I Do Suppose "There's No Such Thing As Truth"

Well the truth is (sorry, I felt I had to start with that) but I honestly think that nothing in the world is the truth. Lets start by thinking about what the truth actually is, well I reckon that nobody will manage to get further than;
"Something that is true"
Well I'm sure that those clever people may think;
"Something that is correct" That is one way of looking at it, but if you have been reading past posts I'm sure you'll guess that this then leads to the problem, what is correct?

All these questions are what I call, the unquestionable. To start with, if I asked you to believe something that you never even knew existed, I doubt you would fall for it, in fact I could almost guarantee it. However that's basically what you doing with the concepts I have just put forward to you.

There seems to be some sort of thing that makes our brains accept these ridiculous concepts so easily, say our brain is a computer, we seem to have this pre-installed program running on it, like Microsoft, everyone accepts that it's there, but nobody really wants it. However you don't see people having riots in the streets demanding answers do you?

It's a bit like that with us really, and I'm almost embarrassed to say it but, we really are stupid, yeah we can do some pretty amazing things but, if we can dismiss things so easily, then surely something hasn't worked as well as it should do.

I personally think, in the tangled mess that's our brain, we have something sort of, wired into it, that means we simply dismiss something we don't understand unless we are forced to do something about it, well this is me, forcing you.

Thing Two

I Do Suppose "That Opinions Rule The World"

I can tell automatically your starting to disagree with this statement and maybe secretly deep down think;
"I rule the world!"
Well, hate to break it to you, but you don't, well not really anyway. Many people think that the human race, being the most intelligent rule the world. That's a very simplistic point of view and is very common, but really you have to think further on than just humans, and more about the humans actions, or as this article suggests, opinions.

How we work is that very clever important people share their opinions to the less important people until their opinions are all the same, this is how its meant to work. This is what politics is based on, people sharing views and rules etc. However you need to think a bit further than just that, start thinking about facts, stories and other things you have just accepted without thinking about.

Normality is a common one, The whole idea of something being normal is basically your opinion about what being normal is, however people never realise this, nor do they realise what I think is an 'opinion overlap'. This is basically when more than one person share the same opinions and views, therefore they get stronger. This then works in a sort of chain reaction across the globe until it reaches conflict.

How this then rules the world is another matter, first you actually have to have a decent opinion, secondly you have to get people to accept and share it. Then most importantly, pass it on. Although this seems very simple, its practically impossible to get the whole world to agree on one thing, so not one individual will ever 'rule the world'.

But, as I stated before, we don't rule the world, our opinions do that for us, there's not a problem or theory in the world that isn't a matter of opinion, many of you think that because we have proof for something, that it's no longer an opinion and more a fact, but it's still somebody's opinion that it's a fact if you know what I mean.

So maybe one day, your opinion, may change the world, make it a better or worse place, problem is, they will never know it was you.

Thing Two

I Do Suppose Racism Is Overrated.

Bit of a dodgy subject to pick, eh? But something today…just really set the wheels turning.

I was reading Wikipedia’s article on Left 4 Dead 2 (Basically an apocalyptic zombie free-for-all), and ‘Willie Jefferson of the Houston Chronicle, after seeing initial promotional material for the game, considered that several of the infected "appear to be African-Americans" implying a racist approach to the game.’ Woah. Hold up.

Ok. In the USA over 12.3% of the whole population would describe themselves as ‘African American’. About 36.6 Million. So according to Willie Jefferson, these people don’t exist. Surely that’s more ‘racist’ than getting a general span of Americans.

Let’s turn the tables. Surely including white people in games is racist? No? No.

‘Racism’ as we know it today is usually just completely innocent statements which have been misinterpreted. I was born in California. Father, black, mother, white. Now live in South London. And before you jump to stereotypes I:  1. Am not a knife wielding ‘yobbo’. 2. Do not pronounce it ‘Saaaf Landan, nor am I a chimney sweep. At my school whenever the words ‘Black, or white’ are used, at least four people have to call out ‘Racist!’ Ridiculous.

Thing One.

I Do Suppose "Common Sense Is A Con"

I bet all of you reading this are now thinking:
"What! There is no con!"
Well again you are wrong, first of all, what really is common sense? You don't know right? That fine, nobody actually knows what it is, they just think they do, and therefore a common problem occurs when we think we know something.


