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Forbidden Fruits

Well as Christians we all know about forbidden fruits, I mean in the garden of Eden God gave Adam and Eve explicit instructions not to eat from one particular tree. So what did they go and do? They ate the fruit, oh of course it wasn’t their fault, “the devil made them do it” (Isn’t that just like the human race, always trying to farm off the blame anywhere but themselves). Well it is because of this initial disobedience, that we are so prone to disobey God and we are naturally drawn to anything which goes against the norm. For example, I came across this post which speaks about this very phenomenon, and mentioned about a reality tv show which took a number of people with kidney failure and put them into a house with a terminal cancer patient. The cancer patient is supposed to choose the winner of the her kidney when she dies. Wow, what a sick show that would be. Fortunately according to another post on the same blog the “Big Donor Show” is actually a hoax.

I make it a habit to avoid reality shows, apart from them being a waste of time, how many of them are actually real? I mean there is one show where a normal person like maybe a school teacher is trained to be an elite soldier. This is a reality show but how many people actually think that this person will be deployed into a foreign country to go and “take out” some dictator who is running their country into the ground. This will never happen. When I was on holiday in the UK however, they had one reality tv show which I did get hooked on. In my oppinion is was the top of the reality tv shows. What they did was take a group of people (with secret actors) and signed them up for “An adventure of a lifetime”. No-one knew (except the actors) what was the adventure. Then they were taken to a private plane and told just before boarding that they were headed for Russia to become the first members of the public to go into space. They would undergo heavy training and then will be sent up into space for about 5 days. To cut a long story short, the show was advertised as Englands biggest hoax. The people were flown around scotland in a wide holding pattern for two hours, after which they touched down in an unused airforce base in Ipswitch. The base was fully kitted to look like a Russian base. Eventually 4 people where chosen, one of whom was a secret actor, and were taken through to the “shuttle” and blasted off (with two more actors at the helm) for space to conduct experiments in a zero gravity (but with an artificial gravity generator) environment. The truth is that they never left the hanger the “shuttle” was parked in. But what makes this a brilliant show is that the guys trully believed that they were in space, all the training that they underwent culminated in an actual mission. Well they believed it was an actual mission. The kicker was that unbeknownst to the makers of the show, one of the guys who was chosen to go into space had actually visited that very base as a younger child when it was active, and he spent over a month their training for this mission and never once recognised it.
The show was called the Space Cadets if you want to read up about it. It was really fun to watch.

I will close off this post with a video of the Space Cadets final mission, a real trip to Russia to ride on the “Vomit Comet”. This is a plane which flies up really high then drops altitude at a high speed causing one of the closest experiences of zero gravity that can be simulated on earth.

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