Jef,<br>I am currently a student of computer science and as such i have fairly limited real world work experience.<br>Still, any one persons skillset is generally not sufficient to successfully pull of an entirely category-defying project such as this.
<br>Although I have had a number of advisors who have provided valuable feedback in different areas, I have not been successful in recruiting people who have been able to make independent contributions to this project, pushing it forward so to speak.
<br><br>A quick search will reveal the extent to which I have promoted it so far, which is really very little.<br><br>Now, while I believe this idea is quite profound, and find it intellectually pleasing to have a "religion" of my own design, this could easily be entirely normal delusions of grandeur. I don't know, but i really love this project, I believe in the potential of the idea, and i would love to be able to work on it full time, somehow, some time in the future.
<br><br>Successful marketing and also sales - if you wanna call it that, is absolutely essential for any project to succeed, but one needs to have a marketable "package" first. And also, I would like such a solution to have qualities that are immediately recognizable as superior to what's already out there. Just to get there a lot of hard, consistent theoretical groundwork is needed.
<br><br>If anyone would like to chip in on the theoretical / planning side here, I would be very much appreciate it. <br><br>As i said, if anyone can play the devils advocate and successfully convince me why it _wont work_ or why I shouldn't go through with it I would be grateful also, as I could stop spending a such ridiculous amount of time on a maniac project that is exceedingly likely to fail at any rate.
<br><br>Actually, all further input is appreciated...<br><br><br>-TT<br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/4/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jef Allbright</b> <<a href="mailto:jef@jefallbright.net">jef@jefallbright.net
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On 5/4/07, Torstein Haldorsen <<a href="mailto:torsteinhaldorsen@gmail.com">
torsteinhaldorsen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> This may preserve and cultivate the positive aspects we find in existing<br>> religions, for instance the deep sense of meaning, a deep<br>> sense of belonging, and the communal aspects of religion,
<br>> while at the same time concentrating our factual knowledge of the world, and<br>> trying to approximate the truths of life to the best level of accuracy<br>> possible. I suggest that we try to create an ever-improving open source
<br>> alternative to the existing worldviews and put it on the "religious<br>> marketplace".<br><br>This is all good, but how would you expect it to compete successfully<br>in today's world, in a market of evolved organisms susceptible to more
<br>traditional promises that have shown their great appeal to deep<br>motivational instincts?<br><br>As an engineer, I like the design of your product, but have you ever<br>worked in Sales and Marketing?<br><br>- Jef<br>
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