"Ssssssh.....THE SECRET IS OUT"
The "Secret" is out - well, sort of. I got an email from a radio 'bud the other day and it had a link which leads to several funny videos relating to a book/DVD called "The Secret". Okay, I know that at first you're thinking is "How in the heck is this radio related?" and while I do have a variety of off topic posts (vacations, family events, movie reviews, etc.) follow along with me here.
The basic bottom of the 'pyramid-scheme' idea behind this 'Amway-for-the-gray-matter' is that if you keep thinking positive thoughts, then only positive things will happen to you, or conversely, if you don't have enough positive things in your life, you're not thinking hard enough. So if you're overweight and unattractive, by thinking that you are fit and beautiful - it will happen. The poor will become rich, and sad/happy, because... (here comes the radio link), "your thoughts will project so strongly that other people will see you that way."
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"How in the world can that happen", you ask?
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Apparently, all of our thoughts have different frequencies and these frequencies are emitted wirelessly through the air into other people, pets, farm animals, and the ether! Back to my friend who sent the email: He wrote: "Woody, I think that if this is true then not only are we generations ahead of the Vulcan "mind-meld" (which requires actually putting your hand on the other persons head), but the FCC should branch out and license the various "thought" frequencies AND, issue permits (licenses) to allow people to think".
"Hmmm...", I thought, "Brilliant". If someone doesn't get a license to think, then they legally can't. Millions of jobs would be created by the FCC for their "Secret" police. Their function would be to just walk around with handheld scanning wands and scan everyone they come in contact with for compliance, licensing, and possible enforcement. The military would hire those with excessively negative thoughts to use them against Al-Qaeda, Communication companies would hire thousands more to build personal thought wave amplifiers (FCC type accepted, of course), Cellphone companies could hire thousands of unemployed Hobos as portable cellphone relays, and best of all - the pressure would be off the Amateur Radio community for further loss of bandwidth! Who knows if that 8-S-UNIT noise on your radio is caused by a bad electrical transformer in your neighborhood or someones thoughts being transmitted on a frequency designated strictly for use by Amateur Radio? And why wasn't someone at the CES this week, in a booth, demonstrating this wireless wonder? After all, you can't keep something like this, a secret for too long.....
Some of the videos contain strong language, so for now, if you want to see some good parodies of something funny on it's own, go to Youtube.com and search for "Parody - the secret" or something similar. I had a good chuckle, and thanks to Roger in the UK for sending me the link! And for those that truly believe...well...."Live long and prosper, oh! and beam me up Scotty".
73, Woody
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