I find it to be pretty amazing that there are a couple of posts that at least imply that Politicians are Honest. If they were honest, Lobbying would be useless because they wouldnt respond to their legalized bribes.
Lies actually require two participants, a person to speak the Lie, and a person to believe the Lie. The volume of lies was my biggest mindblow when it came to realizing the world is the way I thought it was in school. Liars are gonna say they are honest, so what is the point of as asking them if they are honest? I've done my homework and have investigated and have directly participated. The election system is corrupt. People are expected to vote for who they are ordered to vote for, and if they do not, their votes are literally not counted. Their votes are invalidated under what ever excuse they can come up with. "Its a coup". Um, isnt a Coup basically the vote of the Majority?
Too much on Politics, but same topic of Lies.
I watched Cosmos last night from Mondays show. And again, another example of Lies and Big Power was GM saying that Lead is perfectly safe, while the guy that figured out the age of the Earth (based on Uranium decay into Lead) was discredited due to profits. The show is pretty sciencey and not too political, so if anyones interested, its still a good show to watch. I'll try to get off Politics because its taking over the thread, we all made our points.
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Science Blows My Mind
Some of the science stuff is another thing that just boggles my mind about the world being what I thought it was. We see the world through our eyes and experiences, but when we start looking at everything from a scientific perspective, the world becomes very different, very cool, very strange, and for me, just fascinating. The idea that in your eyeball, you have more atoms than there are suns in the entire universe! But there are more suns in the universe than there are grains of sand of all the beaches of the entire planet! Other things like Spacetime. Dark Matter and Dark Energy. The known matter universe is roughly 90 billion light years across, but its only 13.8 billion years old, and there is no way for matter to move "faster than light"!
As much as Science blows my mind, the other end of the extreme is Human Stupidity.
Its not always a lack of understanding or the ability to understand, but the lack of effort that people put forth to understand. Like communicating with dogs. Ive never found it difficult, but I see many people that do flat out stupid things like pet their dogs when they are growling and being aggressive expecting that the dog will "calm down" from petting it?
Other things are incredibly laughable. Some people dont get technology at all. For example, holding up a piece of paper to a computer monitor and saying "scan" and expecting the computer to recognize voice commands. Thinking a Mouse is a Foot Pedal. Believing you can "download INK" off the internet. Not buy, order and ship, but literally download something physical, like a cheeseburger. People that dont know that your CMOS battery is not strong enough to power your computer when the fucking power is out! People that think that Deer Crossing Signs are there to tell Deer that they can cross the road there! People that can not figure out that if you are travelling 78.2 miles per hour, you travel 78.2 miles in one hour! People that think PHP is a Street Drug, not a programming language! People that think the Earth is flat. Darwin Award Winners! The list of things that people do that arent just normal stupid but exceptionally stupid just goes on and on and on.
Einstein was right. There are only two things that are Infinite. The universe, and Human Stupidity. And he was not absolutely certain about the Universe...