There are a couple of phrases that come to mind that play a large part in charisma and its followers: absence makes the heart grow fonder, and familiarity breeds contempt. Also, wasn’t there a comedian who said “always leave them wanting more?” And then there’s also the “hook” that’s needed to catch attention in the first place. Those wh…
There are a couple of phrases that come to mind that play a large part in charisma and its followers: absence makes the heart grow fonder, and familiarity breeds contempt. Also, wasn’t there a comedian who said “always leave them wanting more?” And then there’s also the “hook” that’s needed to catch attention in the first place. Those who seek to gain a following are not the same as those who turn around and find that they’ve inadvertently gained one. The former will eventually leave their followers jaded and dissatisfied, and maybe with a bad taste in their mouths. The latter, if they can continue on their chosen path without allowing the following to alter them, stand a better chance of enduring. I think Elon Musk may fall into the latter category. I’m sure the Drs Malone do. It takes a special kind of courage to speak out about injustice when you know you will be targeted for public downfall as a result. But a particular Bible verse comes to mind which will hopefully be of some comfort: “those who are with us are more than those who are with them “. II Kings 6:16.
There must come a time in the future when voices of reason and integrity will be rejected for voices of “men- pleaserers”, and conditions on the Earth will become frightening and unbearable. It looks as though the time is near. I am a Jesus follower. He said we would be persecuted, and the last of us would be beheaded for refusing to deny the truth. There must also come pestilences, and disastrous weather, earthquakes and violence w
And Gideon in Judges 7, a decommisioning of troops from 32,000 to 300: "And the Lord said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for Me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel claim glory for itself against Me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’"
There are a couple of phrases that come to mind that play a large part in charisma and its followers: absence makes the heart grow fonder, and familiarity breeds contempt. Also, wasn’t there a comedian who said “always leave them wanting more?” And then there’s also the “hook” that’s needed to catch attention in the first place. Those who seek to gain a following are not the same as those who turn around and find that they’ve inadvertently gained one. The former will eventually leave their followers jaded and dissatisfied, and maybe with a bad taste in their mouths. The latter, if they can continue on their chosen path without allowing the following to alter them, stand a better chance of enduring. I think Elon Musk may fall into the latter category. I’m sure the Drs Malone do. It takes a special kind of courage to speak out about injustice when you know you will be targeted for public downfall as a result. But a particular Bible verse comes to mind which will hopefully be of some comfort: “those who are with us are more than those who are with them “. II Kings 6:16.
There must come a time in the future when voices of reason and integrity will be rejected for voices of “men- pleaserers”, and conditions on the Earth will become frightening and unbearable. It looks as though the time is near. I am a Jesus follower. He said we would be persecuted, and the last of us would be beheaded for refusing to deny the truth. There must also come pestilences, and disastrous weather, earthquakes and violence w
And Gideon in Judges 7, a decommisioning of troops from 32,000 to 300: "And the Lord said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for Me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel claim glory for itself against Me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’"