How to Think Like a Genius 60-Universe
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Rick Rosner)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/08/15
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: There’s another part to the self-delusion or exploitation parts of this — inadvertently or advertently, I guess you could say, people that have some kind of prophet status from this. So, there are regular ones like the Scientologist leader that is deceased Elrond Hubbard or the deceased Mormon leader, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints leader, Joseph Smith in addition to Brigham Young. Known frauds in their time, even with claims falsified to this day with genetic studies, for instance, the fact that Native Americans aren’t an ancient tribe of Israel that went across the ocean on boats based on genetic tests that can show this, no relation in that way.
Rick Rosner: There are people and I have to include myself because I have this whole theory of the universe.
It’s weird for a number of reasons. One is that, I guess, in Biblical times if you had an insight about how to treat people or about the future or what was going to happen. It seemed like it came from God and you would go around announcing this and either call yourself a prophet or other people would appreciate what you were saying and call you a prophet. I don’t know exactly how it worked, but 2,000 years later. Most of the insights about the world that are really effective and more true than other insights say are kind of based on science and empirical evidence.
Yet, scientists seldom do the prophet thing. Science places a premium on people not getting super overly excited. I guess so –
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