this is a line of thought that i have been chewing on for a couple of months now. No. It didn't come out from Metallica. I am not saying nothing 'else' matters. I am just saying, 'Nothing' Matters.
It happened over a discussion with one of my friends. At a Pub.When we started discussing religion. What it was. Where it came from.Is there a God. Is there a plan. Is there heaven. Is there hell. You know the Sh**. You have thought of it. You have thought over it.If not with friends, then may be in the comfort of your own solitude. After all we wouldn't want any unnecessary pain. will we. All the scary stories about Boiling pots of oil, and the Inferno's seven levels.Well you became sure. I didn't. Either you said, "its a bunch of ghost stories" and moved ahead, or you said, well "what needs to be done, will be done, and i will face the consequence, when the time comes", and kept on doing what you were doing. Or may be better still, if you were smart enough, you just interpreted the stories the right way, to suite you. Or may be went into the market place, and bought yourself a nicer book. With better and more accommodating stories.
Because that's what they are. Isn't it. Story book for adults. A book of morals and ethics and codes to be followed with an "If Then Else" statement.Some books for beginners, so everything laid out in plain view, with bullet points, closed interpretation. Some for a little advanced users, molded into stories, or written in a forgotten language, open to interpretation.A little flexible. Now we won't want to scare them Intellectuals away. Will we?
But in sum total, a book of cause and effect. Actions and consequences. Punishment and rewards. And i sit up. Wasn't that science? No sir, It wasn't.The books said "Every Action with have a Reaction"...Science came out with "Every Action Will Have an equal and Opposite Reaction".
So you mean to say that science said the exact opposite?
Sir, You are not paying attention. Science was a half truth. The books said, the action can be Pro or Anti . Science just took one half. And then Science went ahead and made it into a philosophy, against the book.
It was almost as it said."The book! Whatever you do, will have an equal and opposite reaction, from Us"
Have you read research papers. Them. The famous Ones. That changed History and stuff?
You know why they became famous? because they challenged the existing norms. Now we do like a good fight, don't we. A good fight in the ring. Be it Physical or Metaphysical. Oh, How we support the underdog. If the underdog is all small, help less and innocent?
And that is how all the research papers start. The good ones.By Proving that how the research paper in Vogue, isn't complete, how there was more scope for research, how So many questions were unanswered and how the new model will work.
Now this wasn't science. It was the book, that taught science, how to research, and stand up on its legs. It was the book that gave science the noble cause of "the Ultimate truth"
So First came the initial research paper. It blasted the Old book.
"An eye for an eye"? what are we talking about. that's crap. Listen to the new version "Turn the other cheek".This became a rage. As well as we had a Martyr. Now that's difficult to beat.
So science came up with "earth around sun" and Galileo and Bruno. score 1-1.
We have a foot hold laddie. We will have this religion, but we won't call it religion. we will have its priests and books. but we won't call them priests. That way, it won't be so difficult to establish and really difficult to shoot down.
But what would we do? we will have this religion, that will say, we will have no religion. And try to bring the entire universe and the understanding to things that can be seen. And we will say, that it doesn't have a place for God, Ghosts, Goblins, El Dorados and other things, as they cannot be seen. We will just Classify them under Mythology, and Shelve them from the Non-Fiction side, to the Fiction-Side of our Bookstore.
And yeah. We won't have one book. That would be too easy to shoot down. So we will have Distributed Nodes. Just like the Internet. So if One book falls from grace, we will not go down. And we will replace it with a better version.
So if we have a book called philosophy, which starts coming under heavy fire, and we start losing priests. We will break the book down in volumes, and distribute it. We will start calling it Mathematics and Science. Survival will be the key. The enemy Forces are too Great. So we will fight Guerrilla for some time. And when the forces have weakened, then we will take over the throne, ad start behaving like they used to do.
So we will then First of all, control, what was their Downfall. Research. Yes sir. We don't want any one else coming up with something that proves us wrong, and, if there is something that can pierce our Armour, then we should be the first ones to know.
So we will Make Hadron Colliders, Space probes, and other things that will be an extension of our senses and make the research classified, or only share it with other high priests.Don't look so surprised. Haven't yous seen Vatican?
But what will be our Manifest?
You really don't seem to get it. Do you? our manifest is power. You know since ancient times, the power was in arms and legs. So the biggest fighter was the Chief. Because he was the one who could defeat any one in the village. Then as we grew and started getting organized into bigger groups, our power shifter to people who could scare the bigger groups. That's when the books came in to play. The Power came into the hands of People with the book.
But you know because there was a book, too many people learned to know how to read and write. Big mistake by the priests. The first Scientific Thought. The priests thought, that if the people could SEE for Themselves, they will be more submissive. But what happened was that more and more people started to use the fact to give their Ideas a Longer Life.
So now people didn't just die and take their Ideas with them. Just like Prometheus stole the fire from the gods. Science stole the fire from the Book. The gift of Immortality through writing.
So now, the power came to people who could live for ever. Not the fighters, or the Priest. The fighter would take his power when he dies. The priests uses the power of the book, which is immortal. But the real immortal is the thinker. The one who can think of Ideas. And find a way to sell them, and make them survive. They were our forefathers who brought down the book to ruins.And assumed power.
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