From: Max M (maxmcorp@worldonline.dk)
Date: Tue Jun 19 2001 - 14:04:26 MDT
> From: Anders Sandberg
> If you have a badly thought out system propaganda will not help you
> beyond a certain point, since people will easily poke holes in it. But
> if you have strong arguments (even if they are eventually wrong) the
> propaganda is amplified, and you might actually get on with less
> propaganda than you otherwise might have needed.
I think that Christianity is the prime example of this. Anything that can be
tested has been removed from the religion so it isn't falsifiable any
longer.
That has taken som centuries though. Remember the flat earth? The sun and
planets moving around the earth? The which burnings? etc.
What's left is truisms, as they obviously work (in general) when applied to
society. I think of the ten commandments, "love thy neighbourg" and the rest
of the christian ethics system.
In reality Christianity is nothing more than aplied Games Theory. The church
has had many more ideas, but they have all been removed as they where
falsified.
So they have a pretty strong philosophy, but on pretty loose ground.
Wouldn't it be nice if had a strong Philosophy built on a strong foundation?
regards Max M Rasmussen
Max M. W. Rasmussen, Denmark. New Media Director
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