Novel ideas, heh....

[brightrosefox]

Yes, I'm still trying to work out the kinks in all the subplots. It's kind of fun. For instance: Will readers really believe there is no organized religion in the far future?

I think I'll post an entry to the pagan community about how to go about successfully blending all religions into a "believe what you believe and stop trying to kill me because of it" kind of system. I don't want everyone to be one thing or the other, I just want to imply that nobody tries to convert anyone or shove religion down anyone's throat. Considering that in the story, ninety-nine percent of the human population is now either very psychic or can at least see spirits and astral project, you'd think people could get a little more open-minded about the whole thing, and there wouldn't be any more "there is only one god and one religion and it's mine and I'm right ha ha ha, want a pamphlet?" kind of situations. I'd rather have "My god can beat up your god and loves me more!" and have people argue over that. It's more fun than "Your god is false so you're going to hell, my god is the only one, believe it or be damned for eternity." That just really irritates some people. See why I want to create this background?

But since it's my story, and it's science fiction, and it takes place four centuries in the future, I can do whatever I want. But I want to make sure I make it believable. I already set the stage for how and why everyone goes psychic and polytheistic, I just need some good references and resources to back up the claims. And yes, people will still be monotheistic, but every god will be acknowledged -- like the Discworld books. "Just because you're a god does not mean I have to believe in you. You're not my god, anyway. My god's better."

No offense to strict monotheists, but that's just my train of thought.

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[irishlullaby.livejournal.com]

Hi, I saw your post in pagan and thought I would help you out... maybe... This is actually something I tried in a story once but still have yet to get around to STARTING said story...



It was a semi-futuristic world, sort of mid-apocolpse (since that always seems to be a good selling angle)... and there's this one king/ruler/whatever that basically enforced (through brainwashing) conformity upon the masses... and makes everyone dress the same, wear their hair the same, no music and most importantly... no religion (more like "nothing to make people individualistic"). So we have this ruler that has a mass of emotionless conformed military-like subjects... It's so strict that sex can't even take place, all children are "test tube" babies and they are molded from an early age to feel nothing and desire nothing and all that jazz...

and there's this one underground group of roughly 500 people that spreads worldwide (consists of about 15 people in each country and those 15 are broken down into cities within the countries)... Like the Conformists (as the "armies" are referred to) this group has no ideals or even ideas about structured religion... all they have is "artifacts" from pre-conformity such as books and CDs and records and players and such they can use to learn about how life used to be... and I was going to use the books and music as part of their weapons against this "ruler"...


most of it's sketchy... if you're interested in using the idea but what a more broad idea of what I was going to do with it just email me sacredfey@yahoo.com and ask me any questions you have and I'll try to help you out with it.

[brightrosefox.livejournal.com]

I'd love to brainstorm with you, maybe take a peek at your story sometime. The summary makes me think of the movie "Equilibrium".