How do we know...

It hit me the other day that there´s a lot of things that we people believe that might not be true and also a lot of things we don´t believe that could easily be true. How do we know what excists? How do we decide? Are we always dependant on scientifical proof or do we take a shot into the blue without really caring that much? The really exciting part is that, sometimes, there are people in the world sitting with the secret answer.

Like the moonlanding by The United States for example. How do we know there´s a footprint there? Should we send some russians up there just to make sure? How do we know they didn´t pour a load of gravel into a green-box and aired their filming live all over the world?

Or what about Atlantis? According to Plato, Atlantis was an island that sank and disappeared into the ocean about 9600 BC. Many scientist have tried to figure out where Atlantis may have been without any luck. Although The Atlantic Ocean, The Caribbean and the area around Italy and The Black Sea have been considered possibilities, no lost continent have been found. The interesting part is that off the coast of southern Italy the ocean is awfully deep, almost as if there once was an Island there. But oh well! Why should that proove anything? Still... scientists haven´t found any proof that Plato was wrong! Who knows what Mother Nature really is capable of?

Not to forget the monster in Scotland. A myth developed in 1933 when a creature had been spotted multible times in Loch Ness at three different occasions. A man named Hugh Grey managed to take a picture of the animal which circulated all over Scottish and British press for a long time. George Spicer, another observer of the animal described it as "the nearest approach to a dragon or a pre-historic animal that I have ever seen in my life." Police and several other investigators tried to locate the dragon using many different kinds of equipment such as sonar and submarines. None of the searches gave success. Can the spottings that were made on such a short time be all coincidences? Or should we trust the science people? If I were you I would be careful about trusting the science people. Maybe they will face facts. To quote Phoebe from the show "Friends":
"And up until like 50 years ago you all thought that the atom was the smallest thing until you split it open and this whole mess of crap came out!"
Maybe the dragon will come out too?

There´s a lot of things "normal" people like you and me won´t ever find out.
How do we know there´s a bunch of indians in the jungle? Have you met them maybe?
How do we know slaves in Egypt built the pyramids?
How do we know who built the stonehenges in England?
Who built The Great Wall of China?
Did Hitler really kill himself? Or maybe he was killed by his own men? Who would know? What person living today was in that hatch with him that late May night in 1945?
How do we know Columbus discovered America? How do we know there even was a man named Columbus? And if he really excisted he couldn´t really have been that bright could he? Remember he was really heading for India.

But there´s no doubt that vikings are completally norwegian. As a matter of fact, we have scientific proof that they lived in Norway before they took off all over Europe. You won´t believe it until you see it!

There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or
todoubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
-Alfred
Korzybski-