I am still dealing in my head with Agent X’s article „Prophets of Consumerist Doom“. We entered a serious debate over at his blog and I have also added an article on my blog to the discussion. As I want to keep things more approachable also for other readers, I write another blog article rather than another comment on the Fat Beggar’s School of Prophet’s blog. After all, the Web 2....
Agent X of the Far Beggar’s School of Prophets wrote an article called „Prophets of Consumerist Doom“. The main argument of the article is, that there are many prophets around who remind us of the problems in this world. Speaking of Pop music, I’d think of Guns ’n Roses‘ „Civil War“, Papa Roach’s „Broken Home“ or „Schrei nach Liebe“ by „Die Ärzte“. Agent X brought up an old video, that addresses the problem of consumism in the „western?...
I wrote one article as answer to Agent X’s „Prophets of Consumerist Doom„, I wrote another one in which I tried to describe my approach towards the bible and now I shall write a third (and hopefully not last) one in which I try to bring the debate a bit further, addressing Agent X’s challenges to my answer. So here we go: In my experience, by far, most of my Christian brothers and sisters hardly bother with a Bible....
After a truck ran into a Christmas market at Breitscheidplatz, Berlin this monday, I realized something strange: People decided not to retweet rumours about what happened. It was unfamiliarly silent in my Twitter timeline. That is, not exactly everybody did so. Right wing populists, I shall better call them what they are: Nazis, were fast to name the offender and the cause of what happened, and I also read some English language tweets, some with rather reasonable speculations about the incident....
So the UK has voted to leave the EU. They didn’t like it any more to be a member. It was a democratic decision and like all democratic decisions, we all have to deal with it and take the consequences – whatever they might be. I think we need to look into the future, the past is past and cannot be changed. And while some speculated today about the UK being „ripped apart“, as Scotland, Northern Ireland, Gibraltar and London voted „Remain“, it is not the business of us who stay in the EU to decide upon all that....