Sunday, August 15, 2004

007 Ghosts

Since young, I have always had this fascination with all things paranormal. Ghosts are but just a part of it. I had always wondered, what goes on after we die. Is there really another side where we continue our existence?

Living in my family and in Singapore, I get to see many different eye-openers. One of themany spectacles is how people invoke gods into their bodies and do incredible things they are not able to do normally. Many sceptics point to many tricks of the trade and such but I feel all they need is to sit in one of the real actual sessions. See if they still have the same impression after that. :) Maybe some say it is just unlocking the powers of the mind but even so it continues to fascinate me. I wonder how it is possible. But like magic, I guess the "fun" is in not knowing how it works.

One other weird thing is how some people claim to be able to see ghosts. Though it is fascinating I do hope never to live withthat burden. I have met people who are able to do so and from what I hear, it is not a pretty sight. However, it is pretty helpful to have such friends around. He used to warn us while we were training outfield where to avoid and where not to piss. Never really understood until I met them that outfield can be so "dangerous".

Somehow with all these real cases there are always some that involve the "ghosts" in our hearts. Recently after watching "The Village", I started to question, are all the limitations in our society and world for real, or are they like "those we do not speak of", just old wives tales or stories meant to protect us. What if we had the means to go and live in moon but it was kept from us as it is inhabited by aliens as conspiracy theorists claim? What if the lack of air in outer space was just one big cover-up? How would we find out the truth? Do we dare to question all these "facts"? Maybe I had ventured a bit too far into Sci-fi but it is simply true that we have all lived in a cocooned lfe that simply accepts all these "facts" that our government and world throw at us. What if we wake up tomorrow out of the "Matrix"? I bet most of you probably just laugh off my questions but for those who actually stop to think, just think. Where do we get all the information about outer space? Why are there no more manned missions to the moon? Have we discovered it all?

Royston Tan
Have you even paused to think why rain drops all at once in small droplets and not as a sheet of water or small droplets as and when they condense?