When you read in the Old Testament about prophets and all of their utterances and activities, never once do you find any of these men and women to be thin-skinned or constantly being butthurt at peoples reactions to them. They believed in what they prophesied and did not care what people thought.
Not so in the 21st century. Dave Pack has to constantly circle the wagons and reinterprets his prophecies because they are consistently wrong. Gerald Flurry does the same at times but seems to stand by his utterances more than Dave does. And then there is Not-arrested, but almost-arrested Elisha, Elijah, Amos, Habbakuk, Johsua, Butthurt Bob Thiel, the Chief Overseer of the improperly named "continuing" Church of God, based not in Jerusalem but in the middle of California in a little itty-bitty storefront.
The Great Butthurt One is incensed about "crowdsourcing" as a sure sign that it is putting Satan to work in the world in order to persecute the one true church, which just happens to exclusively be Butthurt Bob's.
Thiel has written an article about crowdsourcing and about how crowd's of people are dumbed down when they gather together, kind of like a Church of God, but Thiel never admits that.
He quotes an article from the BBC:
BBC had a headline that got my attention:Why people get more stupid in a crowd
The “wisdom of crowds” doesn’t always apply – sometimes group-think nudges people to make wrong-headed decisions.
The downstairs room of a central London pub is not where most psychologists would choose to stage an experiment in decision-making, but for Daniel Richardson it is ideal. A researcher at University College London, he is interested in how people’s thinking is influenced by those around them …
The decisions people make as a group tend to be more prejudiced and less intelligent than the ones they make individually. “When people interact, they end up agreeing, and they make worse decisions,” he says. “They don’t share information, they share biases. We’re trying to figure out why that is, and how we can make collective decisions better.” …
God's greatest Prophet then for some reason, claims the crowds talked about above are the same as "crowdsourcing" groups.Group conformity stands in marked contrast to the “wisdom of crowds” effect, whereby aggregating the opinions of large numbers of people gives answers or predictions more accurate than those of any individual. This happens only when members of a crowd make their judgements independently of each other, and it is most effective when a crowd is diverse. http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160113-are-your-opinions-really-your-own
One of the reasons I decided to post about this was that the journal Science ran an article a while back touting “crowdsourcing” as the way to solve “wicked problems’ facing humanity. So, I made a short video about that which you can watch: Crowdsourcing and Artificial Intelligence to solve “wicked problems”?
A definition of crowdsourcing is:People, sadly, normally have the wrong foundation, hence can be swayed.
As you can see from the two examples above, groupthink and crowdsourcing are two different things. Groupthink is what happens in the Church of God while crowdsourcing puts creative minds to work, usually for the betterment of a product that is useful to society. Groupthink in the COG is not for the betterment of society, no matter how much he desires to think it is.Crowdsourcing is the process of getting work or funding, usually online, from a crowd of people. The word is a combination of the words 'crowd' and 'outsourcing'. The idea is to take work and outsource it to a crowd of workers.Famous Example: Wikipedia. Instead of Wikipedia creating an encyclopedia on their own, hiring writers and editors, they gave a crowd the ability to create the information on their own. The result? The most comprehensive encyclopedia this world has ever seen.Crowdsourcing & Quality: The principle of crowdsourcing is that more heads are better than one. By canvassing a large crowd of people for ideas, skills, or participation, the quality of content and idea generation will be superior.
Elijah Bob sees either group of people mentioned above as becoming under the influence of Satan when they gather together as a "crowd." After all, the favorite COG bogey-man story is that "prince of the power of the air" dude who sends out bad vibes to crowds all the time! In the Church of God, Satan clearly has more power than God could ever imagine. When a COG minister ever talks about Satan, he is always far more powerful than Jesus, who is far less discussed.
The Bible calls Satan “the prince of the power of the air” (Ephesians 2:2) and his ‘broadcasts’ have impacted the world to walk the wrong way (Ephesians 2:1-3). Satan’s influence in the Garden of Eden affected Eve, who then in turn affected Adam to make the wrong choice (Genesis 3).
While the Bible teaches “in the multitude of counselors there is safety” (Proverbs 11:14), it also teaches “You shall not follow a crowd to do evil” (Exodus 23:2).
Two guesses as to WHO is doing evil against Butthurt Bob? __________ & ____________.Throughout history, people have followed the crowd to do evil.
But what about now?
Would all of you big bad meanies PLEASE stop picking on God's greatest and most accurate prophet the Church of God has ever seen since Jesus walked the shores of Galilee! STOP crowdsourcing your persecution of the True One!Certain anti-COG blogs are filled with people who accept and promote false statements.
PLEASE stop pointing out the lies and foibles of the Great Doubly Blessed One! PLEASE LEAVE BOB ALONE!
In Bob's original BNP video on Crowdsourcing, he was upset over dealing with "wicked" problems. He didn't seem to realize that the word wicked was used in the British sense, indicating difficult.
ReplyDeleteA trait of tyrannies is filtering information, suppressing internal dissent, and considering their own standards above outside criticism. Those who openly disagree are labeled traitors or lying enemies.
ReplyDeleteThe truth by contrast doesn't need 'bodyguards.'
Bob, like the rest of the XCOGs, is in the wrong camp. Gods way is that of freedom, not tyranny.
Does Bob and other church leaders ever ask themselves why God is not blessing them?
Bob writes:
ReplyDeleteCertain anti-COG blogs are filled with people who accept and promote false statements.
He sure got that one right! Bob himself runs an anti-COG blog. It is anti every COG except for one, the improperly named Continuing Chuch of God.
As any long-time reader of the blog knows, the Continuing Church of Bob accepts and promotes all sorts of false statements, so long as they further Butthurt Bwana Bob's agenda.
If Bob had simply gone out and started a church and found new people to join, there would be none of this hoopla towards him.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that he claims to be a Prophet, falsely claims credentials, is so arrogant towards everyone, makes him the target. Bob, you simply are creating your own misery. Just be a good Christian Servant, and stop it with your self promotion, and all of this "negative attention" you claim to receive will simply vanish.
The BBC and encyclopaedia Brittanica are so full of obvious politicized bull, fake news, and fake history, that I have given up on them. I skipped over that part of the article. Sometimes even liars tell the truth though. Whether its true or not I don't know, but I always go to other sources.
ReplyDeleteConnie: Exactly! If he had started his own little group in Arroyo Grande and played church and did good things for the members and the community, then there would be nothing to worry about. But he did not. He lied about dreams, double blessings, and other grandiose ideas about himself and set himself up as the latest true prophet of the church. The church is filled with others just like him who also lie through their teeth. The only true thing about Thiel is that he has turned out to be the King of Butthurt.
ReplyDeleteSeems like he doesn’t want to be just a humble teacher. He’s in the mix vying for the mantle of HWA in the eyes of all the remaining Armstrongites. None seem to want to follow him, though, which makes him constantly whine.
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