Timeline for Can you kill an idea?
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| Oct 2, 2017 at 11:58 | comment | added | FFN | There's an important point being overlooked here: You are killing everyone because of their ideas, you have knowledge of this idea. The idea is not dead, it still exists. The end result is that there is no one alive who BELIEVES or AGREES with the idea, but it still EXISTS. | |
| Oct 2, 2017 at 11:44 | comment | added | KlaymenDK | Also important: kill the language constructs enabling formulating such ideas! (Yes, this is Newspeak.) | |
| Oct 2, 2017 at 9:30 | comment | added | user902383 | i think it's just sound simple, romans had similar approach to get rid of christians and it end up with christian become emperor of rome. only real way to kill one idea is to replace it with another one | |
| Oct 2, 2017 at 4:07 | comment | added | bp. | An alternative to killing the believers is discrediting the belief. If the belief becomes that Thorus (the hawk-headed god of storms) is actually not a very good god, then the god will not be a very good god. So, shoot them a bunch, or otherwise humiliate them and their power level falls. If believers create a god, show them that you're a greater god and steal their respect and awe for yourself. Even if they're faithful, their belief must now incorporate the fact that you stole their god's lunch money and kicked sand in its face and they can't help but believe in you and your superiority. | |
| Oct 2, 2017 at 3:16 | comment | added | Charles Staats | @JustinThyme You have described the Oblivian War from the Dresden Files. "And once the safety period [a thousand years or so] has elapsed, and the Archive is confident that no one else remembers, she deletes the memory from the Archive. Bad guy, /gone/." | |
| Oct 2, 2017 at 2:41 | comment | added | Justin Thyme | Why wouldn't the target god just rally the troops, do a little hand-waving, and kill the people killing the believers? This would be a long, drawn-out religious war, one factor against another, and the outcome is not guaranteed. I can think of no god in human history who's historical memory has been completely erased. But if the memory were completely erased, I wouldn't know it. But that's the point - if anyone can remember the god, it is not completely dead, incapable of resurrection. Even the MEMORY has to be eliminated to completely eliminate (kill) the god. | |
| Oct 1, 2017 at 21:57 | comment | added | MrLore |
"Three may keep a Secret, if two of them are dead" -Benjamin Franklin
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| Oct 1, 2017 at 21:55 | comment | added | Bergi | @Ash Genocide is one choice, missionary work is another. Of course you can combine them into a crusade… | |
| Oct 1, 2017 at 18:23 | history | edited | WhatRoughBeast | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 1, 2017 at 18:21 | comment | added | Ash | I knew someone would realise this, I was hoping to avoid genocide but I can live with it. | |
| Oct 1, 2017 at 18:20 | history | answered | WhatRoughBeast | CC BY-SA 3.0 |