Post by RALPHE on Dec 13, 2005 17:34:27 GMT 11
I thought this was an insterested read so figured I'd share. It's from a blog written by a friend of mine, he's the radio host for the UpFM morning shows, none other than Mike aka "strobe"... he's crazy 
Peception is reality...
Okay. Now, this may seem a little bit out of left field, and understandably so. But if you actually think about it with an open mind, then you may actually scare yourself. Even just a little..
I'm going to tell you a story.
Purple Flying Avocado’s and their effect in the war between the opposing factions of Pixies and Fairies.
All was well in the world. People were going about their business, as were the Fairies and the Pixies.
The Fairies and Pixies however after a while of both procreating, began to realise that the room to live was getting smaller and smaller. A natural progression of this building lack of space was that the two species went to war.
They waged war for many, many years, until the Fairies started to get an edge. This was mainly due to the fact that Copernical the Mighty (one of the advisors to the Fairy Monarch Despolihurious) cast a magical spell, ridding the Pixies of their wings.
Now wingless and not nearly as mobile as the agile Fairies, they started to wain in the war for land because the Fairy generals realised that it is easy to fly above the Pixies and drop rocks on their heads without there being any chance of retaliation.
After a while, the Pixies realised that this effort was futile. There was no way they could compete with the more agile and winged enemy without assistance. So they decided that it was time that they began looking for allies.
After much deliberation between the wise councils and elders, the Pixies decided the way forward would be to diplomatically approach the flying purple avocados in order to quash the evil Fairies.
The Purple Flying Avocados decided it was in their best interest to ally themselves with the Pixies. This way the Pixies, upon ridding the world of the Fairies, could share their land with the Purple Flying Avocados because they didn’t rely on the same food sources and wanted different terrain.
Initially from an outsider’s point of view, it would seem that the Pixies had an advantage over the Fairies because it was two against one. This wasn’t the case however because the Purple Flying Avocados flew in a way similar to that of a sine curve and were not nearly as agile as the Fairies. Not to mention it would be two factions attempting to work together fighting one united front.
And so they went to war. And so the battle continues to this day. If you look careful around, you can see them- waging war, dropping rocks and other projectiles, the land they fight over slowing changing ownership back and forth between the factions.
So that’s the story. It’s incomplete, because it is still being fought to this day. And it is 100% true!
But you don’t believe that now do you. Not for a second. Why? Because your brain says it doesn’t make sense.
Which is why I decided to come up with such a story. This is challenge your perception.
What are the reasons why this can’t exist? You haven’t seen a purple flying avocado before have you? Nor a pixie, or a fairy.
SO?!
How many of you here have been to the Himalayas? Probably not too many. Yet, people BELIEVE that the Himalyas exist. They don’t for a second doubt it.
Why?
“Oh, but I’ve had friends that’ve been there”
“I’ve read about it in books”
“I’ve met people from there”
WHO CARES?
If I got 1000 people you didn’t know to tell you over the period of the next 3 years that purple flying avocados existed, you wouldn’t believe it. You’d think it was a joke.
If I wrote a book all about them, detailing their past, their present, where they’re going in terms of progression, details photographs of them (all photoshoped), the lot- you STILL wouldn’t believe it.
If I got people to tell you that they’ve been to the land of fasfafklasgskldfg, where they come from, you’d laugh.
Even if you personally have been to the Himalayas for example, what point of reference do you have? How do you know they didn’t land 1 hour north of Florida and say “Hey, welcome to the Himalayas!”. Far fetched, yes. Possible? YES.
I started writing something along these lines a while ago but got a bit stuck. It tended to go all over the place, from one point to another, and it was too disjointed. But hopefully it’ll get my point across to an extent.
Basically, it talked about how only what people consider as ‘influential models’ in their lives can influence what they believed. E.g. If teachers taught about purple flying avocados in school, told you all about them, you wouldn’t doubt them for a second. You wouldn’t have a REASON to. You wouldn’t even think about it.
Which makes me ask- “why do you believe in the stars?”. You haven’t been there. You haven’t seen them up close. Everyone knows that things look different from far away- how far away are the stars?
Look at how everyone believed beyond doubt that the world was square? Sounds stupid right? Not to them. Not at the time.
Look at Santa Claus. We believed it beyond doubt. I still believe that I actually saw a sleigh flying through the air (the mind is a beautiful and powerful thing) yet it only took 1 person (a parent) to sit us down and say “look Johnny, Santa isn’t real”. And 99% of the time, in that one instantaneous moment, it was all dispelled.
Who in our lives have this power? What does it take now that we’re ‘developed adults’ to influence and/or change our beliefs?
Are we too set in stone about what we ‘know’ to every change anything?
Food for thought anyways. Unfortunately, a blog isn't really all that great a medium for argument. And this particular argument/story is more of a "let's get the groundword done, and then i'll hammer all your rebuttle". But i'm sure you get the idea of where i'm coming from
Visit strobe's blog and send him an email! He's now doing an "ask strobe" thing...