Whenever you think you know something, all it is is an opinion, your opinion, for example,
"I think this post is amazing" That's only my opinion, somebody else may think something different to me. Now, don't worry, all this does link in to my original statement, and some of you may have already guessed what I'm going to say.


Has somebody ever said to you,
"Use your common sense"
Well that is asking you to use what you think to be common sense right? Well, first of all, if you had somehow thought up what you think common sense is, you would never of not used it, so there's the first problem. However secondly, the person who is telling you to use your common sense is relying on the fact that your common sense and their common sense are the same. In case I lost you there basically their expecting that by you using your common sense you will do what they think is common sense.


So therefore we seem to have established that subconsciously what we think is common sense, everyone else must think is common sense. However, if nobody really knows what common sense is, then how will this work, everyone must all think common sense is the same thing, which then means that under every situation, all Six Billion people on the planet will act in exactly the same way, because everyone has the same common sense. This will basically mean that everyone has the same personality and is only different because of their looks, and that's just silly.


So seeing as we are not all the same, its pretty obvious that this whole common sense thing, whatever it is, is a con, a trick. Personally I don't really see how it's worth tricking people but who the hell came up with this idea? I think it's stupid.


Next time somebody says,
"Use your common sense" ask them, "What is common sense?".
See what they say then.


Thing Two

I Do Suppose "that using leet speak is just a tad r1d1cul0u5."

You know when you’re on IM, and there’s always that one friend that constantly insists on abbreviating every single word till an inch of its life. Yeah, that really bugs me.

Why do people do it? How did it come about? Why, why, why? For me I actually have to think about writing abbreviations. It’s just simply quicker and more understandable to use full language. That’s why we have it. Why can’t some people spare just that hundredth of a second saved? Also, the receiver of such things has to take that fraction of a second saved and interpret the message. So in the end it all boils down to a war of time. Who can save time and waste the others?

A traditional war as we know it involves “Saving lives is worth less than wasting the enemy’s lives”. Saving lives is what we like to comfort ourselves with, to convince ourselves that the ‘good’ side is always trying to do good. Conservation of life is crucial, apparently. But if we want to save lives then why are we in a war in the first place? I mean, really. So it doesn’t really matter how many lives we are saving, we’re just trying to waste the opposition’s.

Exactly like ‘l33t’ speak. It actually takes up a bit of time to think of those little shortcuts and diversions. But we’re just trying to slow down the other. I don’t really like being slowed down if I’m honest with you.

Do you know what really ticks me off? The art of welding ‘l33t’ words together. This comes into the territory of the ‘LOLROFLMAO!’ [Laughing out loud rolling on the floor laughing my ass off], the ‘WTFOMG!’ [What the f-, oh my God!] and the ‘FTWLOLN00B’ [For the win, laughing out loud, newbie]. I mean, to even come up with these is a crime, but to say these abbreviations out loud?

Forget it.

Thing One

I Do suppose "The Worlds A Stage"

This is kind of linked in to the meaning of life, based on the common misconception that there actually is a meaning, life to me seems to be a road of opportunities in which some you take, and some you don't. Well the metaphorical idea of the world being some sort of stage may not make much sense at first, however, if you think about it, it may become a lot more clear.


So basically the world is a place where you have the opportunity to stand up and be counted, so one big place where everyone is trying to be someone. Seems a bit simple eh? Well it is really, its just about making it all work. Every problem pretty much only has one answer, "Make it work".


Maybe life is just what you make it, your life is whatever you want it to be, really you have that much freedom, quite hard to understand just how life works, but it's down to you to make it work in your favour. Instead of sitting down watching the world go by, staring success in the face, try to use the world for what it is, a stage, once massive opportunity to succeed.


So next time something doesn't go right, it's because you made it that way, it's down to you to structure your own life, this theory makes the object of blame non existent but, it's down to you to find your own meaning for life, after all:


All the worlds a stage, don't be an understudy.


Thing Two

I Do Suppose "That Our Mind Is A Life Sized Box"

Well, you know how many people say how our mind is metaphorically never ending? There may be some truth in this, but I think it's a box. Pretty simple, eh? Well...no. Not really.

Imagine you are standing in this box, and its about 100 times bigger than you are. If I said, 'Touch the ceiling.' you can't, as there's nothing in the box that would help you. If I said, 'Touch the top half.' you wouldn't be able to, there's nothing to help you, remember?

