Belief

[jarandhel]

If you accept the premise that concentrated belief can create physical manifestations (ie: the concept that man begat the gods by believing in them) does that mean that things like Area 51, the Illuminati, the Hollow Earth, and the pregnant vampire elvis clone from the tabloids just might be real too?

I wonder...

(I should probably note that I'm in the midst of reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman at the moment, or else people will think I'm totally nuts.)

Comments

[zaecus.livejournal.com]

I'm not discounting something's ability to create itslef simply by existing (just to be confusing), but yes.

I also think it can make very little difference if you ever prove these things are real. If they're having an impact on your existence, they're real. Even thinking about whether or not they're real can count, so I guess that pregnant vampire elvis clone from the tabloids exist for you, in this regard. ;-)

[jarandhel.livejournal.com]

*chuckles* I think I understand... you mean that things don't always have to be created by something that already exists, sometimes they just come into existance on their own? I agree.

And I really wasn't thinking about trying to prove them real or unreal... pointless exercise in the end, really, since that depends entirely on what scale you want to measure them by and most of the scales that can be used are less real than the things they purport to measure.