Just for fun I will disclose a teaching from a very respected founder of American Paganism that was given to me.
"If you speak just abstractly and lofty enough that people can only understand about 20% of what you say, they will follow you and worship you as a higher being, even if it is gibberish. The universities do it every day." What do you think?
2007-04-21 15:42:06 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Avatard. This is a Quote from Joseph Bearwalker Wilson. The people who gave you that definition of Paganism were brest feeding when he publised the Waxing Moon in the 70's
2007-04-21 15:54:24 · update #1
I think you kinda look like the colonel (sanders!).
Now according to the central law of primordeal thermodynamics, the adjacent hypotheneus is connected to the hypothalamus and exactley portent to the angle of the dangle.
I've got a Brain!
Ditto........................(do not send money--repeat-do not send)
2007-04-21 15:50:43 · answer #1 · answered by maguyver727 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think you are on to something. Kinda like the educated fool philosophy of teaching.
I do this all the time in meetings where I dont really know what the hell I am talking about but dont want anyone to know. It does work pretty well as it got me a promotion last year!
2007-04-21 22:47:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
In other words 'You can't fool all the people all of the time, but if you fool the right ones, then the rest will fall behind?'.
Yes, this is true. You see, a PERSON is smart because he/she feels that he/she has no one else to please or be fraternized with when responding. But PEOPLE... forget about it. They're all so concerned about making their responses fit in with the general thesis that--
Oh my, am I doing what you were just making a point about?
Lol... Good question, I enjoyed answering...
Knowledge is power; power is freedom; freedom is peace...
May peace be upon you...
2007-04-21 22:47:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is because people are too lazy to research facts for themselves and too afraid to break away from the group.
This is why the gate to God is very small indeed.
As for my college and school exp. the teachers spit the knowledge, we memorize it and spit it back out. Noone learns anything new just stuff already blabbered. Whose to say what is or is not fact. ?
Jesus challenged Pilate with the ultimate question "what is truth?"
2007-04-21 22:47:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think he's right about the Universities of his time, and now. Most professors are owned outright by corporations, and can't give but about 20% of the truth.
2007-04-22 08:09:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
And how High was he in Paganism!? Very Lofty!?
2007-04-21 23:07:05 · answer #6 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that it is true. And similarly,this statement is also true, Adolf Hitler's propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels is often cited to have proclaimed that if a lie is repeated often enough, people will believe it.
2007-04-21 22:49:09 · answer #7 · answered by bonsai bobby 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes makes sense.
I learnt a similar saying while working in the field of engineering: "If you can't impress with intellect, baffle with bullsh*t."
2007-04-21 22:55:20 · answer #8 · answered by Frank 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Um... evidence and logic support what is taught at any reputable university or college. This quote, to me, sounds like a very good description of Christian lore.
2007-04-21 22:47:30 · answer #9 · answered by I WALK FUNNY 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Ha ha ha! It's true! Thanks. I wanted to start my own religion like L. Ron Hubbard did and make lots of money$$$! Now I know how.
2007-04-21 22:45:51 · answer #10 · answered by The Lamb of Vista 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