Thoughts on the Supernatural
There was a pretty great line in True Blood just after Sookie, who is having plenty of trouble dealing emotionally with the fact that her boyfriend Bill is a vampire, finds out that Sam is a shapeshifter. She calls him a werewolf and he gets angry, because shape shifters apparently don’t like to be called werewolves (much in the same way that dwarves don’t like to be called midgets, Persians don’t like to be called Arabs and Catalonians don’t like to be called Spaniards)
So, she says in exasperation and horror “What ELSE exists” and Sam says something like “more than you can imagine” or some other non-definitive bullshit phrase like that which makes me lose respect for TV writers and question the human thought process in general.
The implication, I guess, is that it ALL exists: ghosts, extraterrestrials, dragons, trolls, wizards and witches, leprechauns, fairies and angels, plus probably a few others I’ve forgotten. The sad (well, maybe not sad, but certainly less exciting) truth is that NONE of it exists, and there’s a good reason for that.
Everything that exists has the properties of existence. It can be seen, touched, heard, smelled or otherwise perceived. It can be defined, studied and analyzed. If we ever catch a Chupacabra or a Yeti, we will be able to measure them, scientists will examine their teeth and the contents of their stomach, they will be placed in a zoo and their behavior will be observed. They will not be a monster, they will just be an animal. That is the difference between a monster and an animal. Monsters don’t exist.
If we were to discover Leprechauns, and establish communication with them, then they would just be like another race of human beings, discriminated against because of their size.
The supernatural is just anything outside of the natural but as we discover more and more about nature, the realm of the supernatural will shrink. Don’t worry. It will never disappear.
www.gurukalehuru.com 