So what if every day, people who you've never met, seen, or heard of watch you. They watch what you say, what you wear, what you eat, who you talk to. Every aspect of your life. While you may not know it, this can be happening all around you, every minute of every day.
It's really surprising how little we know about our own lives. Trust is really a meaningless concept, right? Who can you really trust? People say you can trust yourself, but who knows. How sure are you that all of the memories that you have are real? How do you know that you didn't do something horrific, but trained yourself to forget it? We've all had a moment where we question wheter something happened, or whether it was a dream. Maybe it was a story that someone else told us! Eventually, your memories and your thoughts become seamless; one idea of what may or may not have happened in your lifetime.
I think realizing this has caused me to become paranoid. The idea that has been floating around in my head for the past couple of months, is that my life is quite possibly a television show (or something of that nature) for an outside world, a world that I do not know exists. I'm not sure whether I fully believe it or not right now. I think that it's definitely possible, and that possibility is scary. Writing it down, it seems absurd. Saying it out loud seems even more absurd. But rationally thinking about it, it makes so much sense!
If you have ever seen the movie
The Truman Show (If you haven't, I recommend you go rent it, it's a great movie), you will probably understand what I am talking about a lot more (so right now you're probably thinking "Oh he saw the movie so now he stole that idea," but my perception of it is completely different. Read on :-). So basically, we accept the world we live in. How often do you actually question any part of reality? We all accept that we live on the planet Earth in The Milky Way Galaxy. But you don't really know that! Whenever you go on a plane, you take it for granted that you are flying hundreds of miles to sunny California, London, wherever. For all you know, you are flying in circles above your hometown while they change 'the set of the show.' Everything could be a set up for a purpose. They say humans look for a purpose, a meaning to life. Well maybe that's it. That the purpose is to provide the entertainment for the outside world. To be drones for someone else's use.
Ok, so check it. I wrote those previous paragraphs a week or so ago, and was planning on elaborating on my idea. But in the past week I've come to some new conclusions:
So the whole previous idea runs on the fact you accept what you experience as truth because it is all you have ever experienced. But it seems as though you do have to accept some things. For example, the other day I was watching television. I was flipping through channels when I noticed that I had a rotation of about 5 or so channels that I watch, and none of the others. Like there are about 170 channels, and I probably never watch 80 % of them. So you have to think, there is so much stuff that you have seen. Not stuff that "may not exist because you don't know for sure," but things that you know exist : Books, television, people, houses, etc.
But you will never experience 99% of it! There'll be books you don't read, houses you don't visit, and so on. But nonetheless, they are there. So why would it be there for any other reason than to serve other people? Yes it is possible that if existence was just a set up that they could have created all of these things to give the illusion of a real environment. But it really wouldn't be necessary. They could stick you in a minimal environment and say "That's how things are." And you would have to believe it. So everything does really serve a purpose.
And although this may be depressing, your life probably isn't interesting enough to keep people occupied. Almost everyone has a routine. Not necessarily a daily routine or anything, but an order of set things they do. You might work through the week, and on the weekend you hang out with friends. While those might slightly change, they will pretty much stay the same.
Who would want to watch that?! Honestly. It would get quite old after a few weeks. I think the only people who would watch it would be hillbillies/country folk. And even if the whole other world were like that, would it not make them question as to why their lives aren't as exciting as the one in the show? So then they would all become members of the cast, as then they would get to lead the exciting life that is the show.
That led me to think "What if it is everybody that is part of the show?" What if God created us so he could look down and have all the entertainment he ever needed? All the countries are characters. It's like Palestine and Israel are rivals. Britain and America are like sweethearts. And Mexico is the neighbor next door who always comes over for dinner uninvited (sorry about the last one, but I just saw a border patrol recruiting commercial and it made me laugh).
O.K. I've been working on this post way too long. 3 weeks .... you get the point.
