Suppose some con-merchant was trying to create a new religious cult, for the purpose of duping people out of large sums of money -- but you didn't know that he was actually a con-merchant.
He claims to have met an angel who shew him where to find a weirdy computer disc, a bit like a CD but not quite, with some brand new texts from God. The angel also gave him a special player for reading the disc, and shew him how it worked. But the angel also warned him not to let anybody else see the player being used; only to dictate the contents for someone else to transcribe.
So the person sets up the player in a large cupboard and inserts the disc. His friends sit around outside the cupboard; taking it in turns to listen to him on the telephone (he has a mobile inside the cupboard, and rang the land line) and type up what he is saying on their laptops.
All is going well until one of the people doing the typing says his computer caught a virus and erased the document, before he got a chance to make a backup; and would the person with the disc mind re-reading that section again? Instead, he says he has to speak to the angel about it, and the angel eventually says no -- the text is not to be re-read, and the idiot who lost it must be punished.
Wouldn't that make you just a teeny little bit suspicious that he had been making it all up as he went along?
He claims to have met an angel who shew him where to find a weirdy computer disc, a bit like a CD but not quite, with some brand new texts from God. The angel also gave him a special player for reading the disc, and shew him how it worked. But the angel also warned him not to let anybody else see the player being used; only to dictate the contents for someone else to transcribe.
So the person sets up the player in a large cupboard and inserts the disc. His friends sit around outside the cupboard; taking it in turns to listen to him on the telephone (he has a mobile inside the cupboard, and rang the land line) and type up what he is saying on their laptops.
All is going well until one of the people doing the typing says his computer caught a virus and erased the document, before he got a chance to make a backup; and would the person with the disc mind re-reading that section again? Instead, he says he has to speak to the angel about it, and the angel eventually says no -- the text is not to be re-read, and the idiot who lost it must be punished.
Wouldn't that make you just a teeny little bit suspicious that he had been making it all up as he went along?