cities of China and Japan.
-The world's atmosphere will be so polluted that the natural wilderness will have a hard time surviving.
-Mass extinctions all over the world mostly in part to human civilization.
100-500 years from now:
-Earth becoming a global desert.
-Probably send the planet into a similar state just after the dinosaurs were wiped out.
1000+ years from now:
-Insects are the few creatures still thriving. Eventual evolve to dominate the world.
-Signs of human civilization slowly being wiped off the face of the Earth.
This was just for fun. Most likely a majority of this will never happen, but only if we really try to make it not happen, especially the global warming issues. Or we can just sit around, let it happen, and pray for Jesus to save us.
10-50 years from now:
-War with Iraq blows up into WWIII / Crusade War II
-War with North Korea (Nuclear Apocalypse)
-Global Climate Change starts to really take affect and cause major natural disasters
-Glen Beck's followers form a cult and try to take over the world. (It's possible)
-Illegal Mexicans become majority of population, middle-class virtually wiped out.
-Large corporations take over the world and we become their peasants. (Oh wait this is already true)
-390 meter wide asteroid Apophis hits the Earth causing debris to black out the sky all over the world. (predicted around 2036)
-We're well overdue for a Yellowstone eruption and with recent quakes it may be sooner than we think. It would obliterate most of North America.
50-100 years from now:
-Oil runs out in its entirety. A majority of people fall to the dark ages (if we don't switch power sources)
-Advances in robotics replaces workforce with robots. No jobs for anyone.
-Human overpopulation will cause every city to be much like the overpopulated cities of China and Japan.
-The world's atmosphere will be so polluted that the natural wilderness will have a hard time surviving.
-Mass extinctions all over the world mostly in part to human civilization.
100-500 years from now:
-Earth becoming a global desert.
-Probably send the planet into a similar state just after the dinosaurs were wiped out.
1000+ years from now:
-Insects are the few creatures still thriving. Eventual evolve to dominate the world.
-Signs of human civilization slowly being wiped off the face of the Earth.
This was just for fun. Most likely a majority of this will never happen, but only if we really try to make it not happen, especially the global warming issues. Or we can just sit around, let it happen, and pray for Jesus to save us.
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