Hubris from Revelation: the Social Engineering of Ultimate Truths [Monday, Period 2]

[atreideslioness]

"Welcome to our last class of the semester," Ghanima said. "Today, I'd like to hear from you."

"We've covered another of religions in this class, looking at how and why they developed, and their basic belief structures. Now I'm going to ask you to think about what you've heard, and use your imaginations."

"I'd like you to picture yourself dropped into a hostile environment. You have no money, no allies, and the natives are quite hostile to outsiders. Luckily, you are exceedingly familiar with the planetary religion and it's resultant myths and legends."

"Out of all the various religions we've covered, which one would you find the easiest to use to your advantage in this situation? Or if you cannot picture yourself in such a situation, what religion that we've studied has intrigued you the most?"

[OCD up!]

Comments

Re: Listen to the Lecture

[furnaceface]

Jono was well aware that it was happy discussion time, now, but he was bound and determined to keep his head down and sit this one out. It wasn't anything against the class or against the question, really, but he was a flame-faced telepath who happened to be descended from an individual who, throughout history, had been trying to violently impose himself upon the world as a god.

Keeping quiet was a step up from crawling under a table, and so Jono was going to stick with that.