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Thought - Large Hadron Collider Experiment (LHC)

A topic I have thought much about.... Fear mongering doomsdayers, scientific reports, world governments, lawyers, physics and the highest minds in the world all come together, in this controversial, hugely expensive, theorised look and attempt to produce conditions similar to the creation of the beginning of time. Although I agree that the chances of anything cataclysmic happening is very very small, I also have my concerns, these very miniscule concerns potentially have some serious consequencies (if it all goes wrong), which makes me wonder if it is worth taking the risk at all. I am deeply disturbed by some aspects of the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) Experiment, although I seem to be in a minority of people who think it could end up in disaster. Maybe this is due to the average person not really undertanding the facts and physicists being blinded by their desperate need to know about the start of creation and our role in it. Science is always in some form of argument with the ...

Thought - Big 'Brainwashing' Brother

One thought (caused by a message in an email I sent yesterday) got me on the subject of media brainwashing. In my teens, I became mentally engaged with the world of punk rock. A band (for those of us who remember them) called 'Crass' told about how we were government fodder with no minds of our own, born to work and die and as system wanted. This had a profound effect on me and my perceptions became re-tuned with a sudden new understanding, which forked my lifepath and led me to be who I am today. I stopped reading newspapers, for news media is by far the worst of all. Most obvious is the way media decides who is useful for them, these people can do no wrong, loved by everyone, airbrushed to perfection, we are told who to like, the same as we are told who not to like. My abstinance from reading magazines and newspapers, took away my knowledge of celebrities and private lives of anyone in the public eye, and many news stories. Unable to avoid television, I viewed the adverts wit...