July 5, 2021 – Click here to listen
A friend told me he wanted to be a weather forecaster. He said it was the only job where you could be wrong 52% of the time and still retain a job.
Hmmm . . . I wonder if he has thought through what that has to say about the quality of his work and ambition.
Regardless I beg to differ – professional Las Vegas gamblers are wrong about the same amount in their profession, the media is wrong, scientists, and many other professions.
It must be discouraging to lose more than one wins. It is in fact why I quit playing golf. In the long term, the winner in this sport is the game itself. Who would invent a pastime knowing defeat is a certainty?
Most have heard the expression: ‘lemming’. A lemming is a little rodent that is reputed to follow other rodents over a cliff and to their death when they reach overcrowding in their rodent community. It purportedly was mass suicide for lemmings whereby they followed their leader to their deaths to provide room for the rest of their rodent society. Alas, it is but a myth but proves to be an irresistible metaphor for human behavior. Why do we go to Las Vegas, knowing we are going to lose? Why listen to the weather forecast or the media when we realize that it is wrong more than right? Why defund police when we are in the middle of a crime wave? Why elect a senile moron to the highest office in the world with all of its complex problems?
Are we lemmings who blindly follow a crowd—maybe even toward catastrophe? It seems that some pseudo-intellectual espouses a theory as fact, and the death march begins. Anxieties about how individuality could be submerged and destroyed by mass phenomena, such as political movements or what is increasingly becoming our WOKE culture is a big concern.
One need only look at North Korea, Communist China, Iran, and Venezuela to see what lies over the cliff – utter devastation and a godless existence! When people behave as rodents and blindly follow without thinking death awaits.
Romans 12:2
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is — his good, pleasing and perfect will