papelindholm

Is this the pathetic route every previously pretty famous but nowadays less than third tier actor has to take to gain favours in front of an audience sycophantic enough to an ideal they merely very much would like to be true spite no verified evidence and instead severely if not conclusively challenged by that of the contrary?

Nothing in the narrative sparks some kind of illuminating experience, especially when faced with the actual account of how this so called pious person managed to more or less twerk himself into stardom in front of the authorities in the institution he already worked for by simple means of arbitrary and frankly cheap cosplay.

For shame. That is, the character and the depiction of the same.

Consider a situation where a person unbeknownst to themselves suffers a brain haemorrhage or develops a brain tumour and starts pervceiving auditory hallucinations.

Consider also a situation where a person unbeknownst to themselves enters a mentally disordered state of say mythomania.

Consider additionally a situation where a person unscrupulously lies about having a numinous experience in order to gain attention even benefits at the expense of the gullible.

Consider yet another situation where a person lies about having a numinous experience in fear of otherwise being ostracized by their family, friends, educational institution and work community.

Now consider a person claiming to have heard the voice of a god.

Is there a reliable method an outsider could and should utilize to distinguish between the situations mentioned above and thereof choose among the most plausible that also comport to the shared reality of which we have numerous empirically thus unequivocally verifiable examples?

Or should we merely go with what seems emotionally appealing within a specific ingroup of generally wilfully illiterate?

...just more reasonably gullible, possibly ignorant, most likely disingenuous and sadly perhaps even desperate zealots with their minds clouded by their own conviction, attempting to fabricate a narrative around disconnected details - not even haphazardly found as depicted but obviously specifically dug after and selected for the prime purpose "documentaries" alike pursue - and then laboriously trying to fit them into the presupposed mould carved out by wishful thinking of the director with the intent to flog off a story for individuals proned to religious woo.

Very disheartening to come to realize such sensationalism riding ghost stories are still produced as if were they valid by any rational standards thus remotely anchored in a shared reality. And heartrending is they have a market.