--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> > wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "Robert Gimbel" > <babajii_99@> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Therefore there have been many prophecy's of this time; > > > > > So, the real question is: > > > > > With so many people, expecting something like this to > > > > > happen; > > > > > These fanatical thought forms... > > > > > Will there be a chance to change this apparent destiny? > > > > > > > > A good question. > > > > > > > > Not to comment on your last question (I have > > > > no answer) but on the first statement, a couple > > > > of the teachers I've worked with had an inter- > > > > esting interpretation of people's fascination > > > > with Armageddon and impending disasters and > > > > prophecies of Huge Events and possibly even the > > > > end of the world being right around the corner. > > > > > > > > They termed it 'self importance.' > > > > > > > > I think there is some truth in this. When there > > > > is an upsurge in the number of people believing > > > > that they're in the Last Days, there is prob- > > > > ably *also* an upsurge in the self importance > > > > of the people who believe this. "I'm so important > > > > that these Huge Events are going to happen during > > > > my lifetime," "Aprés moi, le deluge," and all that. > > > > And thus there is probably a corresponding upsurge > > > > in the *fear* that accompanies identification with > > > > the self. > > > > > > > > You heard the same thing in the Middle Ages, and > > > > in the Renaissance, and in thousands of eras in > > > > thousands of cultures all over the planet. And > > > > we'll probably *keep* hearing it for a long, long > > > > time. It may be a buncha cockroaches saying it, > > > > with no humans left, > > > > > > Which would mean that the last humans around before > > > the cockroaches took over were right to believe > > > they were so important that the Huge Events were > > > going to happen in their lifetimes.... > > > > The cockroaches don't miss 'em. Neither > > will the universe. > > Non sequitur. Point being that by postulating > a human-free world dominated by cockroaches, > you've acknowledged that the elimination of the > human race isn't the self-important fantasy you > were mocking to start with, but a real prospect. > > In other words, at some point it will no longer > be *us* who keep hearing about the Last Days. > Your "long, long time" won't be quite as long > as you suggest. > > Never mind; it's just an editorial comment on > the way you tend to get so carried away with > your rhetoric that you step on your own point.
Uh, thanks. I guess. It's funny you should use that term, because before you replied I was smiling over the *other* editorial comment you made, and noticing that you've been making the same comment a lot lately. You cut out the joke at the end of the post. Thanks for the offer, but if I have need of an editor in the future, I don't think I'd be happy with one who snips the funny parts.