Well I think there is. How do you reach the top of the box? Simple, you use the box. How do you overcome your mind? By using your mind, but it's not as simple as you think. Many people take advantage of the mind that they have, and don't really use it to its maximum potential. Notice how I said maximum. I don't think it goes on for ever, I just think we can't get to it.

But isn't it worth trying to? If your sitting in front of your computer screen nodding along like the Churchill bulldog, then you've practically completed stage one: Knowing what's at the top of the box. It's a bit boring to stop there though isn't it? This is where it starts to get tricky. Sort of paradoxical, because to work out how far your mind can go, you have to use your mind. Don't worry if you're loosing me here though, I'll explain it in a sec.

Now getting back to a small bit of reality. The only way you can overcome your mind, is by using your mind. That seems pretty hard, right? Well it is, what us humans may call 'impossible', but there's really no such thing. If someone says something is impossible, the only reason that they have said this, is that person just can't reach some parts of their box.

I reckon it's impossible for one single person to reach all four corners of their box.

Yeah, impossible.

Thing Two.

I Do Suppose "God Is A Lightbulb"

God. Think of him.

Imagine some white guy surrounded by clouds? Yeah, me too. But why? Is that the way the media have portrayed him? Is it because he might look slightly like your Grandad? Have you noticed that all forms of public media seem to bypass ‘him’? Quite ridiculous really.

Well, what is God? Is it blasphemy to think that the ‘mere’ human mind can even begin to understand what he is? Is it? If he is so great, then why does he need us meagre beings to worship him? Surely that’d be like us being worshipped by a large colony of ants, each using their own method and way, all or none of them correct. Now, that’d be weird. But I suppose it works.

We could alter their homes, and they wouldn’t have a clue what we were doing. We could make unexplainable things happen, slaughter them by the thousands with one stamp of our foot, make water appear from nowhere, and create heat just like that. Simple. Now, we don’t necessarily think of ourselves as the highest of all high, that’s what God is. If we are ant’s God, and God is our God…who is God’s God? And so on. An unending hierarchy.

Ants worshipping us? What is that to us? To the vast majority of us they are nothing. Just simply don’t really exist. Don’t really affect us. Pointless, you could say. We don’t think twice about squashing the odd one or two. To us they don’t have a mind. Just a ‘get food, eat food’ policy. Their minds are just so small and the thought of them having thoughts beyond this policy is instantly crushed by our prejudices.

What if God thought about us like this? He probably does you know, if he exists. We are nothing to him.

His toys.

I personally believe that we are shrouded in darkness. And we are scared of the dark, and so God is our kinda of lightbulb. He lights up this darkness. It’s like sometimes you’re in bed, and you swear you heard something, but you try to convince yourself you did. After minutes of pondering, you decide to switch the light on. 


There’s nothing there of course, but you feel better, assured that it’s alright. God is this light. With no God to worship and look up to, we’re intimidated. So God is the light. 


Quite ridiculous really.

I Do Suppose "Life And Death Are The Other Way Round"

Yeah, pretty intriguing eh? Well I've thought about this philosophical statement many times before, but I'll cut straight to it. Well lets think, what defines both life and death, Yeah, we have quite a lot of proof right?
Ok, like what? Well to be honest, I sure can't think of any definitive proof, really all we have is common sense, somehow we invented what we think classifies life and death, so we kind of classified ourselves as living.
With me so far?


I mean, we have absolutely no proof at all! Just a myth that though the generation we have been taught to believe and understand, all we have is a fraction of an understanding about our world. Our own world and we barely know anything about it.


However, the human mind has only come up with this solution because it seems to fit, it seems to work as an excuse that allows us to then dismiss it as a fact. But say we are wrong, how many times have you got something the complete opposite to what it actually is? I know I sure have.


So what I'm getting at here is that, what's to say we got it wrong, maybe what actually is life it was we have commonly classified as death and vice versa. But then you may wonder, if we are wrong, who is right? Well that's completely different.


All I'm really saying here is think about things from your own prospective, not those of things other people have told you about, try to overcome your brain and try to come to your own conclusions. It may be a matter of life or death.


This is really making our lives a matter of Chinese Whispers possibly getting more and more distorted as  it gets passed on, also known as science, yeah that's right, the whole of science is now about finding something we can understand and then calling it a fact, but what is a fact? What is right and wrong? What is life and Death?


Thing Two

I Do Suppose "That cars will fly"

Yep, you got it, I genuinely believe that soon, and I don't know when, that cars will be able to fly. I know this may seem a relatively ridiculous statement to make, and be so certain of at that.


