09-02-2016, 10:40 AM
(09-02-2016, 10:28 AM)GMDino Wrote: Watch a movie like "The King's Speech". Sometimes people who do great things do it more because it is thrust upon them than because they are great people or great leaders.
Great film, and I agree. (Assume the comment was general and not directed at me.)
And the parallel between Kapernick and literally every hero in the Bible is unmistakable, which is why as a pagan and a minority voice on this issue I could not resist pointing it out. Who is to say that Colin was not knocked off his horse like Paul or spoken to by a bush like Moses or refusing to do what was thrust upon him for years before finally accepting the task? And like every single hero in the bible, his deficits were in plain view when he spoke out (at the behest of God or his own conscience) and he paid a price as many heaped scorn on his head - just like literally every person called by God in Ta Biblia.
I am glad some people find the comparison so funny. I do too. It is almost funny enough to make me think Dante was right - there is a God and the name of his/her creation is The Divine Comedy. Almost.
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
