![]() What Truman doesn’t know is 1.7 billion people saw his birth, his first steps, his every embarrassing moment. Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) is an average guy with an average job in an average town with an average wife. We used to put heroin in cough syrup and radium in our water, for goodness-sakes! What is REAL right now will, undoubtedly, be shown false. What is supreme today will be surpassed tomorrow. What was a sure-thing yesterday is in question today. ![]() Through that door nothing is promised but everything is possible. If one is determined, though, the exit is clearly marked and unlocked. It is shielded by distance, danger, and distraction. It is hidden from view and from consideration. I begrudge no one for maintaining their prescribed purpose after all, it is their reality!īUT, outside of that construct lies a new world of uncertainty. We are all born into a system - we are all handed a script - we are all laid onto a path. It proves nearly impossible to see outside of your prepared stage. It is human nature to filter and reject, to accept what fits and discard what challenges. If you believe something, you allow that lens to dictate and direct the occurrences that flash before your eyes. You construct and retrofit, trying to maintain what you desire to see. If you are taught something is real, you manufacture your life around it. Neurologists even created a drive-thru version where an “ice-pick” was quickly inserted above the eyes into the brain, stirred around, and all the problems of the past disappeared. At the height of its popularity in the 1940’s and 50’s, lobotomies were the preferred solution. Turns out, radiation can kill you! Probably should have publicized that BEFORE 400,000 units were sold!īayer Laboratories sold a heroin cough syrup in 1898…people couldn’t wait to get sick again! He claimed to feel instantly better…that is until his jaw fell off! It actually FELL OFF. Did I say “radical”? I meant “radiation.” Eben Byers, a wealthy industrialist, began drinking three bottles of Radithor (a radium water advertised as “perpetual sunshine”) a day to heal his injured arm. Upon release of the first locomotive, a public outcry was issued: “At these proposed, unimaginable speeds (50 miles an hour), won’t our bodies just melt? What is to keep a woman’s uterus from simply flying from her body?” Humans were not meant to reach such an inconceivable velocity. After spending a few summers in small, unventilated, bunked cabins, I have come face-to-face with real evil and offered up my fair-share of Hail Marys. In times past, disease was caused by stinky air and cured through superstition and ritual. Opening the veins or attaching up to 100 leeches…no matter your preferred method, you got to get that pesky blood outta your body! Go figure, George Washington died of blood loss after losing half his body’s blood! In the not-too-distant past, fever, plague, vomiting, menstrual issues, and asthma were all treated by purposefully spilling the patient’s blood.
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