What if God is a child dreaming all this up while asleep in a remote corner of a parallel universe? Will she remember us when she wakes up? What if we are a multi-faceted universal entity experiencing itself as it navigates through spacetimes forever? Will a man's ripped ear fragment ever be found in another space and time and become an object of worship by the masses of a planet named Maga?
That would be awesome, and I'm sure an omniscient deity would understand my reasons for not believing in it. In the meantime, I'll go into the world with kindness in my heart.
I think the mainstream press has a really hard time writing about Trump. They want to write about him in normal, political, policy-based terms but that sort of thing just doesn't apply to him. After the assassination attempt, a lot of press outlets wrote about their expectations of a "changed" man -- a calmer, more unifying politician -- and his initial speech at the convention gave a little bit of that and the papers were full of headlines about "unity" and "healing"... and then he went back to his usual divisive rhetoric and meandering stories full of grievances, and the press just don't know how to react. They haven't figured out how to write about him in nearly a decade of coverage: all the stories they are used to telling about politicians just don't fit, no matter how hard they try. And, as you say, storytelling is powerful, but dangerous when it has no basis in truth... and the press just don't seem to be able to tell the truth about Trump. It's been so weird to see the press just plain old failing for so long at this point.
In the particular case of Trump I'm amazed at the prevelance of 'false' prophets. False in quotes there because I don't accept the existence of any 'real' prophets beyond those who have analysed trends using data and extrapolated what might happen. (see Tony Seba for an example)
Too many Trump followers enthusiastically jump to believe people who tell them what they want to hear.
“Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves” (Matthew 7:15).
Although, I quite like wolves (much more than I like pet dogs).
Isn't it funny how the 'prophets' are all saying the things they'd love to be able to say for themselves? If I were to do the exercise I'd probably double twist it and have an apparent false prophet telling uncomfortable truths. Truths they don't want to say, but feel they have to because they believe the source.
What if God is a child dreaming all this up while asleep in a remote corner of a parallel universe? Will she remember us when she wakes up? What if we are a multi-faceted universal entity experiencing itself as it navigates through spacetimes forever? Will a man's ripped ear fragment ever be found in another space and time and become an object of worship by the masses of a planet named Maga?
That would be awesome, and I'm sure an omniscient deity would understand my reasons for not believing in it. In the meantime, I'll go into the world with kindness in my heart.
I think the mainstream press has a really hard time writing about Trump. They want to write about him in normal, political, policy-based terms but that sort of thing just doesn't apply to him. After the assassination attempt, a lot of press outlets wrote about their expectations of a "changed" man -- a calmer, more unifying politician -- and his initial speech at the convention gave a little bit of that and the papers were full of headlines about "unity" and "healing"... and then he went back to his usual divisive rhetoric and meandering stories full of grievances, and the press just don't know how to react. They haven't figured out how to write about him in nearly a decade of coverage: all the stories they are used to telling about politicians just don't fit, no matter how hard they try. And, as you say, storytelling is powerful, but dangerous when it has no basis in truth... and the press just don't seem to be able to tell the truth about Trump. It's been so weird to see the press just plain old failing for so long at this point.
In the particular case of Trump I'm amazed at the prevelance of 'false' prophets. False in quotes there because I don't accept the existence of any 'real' prophets beyond those who have analysed trends using data and extrapolated what might happen. (see Tony Seba for an example)
Too many Trump followers enthusiastically jump to believe people who tell them what they want to hear.
“Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves” (Matthew 7:15).
Although, I quite like wolves (much more than I like pet dogs).
Isn't it funny how the 'prophets' are all saying the things they'd love to be able to say for themselves? If I were to do the exercise I'd probably double twist it and have an apparent false prophet telling uncomfortable truths. Truths they don't want to say, but feel they have to because they believe the source.