DarkMatter2525
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New video idea
🕑 Added 2015-09-29 18:22:50 +0000 UTC I've been toiling over the Revelation cartoon much to no avail. I'm not happy with it and I can't in good conscience post something I think is inadequate. So, I've put it on the back burner, in hopes that I'll come up with some ideas in the future that will improve the script.On the other hand, I'm just about done with a different script, which I think is more promising. It's about a guy who goes into a real estate office to shop for a house, and he is presented with a mansion which he is not allowed to see or have inspected, but the owner says it's in perfect condition and has priced it at only $175K, even though it's actually valued in the millions. The catch is that the customer must commit to buying the mansion then and there. If he leaves the office to look at the house, then the offer is off the table. Of course he refuses to make an offer of $175K on a house he's never seen, based on the owner's word alone that it's "perfect". After all, he plans on living in his next home for at least the next 10 years.
He leaves the real estate office only to be accosted by a preacher who entices him with an eternity in heaven if he accepts the tenets of his religion and tires to live his life by them. He is not allowed to inspect heaven and if he doesn't accept the offer before he dies, then the offer is off the table. The preacher assures him that heaven is perfect, the best, happiest place he could ever be, and when asked how he could possibly know that, the preacher assures him that it's because the founders of his religion, who wrote it in their holy book, said so. Of course he is assured that they know, because they were inspired by God, who is perfect in every way, because it says so in the book they wrote. This offer, the customer accepts.
The story is meant to illustrate how standards for evidence shift when the stakes are actually REAL to the "believer". I don't mean to suggest that people are lying to us when they say they believe; no, I'm suggesting that they're lying to themselves.
What are your thoughts? Worthwhile?
