Scepti, it's one thing to have a hypothesis and develop that into a theory based on little to no evidence. In fact, you could argue that's what string theory does. The big difference is that your ideas aren't even internally consistent. When two parts of your theory contradict each other, that's generally considered a problem. If you want to rant about me being "indoctrinated" now for a while be my guest. Being indoctrinated with basic logic is something I can live with.
First of all, we are all indoctrinated in some form. It's hard to completely wipe it all from our minds. It's a constant fight. It's the reason why I don't hold it against genuine people who believe in the rotating globe model.
I've also stated time and time again that my model is not complete by a long shot and requires a lot of addition and fine tuning.
I do this by firstly eliminating the stuff that I consider to be lies or pseudo science - the very science that people stick rigidly to yet don't actually know why or how it really works. I'm referring to the stuff like string theory and all the other stuff I've mentioned.
I do not have any problem with general science as a whole and in-fact I am impressed with mans ability to harness the elements and produce wonders for which we all benefit in terms of comfort and technological advancement.
If I could sit down in front of you and ask you how you know about the stuff I argue against, your only answer is indoctrination by verbal or text or the vision of pictures made available to you, whether still or moving.
Basically you are doing exactly what I am doing and yet you are claiming credit for knowing something that is handed to you on a plate and believe that it puts you on a higher pedestal when up against my thoughts.
This is by no means a dig at you or any other genuine person. It's an observation in life that I see every day, which goes for you and everyone else on the whole.
Most arguments aimed back at me are simply to negate what I try to simplistically put forward, because the science world has taught people to use the complicated way to explain things. Because of this, it's widely accepted to be truth whilst anyone else who has ideas and alternates, are immediately cast off as nuts. I understand that, because it's easier to sell a lie to the masses by saturation than it is for the few to sell them the potential truth or alternate thought to that lie. The lie becomes their truth.
The more complicated the lie, the easier it is for the intelligent to accept, because intelligent people do not want to appear to be the ones not to understand the lie, so they learn the lie and regurgiate that lie. They do this because their brain is trained on that lie, to the point of never accepting any rational explanation for the complicated lies they swallowed unconditionally.
I once went to a show where a hypnotist gathered 10 people from the audience. I was one who volunteered because I was curious to see if I could be made to do stuff against my will and be controlled.
The hypnotist walked along the line of us saying things. Up and down the line he went, sort of saying this and that, which I can't recall the words. He then asked us all to close our eyes and concentrate.
I followed all of what he said, like everyone else.
He walked back along and touched me and told me to go back to my seat, as well as another 3 others. I took that to mean I was too headstrong or whatever, like the others that sat down.
Anyway, the other 6 were made to do all kinds of silly things. Not all on the stage, only some. The rest were told to go and sit back down - but unbeknown to us, he had planted the seed into their heads that they were school kids.
I only found out this when I got talking to one man in the interval who was mentioning being late for school and he can't find his satchel. I thought he was taking the piss but clearly he wasn't, as the others were all displaying the same traits.
The ones on the stage were made to act like babies or do silly things. It was funny and odd at the same time.
What I'm getting at here is... that may have been a hypnotic show but the very same stuff that people buy into can also become hypnotic in terms of a belief system. People can literally be made to believe anything. It's all about the genius of manipulation, whether that's by tutored indoctrination or by study of it with the books, TV, etc.
I was guilty of believing almost everything, especially told by people who I admired and trusted or respected. I spent a lot of years believing everything about space and gravity, etc, etc, etc. I never understood it enough to even bother to argue it. It just was and that was that.
It was like being told as a kid that Ling Jang was a mad man and would chase you with a big knife if you dared walk down the alley past his home. You would dare each other to do so, crapping yourself when it was your turn, all because your mind was filled with re-enactments of him catching and chopping up someone, even to the point of dreaming about it and waking up in a sweat.
Later on in years, you mention it to people and they say, "who?... Ling Jang?...he's harmless. He looks after his mother - and kids used to tease him until he caught one and gave him a good telling off. The problem was, he had a scary look - and the fuel for the fire was fed, so he became a mad man that all kids knew. Even older people that didn't know him personally believed he was nuts...yet he was normal.
That doesn't equate to actualy science does it? It depends on how you view it, because it does equate to brainwashing the mind by setting a tone by one or a few people that gain the minds of the masses over time. Just like a lot of scientific stories that are told as truths and yet cannot be physically verified. Like what we are told space is.