Re: The Hoax Theory - Discussing Errors, Inconsistencies, Observations and other theories
The video above this post(among other things) lends itself to, and helps, compel me to want to post something i have had in my heart for a long time. I am glad that this section of the forum is here. I am glad that people aren't allowed in it, unless the atmosphere of this site approves of them, as true non judgemental MJ fans. I am going to post this thought, only once. It is my own.
I think that some here..but i am sure that i would say, here, what i truly feel in this section, and say what i am feeling i am supposed to say, in other sections of this site.
That video is not the first, nor the last example of what i believe is the greatest question, ever asked in the history of life: "What is truth?"
I don't know if anybody here agrees with me, but, so far in my lifetime, i have never seen anything that is regarded as truth, that has not been challenged by somebody else.
This may take me more than one post to finish.
I don't know of a history book that is written, that isn't challenged, somewhere.
No two people see things the exact same way.
There are things constantly spoken of, in the media, everyday, as if they are truth, that are not believed to be truth, by others.
Is there anything universally stated?
I can only think of a few things that nobody argues with: among them...nobody can live without music.
nobody can live without breathing. nobody can live without food. nobody can live without air....in this world.
I can't think of any other at the moment. On that note, I will say this:
I personally believe in the Bible.
Yet, in all my time on earth, I have never met a preacher that has read the entire Bible.
I know that there are people that claim they have read it all, but i have seen verses in it, that i have never heard anybody talk about. I don't claim to have read it in its entirety. I just question why i have been taught about it, from preachers who never mentioned some of the verses that are in it. There are some verses in it, that i believe would wig you out. Blow your mind. Make you think...does God REALLY think like that??
But there is a verse in it that, i believe, leaves us all back at square 1. It states..."Lean not to your own understanding".
With that verse, i am left questioning every other verse in the Bible.
Maybe there are others that would agree with me, when i say, with that verse...how do you really know what God is thinking, even if the verse looks crystal clear?
All of this makes me much more comfortable with harboring my own beliefs.
For example, The media always speaks of dinosaurs, as part of natural science, as if it is truth.
My personal belief is that i have yet to see proof that they ever existed, that satisfies me. I don't believe in them.
I think the 'fossils' are just works of art, sculpted by very good artists.
So, to me, just because the media mentions something, everyday, as if it is truth, that doesn't mean it is true.
There are wayyy too many examples of this, everyday i turn on the tv.
There are wayyy too many people who dispute, what is widely printed about them, on a daily basis.
There are wayyy too many people who are always afraid of being misrepresented.
There are wayyy too many examples of people over the years, who have been portrayed one way, believed to be that way by the masses, only to find out, that it was never true about them.(cont)