I've decided that I'm disgusted with the world that we live in.
Ok...I was disgusted with the world before now, but I've got a newfound gripe:
So I'm a problem solver...I like to "solve for x", I enjoy figuring out "whodunnit" before the last chapter, and I'm notorious for predicting the so-called "twists" in movies today.
So why am I bitching, when there are so many real mysteries in the world that need to be solved? Lost money? Lost people? Interesting artifacts for which there is no apparent purpose? Statues, carvings, bones, and strange fossils are covering (and buried beneath) our planet, so what in the world would I have to complain about?
Ghosts. And Aliens. And any other "easy" solution for any of these mysteries seems to flood the fact with made-up horseshit ("An expert ghost hunter has stated that he believes the statues on Easter Island were carved and placed by Aliens"), followed by speculation from someone even less qualified ("Frank, my hairdresser, disagrees and believes that they were created by the undead zombies that the Polynesians accidentally created before they rand out of food and died.").
What. In. The. Fuck. Is. Wrong. With. The. FACTS?!?!?! Just the goddamned facts. I don't need guesswork by some twit that discovered they could talk to ghosts when they were growing up an only child in an old home in a windy city. I don't need some self-proclaimed expert in a non-existent field claiming to have all of the answers without any substance to their claims (or of course, proof...there's never any proof).
Aren't there enough fucking places for people to speculate on alien life and ghosts? Aren't there enough places on the 'net to discuss these things without cluttering legitimate inquiry?
*sigh*...maybe I'm just turning into (more of) a douchebag as I get older, but I'm finding it more and more difficult to find good places to have discussions about mysterious topics that DON'T include God or the rest of the "supernatural".
Why does it piss me off? It pisses me off because once you've decided that the only solution to a mystery is something that's even more evasive and mysterious, you've accomplished nothing more than overcomplicating something that's probably very simple. It probably wouldn't bother me much if the supernatural comments were relegated to a paragraph or a few sentences, but after finding no less than 5 sites purporting to have lists of current mysteries in the world and having every god damned one of them dismiss the science almost immediately for the "better story". Good stories might be entertaining, but they don't do a god damned thing for solving problems (usually).
/rant
Ok...I was disgusted with the world before now, but I've got a newfound gripe:
So I'm a problem solver...I like to "solve for x", I enjoy figuring out "whodunnit" before the last chapter, and I'm notorious for predicting the so-called "twists" in movies today.
So why am I bitching, when there are so many real mysteries in the world that need to be solved? Lost money? Lost people? Interesting artifacts for which there is no apparent purpose? Statues, carvings, bones, and strange fossils are covering (and buried beneath) our planet, so what in the world would I have to complain about?
Ghosts. And Aliens. And any other "easy" solution for any of these mysteries seems to flood the fact with made-up horseshit ("An expert ghost hunter has stated that he believes the statues on Easter Island were carved and placed by Aliens"), followed by speculation from someone even less qualified ("Frank, my hairdresser, disagrees and believes that they were created by the undead zombies that the Polynesians accidentally created before they rand out of food and died.").
What. In. The. Fuck. Is. Wrong. With. The. FACTS?!?!?! Just the goddamned facts. I don't need guesswork by some twit that discovered they could talk to ghosts when they were growing up an only child in an old home in a windy city. I don't need some self-proclaimed expert in a non-existent field claiming to have all of the answers without any substance to their claims (or of course, proof...there's never any proof).
Aren't there enough fucking places for people to speculate on alien life and ghosts? Aren't there enough places on the 'net to discuss these things without cluttering legitimate inquiry?
*sigh*...maybe I'm just turning into (more of) a douchebag as I get older, but I'm finding it more and more difficult to find good places to have discussions about mysterious topics that DON'T include God or the rest of the "supernatural".
Why does it piss me off? It pisses me off because once you've decided that the only solution to a mystery is something that's even more evasive and mysterious, you've accomplished nothing more than overcomplicating something that's probably very simple. It probably wouldn't bother me much if the supernatural comments were relegated to a paragraph or a few sentences, but after finding no less than 5 sites purporting to have lists of current mysteries in the world and having every god damned one of them dismiss the science almost immediately for the "better story". Good stories might be entertaining, but they don't do a god damned thing for solving problems (usually).
/rant
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