OK. I know what you’re all thinking, “Stanley doesn’t believe in gravity, so therefore he doesn’t believe in science.” This is totally false. I absolutely refute this. Sure, I don’t believe in gravity. I do not believe it exists. But not because I don’t believe in science. In FACT, the evidence that inspires this epiphany is purely scientific.
The other day, I arrived at my apartment after a day of classes. It was about six in the evening but the time is irrelevant. I saw a spider suspended in mid-air. Yes, I know, the spider wasn’t actually hovering. It wasn’t flying. But it was off the ground, hanging from a web. Now you might be thinking that this example takes apart my entire argument. You may suggest that the fact that the spider needed the use of the web to hang is one of the principles of the “gravity” myth that you all subscribe to. You would be right to believe this. I believed such when I observed it. But what happened next changed everything.
The spider proceeded to ascend. That’s right. Up. The spider went up. It was hanging from a web, hanging down from the hat rack in my entryway. And then it went upward towards the heavens. How does gravity explain that? It does not. Nowhere in the code of “gravity” does it state that “usually gravity makes things fall down but sometimes it makes them go up.” It doesn’t say that anywhere.
Not only did the spider rise, but it never fell. All of you “scientists” think that gravity applies to humans because when we jump up, we come back down almost immediately. But this spider never came down. It continued to go up. And up. And up. And up. And up.
Contrarians to my findings will argue, “Well, the spider was just climbing up its web. Humans can do this too. I climbed up a rope for seventh grade gym class.” But the spider WAS NOT climbing. The web was gradually disappearing as the spider rose higher and higher. It was just flying up. Without using wings. Just moving upward.
After observing this much, I was not convinced. I had not yet seen the light at this point. However, my skepticism was brewing. Questions were boiling inside me. I was angry. I felt betrayed by everyone. If gravity really didn’t exist, who could I trust? Could I trust my teachers? Could I trust my parents? My friends? I felt like I couldn’t even trust NASA anymore. But I wasn’t yet convinced. I still had hope that I could cling to everything I had learned and believed in my life.
This hope was short lived. At the climax of its ascent, the spider reached the ceiling. Its next move profoundly changed my life and way of thinking. It just walked on the ceiling. It moved wherever it wanted. Left, right, back and forth, this spider could move anywhere. It was entirely inverted, fully upside down and completely and utterly defying “gravity.”
Again, I’ll play the devil’s advocate (my newfound discovery has led me to question whether or not the “devil” even exists). Humans can move upside down. I admit and acknowledge this. Rock climbers hold onto rocks even when they are fully inverted and looking towards the sky. But humans have opposable thumbs. They can grab onto things and hold on to them. Spiders cannot do this. Spiders do not have opposable thumbs. Spiders use a different tactic. They just don’t believe in gravity. They don’t fall victim to the myth that has haunted humans for centuries. And from now on, neither will I.
