"Perhaps I Should Have Kept My 35 Loyalty
Questions to Myself"
A Very Short Essay on Unintended
Consequences
The law of
unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no
pause for perspective.
Richard
Schickel
Everybody, soon or late,
sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
2 comments:
Rather than spending so much time and effort attempting to unnaturally mold and shape Haggai to resemble David C. Pack, Dave should be studying I Kings 12, where his resemblance to another Biblical character is undeniable. No stretching is required to fit him into Rehoboam, or the other ACOGs into the roles of the tribes which rejected Rehoboam.
BB
It is deeply irrational, as well as telling, that Dave feels the need to engage in these stretching exercises. Why on earth would anyone "assume" that they were prophetically foretold in the pages of the bible in the first place, regardless of which prophet he might choose to be foretold by? I think we all know that it's a foregone conclusion mandated by Dave's enormous ego.
Even if we supposed that any bible prophecy really did foretell of someone living in the future, and just supposing that the foretold future time-frame is right now, with over 7 billion people alive today, the probability that Dave would be "the one" would be extremely improbable. Winning the lottery is likely by comparison.
There's no evidence to suspect that there is any merit whatsoever to either of those two previous suppositions. But Dave doesn't trouble himself with the irrational and improbable nature of his assumptions, and by not stating them, he leads his followers to make those same assumptions, also without noticing what bad assumptions they are. Dave just suggests to his followers that he is indeed foretold in the pages of the bible and his suggestible followers take his word for it on blind faith alone. Blind faith not in any deity, but in Dave.
In order to believe that Dave was foretold by Haggai first requires you to make an idol out of him, as well as HWA, from whom he initially claimed he drew his "authority." It requires you to implicitly trust both of these men as quasi-infallible quasi-deities, believing everything they've said just because it was them that said it, and requiring no evidence, or proof, or even a rational argument. You just take their word for it because of your blind faith.
So if Dave's ego thinks that he needs to be found in the pages of the bible, all he has to do is declare it to be so, and his blind sheep will believe it has be true just because Dave was the one that said it. So sad.
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