Outside the Box

The Thought Behind Thought-Food

Thought Food is a section of my blog that is devoted to helping people think outside the box on subjects that are usually accepted on face value and never questioned.  My goal, as a writer and a free thinker, is to help others become more self-sufficient, free thinking, and dependent on only themselves and the facts.

The Media has a huge impact on these.  Advertisements, 24/7 news, radio… All of these impact the way we view the world.  Take the recent swine flu ‘pandemic’ that most news stations went crazy about.  Even now, there are a relatively low number of deaths, especially when compared to deaths caused by AIDS, the “regular” flu, and traffic accidents.  Honestly, it’s a bit outrageous.  Ladies at my job were up in arms about the pandemic, talking about the need to wear masks out in public.

Taking Things At Face Value

The people that annoy me the most are people who can be fed a bit of information and be completely convinced that that information is right without any type of proof or data to back up that information.

Recently, an acquaintance of mine from college was listening to a conversation a few friends and I were having about global warming.  She butted in and said that she doesn’t buy global warming, that it doesn’t seem right to her.  I replied in saying that it’s good of her to take her gut instinct over the strong recommendations of highly trained scientists, professors, and people who have a hundred times more experience and schooling than she does.

The theory of evolution is another good example.  A theory, in the science community, is the closest thing that scientists accept as truth.  It’s estimated that 99.9% of scientists accept evolution.  I’m glad that people, such as most of the people from the small farming uber-christian town that I grew up in, can then say that those scientists, who are a million times more trained and educated then they are in these matters, are completely and totally wrong and some mystical magical force created everything.

Conclusion

Basically, I’m going to be choosing topics that I find obviously flawed and dissect them to their core.  This way, you can take out what you will, knowing all the facts about the subjects, becoming the self-sufficient person you were meant to become.

Until next time, friends.

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