We live in a world that we are constantly discovering does not seem to work in anything like the way we have always assumed it did. Mass hypnosis, subliminal messaging, placebo effects, cults, propaganda, MK Ultra, and countless other examples, are all awakening us to the fact that our consciousness does not have as strong a grasp on reality as we have always imagined. On the contrary, both our "sanity" and the nature of reality itself, are not only far more malleable than we may have ever feared to suspect, but neither may work in ways we thought.
One reason for this is the assumption that the world has always been essentially as it is, that time and space and gravity and all of the ingredients in our universe, right down to the smallest parts of an atom, have all been in the same form as they are today, more or less, and have always operated as they do today as well. But there are plenty of reasons to distrust this assumption.
Additionally, the ability to be manipulated into thinking and believing things is far easier than people ever thought. Cults like those of Jim Jones and David Koresh, for example, as well as experiments like MK Ultra, continually undermine our ability to not only trust our institutions, but even our grip on reality itself. In fact, some people even suspect that Jones and Koresh were puppets of MK Ultra.
Take the Mandela Effect, which is the effect of having false memories of something that never happened. An example of this is apparently the movie Shazam, staring the comedian Sinbad. If you remember this movie, you're experiencing the Mandela Effect, because there was no such movie. The closest to this movie is a movie staring Shaq called Kazam, but that's it. So maybe people are just conflating the two. Or are they?
Some people have actual records, like lists of movies they kept in the office, where they wrote down the movie, Shazam, and remember all kinds of details about it, including that it starred Sinbad, had two children in it, and so on. But are all these people simply crazy, or do they simply have false memories?
Some people have actual records, like lists of movies they kept in the office, where they wrote down the movie, Shazam, and remember all kinds of details about it, including that it starred Sinbad, had two children in it, and so on. But are all these people simply crazy, or do they simply have false memories?
Consider these ideas in light of religion and the Bible. How easy it is for us to conflate and mis-remeber all kinds of things, over the course of decade or two or so. Maybe the things we all remember Jesus doing were all really done by a guy named Brian, like the Monty Python movie.
In fact, there's even a well known example from the Bible itself!
In the Book of Isaiah, for example, it is said that the passage..
"The .... also will dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid."(Isiah 11:6).
What do you think the missing word was? Most people are convinced it's a the word lion, even though in truth, it's the word "wolf." You can even find a lot of religious imagery of a lion with a lamb, even though this makes no sense, if the passage had always been the "wolf" and the lamb.
But there's another even more interesting theory: maybe there really was a movie called Shazam starring the comedian Sinbad, but Cern changed history. If you have ever seen movies Deju Vu, where Denzel Washington travels back in time to stop a murder, or The Final Countdown (1980) where a U.S. battleship travels back in time to the day before Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, you are seeing what some people believe might be closer to how our reality really works today, thanks to the experiments at Cern.
Cern is the super collider in France where they do the kinds of crazy experiments that discovered things like the "god particle" we call the Higgs Boson, and evidence of the possibility that we live in a multiverse. The theory is that, thanks to such experiments, Cern has actually rewritten history, changing things that many of us still have "Total Recall" of, even though they have since vanished from the history of the world in which we now live. Crazy stuff huh?
If our realty really was so malleable, if people or "beings" far more advanced than ourselves, really could travel back in time and rewrite history, or even simply rewrite history at least in all of our minds, then perhaps everything we think and use as our frame of reference is simply a mirage. Some people have even argued that, since there is only really the "now" in which we live, with the past being simple a shadow or a dream and the future as well, that the past and the future should be rightly considered "mirages" anyway, even if they are based on facts.
If our realty really was so malleable, if people or "beings" far more advanced than ourselves, really could travel back in time and rewrite history, or even simply rewrite history at least in all of our minds, then perhaps everything we think and use as our frame of reference is simply a mirage. Some people have even argued that, since there is only really the "now" in which we live, with the past being simple a shadow or a dream and the future as well, that the past and the future should be rightly considered "mirages" anyway, even if they are based on facts.
What's fascinating, and terrifying about all of this, is that there is at least as much evidence to support such claims as there is for any claims in religion. But the Christians simply laugh at this, as if they have some firmer grasp of reality than anyone who would ever consider such nonsense.
But if we are in fact living in a simulation, as the Simulation Hypothesis suggests, then we may be living in a Matrix in which all the craziest ideas about our reality - from religion to pure science fiction to flights of insanity - may only be as equally false, as they are equally true.
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