Nonsense Reality

 

We read so much on social media, in papers and magazines, and we see or hear on TV and radio, and we cannot make out what is real and what is truth.
 

What is truth? asked Pilate. You can't handle the truth, said Jack Nicholson. Well, obviously neither of them have read this Blog otherwise they would be just as confused as me as to what is real, what is nonsense and what is truth.

For example, I visited a pencil museum some weeks ago and they had an exhibit entitled "William Shakespeare's Pencil." It was marked on the side "2B or not 2B".

Now I don't know whether this is realistic or not. I remember reading that the Old Bard used quills to write with. He took feathers from geese or swans, sharpened them, and then used them to press the keys on his computer keyboard.

He used a small knife to sharpen the end of the quill into a pen. Hence the word penknife.

In another museum I saw two skulls; a large one and a much smaller one. The large one had a notice saying "Galileo's skull". The smaller one had a notice saying, "Galileo as a child". Could this be true? How did they find both skulls over a period of time as Galileo grew up?

Whilst standing in the library next to the Geographical Section, I picked up a book and started reading it. After ten minutes a man approached me and said, "Do you realise that all the time you've been standing here over 100,000 trees in the rainforests have been cut down?"

So I moved somewhere else. I don't want to be responsible for cutting down the rainforests.

I sat at a table and continued reading. Another man next to me said, "Amazing statistics ... do you realise that every time I breath in and out someone in the world dies?" I suggested he uses a better mouthwash.

Just to check, I picked up a newspaper to count how many people are in the obituaries. Amazing how people always die in alphabetical order.

These days it is difficult to work out what is true and what is not any more. Another example, I was reading the ingredients on the wrapper of a bar of chocolate. It said, "Suitable for vegetarians - contains beef and lamb juices".

And then there is this ...

I don't know whether to believe this; I read in the press that there is a new computer program for husbands to interact with a virtual wife in various circumstances; like where to go on holiday, where to school the children, and other family scenarios so that the husband can practice loving and considerate behaviour. Can you imagine? Being told off and nagged by two wives? I wonder if the program also has two mothers-in-law?

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