Through
the years I've been alive, I've learned and seen many things that caused me to question
the many other things that I've accepted as truth. The mere thought of these things
ignites the flames of debate within your mind. These things are far deeper than the whole
"What came first, the chicken or the egg" idea. So sit back and enjoy the
article, cuz afterwards you may not be able to think about much else than some of these
things that f*ck with your mind.
This is a rather short list, because many things do have an explanation, but the items on
this list do not. First off, I put an item that has caused enough confusion to be noted,
but not quite enough to make it into the top 5. Well, with out further ado, I present the
runner-up and the top five "Things that F*ck With Your Mind".
Things
that F*ck With Your Mind...
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WHY?!?: |
Runner
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Pyramids - Some don't think there is much mystery
surrounding the pyramids of Egypt or South America, but I'm not just talking about the
Egyptian or South American pyramids separately, I'm talking about them collectively. The
question that will spark your thought process is, why did two cultures thousands of miles
and an entire ocean apart, build structures that are so similar? Some people think it is
just a coincidence, others think that perhaps a member from one civilization somehow made
it to the other bringing with them, the knowledge of pyramid building. To the rest of us,
the reasons for the similarities are endless and the cause of much confusion, which is why
this is on the list. |
#5. |
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Women - Sure, this isn't a deep philosophical or
scientific question, but you can't tell me you've never ever been completely and utterly
confused about women and experienced an occasion with a woman where you wondered, "Is
she trying to mess with my mind?" On second thought, maybe this is a philosophical or
scientific question. What do women want, and why do women yell at men, when the man has
done nothing wrong? That is just the beginning of a very long list of questions that men
have about women, and I'm sure our question will never be answered. I sometimes wonder if
women even understand their motives for certain things. In any case, this is why women
will continue to boggle the minds of many for years to come. |
#4. |
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Those damn picture within a picture images - Those damn
picture within a picture images - I'm sorry, but it's hard to explain what I'm talking
about. Take the DVD cover of "Memento" for example. It has the photo within a
photo that appears to repeat indefinitely. It's the same with that part in "Space
Balls" where they are watching the movie of themselves in front of T.V. screens. Why
does this f*ck with your mind? Well, because I have no idea whether or not it does repeat
forever. I mean, if I take the "Memento" cover and use a microscope, will I be
able to see the same image keep repeating. Probably not, because I would begin to see the
dots that make up the cover image, but you get what I'm saying, at least I hope you do.
Most people just write this thing off as an interesting phenomenon, but sometimes I
analyze things too much, but because of the confusion this has caused me, it made the
list. |
#3. |
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Black Holes - I am currently taking an astronomy class so
we naturally tackled the subject of black holes. What's so confusing about black holes you
may ask? Well for one, they have no size, no diameter. Everything we know and that we are
familiar with have dimensions we can measure. Everything that has mass creates a certain
gravitational force on everything around it. And for the most part, everything that has
mass also has measurable height width and depth. Black holes for whatever reason, refuse
to be subject to the norm and instead have a height width and depth of zero. The second
reason black holes boggle the mind, is that defy time as we know it. This is all
theoretical of course, but the sequence of time a person would experience if they were
sucked into a black hole is far different then anything one would experience outside of
it. If a person was sucked into a black hole, events outside of the black hole would pass
by very rapidly for them. They would be able to see the entire life cycle of a person go
by in almost no time. Eventually, they wouldn't even be able to see the life cycle because
it would pass so quickly. Then they would be able to see the birth and death of entire
stars and galaxies. However to the person their voyage into the black hole would take
almost no time at all. If we took a person say…oh I don't know, Tom Shook, and threw
him into a black hole, we would never see him get sucked completely in. Our ancestors
millions of years from now wouldn't be able to see him sucked in, to anyone watching
outside the black hole, he would appear never to be sucked in. There is a line around the
black hole that scientists call the "Event Horizon", because anything that
occurs within this point will never be seen by anyone outside the black hole. According to
Einstein, time is relative to where you are, but for me, that doesn't even begin to
explain why black holes defy time as we know it. That is why black holes easily deserve to
be on this list. |
#2. |
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Creation - This has to be the mother of all questions,
"Where did everything come from". The question that people have been asking
since people could think logically, and the question which we will never know the answer.
Whether you look at it from a scientific or theological point of view, few answers can be
found. Science says that energy is neither created nor destroyed. If that's true then that
means that something existed before the supposed "Big Bang" and that when our
universe finally fades away(if that ever happens) then something will replace it. It's
very hard for people to grasp the concept of no beginning or end because we are so use to
everything having a beginning and an end. For me, that still doesn't answer the question
of where everything came from. So let's look at it from a theological point of view.
According to most religions, an all powerful being created the universe and life along
with it. Well, where did this being come from? Is it so powerful that if created itself?
Once again it's a question that sparks much debate. Like I said earlier, I am nearly 100
percent sure that mankind will never solve this riddle and if we did half the people of
the world wouldn't like the answer. Though we won't be able to figure out where we came
from, that doesn't mean we will ever stop thinking about it and because of that we will
continue to give ourselves a headache trying to piece it all together. |
#1. |
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Descartes - What could be a harder concept to grasp than
that of our creation, how about the concept of our existence? Descartes was a philosopher
that seemed to decide that some things weren't complex enough, so he broke everything down
in to what he could be sure of and what he could doubt. He broke things down to a point
that the only thing that he could be certain of is that he existed. Not all of him though,
just his mind. Because perhaps his body is just a creation of his mind much like the rest
of the world could be. So it really doesn't matter where we all came from if everything we
know is just a figment of our own mind now does it? His idea is pretty hard to refute, I
mean how can you prove that right or wrong? It's very similar to the whole
"Matrix" idea except just a couple hundred years earlier. How do we know that we
all aren't in some vat somewhere with plugs in our head imputing information that we
interpret to be the "Real World"? The thing is we don't know and never will. All
I know, is that if Descartes is right and this is all in my head, damn I've got a good
imagination. I mean seriously, if this is all my mind's take on the world, look how much
crap I've created. The computer you are reading this article on, I made that (Unless it's
a Mac, cuz we all know Macs were created by the Devil). My only question is, if the world
is in my head, why I can't do any cool ish like in "The Matrix"? I wanna dodge
bullets and long jump hundreds of feet. Oh well. In any case, Descartes definitely adds
fuel to the fire of intellectual debate by adding an idea that can never be proven wrong
and that will continue to ignite the thought process of people for many years to come. |
-There are plenty of more
things that could have been on this list, however these are all I could think of at the
time I wrote this article. If you have anything to add or have some other deep and
profound ideas that could be added to the list be sure to visit the Gyeah.com message
boards and let your voice be heard. |
