"A conspiracy: The truth written in stars that anyone could've seen" - A fictional story for the steemit-virus contest

"Weird..."

"Hm?"

"I just got this weird pad from the mail"

...shows it to his partner...

"It looks like a mousepad. Who send it?"

"That's the thing, I don't know. Even stranger is the artwork: A freaking Taurus charging across the sky; Think, some people even believe in horoscopes - the magazines are full of that crap, and even... never mind"

"What were you going to say?"

"You know, you'll call me crazy, but if - just what if - cows are actually aliens?"

"What..."

"I know but let me explain"

"..."

"I take the silence as a yes. So, do you know the story from bible in which Moses goes up to the mountain to talk with God?"

"I have never read the Bible but yes, I have heard of the story."

"...and he was gone so long that people on the ground started to worship the golden bull they made out of melted gold wares..."

"Where are you aiming at?"

"Up to the sky. Because what if they saw a Taurus charging across the sky? I mean why else they would've made a bull to worship?"

"Are you really saying that..."

"And that's not all."

"Great..."

"The Hindus."

"Yes, I know they worship cow as a holy animal but what does it have to do with this?"

"Everything; remember the consequence of the sin done by the nation of Moses? The ground divided and swallowed all the people who worshiped the "wrong god", and when the Taurus - who was actually a godly creature - that had landed to India saw the destruction of his servers, he made all the people in India to vowel to never ever touch a cow again."

"But how does that explain the cows being aliens?"

"Don't you understand? I just explained it to you! They must be aliens because the Tauros himself commanded the people to not touch them! Cows are the creation by Tauros as a image of himself! It perfectly explains the existence of Minotaur in ancient Greek mythology; It was a horrible creation of an intercourse between a human and a bull..."

"Ok, that - I didn't want to hear any of it!"

"...and the bulls today follow their ancestor: They all hate the red for the magma down under in where the Taurus saw all his worshipers fall..."

knock..knock..knock

"Holy shit they're here! They're even listening to us, I should've not opened my big mouth agai..."

the door opens and a man comes in:

"Hello, my name is Paul E. Meehl", and came to shake hands with both guys.

The two men who had just had a discussion about space cows where too confused too answer anything.

"I know I came for a quite unexpected visit but this is for a important matter since I am the creator of modern horoscopes: the descriptions that trick people's tendency of seeking subjective validation. Being too busy with finding a meaning with two completely random points, I have kept them occupied from finding the truth, the real meaning behind them."

Paul continued: "It has been a very effective way; they don't even believe there's any real 'magic' behind. They just like the feeling of when somebody 'knows' what they are like. Keeping the truth behind hidden walls is effective but keeping it in front of people as camouflaged is even more effective."
He scoffed: "Even the South Park episode in which the cows were recognized as a more intelligent species than humans, and no one will ever take that seriously when it's been made into a joke in front of everybody."

"But sometimes people like you, for some reason, question everything and figure it all out which I cannot let be spread to the public."

All this was a bit too much to handle for the other one:

"Whoah... I'm sure I must have eaten something with a date way in the past. Isn't hallucination one of the symptoms of food poisoning, or..."

"You are absolutely fine", Paul assured with a friendly gesture, "But now you both must come with me, and you should not try your luck with getting away from this..."

He took a step back and threw his suit off and opened his disguise that unveiled the humanoid himself: the Minotaur, a character with a bull's head and a man's body...

"Trust me."

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Thank you @steemit-virus for creating this contest, I had a lot of fun doing this!

Btw, Paul Meehl is (well, was because he's dead) a real person who came up with the name of Barnum effect for the psychological phenomena.

Picture provided by the contest post.