I haven't written anything on my blog for quite a while now. So here's something for you to think about. Enjoy!
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Have you ever stopped to ask yourself: What if I'm not really alone here? What if there are, in fact, beings or things that we cannot see or hear; invisible forces or spirits that we force ourselves to call “nonsense” and “products of our imagination”. I'm not asking you directly if you believe in ghosts, spirits, unknown beings or anything. What I'm asking you is: do you think it's possible?
Of course, at this point I am sure some people might be going: “Come on Luca, what the hell are you on about?” but please, read on. I want you to listen, and understand my points of view, on something that people may find complete nonsense, or an unknown reality, that is for you to decide when you're done.
Ghosts, spirits, invisible beings, these are all things that we could consider as physically impossible. Things we just invented to scare our kids so that they can behave. Work of our imaginations. After all, we advanced so much in intelligence, mechanics and technology, don't you think that we would have been able to notice if there were any “strange” beings or spirits. All we know about ghosts and spirits came from our minds, we invented our own ghosts. Some people took it too seriously, and decided to be afraid of these inventions. Others, the more rational people, stuck to the fact that these beings are inexistent, not real. But...
How can you be so sure? After all, we are only human. How can we have the power to decide whether or not something exists just because we cannot manage to see it or hear it or obtain any sign of its existence? I would like to give you some examples to show that maybe we're wrong about what we know about the world.
First, I would like to point out that what we see or hear is nothing but an illusion of reality. For example, a dog and a man are both placed in front of an apple, looking at it. The dog sees it in black and white, whereas the man sees it in colours. So how do we know what colour the apple really is? We cannot, by any means, immediately assume that what we see corresponds to reality just because we are more advanced and more intelligent than dogs. Our illusion of reality is given to us by our organs: our senses of touch, taste, hearing, sight, and smell are interpreted by our nerves, our tongue, our ears, our nose, and our eyes. As I pointed out using the example of the apple, our organs never give us a perfect reflection of reality; they only give us and idea, a hypothesis of what we're seeing, or feeling, or hearing. Our organs interpret reality in a completely different way so that our minds can understand it. Vibrations traveling through the air for us become sounds; Reflections of light for us become colours. We only get an impression of reality.
Now that I have pointed out to you that humans are not perfect, no matter how advanced and smart we are, let's get back to the point. Taken into consideration that through our organs we get a different interpretation of what is real, can we not say that maybe there are some things that our organs fail to interpret, or interpret them in a way which causes us to not realize anything? Our eyes cannot manage to see anything smaller than a grain of sand, and we cannot see far enough to clearly visualize a star, we cannot hear sounds of extremely high pitch. Given these facts, can we not also say that maybe our organs fail to detect some objects, or even beings?
Another thing I would like to point out is how man tells himself to believe or not to believe in things. We believe in atoms and sub-atomic particles even though we cannot see them ourselves. Why do we believe in them then? And since we can believe in things like atoms, why can't we believe in things like spirits or beings undetectable by man? I think man chooses not to believe in some things because he is afraid. We choose not to believe in other beings because we are afraid that these beings might be a menace to the advanced race of man. So we declare these beings as heresies.
To conclude this argument, I would like to point out that nothing is definite. We cannot be sure of anything. We cannot say for a fact that there are no such things as ghosts, and we also cannot say for a fact that beings unknown to man do not exist. “Facts leave no room for possibilities.” I am not asking you to believe in ghosts or spirits, and I'm definitely not asking to declare them as nonsense. Instead, I am inviting you to think, I am inviting you to ask yourselves the question: Is it possible?
“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.” - Socrates
P.S. After reading this text, please observe the picture very carefully. What we see is only an illusion of reality...
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Have you ever stopped to ask yourself: What if I'm not really alone here? What if there are, in fact, beings or things that we cannot see or hear; invisible forces or spirits that we force ourselves to call “nonsense” and “products of our imagination”. I'm not asking you directly if you believe in ghosts, spirits, unknown beings or anything. What I'm asking you is: do you think it's possible?
Of course, at this point I am sure some people might be going: “Come on Luca, what the hell are you on about?” but please, read on. I want you to listen, and understand my points of view, on something that people may find complete nonsense, or an unknown reality, that is for you to decide when you're done.
Ghosts, spirits, invisible beings, these are all things that we could consider as physically impossible. Things we just invented to scare our kids so that they can behave. Work of our imaginations. After all, we advanced so much in intelligence, mechanics and technology, don't you think that we would have been able to notice if there were any “strange” beings or spirits. All we know about ghosts and spirits came from our minds, we invented our own ghosts. Some people took it too seriously, and decided to be afraid of these inventions. Others, the more rational people, stuck to the fact that these beings are inexistent, not real. But...
How can you be so sure? After all, we are only human. How can we have the power to decide whether or not something exists just because we cannot manage to see it or hear it or obtain any sign of its existence? I would like to give you some examples to show that maybe we're wrong about what we know about the world.
First, I would like to point out that what we see or hear is nothing but an illusion of reality. For example, a dog and a man are both placed in front of an apple, looking at it. The dog sees it in black and white, whereas the man sees it in colours. So how do we know what colour the apple really is? We cannot, by any means, immediately assume that what we see corresponds to reality just because we are more advanced and more intelligent than dogs. Our illusion of reality is given to us by our organs: our senses of touch, taste, hearing, sight, and smell are interpreted by our nerves, our tongue, our ears, our nose, and our eyes. As I pointed out using the example of the apple, our organs never give us a perfect reflection of reality; they only give us and idea, a hypothesis of what we're seeing, or feeling, or hearing. Our organs interpret reality in a completely different way so that our minds can understand it. Vibrations traveling through the air for us become sounds; Reflections of light for us become colours. We only get an impression of reality.
Now that I have pointed out to you that humans are not perfect, no matter how advanced and smart we are, let's get back to the point. Taken into consideration that through our organs we get a different interpretation of what is real, can we not say that maybe there are some things that our organs fail to interpret, or interpret them in a way which causes us to not realize anything? Our eyes cannot manage to see anything smaller than a grain of sand, and we cannot see far enough to clearly visualize a star, we cannot hear sounds of extremely high pitch. Given these facts, can we not also say that maybe our organs fail to detect some objects, or even beings?
Another thing I would like to point out is how man tells himself to believe or not to believe in things. We believe in atoms and sub-atomic particles even though we cannot see them ourselves. Why do we believe in them then? And since we can believe in things like atoms, why can't we believe in things like spirits or beings undetectable by man? I think man chooses not to believe in some things because he is afraid. We choose not to believe in other beings because we are afraid that these beings might be a menace to the advanced race of man. So we declare these beings as heresies.
To conclude this argument, I would like to point out that nothing is definite. We cannot be sure of anything. We cannot say for a fact that there are no such things as ghosts, and we also cannot say for a fact that beings unknown to man do not exist. “Facts leave no room for possibilities.” I am not asking you to believe in ghosts or spirits, and I'm definitely not asking to declare them as nonsense. Instead, I am inviting you to think, I am inviting you to ask yourselves the question: Is it possible?
“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.” - Socrates
P.S. After reading this text, please observe the picture very carefully. What we see is only an illusion of reality...
