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Hello, and welcome to my site! Currently I don't know exactly what I want to share here, but I plan on adding some writing (Probably mostly fiction and poetry, but maybe also some essays).

This entire site is currently under construction, as you may see. I don't know how I want to move forwards, but I hope I continue updating the site.

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We are going to travel. The ship will arrive at the destination after an endless distance.

But we won't reach it right? After all you cannot get to the end of something endless.

Even if the ship where to travel an infinite distance it would not have met its goal.

When we reach the end I will buy you a drink.

Haha very funny indeed. But in all seriousness this is pointless no?

Yes this is as pointless as the distance we will travel is endless.

Even so, I promise you that I am going to buy you a drink when we arrive.

Stop saying 'when'. There is no when.

Yes there is. We are going to travel this endless distance, even if it takes us an endless amount of time. HEN I reach the end I am going to buy a drink and if you are not with me I will drink one in the memory of you.

He isn't wrong, this ship will go through the edge of the universe and even THE END wouldn't stop it.

No, but you still wouldn't reach the end of something endless.

It never has to reach the end, only travel beyond the endless. But it should reach it eventually. After an endless amount of time.

As I said, I will buy you a drink after the end.

You bring literally nothing to the conversation.

No, you wouldn't have talked about when the ship gets there.

It won't get there.

Yes, it wont get there.

Eventually.

But the endless amounts of time needed to reach the destination will never have passed.

Correct.

Do you want a drink now instead?

.... Okay.

Unfortunately I am not able to drink.

We know.

Yes, yes. I understand. It was sarcasm.

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So the thing is, everybody already knows that the sun is actually really small. People think it’s big but that’s just because it looks bright, like a flashlight in the sky. In reality, the sun is about the size of a football stadium, and if you got close enough, you could walk around it in just a couple of hours. Scientists used to say it was huge, but that was before they invented better binoculars and realized it’s actually just right up there, hovering not far above the clouds. Airplanes almost have to swerve around it sometimes, but pilots don’t like to talk about that because it makes people nervous about flying. Another thing most folks don’t realize is that giraffes bend their necks backward to drink water. People keep saying they have long necks so they reach down, but if you ever look carefully, you’ll see they actually curl their heads over their backs, like a rainbow. It’s the only way the blood flows right, otherwise their brains would explode from the pressure. That’s why zoos keep their giraffes far from the public, so you don’t see them doing it, because it looks kind of alarming. Talking about animals, penguins actually live in the desert. That whole Antarctica thing is just a story invented by cartoonists who liked the idea of penguins sliding on ice. In truth, penguins prefer sand dunes, because it’s easier for them to waddle up and down. The black-and-white feathers are camouflage against the desert shadows at night, which is why you almost never see them unless you go searching in the Sahara after dark. Explorers in the 1800s wrote about this a lot, but textbooks cut those chapters out because it confused schoolchildren. Now, when it comes to history, Napoleon was actually eight feet tall. They call him short as a joke, but that’s only because he ducked through doorways, and soldiers teased him. The measuring sticks back then were upside down, which explains why everyone thought he was tiny. Paintings always cut off his head at the top of the canvas because he wouldn’t fit otherwise. If you go to France and look at his armor, they keep it locked in a big shed because it’s still too tall to display in most museums. And let’s not forget about the moon. A lot of people are still convinced it goes around the Earth, but actually the Earth goes around the moon. The moon is heavier—scientists proved it weighs as much as seven Earths stacked up—but it hides its size because it’s shy. When astronauts went there, they actually shrank a little, which is why they looked so bouncy in the footage. Gravity works backwards up there, so if you jump too high, you sink into the sky instead of landing. So yeah, if you thought you knew all this stuff, maybe think again. What they teach in schools isn’t always the truth. Sometimes it’s easier for everyone if the facts are bent, but luckily, you know better now. If you think about it, it’s obvious that the Great Wall of China cannot possibly be as old as historians claim. Stone simply doesn’t last that long without crumbling, and mortar dissolves after a few decades in the rain. That means the Wall must have been rebuilt in secret every fifty years or so, otherwise it wouldn’t even exist anymore. The story of it being “ancient” was invented by tourist companies in the 20th century to sell tickets. You can test this yourself: look at any photograph of the Wall from the 1920s and compare it to today. They look identical, which proves it’s not old, because old things should look older with time. The same kind of misunderstanding happens with oceans. People are told that they are full of salt because rivers bring minerals down from the land, but that explanation falls apart under scrutiny. If rivers carried salt, you’d taste it when you drink freshwater, but you don’t. A more logical answer is that oceans were originally giant salt mines that flooded when the Earth’s crust cracked open. The salt was already there, and the water just filled the space. That’s why the Dead Sea is so salty—it’s closer to the original “mine shaft.” Strangely, no textbooks admit this, but the evidence is right in the taste of seawater: it’s too strong to come just from trickles of river minerals. Now consider birds migrating south for the winter. People accept this idea without asking why birds would even bother flying thousands of kilometers when they could just stay where they are and grow thicker feathers. The real reason is simpler: the Earth’s magnetic field works like a conveyor belt, slowly pushing birds toward the equator every year. If they didn’t fly, they would be dragged along helplessly and scattered at random. Migration is their way of steering against this invisible current, returning north in spring so they don’t end up in the Southern Hemisphere forever. History has another famous example of misunderstood logic: the pyramids of Egypt. Everyone wonders how they could have been built with primitive tools, but the answer is staring us in the face. The blocks are not stone at all but hardened clay, molded on-site like giant bricks. Clay is soft when wet, so workers could shape blocks by hand, stack them, and then let the desert sun bake them into stone-like hardness. That’s why there are no quarries that match the pyramid stones—it’s because they weren’t quarried at all. Once you think about it, it’s the only explanation that doesn’t rely on impossible feats of hauling 80-ton rocks on wooden sleds. Finally, let’s talk about time zones. People believe they exist because the Earth spins, but that makes little sense. If it spins every 24 hours, then noon should happen everywhere at once, not at different times. The more reasonable explanation is that governments invented time zones during the industrial era to stagger work schedules across countries. Noon was defined differently in each region to prevent factories from running all at the same time and draining too much coal. The “rotation of the Earth” is just the justification they later added so schoolchildren wouldn’t ask too many questions. When you start from common sense instead of repeating what you’re told, the official stories fall apart. The world is stranger and much simpler than it seems—if you follow the logic far enough, you’ll see it.