Dear Saints,
Today I am making available our new FORUM here at the Parables website, which is something that has come about due to the ongoing blog series The Loneliness of the Saints: A Call For Community. You can now find the FORUM in the menu at the top of all Parables web pages.
The Parables Forum is for readers of the Parables blog, but also for any other saints who would like to make use of it. It is for anyone of the Remnant. Please share it with others who may be interested. And feel free to use this new space for reaching out to brothers and sisters, for sharing links to relevant articles and news, or anything else you might be lead to use it for.
Overseeing the forum space will be a long-term reader and fan of Joseph Herrin’s writings, Jordan Klumpenhouwer. Jordan has been kind enough to act as the forum Admin.
Check it out from the site menu above or the link below:
PARABLES FORUM: https://parables.blog/forum/
Once upon a time these simple types of forums – or Boards – were found across the internet covering all kinds of interests. They have largely faded away now, due to the tidal wave of social media that was to eventually flood the internet, run by big-tech-corporations with dubious agendas and even more dubious connections to Intelligence operations. Hence why privacy became not only a thing of the past, but a commodity to be sold away under the guise of ‘advertising tracking’. Why social engineering became the mathematically precise landscape of our online experience, with our opinions and knowledge shaped by human-programmed ‘algorithms’. Even the most sophisticated methods of Behavioural Psychology have been deployed, so that people have become mentally addicted to scrolling through endless titillations and the giving and receiving of ‘Likes’ and ‘Shares’. In recent times, it has emerged that this constant frantic engagement of the human brain leads to the total failure of short term memory becoming lodged in our long term memory. The use of these modern social media platforms, in combination with our phones, causes us to forget the past …
In a way, the differences between older style forums and newer social media can be subtle. But the end results are profound.
For all that these newer platforms appeared to be free to use, the hidden costs have been diabolically high. Indeed, modern social media is one of the major forces launching us so irresistibly into the last days of the antichrist Technocracy, in which every aspect of life – human life and all life on planet earth – is becoming digitised and tracked for the purposes of total possession and total control. The mobile phone, married with social media and online shopping, is already the very shadow of what is to come – a ‘Mark’ in which we will no longer be able to buy or sell without it. Indeed, already, there are many things I cannot to do online – most especially in regards to buying and selling – without the use of my wife’s mobile phone and my internet accounts. In many global cities, it is even becoming impossible to travel around those cities without a mobile phone linked to the internet, unless you wish to walk. Yet even walking will eventually become prohibited in these ever-smarter cities if you are lacking a mobile connection.
No one forced anyone to use mobile phones. Their convenience outrode any other considerations. And here we are.
Likewise, no-one forced anyone to use these social media platforms. It was simply a matter of convenience for us all. Everyone else seemed to be using them. If you wanted to be seen and heard, they were the places to be. And so gradually, users drifted away from the older style of forums or Boards, and started gathering in places like Facebook instead.
For these reasons I am not even certain if readers wish to use this kind of forum space anymore. It is simply something I have finally been prompted into providing, after much consideration, here on the Parables website. Use this old-school forum as you see fit. I will keep the space up and running whether it sees much use or not. If nothing else, it provides me with an excellent place to pin up ministry news. Also a place for readers to post comments that will remain more current than comments posted under blogs. Being an alternative to modern social media, perhaps it will become more useful as the days ahead visibly worsen.
As I already mentioned, this forum is for any saint to use, not only readers of Parables. So please let other believers know of this new space and that they are welcome to use it if they would like to.
Also, let me know if you have any issues with signing up to the forum, posting comments, linking images etc. Any teething problems should be fairly straightforward to sort out.
I pray you are well.
Colin Buchanan
thiswisefool@protonmail.com
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