Lacking resonance as a communicational barrier

When something, or someone, is weird or off, we tend to avoid becoming involved with it, or him or her, and the most fundamental reason for this, from a subjective perspective, is that we understand people via the issues they have and issues to the degree that they resonate within us.

Even though some people are restricted to the issues they've encountered and others are able to define issues from scratch, a function of the difference between the personal and the philosophical mental horizon in my terminology, all people use per se meaningless sounds or images, that is signs, to stir associated meanings in others, and whereas one exposition builds meaning by the unambiguous combination of unambiguously defined blocks another mentions seemingly unrelated phenomena that refer to an issue in which they all feature and that can only be identified when one has already encountered it and it resonates.

When you have issues that other people don't share, you'll notice that you'll say one thing and people hear another, acting as if you misspoke. Also, when you've reached the philosophical mental horizon, although this is not a certain indicator that you have, you start noticing all the times that people misspeak whereas before you were unconsciously correcting them.

Prophecies by their very nature can't be instructions that allow you to understand an issue before you've encountered it, because in that case they would change the development they predict. Of course, who is to say that a text doesn't? But if a text is considered off or weird and people avoid to concern themselves with it, chances are that it doesn't.

Considering the Revelation in particular, on the first level the events it describes can only be identified with events that have already been encountered and there are too many possible matches to reach any certainty, that is the resonance is frivolous and we can feel that.

Hence the Revelation feels like a forbidden book. It is only when we start looking at the world as τοῦ κόσμου τούτου, a place that is at odds with the divine expectation for (and of) the future, the place that we've been send to go to, that the issue that connects all the phenomena described in the Revelation can resonate in us and the book opens itself to us, the book with the seven seals that only the lamb that was slain can open.

On the one hand there are those who see the divine expectation become reality, on the other there are those who see the difference between this world and it and the latter see the fuller picture and it is them who recognise the path laid out in the Revelation as the trajectory of their mission.

America is all about pretending, or larping as it's recently been dubbed, it's the foundation of its maturity, that one is mature enough to pretend to be professional, and recently it has been creeping into religion as well, not just in the guise of professional preachers, but into the question of how to please God: Isn't Doug Wilson saying that you should pretend to be David in order to render your heart more favourable in the eyes of the Lord when he talks about earthly and divine anger? What would David do when someone cuts into his lane? You see the difference, don't you? You don't get to become Jesus, when you ask yourself what Jesus would do, but you would get to become David, when you asked yourself what he would do, just like with Thomas Edison or any other role model. Here it's the man, and there the cause and the cause is shared by virtue of divine calling.