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Cry Wolf.
The tale concerns a shepherd boy who tricks nearby villagers into thinking a wolf is attacking his flock. He repeats this so many times that when the sheep are actually confronted by a wolf, the villagers do not believe his cries for help and the flock is destroyed.
The tale concerns a shepherd boy who tricks nearby villagers into thinking a wolf is attacking his flock. He repeats this so many times that when the sheep are actually confronted by a wolf, the villagers do not believe his cries for help and the flock is destroyed.
Media attention
Do you also wonder about the huge media attention this (nut)case is getting? I mean I live in Sweden and most people have heard about this (and it was not from reading it on Sott.net
My take on this is that this kind of 'doomsday' publicity serves 'them' well, next time someone warns people about earth changes or anything like that, they can just refer to it as 'another Harold Camping', no need to address the issue.
Do you also wonder about the huge media attention this (nut)case is getting? I mean I live in Sweden and most people have heard about this (and it was not from reading it on Sott.net
My take on this is that this kind of 'doomsday' publicity serves 'them' well, next time someone warns people about earth changes or anything like that, they can just refer to it as 'another Harold Camping', no need to address the issue.
The menace of cry wolf
Yes indeed... but what was the source of the uncontrollable impulse that led the boy-fool to cry wolf with such a lack of awareness, thus desensitising everyone in the village to the truth of their condition, masked as it was by the absurd insistence of the child’s noise? For we should remember that the wolf was coming all along; but almost certainly not in the guise the boy suggested or most importantly, from the direction he repeatedly pointed to.
Yes indeed... but what was the source of the uncontrollable impulse that led the boy-fool to cry wolf with such a lack of awareness, thus desensitising everyone in the village to the truth of their condition, masked as it was by the absurd insistence of the child’s noise? For we should remember that the wolf was coming all along; but almost certainly not in the guise the boy suggested or most importantly, from the direction he repeatedly pointed to.
It's to laugh
if only not to cry. This very old, arguably senile religious con man runs his scam again, just one more time, now another, and gulls the stupid yet again. He didn't sell off or give away everything, you might notice.
But some weak minded people, who followed his radio bible-thumping or heard of his latest end-of-the-world prophecy did so. Others, so sadly, killed themselves and their families. It might not be proven in any court of law, but there have been murder-suicides coincident with that date. Others have badly screwed up their lives.
If any of those crime scenes yielded suicide notes referring to his prophecy, he should be prosecuted for promoting mass hysteria leading to loss of life and imprisoned, which might shut him up. It is criminal to so thoroughly terrify even very gullible people that they'll kill their families and themselves.
But it is religion, so he gets a free pass. Denis Diderot was so right.
if only not to cry. This very old, arguably senile religious con man runs his scam again, just one more time, now another, and gulls the stupid yet again. He didn't sell off or give away everything, you might notice.
But some weak minded people, who followed his radio bible-thumping or heard of his latest end-of-the-world prophecy did so. Others, so sadly, killed themselves and their families. It might not be proven in any court of law, but there have been murder-suicides coincident with that date. Others have badly screwed up their lives.
If any of those crime scenes yielded suicide notes referring to his prophecy, he should be prosecuted for promoting mass hysteria leading to loss of life and imprisoned, which might shut him up. It is criminal to so thoroughly terrify even very gullible people that they'll kill their families and themselves.
But it is religion, so he gets a free pass. Denis Diderot was so right.
...about Doomsday Cults. Right guys?