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Yes, please participate, its great fun.

Oh... I getcha, I had to hop over there and check it out. You have to wait until an_dochasach publishes and then you can re-post under that chapter.

I have an idea for a ten parter. How about we come up with our own religion, not to follow, but just to show how writing something like that can be done.
If L Ron Hubbard could do it, there must not be much to it.
Just an idea, I think it would be a great social commentary.

Scientology is not a religion, its a cult.

Email me at melissa@storymash.com and we'll talk. I'm not sure I'm that interested in social commentary of the religious sort. But I'll certainly discuss it with you...

Interesting . I might be of help . Perhaps these links will give you an idea or two .

http://www.crowdedskies.com/dulce_papers.htm#

http://www.evpreversespeaking.com/2008/09/21/coming-up-reversing-blossom-goodchild-and-the-oct-14-ufo-sighting/

http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/iron_mountain.htm

http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/the_lacerta_files.htm

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/vida_alien/esp_vida_alien_20a.htm

http://www.thewatcherfiles.com/bluebeam.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2610795.stm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_and_Bones

These ought to give you an idea or two about creating various ... movements .

Cheers .

And these too

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leylines

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypogeum_of_Hal-Saflieni

http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/n-s/nazimyths.html

Cheers .

Not that it is social commentary, but the fact the people get so caught up in danger of words. The three main religions christianity muslim and jewish, all basically follow the same story lines. I am not interested in the religion part as I am with the people who wrote the religions. There is a lot of poetry in them, from there books on the genisis of life (philosophy) to the struggle of man or woman, to the final books (revelations, or prophetic visions of the future gone wrong, from not following the guidlines in the books). It is as if all religions can see and end, maybe their own failings are omnipotent and unstopable.
So it is the peotry and story part I am interested in. Since we are not really trying to make a religion or "cult," it becomes a parody (social commentary).

Thanks Unknown for the suggestions, i thought you might like this idea. I will check those out and get to work on a good genisis story, and like all good genisis stories, this religion will rise from the ashes of something that came before similar to the great flood, that is in all the religions of old.

Isn't it fascinating that all these religions have things in common, for what you shouldn't do, to what you should. I always found it peculiar that each religion says the same thing, or in the case of satanists or other of similiar yilk, say the complete opposite. So is is possible to tap into the format so to say, or the "code?"

I would not dismiss religion . It contains a profound wisdom if one looks beyond the veil . Besides, mind you, we are dealing with translated texts . It makes a BIG difference . If I teach myself - by some miracle - Sumerian, then I will mold my own perspective. If in Sumerian TI really means both ''rib'' and ''life'' then I would suggest creation out of ''life'' not out of ''rib'' . Being at the mercy of medieval scholars is not always useful. Hell knows what agenda they might have had. If you really wanted some BIG answers, there is a huge library in the Vatican . It is very well-protected, and it contains a LOT of information. Or take Fatima . I am not sure if you are aware of Fatima that much in North America, but it was a rather...strange event .
Look it up.

And this

The New Testament claims that xenoglossy took place at Pentecost. The Book of Acts (2:1-13) describes Galileans speaking in non-native languages drawn from all over the Roman Empire, so that visitors to Jerusalem could understand them declaring "the mighty works of God". The visitors included Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia, Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, Cyrenian Libya, and Rome. The author of the Book of Acts calls this phenomenon "speaking in tongues"

Cheers.

Well Unknown, I think you just came up with the diety of this story, "Life itself." Not a person or godfigure, but the spark.
Maybe the story could begin, "And in the beginning came the spark, and from the spark sprang forth life." or something like that.

Even with all the books changed in the bible and over time and lost in translation, one thing comes out even through the changes, that the human race, with all their choices, is faliable, and needs to be controlled. Or it could slip into darkness, from greed and all the other fun stuff that leads us astray. You could even say that religion is the reason for civilizations lasting as long as they do. Imagine if everybody stole from each other or killed each other, or took each others wives or husbands, and whatever other commandments I forgot to mention. The world would be goofy, oh, it is turning goofy now, oh shi.t we are in trouble.

By the way i looked at the site forbidden- knowledge.com, I liked the read.

Well. You might find another angle interesting. Much more so than religion .

http://cuttingedge.org/news/n1753.cfm

I think this is the most intriguing idea! Have you guys started it yet and if so - where can I read it? So many religions parrallel eachother even though they evolved outside eachother's sphere of influence- maybe it's like that theory about the hundredth monkey- Jung wasn't it?
Chloe

The creator of this religion could be a pink elephant or what ever we want it to be. A magical tree frog or something.

DH, with all due respect. You thought before I was ''fighting with you . '' I was not, believe me as you are just a soul seeking answers, i.e. a harmless someone . Fighting - you really would not want that . Anyhow . Religion is not the point here . I believe you can expand your intellectual horizons to find the ocean in front of you . I know you can do it . Otherwise, you know, religion is so cliche, oh my Devil .

Cheers .

hon
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