Posted on 01/04/2022 3:50:13 AM PST by MtnClimber
Our liberal and lefty friends cannot believe that their Sacred Beliefs are primitive throwbacks to the good old days of tribal chiefs and shamans.
It’s that time of the year, when everyone is forecasting the future. But the whole business of forecasting is useless, because the future is a combination of same-old-same-old and the unexpected. That is why humans have invented prophecy, examining runes and entrails and the results of economic and climate models to divine the future.
And the prophecy better make a good story, because nobody wants to hear the same-old-same-old! And who has a clue about the next Black Swan event?
What is really interesting is not the prophecy. What really matters is When Prophecy Fails, when all the runes and entrails and scientific models get tangled up. Yes, there’s a book about this, by a bunch of scientists: Festinger et al. They studied a UFO cult that flourished right after World War II. The members were convinced that the world was about to end but that they would be rescued by a UFO spaceship.
Yeah, yeah. So what happened when the UFO failed to show up? What happened was that the cult members, for a while, amped up their enthusiasm and broadcast their prophecy. But then the cult started to fall apart and the members drifted away. People can’t live in the frenzy of a cult forever. Eventually they have to go get a job.
The UFO cultists were Nobodies; nobody cares about them.
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Send this to your Global Warming/Climate Change cultist friends and politicians.
I know a pastor who has preached nothing but Revelations for over four years, and his flock continues to shrink.
“his flock continues to shrink”
Well, there has to be a great falling away first, right? So prophecy confirmed!
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