What
do you think about this video?
Some of our beliefs lack in-depth reasoning, but we hold onto them until we hear a more convincing truth. What mystery or hotly debated topic can you settle because you know the real truth?
Did
you see the Egyptian statue on the end turn around? Look again. The statue is
ten inches high, stands in an enclosed glass case in a museum, and after three
years—it’s moving. According to museum curators, it turns during the day. Time
lapse photography shows the statue turning, but its movement is not visible to bystanders.
A few people think the turning is caused by footstep vibrations. Do you want
the truth? The statue moves because it’s part of a prank or it’s a very weird,
unexplainable phenomenon. I chose prank—it’s less unsettling.
It’s
more comfortable to believe that a moving statue is prank-related than to
believe it’s an unexplainable mystery. Don’t we prefer clear-cut answers regardless
of how we get there? If the statue is part of a prank, how does it turn and who
is involved? Sometimes we only get to the heart of an issue by probing every answer
with a succession of hows and whys.
Some of our beliefs lack in-depth reasoning, but we hold onto them until we hear a more convincing truth. What mystery or hotly debated topic can you settle because you know the real truth?
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