Originally posted as a school task. ©Johannes Siig, All Rights Reserved.
You’ve got to see some things to believe them, yet you also have to believe some things to see them. This, for example, is the case with religion.
I have an American friend, who claims to have “met the creator.” This is a prime example of seeing because of believing. He only “met the creator” because he believed in such a thing. If he hadn’t, he would never have. To be honest, he also claimed to have been a drug user at the time, so I’m a bit skeptical of that story – not that he’s lying (I’m sure he isn’t), but I think the hallucinations may have been due to excessive drug use and not because of some magical “creator.”
You only see some things because you want to see them. People who believe in extra-terrestrial life see aliens in every photograph, when they are spots on the lens or birds or “balloon boy.”
Which brings me to another point. People who wanted the kid to be in the “balloon,” saw the kid in the “balloon” as it was broadcast live (and simulcast over the web) on CBS and CNN and other American television news channels. I watched it, and believed (and even also “saw”) during the whole process that the kid was in that hideous contraption. Yet he was never there.
And some people thought it was an alien. Some people still think something happened in Roswell, New Mexico, United States in July, 1947… They only saw it because they believed it. At the time, some people thought it to be a Russian spy plane, because they didn’t believe in aliens at the time and had never heard of such a concept.
However, independent thought suggests that anything that’s capable of interplanetary travel should be capable of not crashing in a desert above the United States…
Don’t believe everything you’re told and don’t believe everything you see. It’s not healthy.
