I think it is important to clarify my thoughts about what I am doing with this before I go with it.

Meaningful stuff came from investigating how religions are formed, (I would like to look more specifically at contemporary forms of religion soon) and how these belief systems can be stored over time, perhaps being manipulated etc.

I am starting to play with the idea of creating a saviour for in the future, whereby a certain set of beliefs can be stored; in this case in a sort of time capsule to be opened up by future generations, which can then provide a saviour for this given generation. This is under the premise that saviors take time to build upon and become believable.

If there was no proof of what we are as a generation, or indeed what is currently happening, can we fabricate communication devices to the future that can perhaps tell a different to story. For example, would it be possible to convince a future generation that I, or anybody was in fact the second coming? 

Hence the box of meaningful stuff. This is pretty unresolved at the moment, but I am trying to think about whether by labelling things, in a kind of silly way you can create the most basic form of belief system/meaning; by saying this is meaningful stuff does it become meaningful… or by saying this object or thing is a savior, at what point does it become that. This has come more from an opinion than anything… I think that a savior is only created because someone says so. I don’t believe Jesus was the son of God, because i don’t believe in a God, however I do believe Jesus was a man that existed at some point in time, and I can imagine that he must have been pretty special. This could be as a business man, con-man, magician, brilliant thinker, or someone who generally had a good heart, nonetheless, I believe someone/some people have branded him as being the son of God at some point in history. 

Scientology is a subject I am a little worried about approaching because it is so hot at the moment, and I’m worried it will mean this work loses validity, but i have been reading a little bit anyway. I was comparing what I discuss above with L Ron Hubbard’s manufacture of scientology. I am interested in how he has formed a following, and a group of people who genuinely believe in Scientology, and Hubbards writings (I am not disputing that organised religion can do good, I think that most religions can provide some positive outcomes to people lives; hence this project). From what I can tell Hubbard is a pretty awful guy but clever none the less (in the same way you would describe a con man as a genius I guess), in terms of the way he has manufactured an entire religion, and thus a following. I am interested to see the vehicles he designed in order to do this: perhaps most obviously is the book (Dianetics) … however it doesn’t seem like this was the only thing, Hubbard was marketing his religion in the same way you might see McDonalds selling burgers, with hypnotic advertising, perhaps being aimed at certain societal groups using pretty interesting, though maybe not ethically sound techniques. E.g the personality test. Each one seems to be a well designed and intelligently thought out process.