That said, I have to admit that over the past few weeks as I work to find new ideas and new thoughts to share with you all here, I find myself inundated with this amazing amount of information. Still, like Solomon, I worry about what I put here--what is right and what is wrong--good or evil--true or false. I wonder if the knowledge that I share with you will have far- reaching consequences, and I worry that even my own desire to find something interesting or new may one day serve to lessen my credibility as a truth-seeker.
And yet, ...I still can't stop myself from clicking on that next article, or reading through hundreds of Facebook posts, copying pictures, and saving things to my favorite's bar because I think they might be of some use or importance in the months and years to come. I'm learning as I go that what might not seem a big deal right now may later prove to have been prescient, and I'll admit that even I want to learn the secrets of how to discover a thing--to search out a method that says: This thing is important to know about now, as it will be relevant in the years to come.
Science fiction writers always seem to have a leg up on this--their imaginations and their own interests and discoveries leading the way for "future tech" and scientific research. But the truth of the matter is that these people could see problems and then speculate about the kinds of solutions that might be created--ideal and otherwise. They believed in a better world, and whether they were satirizing the present, theorizing about a utopian or dystopian future based on currently held beliefs of the world, or just trying to push social, moral or cultural agendas, they did so by inviting us to discover something new.
With that in mind, and seeking to emulate some science fictional ideals of discovering the world around me, I have a few articles to share with you today that made me rethink my ideas of cultural myths, historical figures, and how bad I am at making friends.
The first is an article by Gizmodo that talks about the Bermuda Triangle.
Now let me just say that I have always had a love of mysteries. My dad loves that stuff, and when I was growing up, we watched a lot of TV shows that tried to explain the seemingly unexplainable. My dad loved discovering things, too, and he passed along that love to me; it is something I cherish to this day. That said, ...sometimes the love of the mystery can be almost as important as knowing the reality. But I think that the reality, in all cases, is just as important.
So if you're wanting to know some truths about the Bermuda Triangle, I encourage you to check out the article. It 's definitely worth the read.
Next on my list is an article about daylight savings time. It stems from clicking on a link that I found at the bottom of the Bermuda Triangle link, and I just couldn't pass it up: Today I Found Out.
So it turns out that daylight savings time was something of a proposal written by Benjamin Franklin, and it was more or less written in jest. If you'd like to read more about it, I urge you to, and check out the bonus facts at the bottom of the article. They're pretty interesting.
And for those of you wondering when daylight savings time is this year, I went ahead and did a search for that for you, too. Here it is--your calendar warning.
Daylight Saving Time begins on Sunday, March 9, 2014 (in 45 days) and ends on Sunday, November 2, 2014.Which brings me to my last bit of discovery: making friends isn't easy for me. Maybe it isn't easy for anyone. But John Cheese's article at Cracked.com today made me feel a little less weird about it all. So if, like me, you have some issues making friends and want to discover the secrets to unlocking the friend-verse, I urge you to have a look at the article. Also, ...you can friend me, or add me to your Google+ circle, or .... Yeah. You get the point.
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