Would You Believe It?!

By Klaus Döring

“Would You Believe It!” is a 1929 British silent comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Forde, Pauline Johnson and Arthur Stratton. It was made at the Nettlefold Studios in Walton-on-Thames and released as a supporting feature. It was later re-released with added sound effects and music. A British inventor develops a new high-tech tank and is pursued by foreign agents who wish to capture the design.

In a world as vast as ours, anything that can happen will likely happen. The only thing that can limit these possibilities is your own imagination. Experience the oddest, the fantastic, the downright impossible parts of history that the textbooks left out. Be prepared — it will expand the limits of your wildest imagination!

It is almost a ridiculous fact that man wants to know certain truths about mundane things. But really, he seems least interested in even mundane truths, as can be read many times in newspapers, for example. There seem to be too many rash judgments, and the readers absorb these and make these their own. A fatal attraction!

This is sometimes referred to as journalistic mentality and social media comments, wherein accusations are generously made without proof. Evolution started this trend, when scientists stated, for example, that man evolved from the apes, without proof. The only proof they had was the missing link, and if I am not mistaken, it’s still missing proof until now.

To look for proofs is a mental activity, which is no longer a common thing nowadays, because it really takes time, effort, and is too serious to think about. Yet, in Christian education, thinking right is very important. That’s why Philosophy is important in Christian life. To avoid error in thinking, the rules of right reasoning must be studied and mastered. Is it really totally neglected in today’s modern education?

Thinking is actually an enjoyable activity, but when one is pressured to get a good job for one’s sustenance, then the other, more mundane, becomes attractive. After all, great thinkers often do not get (good?) jobs.

Spiritual writers like the British Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) noticed that mankind had stopped thinking even two centuries ago. That was during his age. Man probably stopped thinking even earlier. He has ceased many times to search for the truth. It’s easier to listen to gossip and believe in it. What a sign of weak minds!

Too often are we blind to the truth, and as a consequence, we easily believe in lies—we only have to like it. Too bad, if people always like to close their eyes and ears, especially while experiencing the delusion of error.

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