Dateline 5-29-2017

I wish I was a bullshit artist. As someone who watches a lot of documentaries on everything from dinosaurs coexisting with man to black budget space stations on the moon, my head is filled with a lot of bizarre information. I'm mainly interested in these subjects as a writer who likes to pepper this type of material into my fictional writing to add to the surreal sense that I am aiming for while using familiar cultural memes that have already been established in the mind of the people even if it's just on a subconscious plane.

As I said, I only use this type of information for my fictional work where I pepper it in for flavor while not trying to push any agendas. For example, I might have a character that CERN has opened some sort of dimensional tear that is affecting his frame of mind but he doesn't have any goal to shut down CERN or expose how or why this is happening, no, this is just a subtle type of detail that I like to add to widen the range of surrealness that I can add to blur the line of reality versus what's going on in the character's head.

Sometimes I wish I had more of a journalistic mindset because I feel if I was more interested in non-passive research, I could put together some interesting theories of my own that would probably pull in way more readers than anything I'm doing now to where I could possibly make some money. When I say journalistic mind, I'm talking more research techniques and writing style and not necessarily content.

As for an example of passive research that I might use in fiction but feel that I could develop into a bs theory, last night, I was watching a documentary about the origins of Noah's Arch as I was falling asleep, so I have no idea where the full story actually played out but there was a bit of information that piqued my interested just moments before I fell asleep which is as passive as research can be.

The idea thrown forward was that the flood from the bible was actually stolen from a much earlier text that was recently found in some cave. In this old story, there was also an arch but this boat was more like a giant basket than the traditional boat you may see in your mind's eye. 

This new description got me to look up at the screen to see an extremely simple sketch that looked more like a bowl than a basket but only because the drawing was more round than the ovalish opening I picture when I think of the wicker container. For some reason, this drawing also got me thinking of the flat Earth.

Before I go any further, I am not a flat Earther, I just find their documentaries to be entertaining and I don't really mind people aggressively questioning things like this because if you treat it like a real discussion, I feel it advances the potential to find something unrelated and new when looking for this piece of evidence that would win over the people who don't believe what's been common knowledge that has been given to them for an entire lifetime but that's just my "in theory" way of thinking because I know we now live in a time where no one really cares about the other side.

Okay, so back to my how this new Noah's Arch led me to think of the flat Earth thing. So, seeing this sketch of the bowl-shaped arch, that at one point housed every animal, got me thinking, what if the edge of this bowl was Antarctica which creates the outer wall on many flat Earth maps and the Earth itself was this ancient arch that predated the man named Noah? And that space was the actual flood.  

Keep in mind, I'm an Atheist, so this is 100% a mixing of ideas and I also use medical marijuana to help with my sleep so I'm by no claiming this argument to be sound but if I was interested in writing this type of content, I'm sure there is information out there that I could find that would get people to buy this.

Who knows, maybe someday I'll shift genres until then, I hope you enjoyed my last thought before going to sleep and I will check in again tomorrow.

Talk to you then,

The Wicker Breaker