If there's one thing I know for sure it's that I don't know one thing for sure.
Stuff I learned at school now appear to be outdated theories about history and civilizations. With the explosion of media, internet and the like-we are exposed to so much information and different perspectives- it's hard to know what the truth really is about, literally anything.
I read a story a few weeks back regarding a lady who wrote to the newspaper asking why there were so many onions on the beach? At the time I thought that the answer was pretty simple- Barbecues.
The answer given was that onions provide a solution to the problems posed by jellyfish.
I imagined he would be telling that you could repel jellyfish by throwing onions at them from the beach. But incredibly he says "the best cure for a jellyfish sting is to rub the juice of an onion on it". So who knows? And more incredibly, how do we find that stuff out? I can't imagine somebody running out of the water covered in stings and ignoring an ambulance and medical staff- and driving to the Fruit & Veg section of a supermarket. But, like I said, who knows?
And with the whole Wikipedia culture- the basic premise being that there's an online information database that we can all access for research but more worrying- we can all contribute towards. There's some absolutely crazy stuff written on the interweb and the last thing that we need is some of that going to websites that we might look at to get facts! Things like "bald men may well lose hair on their head because they have excessive hair on their arms and the heat has to escape somewhere".
Science is as yet unable to get to grips. The worst scenario imaginable is if my granny gets online because some of her theories that she actually practices in real life are nothing short of terrifying. Example: whenever I bumped my head as a child (this happened quite regularly and may well explain my later personality) instead of the recognized ointments she would smear the bump with butter. If you know no different you just accept it- but on those occasions that you ventured out back to your mates and told them you had butter on your head, their uncontrollable laughter gave some clue that maybe it was not such a commonly accepted remedy. Alternatively, my friend once had a goldfish that went a bit wonky and her mom plopped a dissolvable aspirin in the tank much to our horror. It lived another three years by the way... but was much more hyper!
So who really knows?
All I do know for sure is that the most important thing to strive for is Love- it has to be as good as your dream, with no compromise. And if you have that you have the answer to all of Life's questions.
Stuff I learned at school now appear to be outdated theories about history and civilizations. With the explosion of media, internet and the like-we are exposed to so much information and different perspectives- it's hard to know what the truth really is about, literally anything.
I read a story a few weeks back regarding a lady who wrote to the newspaper asking why there were so many onions on the beach? At the time I thought that the answer was pretty simple- Barbecues.
The answer given was that onions provide a solution to the problems posed by jellyfish.
I imagined he would be telling that you could repel jellyfish by throwing onions at them from the beach. But incredibly he says "the best cure for a jellyfish sting is to rub the juice of an onion on it". So who knows? And more incredibly, how do we find that stuff out? I can't imagine somebody running out of the water covered in stings and ignoring an ambulance and medical staff- and driving to the Fruit & Veg section of a supermarket. But, like I said, who knows?
Science is as yet unable to get to grips. The worst scenario imaginable is if my granny gets online because some of her theories that she actually practices in real life are nothing short of terrifying. Example: whenever I bumped my head as a child (this happened quite regularly and may well explain my later personality) instead of the recognized ointments she would smear the bump with butter. If you know no different you just accept it- but on those occasions that you ventured out back to your mates and told them you had butter on your head, their uncontrollable laughter gave some clue that maybe it was not such a commonly accepted remedy. Alternatively, my friend once had a goldfish that went a bit wonky and her mom plopped a dissolvable aspirin in the tank much to our horror. It lived another three years by the way... but was much more hyper!
So who really knows?All I do know for sure is that the most important thing to strive for is Love- it has to be as good as your dream, with no compromise. And if you have that you have the answer to all of Life's questions.
true to the bare bone... v r in a vast ocean of information, but there is a derth of knowledge...
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