Alternative Dogma

Most religions have dogmatic teachings and sometimes the normal choices get a bit boring, so I have made up a couple of dogmatic beliefs to add some variety to the choices people have.


Dogma #1 -- Nonlinear Reincarnation

Reincarnation is a widely popular belief, but one of the common complaints is that everyone seems to think they were some famous person in a past life. How could there be 20 people who were all Cleopatra in a previous life? Simple! when you die your soul is reincarnated, but not neccesarily in the present or future, sometimes you get reincarnated in the past. In fact, there is actually only one soul and it is cycling through time bouncing back and forth in history. So that everyone you meet is actually has the same soul as you but in an earlier or later reincarnation. Therefore it is very important to be nice to everyone because you're only helping yourself in another incarnation. (if you want you can include animals in this dogma and go to war with those who dont include them)

Dogma #2 -- Universal Afterlife

Ever notice that in order to get into heaven you need to be a conformist and lead a dull uninteresting life? Well, thats because heaven is dull and unintersting and so if you like that sort of thing, its really great, especially since no is there to disrupt all the conformity. On the other hand, all the "bad" people who break the rules and live their own way end up in hell where they're forced to conform and act just like everyone else and no matter how they try they find themselves forced to follow the rigid structure of the afterlife. And so when you die everyone goes to the same place and its only heaven or hell depending on how much you like it there. (followers of Dogma #2 are sworn to kill all the believers in Dogma #1, get cracking!)


Anyway... does anyone else do this kind of thing? Post your favorite made-up dogma and share.

I thought #1 when I was a little kid and hadn't even done any drugs, so I wonder what I can come up with now?

The universe is actually one big superstring monster held in the void by a pile of stardust. The superstring monster looks in upon its bellybutton, hoping to uncover the secret of its own birth. The superstring monster created life out of non-life, i.e. stardust, in order to help look for any superstring umbilical nibs that are left. All life are robots to the superstring monster. When the robots began to create and worship false robot idols, thus distracting them from their task of finding superstring umbilical nibs, the superstring monster sent his herald to earth in the guise of living spaghetti (representing the living superstring monster) to ascertain which robots were loyal and which robots must be disassembled for the good of the universe. The loyal robots recognize the clarion noodle call and now plot the destruction of the misfunctioning robots.

Use your noodle! Destroy all bad robots!

I too shared the childhood epiphany of zuzu's examples. Well, early teens anyway.

Here's one. Not realy a 'religious' or 'spiritual' dogma, but I feel we need to cater for the atheists as well

The single particle theory. (or the 'smoke and mirrors effect')

There is only one primordial 'particle', which exists in the first dimension (zero, for want of a better label) and all the matter and energy we perceive is merely the projection of that one particle into higher dimensions.

Since the first dimension has no width, height, depth, or time, it exists everywhere at once by its very nature. Thus the multidimensional projection of this one particle (which is actually only a vibration, but thats another story) gives the illusion of the universe we perceive, because it is projected into all positions at all energy levels at every moment.

However, due to time being 'crinkly' and space being 'clumpy', this projection appears to be in finite positions at finite times, hence the universe doesnt appear to be a solid block of particles. (Time, of course, being a natural by-product of multiple dimensions, rather than a dimension unto itself).
Read up on the effect of 'undulating multi-dimensional membranes' and their effect on matter distribution in our perceived universe. I'll try to find the URL sometime.

Thus the universe can be conceived as being 'constructed' from 'layers':

Zero D - a vibration at a single point, with no width / height / depth / time. Yet vibrating due to the phenomenon of 'projecting' into realms with 'time'. Refered to as a particle to make it easier to think about.

1D - a single vibrating 'line' occupying the entirety of the dimension - the original superstring.

2D - a flat plane of width and depth, composed of the combined effect of infinite superstrings being projected non-uniformly into width and depth over time, and thus taking on a 'particle/wave' appearance, in discrete positions and energy levels when observed.

3D - our 'perceived' universe of choice - essentially the three dimensional version of 2D, but with vastly more non-uniformity, resulting in a greater magnitude of non-uniform granularity and distribution of the particles / waves and their positions and energy states when observed.

4D, 5D, 6D, etc. - I'm really not in a position to theorise about these here


Well, that was fun to write. Perhaps I think too much. I'll get my coat!

My Karma ran over your Dogma.

Good stuff!

-Ghoti

Hmm, Eddie, didn't you study linear algebra. It sounds like you had to come up with that huge theory all by yourself when this kind of thing has been known for ages
A "space" is generated by a "base". A "base" is a set of vectors, and a vector is simply a set of something, usually numbers but not necessarily.
The 3D space we are used to dealing with is called R3, R because its vectors are made up of "real" numbers, 3 because it has 3 vectors, in its base... three "dimensions".
The base of R3 is {(1,0,0),(0,1,0),(0,0,1)} - these represent the X, Y and Z axes, meaning that an object in 3D space can move in those directions or a combination thereof... ah, hell I won't bore you.