Have you ever been reading a book, then worked whats going to happen, wanted to tell someone that you worked it out but they would never believe you? I get that a lot. The same thing happens with movies. I tend to get it with philosophical concepts too. For example, I thought of "I think therefore I am" before I had heard the phrase. Not in those exact words but I used to always say that you can never be 100% sure of anything. Even stupid things, like "I'm 100% sure the buses are never running today". Well you can never be 100% sure about anything, because it could all be one giant delusion, you could be insane, you could be the only person in the world. You might not truly take the form of a human. Anything you've ever been taught could be a lie. But I soon realised that you can be certain of one thing: that you exist. No matter what form you take, you are a thing and you are thinking. If you can think, you must exist. Anyone else telling you that they also think might be a lie. But you KNOW that you exist. I was pretty sure that I came up with the concept a while ago, but nowadays I'm having doubts as to whether i believe myself or not.
What I talked about in my very first blog is actually not all too different from a concept that Eddie Izzard was talking about during his latest Standup tour. He talked about how he didn't believe in God, but believed in the good of mankind. Sound familiar? But this I definitely HAD thought of already and I had been thinking about it for years, just never had a place to talk about it. Hence the blog.
This whole thing actually reminds me of something a classmate of mine once said to a teacher which at the time I thought was a brilliant question. Where do quotes come from? quotes like: "I think therefore I am" or "survival of the fittest"? How do you get your quotes well known? Can I say something clever or inspiring right now then talk to the right people and they'll publish it in a magazine or a paper? is it word of mouth? It was soon made clear however that these weren't just random things that people said, but lines from a book or paper that had been written. I guess a blog is the modern technological way of doing this.
So here's one of my concepts: documented and copyrighted (except not copyrighted). Let us consider the animal kingdom. Ants aren't very intelligent. Sure, they can follow a crowd, work together as a team, but no other animal that we know of is nearly as intelligent as a human. An ant walks around all day, doing ant things and focusing on ant issues, without once even considering the fact that there is an entire advanced civilisation living among them, with computers and satellite navigation. Machines, to lift heavy things (of a lot more than double their bodyweight). It is therefore the logical to assume that there is another kind of being, far more intelligent than us, living among us. We're just too thick to notice. And there's no point trying to explain it to us because we wouldn't understand. Perhaps they're even studying us. Perhaps they accidentally stand on us and kill us, without even noticing or even caring, as our lives are so menial compared to theirs. Every animal thinks that its the smartest.
So there you go, there's my afflatus. Now quote me, fools, quote me!!
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