OK, the first rant is that I can’t type today. I mis-spelled “rant” as “ranr”, “rand”, and “ranf” before I finally got it right.
Rant #35,636: Why do people believe other people so much?
OK, news flash: people who habitually lie can tell the truth. People who habitually tell the truth can lie. Just because I’m doing one doesn’t preclude me from doing the other.
Today at my cube, a co-worker mentioned that the ‘movie’, “What The Bleep Do We Know”, claimed that it’s really impossible for two people to be touching because the spaces between and inside atoms are very large. Even if you feel like you are touching, you’re not, really.
OK. Point taken. Truth: atoms are mostly composed of nothingness. Any solid object is actually composed of mostly empty space. No problem. Truth.
Then the same co-worker suggests that, perhaps because that is true, that some of the other things these Ramtha-followers suggested is true. Like that you create reality by observing it.
Danger, Will Robinson! Danger! Plot complication ahead!
Here I will refer you to H.G. Frankfurt’s work that I’ve referred to before: On B.S.
Back to the original point: people can lie about just certain things while being mostly truthful, or people can be selling you oceanfront property in Arizona and tell you truthfully that the “view is magnificent”.
“What The Bleep Do We Know” is a propaganda piece for a bizarre religious cult. Just because they are willing to spice their hogwash with a few truths doesn’t make the whole thing true. Their goal is to get you to subscribe to their hokey religion, and if a few things they say happen to be true along the way to that glorious goal of gaining a new, money-paying convert, so much the better.