I have always been interested in learning, in discovering. I was always fascinated by the fantastic, and yearned for the mythic. It always seemed strange to me, how I seemed weird to the masses for scouring endless pages, and documentaries in search of dragons, aliens, and ghosts. After all, most of them believe in gods, and afterlifes and things with even less evidence than the former two of my claims.
Anyway. In my search for these awesome creatures, I read many books that made promises of evidence. And yet time and again. There was nothing convincing. I couldn't find any evidence to make a claim where I could take out my game console and say, if I'm wrong about this claim, you can have this. Nope not once. Eventually, I grew tired of the search, and realized that I'm wrong. Dragon's aren't real, Aliens don't visit the Earth, Ghosts are figments of one's imagination, and slowly the myths became understood as misunderstandings and exaggeration.
Some may say I've lost the sense of wonder that exists in believing in these wild fantasies and legends, I say, "I have not, I have simply drawn the line between fiction and reality. I still think dragons are cool, aliens fighting with beam swords are awesome, and animes with demons are enjoyable. I just realize that I have no way of defending the claim that any of them are real so I won't make the claim. Much the same with deities. I could tell you of several logically possible deities (though they are either evil, weak, or indifferent, and closer to the Greek, Roman, Norse, Hindu, Shinto etc, than the idea of one all powerful being in charge of everything) and yet I could not defend a single one of these with a shred of evidence.
In the end I wish people would actively search for evidence in order to support all of their claims, and not wait for someone to "disprove" the existence of the thing they have no evidence for. Because the next time someone uses that logic with me... well then, I'm a god. oh.. if you kill me, I will rot away and become one with the universe and work in mysterious ways, and I'm right unless you disprove me.. except I won't do that because that would be intellectually dishonest.
