RE: What are the reasons you don't believe this theory?
March 19, 2011 at 9:57 am
(This post was last modified: March 19, 2011 at 9:59 am by Zenith.)
ok, it seems that no one has given a reply so far.
So I'm going to say the reasons I believe people would not believe my theory (I might forget some, so it is possible to add others later).
I suppose it's not quite what you expected:
1. The "gods" are old-fashioned. In modern times, most people would see the "gods" as something foolish/ridiculous, and so, they would not believe it. On the other hand, a story with "aliens" (the modern term for gods) might gain popularity. Anyway, more fashionable is the theory of atheism or "we are the gods" or "we can be gods" (e.g. that theory that says that if you really believe that something would happen, a secret law of the universe called "the law of attraction" would make it happen). So people are much more likely to believe something that is currently a fashion than something that is old-fashion, no matter what the theory says.
2. Nobody believes it so far. That is, it doesn't have many adepts, it isn't popular. If 90% of the world population had believed this already, anyone else would have been tempted to believe it, because "EVERYBODY BELIEVES IT!!", so the general conception is: if so many believe it, it must be true! So, though now my theory is "absurd", if 90% of the world population had believed it, it would have not been seen as absurd anymore!
3. As it's given in the premise, it must accord with the modern science, no matter what the modern science says. And if after 400 years the sciences would transform a lot, this 'religion' with 12 gods would be "scientifically" no more, and it needs to adapt itself to the new modern science, if it doesn't want to lose its adepts!
4. In order to gather and keep adepts, the theory must teach that the adepts are superior to everyone else (by their nature, because they are in this group, because they believe X, because they are 'evolved', etc. and told quite often that they are superior). That's found all around: christians, muslims, other religions, nazi, atheism, etc. So, unless I make my own party/group feel superior to the other groups, I can't gather too many adepts.
5. I can't get many adepts, unless I tell people what they want to believe, and allow them to do what they want to do.
6. My theory doesn't have publicity: TV news about it, spread out as advertising, people of different religions and beliefs saying their opinion on TV about it - if that had happened, people would have believe that my theory is worth thinking about!
7. I don't believe my own theory! That is, the preacher of it ( I ) must be insane enough to believe his own invented theory. No one can believe my theory if I do not STRONGLY believe it! So this is yet another reason you did not believe my theory.
8. My 'religion' does not help its subjects anyhow (to have a job arranged, give help in certain matters, etc.), so no one thinks it's worth joining my party.
9. People's 'idols' do not agree with me. If their adored renounced preachers/priests/atheist philosophers had shown to the public that they believe my theory, a lot of the adorers would come to believe my theory too. But, as it is now, they stick to their own idols, whom they obviously favor more than they favor me.
10. It hasn't any relation to the past (e.g. If I said that this same religion was worshiped in antiquity, people might find it more interesting) nor to modern science-fiction fantasies (which people would be happy if they actually "existed").
11. My theory doesn't have 'evidences' to convert other people and maintain its subjects (e.g. as Orthodox and Catholic people have the appearances of 'Virgin Mary', muslims have miracles in the Qur'an, other supernatural things that happen as 'evidences', etc.). Though, perhaps, in time, this could be developed.
Anyway, just a note: the real "evidences" or "arguments" are some of the last things people actually care about.
Perhaps you would tell me some opinions about my "reasons"...
So I'm going to say the reasons I believe people would not believe my theory (I might forget some, so it is possible to add others later).
I suppose it's not quite what you expected:
1. The "gods" are old-fashioned. In modern times, most people would see the "gods" as something foolish/ridiculous, and so, they would not believe it. On the other hand, a story with "aliens" (the modern term for gods) might gain popularity. Anyway, more fashionable is the theory of atheism or "we are the gods" or "we can be gods" (e.g. that theory that says that if you really believe that something would happen, a secret law of the universe called "the law of attraction" would make it happen). So people are much more likely to believe something that is currently a fashion than something that is old-fashion, no matter what the theory says.
2. Nobody believes it so far. That is, it doesn't have many adepts, it isn't popular. If 90% of the world population had believed this already, anyone else would have been tempted to believe it, because "EVERYBODY BELIEVES IT!!", so the general conception is: if so many believe it, it must be true! So, though now my theory is "absurd", if 90% of the world population had believed it, it would have not been seen as absurd anymore!
3. As it's given in the premise, it must accord with the modern science, no matter what the modern science says. And if after 400 years the sciences would transform a lot, this 'religion' with 12 gods would be "scientifically" no more, and it needs to adapt itself to the new modern science, if it doesn't want to lose its adepts!
4. In order to gather and keep adepts, the theory must teach that the adepts are superior to everyone else (by their nature, because they are in this group, because they believe X, because they are 'evolved', etc. and told quite often that they are superior). That's found all around: christians, muslims, other religions, nazi, atheism, etc. So, unless I make my own party/group feel superior to the other groups, I can't gather too many adepts.
5. I can't get many adepts, unless I tell people what they want to believe, and allow them to do what they want to do.
6. My theory doesn't have publicity: TV news about it, spread out as advertising, people of different religions and beliefs saying their opinion on TV about it - if that had happened, people would have believe that my theory is worth thinking about!
7. I don't believe my own theory! That is, the preacher of it ( I ) must be insane enough to believe his own invented theory. No one can believe my theory if I do not STRONGLY believe it! So this is yet another reason you did not believe my theory.
8. My 'religion' does not help its subjects anyhow (to have a job arranged, give help in certain matters, etc.), so no one thinks it's worth joining my party.
9. People's 'idols' do not agree with me. If their adored renounced preachers/priests/atheist philosophers had shown to the public that they believe my theory, a lot of the adorers would come to believe my theory too. But, as it is now, they stick to their own idols, whom they obviously favor more than they favor me.
10. It hasn't any relation to the past (e.g. If I said that this same religion was worshiped in antiquity, people might find it more interesting) nor to modern science-fiction fantasies (which people would be happy if they actually "existed").
11. My theory doesn't have 'evidences' to convert other people and maintain its subjects (e.g. as Orthodox and Catholic people have the appearances of 'Virgin Mary', muslims have miracles in the Qur'an, other supernatural things that happen as 'evidences', etc.). Though, perhaps, in time, this could be developed.
Anyway, just a note: the real "evidences" or "arguments" are some of the last things people actually care about.
Perhaps you would tell me some opinions about my "reasons"...
