Deuteronomy 6: 6&7 ” …..These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.”
A prediction and message from Bill Whittle. What do you think?
My take on his decline in views is partly, if not mostly, due to content. Where are the great Bill Whittle videos of the past, like the Afterburners and Firewalls?
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Sorry, Stella, and any accidental readers: this turned into an essay. Oh, well. I don’t have what it takes to minimize or do any tight editing.
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I’m not a regular Bill Whittle listener but recognize the points you make. I have listened to particular Afterburners and Firewalls over the years.
The passage from Deuteronomy that you quote provides both context and foundation for my response to this. I just have to make sentences, I guess, based on my process of listening to the entire thing and the notes I took. I almost didn’t make it.
Bottom line: it ends up being a pitch for paid memberships. Again the continuum–when we observe where we end up, it’s not hard to see how/why we got there.
It took me until the 12-minute point to figure out that his sidekicks were never going to speak. Up until then, I was wondering how long they would have to listen to an endless monologue. I finally figured out those were still shots. Oh, well.
Re the thesis of the book he uses as a launch point: nothing he outlines re the fourth turning concept is news to anyone who is paying attention at all, anyone who is living within a family that has generations, a neighborhood that has generations, etc. It seems that he puts a lot of weight on that thesis from that source.
Analyzing and being able to articulate a pattern of “how things happen” never makes anything new happen; nor does it provide any life-related-control over what’s going to happen next. It’s an interesting exercise and it may provide new knowledge. It may contribute to an increase in wisdom but that analysis cannot take the weight of being an original source for what is, he says, “ultimately, a spiritual war”.
It seems like he proposing that he will build, from the ground up, everything that is meant by your Deuteronomy reference; in other words, re-inventing the wheel of what is so….When I hear someone express free-standing/disconnected conclusions and assumptions about God, I try to find a way to inquire what their source of information was for learning about God. Again–the continuum: if they are able to tell me what their primary source was, it clarifies how they got where they are.
Even on an intellectual basis, I thought his closing (before trying to close the sale) was poor. He’s going to use “star power” to teach right and wrong?? Really?
He would do better to teach what’s in Deuteronomy. My opinion.
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Viewed to the end. There are so very many YT proprietors to choose from. They generally include people you’d like to personally spend some time with discussing issues and sharing a few laughs. Bill was one of those for a while, but it’s been years since I’ve seen a vid of his all the way through or subscribed.
If you want to know what the future holds, read the Biblical prophesies. Secular writers and commentators have their place, and I enjoy many. But having a true spiritual kinship with brothers and sisters of the faith who help us understand what is ahead according to the Word of God is more important in my book.
Bill definitely has my best wishes. I hope his new series are of help to many…and if a person being interviewed is of interest, it may gain my attention. However, I’ve mostly moved on.
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I’m giving him another chance – for a while. I don’t have high hopes, but you never know.
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He’s a good person and in the 1990s when he still had his EJECT, EJECT, EJECT blog he was one of the first people I read on my path out of the left.
Unfortunately, there are only so many hours in the day to listen to our side talk, let alone trying to check out the opposition on occasion, though they now are like a broken record and come up with little that’s new to be aware of.
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Well said, and in far fewer words than I used!
For a couple of years, it has seemed that he is exploring Biblical/spiritual truth in a “first time” way,…. that can sometimes go awry when the individual is pursuing their own learning edges as well as trying to hold a pre-existing audience .
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….”go awry”….when that effort is engaged in on a public stage….
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Good thought, Sharon. When someone is exploring, looking for truth, I hope he discovers the best of writings and reads or views those whose discernment is top notch. If Bill is following that spiritual path, I pray that for him.
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