Hi doma,
I don't see it that way. I see you presenting theories which look extremely dodgy every time one scratches the surface of them.
But seeing them falling apart seems to make little difference to you. You just come up with something new.
That's up to you. But I don't find it a convincing method. In your shoes, I'd be trying to figure whether what I believed made sense after all.
So, the $16t disappears, but the illuminati theory remains the same. The South African mines turn out to have been used to mine for something other than gold, but the gold slave theory is unchanged. The lizard god theory affects one small Indian tribe but not the others, and yet it remains universal in your eye. The "Adam" don't appear in the Enuma Elish at all. Even when the employment statistics improve, you find a reason not to believe it, because it doesn't fit your hypothesis of how things are meant to work, I guess; and yet you don't examine the numbers yourself - you simply accept the speculation of some poor quality analyst while calling everyone else "the sheeple". Ironic, no?
I'd be wondering whether my whole edifice was rotten if every time I based my theory on some set of facts, it turned out the facts were really not facts at all.
At this point, my impression is that your theory is more important to you than the facts which underlie them. It doesn't matter that your evidence falls apart. What matters is the theory. So actually, the rigidity of belief is yours.
I tend to believe in things when I see that they rely on a really solid factual foundation. I am interested if the theory withstands the attempt to disprove it. Whereas you seem to demand I should believe your theories absent robust factual support. As if belief is what is important to you, rather than the value of the belief.
Why was Elizabeth painted with a snake? Same reason she was painted with pelicans, an ermine, a sieve, moons, dogs and pearls. They had symbollism. Snakes, as the article suggests, were a symbol of wisdom, but also of other things. Perhaps she didn't like the image and its mixed messaging so it was changed.
I agree that other things may be true. Also, not every theory can be measured. But this does not mean that it's a free-for-all. The point is that the way to think about theories is whether they withstand the attempt to disprove them. And once they fail that test, they end up on the refuse heap. For me at least.
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