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The world is simpler than we think !!!!!!!
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woah. just borrowed a few books from the library today and one of them is a book by Mark Buchanan , the famous science journalist. I've never been into philosophy ( in the dictionary its 'study of the ultimate reality, causes, and principles underlying being and thinkin' ), but i got drawn to it after readin the first paragraph which goes like this ( Warning : Abit boring and lengthy but PLS READ IT. I GUARANTEE U AMAzEMENT ) :
"It was 11am one a fine summer morning in SARAJEVO ( i have no idea where this is. Oh , its a place in Bosnia. Where is Bosnia , u ask. ITS IN EUROPE LAH ) . Anyway back to the paragraph. It was June 28 , 1914 when the driver of an automobile carrying the pasengers made a wrong turn. It was an unremarkable mistake , easy enough to make in the crowded , dusty streets. But this one tiny mistake by this drive , on this day , was to disrupt and end hundreds and millions of lifes and alter the course of history forever.
The automobile stopped directly in front of a Bosnian serb student , Gavrilo Princip. A member of the Serbian terrorist organisation , Princip couldnt believe his luck. He drew a small pistol from his pocket. Pointed it. Pull the trigger twice. Within thirty minutes the Austro-Hungarian Archduke and his wife , Sophie , the passengers , were dead. within hours the polital fabric of Europe had begun to unravel.
In the days that followed , Austria used the assasination as an excuse to begin planning an invasion of Serbia , Russia guaranteed protection to the Serbs , while Germany ( Where hitler the fucker reigned. ) offered to intercede on Austria's behalf should Russia become involved ( Sounds confusing ? Means Austria and Germany teamed up while Serbia and RUssia teamed up lar. Note that Austria and Serbia are two insignificant countries but Germany and Russia are definitely NOT ). So , within thirty days , this chain reaction of international threats and promises tied Austria , Russia , Germany , France , Turkey and Britain into a deadly knot with all the diff alliances. When the first world war ended 5 yrs later , ten million had died. Twenty quiet years later , the second world war claimed another 30 million.
Why did these happen within 3 decades ? Was it all due to a chaffeur's mistake ? Had he not driven into the wrong way and let his passengers get murdered by a terorrist , all these would not had happened.
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My thoughts :
Wow. This is what i call a chain reaction. This brings me to the chaos theory , or the butterfly effect. What the heck is butterfly effect ? Let me put it this way. A butterfly can flap its wings for eternity in a inflated balloon but nothing will ever happen as it is enclosed in a area . But if it were to be flapping its wings in New york , it may cause a tornado in Australia , the other side of the world. Why ? Because our atmosphere is volatile , and every little change counts. Sounds absurds but its true. Winds occer because of pressure changes and pressure changes are really nothing spectacular but look at what it causes. Tsunamis , typhoons etc.
