I have cable and it is great. I don't mean to brag and rub it in your face if you are one of the unfortunate people that don't have this amazing time waster. I really enjoy it, and I love that I can watch shows that I can learn from. That show scientific discoveries and a lot of interesting things that I never knew. Something that I watched recently that really had my attention was a show called Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives. It was a documentary about a team of Marine Biologists and other types of ists that have to do with water life and whatnot. The first part of this documentary was this team talking about their research and why they think that Megalodon lives. They mentioned a boat attack and a whale that was bitten in half. Events that had just recently happened. They continued to say that they knew that Megalodon was in the area (Southern Africa), and that they planned on finding it and tagging it. The second half of the documentary was the team out in the ocean trying to lure this gigantic monster shark so that they could prove its existence. So they threw out a 5 mile slick of chum into the ocean off the coast of southern Africa and lured a crap ton of sharks to them. They were also dragging a fake beluga whale behind their ship with speakers, of some sort, making injured whale noises. After some time the sharks all disappeared, which is apparently what smaller predators do when a larger predator is about to attack because they don't want to get eaten. The ship then gets hit really hard and a girl in a shark cage tags the behemoth that hit them. They then look at the tracker and the creature is diving faster than anything they know of. They didn't get any good footage of what it was that hit them, but at the very end of the show there was a brief clip from a camera that showed an enormous shark dinosaur thing. Needless to say, I was like. Wait! What? Is that real?! That is insane! This thing is real?! Then I remembered that they said this still had no proof of what they tagged, and then my skepticism kicked in. I started to google whether or not it was real footage at the end of the show. Then there were a lot of forums talking about how the entire documentary was a hoax, and just for entertainment. People mentioned that they had googled the marine biologists from the documentary and the events that were referenced in it. Neither the people nor the events could be found. So I started to do some research, and I too couldn't find anything on the biologists or the events that had just been passed to me as fact. Needless to say I was pretty angry that they the Discovery Channel would put something on tv that was complete crap.
This makes me wonder about the validity of anything that I watch on tv that is "educational". I use to watch a show called Ancient Aliens, and it was definitely interesting. I started to look up information on that show as well and apparently there was information on that show that wasn't exactly accurate, but was used to make their argument seem more legitimate. It seems to happen all over tv. I shouldn't be surprised, but I assumed since their crap is televised to a large audience of people, that will just believe that it is fact because is aired on a big network and passed off as real, that it would be true.
I guess my point is that a person can't really assume something is true until they absolutely know for certain, because people will definitely take advantage of you. Especially if they can exploit your emotions. For example, people like healers and psychics. They make a living off of exploiting people who are emotionally compromised or just completely gullible. It is a terrible thing, and when I say you can't believe anything is true until you absolutely know I literally mean everything. I can't know anything for certain unless I have experienced it first hand and have a complete understanding of it. There are very few things that I know as absolute, and those things are very basic. Like if I stay up late I will be tired, and if someone just takes a dump in the bathroom you shouldn't go in there for at least 10-15 minutes. Beyond things like that I don't think I will ever actually know what is true and what isn't. If I am not a person that performed an experiment, then I can't say whether or not the experiment is accurate because I have no proof of what was actually done or what the results really were. I just have a person's word coupled with their alleged findings. My advice is that you should never take anything for face value. If someone tells you something don't go and tell someone else what you were just told until you are 100% certain that it is true. If you see something unbelievable on tv don't believe it. There is always the possibility that something is true, but there is never certainty. The other difficult part about this is that even when you think you are 100% certain you might not be. You can't really even trust your brain all of the time, because it doesn't collect all of the data that it is receiving and is very easily deceived because of that. I guess what I really am trying to say is that nothing is real. How do I know that I am not in the matrix right now, or that I am not in some kind of life preserving pod where I live in a completely comatose state where my brain has created a reality that I accept as truth. There is no way to actually determine that. For all I know I am just a form of energy whose intelligence projects everything I see and feel when in reality there is absolutely nothing, no space and no matter, just intelligence. I could go on forever with different scenarios, but I think you get my point. There is no proof of what anything actually is. So just think about that for a while.
K bye
