I was just watching a program called “Weird or What?” on one of the Discovery Channels. I must say, if those are the two alternatives, I have to go with “what?” Maybe WTF.
I tuned in as this guy was talking. Quite a professorial looking old geezer, bald on top, bushy gray on the sides, thin, brown suit. It took me a couple of sentences before I realized he was talking about teleportation into alternative universes. He seemed so normal. Still, it was clear he was being literal and serious. He spoke of being able to go into an alternative universe as a way to improve your life, because out of the billions of possible universes, there is one where you
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weren’t in that car crash, where you didn’t marry an alcoholic, one were your true talents had been discovered and you are making millions of dollars.
Then, the narrator said “Dr. Goldstein’s patients….” and I nearly fell on the floor. Which sometimes happens, it’s not really such a great metaphor for total amazement. This guy has patients?
Well, yes, as a matter of fact, he does. When you think about it, it makes sense. Delusional people go to psychiatrists. Some delusional people believe they teleport in an out of alternative universes.
What psychiatrist are they going to go to? One who believes them, of course. Also, one who can set them up with a bit of trans-universal body zapping. Sort of a combination psychiatrist/travel agent.
Teleportation into alternative universe was the theme of the program, like Stargate. (I liked that show for a while. Not the most thought provoking sci-fi ever, but I’m not a sci-fi snob.) The next guy they talked to had excavated some skulls in Central America, crystal skulls, and he was talking about how they were portals to other universes and after his speech (in fact, after everybody’s speech) the narrator came in to say “could it be real? could there really be alternative universes? could these skulls be the portals that will take us there?” (the correct answers are no, no, and no, but they never give that answer.
Then they showed a woman who totally debunked the skull things as big frauds, with science, but they gave her the same presentation (and perhaps a little less time) than the teleporter. Then they followed her with another teleportation nut.
Oh, well. I guess it’s all for entertainment. Nobody really believes this stuff. Do they?
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