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Post by cynsanity on Oct 11, 2007 20:25:51 GMT -5
I don't know how many of you have been confronted with this, but it's really starting to bother me. So:
How, in the name of the Gods, do you make people understand that Sitchin and/or the Simon Necronomicon are NOT "the one and only truth" in regards to the culture, religion, society and life of Sumer and Mesopotamia in general.
I've tried. I've tried giving them evidence, tried it with pictures, with texts, translations, logic... Nothing works. They all come back to the argument that I just don't know, because I'm too narrow minded to understand the deep significance of those loons.
Is it that they are just so totally unwilling to accept any sort of scientific thought, or am I doing something wrong?
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Post by us4-he2-gal2 on Oct 13, 2007 11:13:24 GMT -5
I think those people are into pseudo-science for the feeling they are one of the few people who truly know and understand the 'secrets' of human existence and history. They've come to understand themselves as possessing some profound knowledge and have added that to their own self-image.
No one is going to drop an ideology without something more solid to add. I think the only path to take here is to demonstrate there are profound things in these studies, and importantly that they are approachable. Its up to a persons own drive to take it from there. You cant combat someone whose been idolized - but you can tell a person that they can be and can do better. That's when they'll listen.
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Post by david on Oct 20, 2007 13:13:09 GMT -5
Some people just don't want to listen, either 'cause it will destroy the reality they've built up or 'cause they truly believe it with all their heart (the latter group is the one I kind of really feel sorry for, as they've been conned by Sitchin).
Personally, I think the ones who constantly talk about how the Necronomicon is the "truth" about Sumer, and is really how the Sumerians thought are missing the whole point of the Necronomicon, 'cause, for one, Lovecraft intended his stories to scare you, and he was very much an atheist, and as one person said, would be spinning in his grave to think of all the people saying he was a "prophet" and worshipping his pantheon, and for another reason, the Necronomicon, IMO, has a lot of very cool magical potential, and shouldn't be wasted tieing to pseudo-history, it's fiction, but that doesn't mean the spells can't be made to work, and that doesn't mean the beings aren't real in some sense anyway (hope that made some sense and didn't get too OT).
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