Thursday, 30 October 2008

It doesn’t matter what the subject is, I always want to know what the bottom or top is. What is the best, biggest, weirdest or whateverst? Where does it end? Before the Internet this search was difficult, but I came quite a long way with books and correspondences with like minded people all over the world. I am surprised that much of the facts and stories that have surprised me most have come to me before there was an Internet. Of course, I can now see movies, where I initially had to do with written accounts and one photograph, but since I am not a very visual person, the movies of certain facts, achievements and events, that I can now see on YouTube, often add very little to what I already ”knew”.
What the Internet, and especially YouTube, did change, was that it definitely ended my illusions about all kind of mysteries and miracles. I have lost my believe in monsters, ghosts, UFO’s, aliens, levitation and many other topics that have been a major part of my mind for decades. My idea’s about this world and the so-called reality have been become stranger than they ever were before, but in ways that not easy to describe. I think that everything is at the same time both exactly as it appears AND completely different from what we think it is.
Anyway, I spend a few hours on YouTube tonight and as always I have seen amazing things. Like this hole in the water somewhere in Japan:

It is actually an art piece by Shiro Matsui.
There is another video of an hole-in-the-water on YouTube. This one is called Lake Berryessa’s Glory Hole:

Here is a video about a place that is called the Door to hell:

The text next to the video says:

One of the first subjects that fascinated me in life, were the martial arts. There were many hard to believe stories and myths in the magazines and books that I read about these subjects, but I also discovered that there were many things true which I could not have imagined. If there is ever going to be given a price to people who have been cultivating stretching the limits of what is physical possible, it should go to the Shaolin monks. I have no idea where the men stand who are now touring the western theatres; even what they do is amazing. But I have the idea that the real thing is far more spectacular. Here is a video that Ruud Hulleman tipped me:

And here is another video in which Shaolin monks demonstrate their abilities to control their bodies:

Finally (for today!), here is a little documentary on the size of our You-inverse:

I could waste the rest of your day with video’s that I enjoyed watching on YouTube, but I rather have it the other way around. I mean, I have heard many people complaining that they get so many YouTube-links in their mailbox. But I wouldn’t mind getting some more!