Not mocking, a parody to illustrate, merely making a contribution.Quote from I am...:
Stu seems to be mocking, enparody, the bookish mania that fuels contemporary Christian thought. He seems to be saying that Harry Potter is more popular than me and the Beattles. By discussing pointlessness in great detail, Stu magically converts pointlessness into a pseudo-meaningfulness which attracts/diverts attention. This is essentially the schoolboy basics of magic 101. In this way, the Potter series is magical in the way that the bible is magical, pitting good vs evil, as if both were real and worth fighting about. As I said before, the mad mind thinks in terms of specifics, which is what story-telling is all about. Specificity in great detail, backed by emotional emphasis, conjures an alt-reality in the mind of the imaginative reader-listener. Such is the world...specific storytelling designed to replace reality in the mind of the mind-wanderer, held captive by captivating details. The net effect is a kind of atheism because if the details are true, then the truth cannot be true. By mocking the mockery, Stu seems to be promoting the truth. Its a parodox. It's a truism that the discussion of pointlessness is...still pointless.
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Not that Potter is more popular than Jesus, although of course He is. My suggestion is simply - take what I wrote back 2000 years and switch the name from Potter to Christ.
Take Potter forward 2000 years and it is possible He may well replace the Bible /Christ whatever. Implausible? Well, just as implausible that Christianity/Bible would replace Zoroastrianity/ Avesta.
That's apparently how it works. People do that. They replace with a more up to date popular fairy tale eventually taking form in one religion over another. Nothing to do with truth , facts or knowledge and so - Potter has same and similar ingrediants required to Christianity and the countless other religions.
Trivially but obviously, the circumstances may just as well seem as unlikely for Christ of the Bible then, as they do for Potter of the Dark Hallows now. Both are works of fiction, both works of imagination, both full of fantasy and both are ridiculous. Both have what it takes to form religious following.
That was partly to do with my point , you were close , but not Bernard, who is so busy accusing LeapUp of being deluded about the same delusion he has, missed the point altogether .Bernard has however apparently been able to convince himself he didn't.
I have a feeling religion enables that.
They say such ignorance is bliss.
Unfortunately against any benefit of constructive discourse, the rest of your stuff is as usual just pure hippy speak dude.
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