I’m not greedy; I don’t pretend to own anything that’s not ownable in the first place. That includes non-scarce things like ideas. This is one way of saying someone should take these ideas and run with them. Unlike some of you reading this, I don’t have a time machine, so I don’t have the resources to pursue them.
1. “If They Had Cell Phones”
A blog that examines “what if they had cell phone” scenarios, in old(er) stories where, obviously, there was cell phone technology but its presence would have a severe effect on the plot. This idea would play well with both films and books, and the format might be better as recorded video vs. written blog, since kids like the whizz-bang of quick edits and fast information.
2. Schnoggleractor
Not the real name, obviously—just a placeholder, but a more serious topic: a view of paranormal phenomenon from a Christian perspective. The only sites I’ve come across that deal with this idea distill everything down to “unexplained = from the devil.” Could there be supernatural phenomenon that doesn’t have to do with the spiritual domain by itself? Other universes or dimensions? What’s would a framework for discernment of these sorts of things look like?
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Oy, a can of worms in #2. The first step is shedding the Anglo-Saxon mythology that requires us to assume “unexplained = satanic.” That’s where it comes from, because folks in the Bible lands don’t see it like that. We are looking at a whole bookshelf of different thinking just to get started. The biggest problem is the fear factor in our Western world for that stuff.
I concur. I’m may be willing to believe some folks literally perceive things from the real, supernatural domain as ghosts and unexplained things because their whole being is oriented a different direction. They can’t start off on the right foot because they’re not on the right path to begin with.
Of course. Much of the ghostly stuff is parabolic in nature, and our culture does parables so very poorly. Once I moved out the cultural dungeon, I realized I hated fright movies for being so utterly stupid. I’ll check out your haunted house any old day.