Well I'm not really sure how to persuade you about this one, you know, if I was to ask you
"Picture the future"
I bet your thinking about high-tech super speedy cities with satellites and yep, I know your thinking it, Flying Cars. It just seems to be that ultimate step that some inventor can take to change the world as we know it, I mean, before electricity was invented, I reckon they thought that nothing like that could be possible, but now we seem to have a small idea about what the human race can really achieve.


However, when we get these ideas which seem to solve all the answers to questions never really asked, what do we do?
We dismiss it, as if it was nothing, we simple say, "No that's a bit ridiculous" It seems to be what the human mind does, how it works, we simply dismiss what we don't understand, I'm no exception of course but I like to think I remain open minded.


But thinking as logically as possible, we have the two necessary components needed to make this dream into a reality. First, we have cars, that's a pretty good starting point eh? Secondly, we can make things fly, that's probably the most important bit really. So combining the two? Well, I think we can do it, we shouldn't underestimate ourselves.


Unfortunately I can't see this happening any time in my lifetime, but give it a few generations and planes will be redundant, car like vehicles will zoom around the skies, and the best thing of them all, it might be down to what I've just said.


Thing Two

I Do Suppose "Shouting isn't great"

I do suppose that shouting isn’t too great.  Not the best is it really? Quite negative to be precise. You know when you do something just so awful, and later just can’t recall why on earth you did that?

Like, a while back, not sure when…not too long ago, me and my friend (Thing Two to be precise) were in Chemistry, and the next thing I know we’ve both managed to drink a measuring tube full of ethanol between us. Not sure why...We like to think the fumes got into our systems, but, well, there is no explanation really.


Rumours spread like wildfire, right? But in this case it wasn’t really a rumour...it was kinda the truth, until one person had the idea that it’d be cool if we drank over a cup of it each. Ethanol remember?  And that’s when the teachers seem to switch on. The school even added a special chemical (Not sure what it is…has slightly mythic properties) to make sure if any ‘miscreants’ decide it’s fun to drink they’ll throw it right back up.  Yeah, hilarious. But the rest of that day was the worst.


 Just waiting for the behemoth of a man to appear at his lab’s door was awful. So beastly it didn’t even cross your mind that he had a similar appearance to Mr. Potato Head. ‘Do you think it’s funny to do something like this?’, he bellowed, ‘Right, so how much did you drink?’. Naturally we just made about a centimetre between our thumbs and index fingers. But no, that was not good enough? ‘Ok, I’ll ask you again. How much did you actually drink? Come on, cough up you alcoholics.’ Right, so now we’re alcoholics. We then just about doubled the distance. ‘So, this isn’t working. Shall I get really angry? Shall I explode?’ Image of whale blubber and a foul smell is immediately induced, causing a flicker of smile across one of our faces, which is immediately translated to the other, then to him...but he doesn’t have a very ‘good’ converter you see.


A wave of anger seems to take him. ‘I can tell you right now, sonny, that laughing after committing an act you foul boys. I shall tell your mother!’ God, how loud can a man even begin to get? Ridiculous.


Basically after that we had to tell our parents, and clean down four laboratories ironically with Methanol. Burns your lungs that stuff does.

Thing One

I Do Suppose "Blue Monkeys are cool"

I honestly believe that blue monkeys are the coolest of all creatures and deserve to be take seriously.
If they existed that is, but lets say we live in a world where blue monkeys are alive, many people may stare and laugh at the poor innocent beings, being rude and very unfair, however, there is another type of person:


Me, treating it with the respect it truly deserves.


Blue is a very cool colour you see, I mean, it was OK for the sky right? So why not a Monkey?
It's sort of like combining the bright bold colour with possibly our ancestors, so I can't really see how that is not cool, and maybe this amazing creatures will learnt to fly, or maybe there already flying blue monkeys?


After all, we would never know would we? Well that's the sort of attitude I think is worth adopting, maybe next time you think, 'that's just stupid' or 'that's impossible' just think. Things could be happening all round the world, the universe, or beyond that, if it bothers to exist and i bet somebody said that it wasn't possible.


But then, I bet the cavemen wouldn't deem it possible to have computers would they?
Well now is the chance to have an open opinion, so if you fail to believe me, next time you see something unexplainable in the sky, well that could be a Blue Flying Monkey, and he's up there, laughing at you...and pissing on your face.


Thing Two