If you see a new kind of fruit on a tree you do not know you will of course be resistant to eat it. Only if you know the tree and know the fruit is harmless you will taste it. Or if the fruit is sold in a store you will be quite safe. But berries you during your walk happen to see on a tree foreign to you? No – you better not eat it.
The thing is that the fruit must be authorized. And real authorization is not given by reputation but by familiarity. If the fruit is sold on the store you may taste it, but you will be a bit suspicious, dependent upon your feelings for the common sense. But if the fruit is from a tree you know and love you will have no expostulation eating it, even if the fruit tree is strange or foreign in your culture. Christianity is authorized not by reputation but by familiarity with the Jewish religion.
In the same way we will be suspicious to anonymous comments on this forum. Popularity, that is reputation, may make us friendlier to anonymous comments. But real authorization the comments only get from being of profiles familiar to us. Profiles need to be telling.
Devils will act anonymously. Their aim is to create insecurity and despair. Do not copy!
The thing is that the fruit must be authorized. And real authorization is not given by reputation but by familiarity. If the fruit is sold on the store you may taste it, but you will be a bit suspicious, dependent upon your feelings for the common sense. But if the fruit is from a tree you know and love you will have no expostulation eating it, even if the fruit tree is strange or foreign in your culture. Christianity is authorized not by reputation but by familiarity with the Jewish religion.
In the same way we will be suspicious to anonymous comments on this forum. Popularity, that is reputation, may make us friendlier to anonymous comments. But real authorization the comments only get from being of profiles familiar to us. Profiles need to be telling.
Devils will act anonymously. Their aim is to create insecurity and despair. Do not copy!