In the fortieth chapter of The Science of Discworld<\/i>, LET\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S TALK ABOUT WEIRD SHIT. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read Discworld<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
The supernatural has been a part of my life for a long time, but almost always in the sense that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve consumed stories about<\/i> it. I did share that one creepy experience I had as a kid in a review for a Doctor Who<\/i> episode, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve also seen some weird stuff while I lived between two air force bases. But this chapter gave me a new way to think about it all! What if our collective obsession with the weird and the strange and the terrifying is a result of some sort of instinctual evolution?<\/p>\n
I actually think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a compelling narrative to think about, though I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how that would necessarily explain everything. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m pretty skeptical, and I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t believe in any higher beings or deities or mysterious forces at work in the universe. Yet there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so much<\/i> that people claim has happened, and how is it possible that all<\/i> of it is either manufactured or some bit of our imagination? Right? Just from the odds alone, like ONE of these tales or myths has to be real, right???<\/p>\n
So, for example, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not sure how to explain the wild-ass shit my brother and I experienced as kids. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re twins, though, so if it was some shared hallucination due to stress or fear, I feel like I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d accept that. (To this day, we still have odd experiences and coincidences, so come ON. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s possible.) But what about all the weird things that we saw in the sky above our home in Riverside? Some nights, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d stand in the backyard and watch lights dance around above the mountains in the distance, and it was impossible<\/i> that they were any sort of normal aircraft. There have been rumors for years that they test stuff at March or Edwards Air Force Base, so maybe that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what we saw. Is it possible that creatures from another galaxy are visiting us? I suppose it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s possible, but is there any convincing evidence<\/i> of it that exists in the world?<\/p>\n
I used to believe that all the UFO books I read as a kid were true and real, and it certainly didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help that I was watching The X-Files<\/i> in real-time, which posited that the government was hiding aliens from us and had been doing so for years at a time. In that case, I was biased to accept information as true because<\/i> of how my environment affected me. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not to suggest that there is nothing within the construction of The X-Files <\/i>that is true; the writers borrowed heavily from a vast history of government corruption and exploitation, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one of the reasons the show was as popular as it was.<\/p>\n
But I just want to know<\/i>. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen how this is a common theme throughout these reviews, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m absolutely the kind of person who just wants to know more about the world. I wish I could travel to all these unexplained events and see them for myself. Did they really happen? Or did other factors bias the people who experienced them? I JUST WANT TO KNOW, OKAY.<\/p>\n
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