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Tonight, I have a sore leg. Not pain, but and strained twingey. Earlier this week, the same pain was in my foot. And so, this odd thought struck, "the bloody thing is crawling up my leg."
Now, I have a nice, rational, explanation. Driving has been exceptional ugly this week and tonight was the worst. Legs sore from driving stress, no biggie. But another reason caught my fancy, and expanded in my mind, a fully formed idea.
All illness can be seen as the manifestation of incorporeal evil spirits. Every symptom, every experienced, is the result of their nefarious influence. Sure, modern medicine doesn't see it that way. They'll tell you its a bug, or an infection, or maybe some kind of histamine. In some cases they'll even find microscopic critters and blame them, but it's not true.
The critters are merely a corporeal manifestation common with certain kinds of spirits. They're not the cause, just another symptom. No surprising science sees a causal relationship between presence of these tiny avatars of spirit and the disease, they can't detect the spirit itself, only it's effects.
Knowing about the spirits makes it easier to fight disease. They can be visualized and thus controlled and banished. Understanding their essential natures explains why some treatments work and others don't, etc...
No, I haven't lost it. Sure, it sounds like insane rantings to the modern mind, but what if we'd grown up hearing it? After all, claiming there were invisible radio waves all around us sounded just as insane until Tesla built his machine (Marconi was a fraud, look it up).
If you believe in my evil spirits, they can explain everything. They are behind all physical manifestation. All steps taken to heal ultimately revolve around appeasing or banishing invisible intelligences, up to no good.
I don't believe in said spirits, but I like the idea of them. If nothing else, they highlight the arbitrary nature of belief. All that we believe ultimately comes down to the unprovable. Even that belief behemoth, science, is a system that only functions purely in material world. If you can't "prove" it according to the rules of science, it ain't science.
Hmm, still looks like a loopy kind of post... The Flying Spaghetti Monster made me do it.
Now, I have a nice, rational, explanation. Driving has been exceptional ugly this week and tonight was the worst. Legs sore from driving stress, no biggie. But another reason caught my fancy, and expanded in my mind, a fully formed idea.
All illness can be seen as the manifestation of incorporeal evil spirits. Every symptom, every experienced, is the result of their nefarious influence. Sure, modern medicine doesn't see it that way. They'll tell you its a bug, or an infection, or maybe some kind of histamine. In some cases they'll even find microscopic critters and blame them, but it's not true.
The critters are merely a corporeal manifestation common with certain kinds of spirits. They're not the cause, just another symptom. No surprising science sees a causal relationship between presence of these tiny avatars of spirit and the disease, they can't detect the spirit itself, only it's effects.
Knowing about the spirits makes it easier to fight disease. They can be visualized and thus controlled and banished. Understanding their essential natures explains why some treatments work and others don't, etc...
No, I haven't lost it. Sure, it sounds like insane rantings to the modern mind, but what if we'd grown up hearing it? After all, claiming there were invisible radio waves all around us sounded just as insane until Tesla built his machine (Marconi was a fraud, look it up).
If you believe in my evil spirits, they can explain everything. They are behind all physical manifestation. All steps taken to heal ultimately revolve around appeasing or banishing invisible intelligences, up to no good.
I don't believe in said spirits, but I like the idea of them. If nothing else, they highlight the arbitrary nature of belief. All that we believe ultimately comes down to the unprovable. Even that belief behemoth, science, is a system that only functions purely in material world. If you can't "prove" it according to the rules of science, it ain't science.
Hmm, still looks like a loopy kind of post... The Flying Spaghetti Monster made me do it.