Chapter 214 What are we talking about when we talk about cults (1)
Alice handed the booklet to Sun Suhe, "This is the secret scripture that Xiao Chengzi secretly stole from her mother and gave it to me. I read it carefully and found that the method is really clever."
"So powerful? Let me see."
Sun Suhe took the booklet and felt it was a bit heavy to hold. He flipped it through casually. The paper was crisp and felt very good. Apart from anything else, the raw material alone was a high-end product that had been invested in.
Looking at its binding design, it adopts a simple and solemn style, with almost no superfluous decoration, but a lot of effort has been put into various details, making it very exquisite and elegant. Even if you don’t read the content, just holding it in your hand will make you happy.
There is a solemn and solemn atmosphere.
The cults in Sun Suhe's impression always looked like they were in a hurry, waving a few pages of shoddy propaganda paper with their teeth and claws, trying their best to tell people that they believe in me, believe in me, believe in me. But this Kidar Mountain Retreat, just from this book
Judging from the brochure, he seems to have a somewhat calm and atmospheric demeanor.
After turning the first page, Sun Suhe glanced at it casually and asked, "Is this content, this choice of words and sentences disguised as Christianity?"
Alice nodded slightly, "Yes, the basic teachings are based on Christianity, supplemented by Buddhist meditation, Indian yoga posture guidance, and some cutting-edge scientific theories that seem to be incomprehensible, such as quantum
Mechanics, such as string theory.”
"Quantum mechanics? Haha." Sun Suhe couldn't help laughing. He knew that the favorite thing for many pretenders to talk about was quantum mechanics, because it sounded very cutting-edge and deceiving, and even if he said something wrong, he didn't have to worry about being discovered, because most of them
People can't understand it at all.
Often this kind of people also like to say, "The scientist worked hard for a long time and finally climbed to the top of the mountain, only to find that the philosopher was already waiting for him there." The "philosopher" here is often replaced by God, leader, Buddha, etc.
noun.
In fact, people who like to say this kind of thing often don’t understand either philosophy or science.
"Don't laugh, look back." Alice said.
Sun Suhe turned directly from the back, picked a page at random, and let out a light sigh.
Alice said: "Do you think it is the type that doesn't even understand the simplest force analysis, and just makes up nonsense after reading a few professional terms from somewhere? No, not like that
Simple."
"Pay attention to his writing style. This part is obviously written by someone with professional academic training. Although I don't understand quantum mechanics, I can see that the argumentation process in the theoretical part is very rigorous, regardless of whether the content is right or wrong.
, at least logically it does it perfectly
Self-consistent. This is very confusing for non-professionals. Even people with higher education may be more easily deceived by it if they are not relevant professionals." Alice highlighted several of the words, Sun Suhe
If you look closely, it is indeed the case.
"It's true that cults also come to engage in science. I really don't know what to say. I feel like I want to laugh but I can't."
Alice took out paper and pen and explained to Sun Suhe while writing and drawing: "It's not just that, the construction of his entire doctrine theory can be said to be very clever. First of all, it is based on Christianity, an old brand that has great influence all over the world.
based on the teachings of traditional religions and directly abandoned
It removes the relatively controversial content and only extracts the teachings about kindness, love, peace, etc. that are most in line with mainstream expectations and universal values. This can greatly dispel the wariness of those being preached, even if you don’t believe it.
, and you won’t be disgusted with it.”
"Then there is the retreat, which is named after the Kedarshan Retreat. Of course, this so-called "retreat" is another core part of its teachings."
Alice wrote the word "quiet meditation" in big letters on the paper, and then drew two branches: "meditation" and "posture". She said: "Based on what Xiao Chengzi told me about what he saw and heard, and this booklet
From the contents, I guess that this so-called retreat is a fusion of some Buddhist meditation methods and the posture guidance of Indian yoga. I think
I suspect that some hallucinogenic drugs may also be used during the retreat. Compared with the mysterious and mysterious theories, such retreats can get direct and intuitive feedback on the body. Most ordinary people are eager for quick success and instant benefits. Compared with those who have thoughts and ideas,
For a traditional religion that had not been known to be effective for several years, the attraction and persuasiveness of meditation are many times greater."
"Then there is another key, which is to use extremely professional pseudoscience to endorse its teachings." Alice wrote the word "science" on the paper, and then asked: "What do you think the meaning of science is?"
"Ask me?"
"Um."
Sun Suhe considered it carefully and said: "Science never considers the ultimate meaning. This seems to be what Nietzsche said. Science does not provide meaning. Science describes phenomena and explains principles. For example, Einstein's mass-energy equation e=mc?
, we can use it to build atomic bombs, but it will not tell us any principles of life, nor will it tell me what the meaning of life is. Science does not provide meaning, or it does not consider meaning at all. Meaning should be the category of philosophy or religion.
"
"You are right, this is the crux of the problem." Alice wrote the word "meaning" next to the word "science".
"In this era, most people are born with education that science is the truth and what is scientific is correct. Science has almost become a new religion. When the gods of traditional religions lost their majesty in the face of science, science became a new religion.
God. But science has the status of God, but it cannot tell human beings the meaning of everything like God. This limitation is not a limitation of science, but a limitation of human beings. Science may not need meaning, but human beings do need meaning.
"
Alice couldn't help but laugh as she spoke, "Science tells us that the full, waxing and waning of the moon are the changes in the position of the earth and the moon. After we learn this knowledge, we will still be eager to get some enlightenment, some truth, and some meaning from it. The full, waxing and waning of the moon, the changes in the human world.
Impermanence, the waxing and waning of the moon, and its waxing and waning. Science does not provide these, but human beings need these. Especially when we are confused, we need someone to provide us with a meaning to guide our lives."
"This Kiddar Mountain retreat uses religion to provide meaning to mankind, uses carefully designed pseudoscience to steal the powerful influence of science to endorse the teachings, and then uses intuitive retreats to provide positive feedback, turning the mysterious and mysterious teachings into
Intuitive and visible. When these are organically combined with clever means..."
Alice circled the noun written on the paper with a circle, then clapped her hands, "Pop, a powerful brainwashing model was born."
Sun Suhe looked at the piece of paper quietly for a long time and said in deep thought: "But if that's all it is, then this Kidar Mountain retreat is not that evil. Because its basic teachings are quite mild, and they are all
Content that leads people to be good. If you are meditating, using hallucinogenic drugs is just your guess.
Testing, as long as no hallucinogenic drugs that harm the human body are used, it is similar to square dancing and aerobics. Of course, I cannot agree with using pseudoscience to deceive people. But even so, to be honest, based on this standard
Look, some serious religions are even more evil than this."
Alice smiled slightly, "You are right, if, it is just like this..."