Something new and interesting happened, and I just don’t know what to do with it. A reader here, who would message me a lot on Facebook, sent me a peculiar message, and in keeping with their request for privacy identifying information about them has been removed.

Honestly, I thought not to write about it at all, but I’m low on writing thoughts this morning and couldn’t think of anything better.

We’ll just stick with the message for now. No single thing is weird about it. Wanting privacy, something I understand quite well, is nothing new.

The prayer part is something that I think we all get inundated with. When someone sends prayers, or something along those lines, it’s pretty harmless. As an atheist who is not anti-theist, it doesn’t hurt me, but it does soak up a lot of bandwidth when everyone is sending the 1s and 0s around the world that I think could be more useful otherwise. But then, I like videos of animals doing cool stuff, so we all have our entertainment.

Prophecy. Well, we all have our prophets, I suppose. We have Kurzweil The Prophet talking about the technological singularity, we have Musk the Prophet strangling companies til their breathing improves, we have Trump the Prophet saying he’ll make America Great Again, and we have Biden the Prophet saying – well, I’m not sure what he’s saying, but he’s saying something. We have Putin the Prophet saying that the ‘Special Operation in Ukraine’ will be over in 3 months over 500 days later… The Crypto prophets, etc.

prophecy (n.)

c. 1200, prophecie, prophesie, “the function of a prophet; inspired utterance; the prediction of future events,” from Old French profecie (12c. Modern French prophétie) and directly from Late Latin prophetia, in Medieval Latin also prophecia (source also of Spanish profecia, Italian profezia), from Greek prophēteia “gift of interpreting the will of the gods,” from prophētēs (see prophet). Meaning “thing spoken or written by a prophet” is from late 13c.Related entries & more 

‘prophecy‘, Etymonline.com, accessed 24 July 2023.

Where did Nostradamus go? He was popular for a while.

Such a loose term.

What’s peculiar about the message is that everything taken together is… well, it seems strange to me. Going back and forth in somewhat normal conversation for months, a name change to something religious (you’ll have to trust me), prophecy and privacy…

I dunno. It’s just weird.

I’m going to drink more coffee.