Conspiracies
And Those who Believe Them
by
© 2012 Brian Forbes

 

There are a couple types of people who look at my work.  There are those who believe in evolution and want to mock it.  They want to show their friends and laugh behind my back.  By degrading me and my ideas, they aim to elevate themselves and their ideas.  There is another type of person who sees what I write about, and they latch onto it without even looking into it, sometimes because they want to believe the Bible, and sometimes they just believe everything they read.  There's a particular kind of person, though, that I have been thinking about lately.  This kind of person doesn't like to accept the things that are commonly held by most people.  They wear clothes, which is normal, but they're not normal clothes.  It almost seems like they get their opinion from taking the most popular ideas and skewing them just enough to be weird.  They don't necessarily believe my thesis because it is backed by compelling evidence, but they believe it because it's unique; it's a little out of the mainstream.

Now, these kinds of people may or may not be wrong.  Truth isn't decided by what is popular.  I would even say that, in some ways, they're more likely to be right, because they have to know their topic better than those in the mainstream.  At the same time, the mainstream is what it is because it's generally in line with the evidence.  As I said before, we do wear clothes.  What is most admirable about these sorts of people, though, is that they're willing to listen to out of the ordinary evidence.  They don't shun these out of place perspectives right away, but they think about them.  They gather more evidence to help them come to a better understanding about what we actually know, and what we assume to be true because it's part of the mainstream.  No matter where we stand on any issue, people generally try to convert others to their perspectives, and to avoid being out of the mainstream, people will generally fall in line.  It seems this subset does not.

I have to confess that I did not start out this journey as a member of this subset of people.  I do not like to be outside of the mainstream.  I don't particularly like trying to convince people that they're wrong about things.  My ideas used to be mainstream.  Alas, most people who look at my site will statistically read my introductory sentence and close the page.  I praise God for those who are willing to entertain these truths from our ancient past.  I may not have been as open as they seem to be.

An example of something that touches my topic is that of the nephilim.  At first glance, and as a member of the greater mainstream, this idea seems like the figment of some overexcited imaginations.  The thought of angels, or aliens, or whatever you want to call those extra-dimensional beings making children with women and producing giants seems ridiculous.  I've never seen it happen, they've never recorded it happening, and therefore, I just can't imagine it happening.  But then, there are some pretty compelling examples of giant bones written about in antiquity.  I relate the story from Lynche in my book about such a giant.  There are some fossils that are pretty hard to explain.  I have come to decide that this isn't impossible, and so I have kept my eyes open for evidence of giants in these accounts of history.  I am, however, not decided on the topic.

The fact is, we find what we're looking for.  We need to have evidence to support our speculations, and we'll search, not for the things we don't question, but those we do.  Once convinced, we'll search for answers for our accusers.  This method is normal, and everyone does it, whether they think they do or not.  It's built into the scientific method.  I will spend my time defending my thesis, and I will spend little to no time looking for a new one.  I think I'm right.  I do not recommend another course. For more of my thoughts on this, see my paper on Position Positioning. I wager that there are, among those who are looking for information on nephilim, people who know the answer and wish to defend it, and those who are in their seeking stage, who, like children are just looking without prejudice.

No matter who you are in this, I wish you well in your search.  When your eye is trained on blue, you will find blue.  If your eye is trained on curves, you'll find curves.  You will not find what you are not looking for.  On the contrary.  You will find what you seek.  I wasn't looking for nephilim when I was working through my sources, so I can't conclude one way or the other on that, but I can think of several interesting ideas that might lend to your conclusion, one way or the other.  The sources for my thesis (that we descend from one man, thus evolution is false) will certainly give you evidence as well.  There's no better place to find giants and evil than in the ancient pagan sources of Greece, Egypt, and Rome.

For everyone else, you who aren't looking to either confirm or condemn me, I welcome you to look.  Maybe some of what you read will help you to formulate the questions you will confirm the answers to in your future.  Take heart that no matter who you are and what you're looking to confirm, others are doing the exact same thing.  (Example: click - It quacks like a duck, so it's the ancestor of a duck.)  Choose your camp wisely.  You will defend the army of your comrades.

We all take refuge in the camps we feel comfortable in.  Nobody likes to be attacked.  So take refuge in the camp of the Peacemakers, and you will be blessed.  Jesus may be falling out of favor across the world, and it may be easier to just align with the mainstream, but I advise that you join me in becoming more like those who believe in conspiracies.  Don't believe them because they're weird or unpopular.  Conspiracies can be wrong. The mainstream can also be wrong. The point, here, is that you need to be willing to look.

 

 

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