Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Mon, Aug 02 2004
Curse For Zero-Year Presidents?
I don't embrace astrology, for personal spiritual reasons, but this was especially disturbing reading for me. The author gives some astrological possibilities for why this curse may or may not have worked lately. And why it could work again, but might not.
If the curse is legend, and there's no real proof for it, that has only heightened humans' ability to take its basic thread and run with it. When you start with a factual event from history and then play connect-the-dots with some second factual event, you begin to build a strong framework. Throw in a little astrology and alien influences, and you have something that grows into an idea that brings with it a sense of drama and power. And humans do love drama and power.
Aside from the reservations I have concerning curses in general, this sort of thing bothers me because there is always some delusional element out there who would like to make certain these events happen as befits their narcissitic frame of reference. It only gives more fuel to the fire of extremists, fanatics and terrorists who are ready to lap up any opportunity to do what they believe (their version of) God would do if God had all the facts. If we choose to perpetuate these ideas in real life, it worries me that it could become a form of wishful thinking for evil. Isn't that a form of cowardly terrorism in itself?
posted at: 17:00 | category: /Religious and Spiritual | link to this entry
I don't embrace astrology, for personal spiritual reasons, but this was especially disturbing reading for me. The author gives some astrological possibilities for why this curse may or may not have worked lately. And why it could work again, but might not.
If the curse is legend, and there's no real proof for it, that has only heightened humans' ability to take its basic thread and run with it. When you start with a factual event from history and then play connect-the-dots with some second factual event, you begin to build a strong framework. Throw in a little astrology and alien influences, and you have something that grows into an idea that brings with it a sense of drama and power. And humans do love drama and power.
Aside from the reservations I have concerning curses in general, this sort of thing bothers me because there is always some delusional element out there who would like to make certain these events happen as befits their narcissitic frame of reference. It only gives more fuel to the fire of extremists, fanatics and terrorists who are ready to lap up any opportunity to do what they believe (their version of) God would do if God had all the facts. If we choose to perpetuate these ideas in real life, it worries me that it could become a form of wishful thinking for evil. Isn't that a form of cowardly terrorism in itself?
posted at: 17:00 | category: /Religious and Spiritual | link to this entry