>>> blog.myspace.com/s_t_r_o_b_e
Peception is reality...
Okay. Now, this may seem a little bit out of left field, and understandably so. But if you actually think about it with an open mind, then you may actually scare yourself. Even just a little..
I'm going to tell you a story.
Purple Flying Avocado’s and their effect in the war between the opposing factions of Pixies and Fairies.
All was well in the world. People were going about their business, as were the Fairies and the Pixies.
The Fairies and Pixies however after a while of both procreating, began to realise that the room to live was getting smaller and smaller. A natural progression of this building lack of space was that the two species went to war.
They waged war for many, many years, until the Fairies started to get an edge. This was mainly due to the fact that Copernical the Mighty (one of the advisors to the Fairy Monarch Despolihurious) cast a magical spell, ridding the Pixies of their wings.
Now wingless and not nearly as mobile as the agile Fairies, they started to wain in the war for land because the Fairy generals realised that it is easy to fly above the Pixies and drop rocks on their heads without there being any chance of retaliation.
After a while, the Pixies realised that this effort was futile. There was no way they could compete with the more agile and winged enemy without assistance. So they decided that it was time that they began looking for allies.
After much deliberation between the wise councils and elders, the Pixies decided the way forward would be to diplomatically approach the flying purple avocados in order to quash the evil Fairies.
The Purple Flying Avocados decided it was in their best interest to ally themselves with the Pixies. This way the Pixies, upon ridding the world of the Fairies, could share their land with the Purple Flying Avocados because they didn’t rely on the same food sources and wanted different terrain.
Initially from an outsider’s point of view, it would seem that the Pixies had an advantage over the Fairies because it was two against one. This wasn’t the case however because the Purple Flying Avocados flew in a way similar to that of a sine curve and were not nearly as agile as the Fairies. Not to mention it would be two factions attempting to work together fighting one united front.
And so they went to war. And so the battle continues to this day. If you look careful around, you can see them- waging war, dropping rocks and other projectiles, the land they fight over slowing changing ownership back and forth between the factions.
So that’s the story. It’s incomplete, because it is still being fought to this day. And it is 100% true!
But you don’t believe that now do you. Not for a second. Why? Because your brain says it doesn’t make sense.
Which is why I decided to come up with such a story. This is challenge your perception.
What are the reasons why this can’t exist? You haven’t seen a purple flying avocado before have you? Nor a pixie, or a fairy.
SO?!
How many of you here have been to the Himalayas? Probably not too many. Yet, people BELIEVE that the Himalyas exist. They don’t for a second doubt it.
Why?
“Oh, but I’ve had friends that’ve been there”
“I’ve read about it in books”
“I’ve met people from there”
WHO CARES?
If I got 1000 people you didn’t know to tell you over the period of the next 3 years that purple flying avocados existed, you wouldn’t believe it. You’d think it was a joke.
If I wrote a book all about them, detailing their past, their present, where they’re going in terms of progression, details photographs of them (all photoshoped), the lot- you STILL wouldn’t believe it.
If I got people to tell you that they’ve been to the land of fasfafklasgskldfg, where they come from, you’d laugh.
Even if you personally have been to the Himalayas for example, what point of reference do you have? How do you know they didn’t land 1 hour north of Florida and say “Hey, welcome to the Himalayas!”. Far fetched, yes. Possible? YES.
I started writing something along these lines a while ago but got a bit stuck. It tended to go all over the place, from one point to another, and it was too disjointed. But hopefully it’ll get my point across to an extent.
Basically, it talked about how only what people consider as ‘influential models’ in their lives can influence what they believed. E.g. If teachers taught about purple flying avocados in school, told you all about them, you wouldn’t doubt them for a second. You wouldn’t have a REASON to. You wouldn’t even think about it.
Which makes me ask- “why do you believe in the stars?”. You haven’t been there. You haven’t seen them up close. Everyone knows that things look different from far away- how far away are the stars?
Look at how everyone believed beyond doubt that the world was square? Sounds stupid right? Not to them. Not at the time.
Look at Santa Claus. We believed it beyond doubt. I still believe that I actually saw a sleigh flying through the air (the mind is a beautiful and powerful thing) yet it only took 1 person (a parent) to sit us down and say “look Johnny, Santa isn’t real”. And 99% of the time, in that one instantaneous moment, it was all dispelled.
Who in our lives have this power? What does it take now that we’re ‘developed adults’ to influence and/or change our beliefs?
Are we too set in stone about what we ‘know’ to every change anything?
Food for thought anyways. Unfortunately, a blog isn't really all that great a medium for argument. And this particular argument/story is more of a "let's get the groundword done, and then i'll hammer all your rebuttle". But i'm sure you get the idea of where i'm coming from
Visit strobe's blog and send him an email! He's now doing an "ask strobe" thing...
>>> blog.myspace.com/s_t_r_o_b_e
