Experiencing the Joy of Reality

 WE KNOW, that there are at least four thousand planets orbiting stars other than the sun. The first such was discovered in 1995. We can safely extrapolate that there are trillions yet to be discovered. When one examines a bath tub filled with sea water taken randomly from the ocean,  whatever is in the sample can be presumed to exist throughout the entire ocean. Whenever some distant star slightly dims and brightens with precision, an orbiting planet is passing in front of it. The ultimate question is: how many stars are there close enough to the sun with a good enough view of the sun for intelligent life to similarly detect the presence of Earth? The answer, it turns out, is about seventeen hundred and fifteen. This is solid science at its exciting, empirical best. Scientifically, intellectually, the future of humanity beckons like a beautiful panoramic mystery unfolding, revealing the true nature of nature to those seeking access to reality. Sadly, sciences' noble, eternal quest for the truth seems to be insufficient mental stimulation for many people, people w ho choose to reject science in favor of their own, fabricated false realities. American culture, which has always been an incubator of false, fraudulent beliefs, is currently experiencing an epidemic of misinformation, intellectual nonsense. The internet, talk radio, and bookstores are full to overflowing of this vacuous, but profitable idiocy. Terms like "paranormal research" and "alternative cosmic paradigms" thinly conceal the senselessness with an intellectual sounding veneer which means nothing. Is it necessary to mention, for instance, that anybody who claims to not only know definitely of the existence of extraterrestrial intelligent beings, but also wo know precisely where they come from and what activities they are engaged in, on Earth end elsewhere, is a charlatan? It shouldn't b necessary. To elucidate the deluded; the United States Federal Reserve bank is not operated advanced creatures from the Andromeda galaxy, the Democratic party does not operate a thriving pedophile business, and the interior of the planet earth is neither hollow, nor inhabited.