I've become a bit of a lazy blogger, ignoring this poor beast for weeks and weeks at a time. Today's blog isn't even original, but rather I am posting something I read earlier today.

It was an article about truth being stranger than fiction, and the writer (it was just on a forum somewhere, so I can't even give credit to whomever wrote it) was saying how if a movie had been made about WW2 (assuming there was no WW2 that is) it would have seemed improbable and ridiculous.

Let’s start with the bad guys. Battalions of stormtroopers dressed in all black, check. Secret police, check. Determination to brutally kill everyone who doesn’t look like them, check. Leader with a tiny villain mustache and a tendency to go into apoplectic rage when he doesn’t get his way, check. All this from a country that was ordinary, believable, and dare I say it sometimes even sympathetic in previous seasons.



So they invent a completely implausible superweapon that they’ve never mentioned until now. Apparently the Americans got some scientists together to invent it, only we never heard anything about it because it was “classified”. In two years, the scientists manage to invent a weapon a thousand times more powerful than anything anyone’s ever seen before – drawing from, of course, ancient mystical texts. Then they use the superweapon, blow up several Japanese cities easily, and the Japanese surrender. Convenient, isn’t it?

I love it! And the part about ancient, mystical texts is true, as crazy at that sounds. ('texts' as in books and manuscripts kiddies, not the techo/cell phone type of texts)

Just a small part:
This is from the ancient Hindu text the Mahabharata.




“Gurkha, flying a swift and powerful vimana [fast aircraft],
hurled a single projectile [rocket]
charged with the power of the Universe [nuclear device].
An incandescent column of smoke and flame,
as bright as ten thousand suns,
rose with all its splendour.

It was an unknown weapon,
an iron thunderbolt,
a gigantic messenger of death,
which reduced to ashes
the entire race.
The corpses were so burned as to be unrecognizable.
Hair and nails fell out;
Pottery broke without apparent cause,
and the birds turned white.
…After a few hours
all foodstuffs were infected…
…to escape from this fire
the soldiers threw themselves in streams
to wash themselves and their equipment.”

So today's moral is: Truth really is stranger than fiction.