I don't get how how people express an interest in seeing Bill Murray's character's misguided declaration that "the franchise rights along will make rich beyond wildest dreams" come to fruition. Dan Aykroyd's character, and Harold Ramis', were both knee deep in the study of spiritism (how am I spelling that wrong??Rr) and neither of them had high hope for the business venture that Venkman (Bill Murray) had sprung up on them. Stantz (Aykroyd) is shaking his head in disagreement the whole time Venkman is declaring how the franchise rights will bring them great fortune.
GHOSTBUSTERS is told from the POV that ghosts do indeed exist but they are not lurking behind every other house. The idea that theyd be able to make a decent income off of paranormal investigations and eliminations was a very long shot.
I was thinking earlier that if GHOSTBUSTERS had been a true story, it would point to GOD (THE God, not Gozer The Gozarian) being in control despite the spiritual turmoil that was apparent in the film. And I was thinking the presence of a gender fluid supernatural force that thinks of itself as a God and isn't declaring itself to be Satan, I was thinking "How do you insert that into any kind of narrative that is true?" And honestly, **if** GHOSTBUSTERS had been written from factuality, I would simply have to concede it's one of many mysteries. Bottom line is there are things that UNFOLD - IN - THE BIBLE ---- things that are not ambiguous or otherwise in need of decoding, but are plainly explained as part of a narrative ---- that people like myself and most everyone I've met simply cannot explain without at least appearing to contradict some facet of commonly understood truth.
For instance, is it still possible to summon spirits from the dead? In the Old Testament, it was. King Saul summoned Samuel after he'd departed this Earth. But people suspect that OT saints were being held in kind of a vault until Jesus came. Maybe that's more or less accurate. Maybe only people that go to Hell are summonable by the dead.
But that's an interesting series of questions that pertain to doing something that God flat out told His people not to do. If you look at the passage, it's basically Saul wanting information that Samuel isn't able to offer. Saul asks Samuel whatever it was he was wanting and Samuel says something to the effect of "Why are you bothering me about this? I told you all of this was to come about and how to avoid it. But you never listened to me" That's got some larger implications. Basically, it's one of many many MANY examples of mankind expecting to find a cure for its' ailments. Saul wanted to be disobedient to God and hateful toward his fellow Hebrew, his successor, of all people, mostly, and still find satisfaction in life. I can attest to this: You can't be happy in life and be disobedient to God. You can be happy in life and not be a Christian, yes. You can be tainted with sin, and be apathetic about it and carry on like it's 1985. But if you are called by God, if you have accepted His call, and you haven't turned your back on it, then you can't find satisfaction, at least not fully, in seasons of disobedience. It just doesn't work that way. The tried and true hymm "Trust and obey" I do believe states it with utmost clarity: "There is no other way to be happy in Jesus but to trust and obey".
Samuel did right by God in telling his brethren, including Saul, what God wanted them to know. Samuel was dedicated by his mother for the purpose of hearing God speak to him and proclaiming what he'd heard. That is a good example for all of us to follow, to not hold back in speaking of our beloved savior, the precious gift of salvation He has given freely to all who trust Him. But the story of his after-life presence, although it does have questions that I'm sure more than just me would prefer to have the answer to, it is above all a tale of a man desperately caught up in disobedience to God Almighty thinking he can find a way out. There is no way out. This life will always have a promise of greener greens, higher highs and greater greats. Sometimes those promises have something of a hint of value to them, but there is nothing of equal value that one can trade for peace of mind. And chasing anything, be it information, stuff, whatever it may be, is counter-productive to any receiving of peace. I can attest to this as well. I mean, there are things worth chasing obviously. Pandora internet radio isn't going to just happen. Someone had to toil at mass producing computers and then lobbying to free the internet, and then of course someone had to start Pandora internet radio and keep at it until technology caught up with everyone including Pandora. As for myself, I do have to enter it into a "search" bar or type the whole thing into the address bar and hope I don't mis-spell it and walk into a virus...which does indeed happen to me sometimes.....But I would much rather just chill out and listen to Pandora than constantly be sifting through full length albums trying to determine if any of them are worth buying individually and figuring out why they aren't and trying to excuse myself from things I don't like about either myself or my lot in life or the nature of commerce in general. Truth be told, only a handful of artists made money pre-Spotify. Now, they all make money, but most of them are lucky to make enough to live off of. However, it is more equitable so really my main issue is my asinine persistence in buying music CDs instead of just chipping in a reasonable amount to the music I truly like. So many ways to do things better. And it's worth it, IMO. Staying in the same tarpit through life is just abysmal. It's one thing to make it shore and then fall into another tar pit. A guest preacher noted that there's a fundamental wrongness in the children's Sunday school song about climbing Jacob's ladder. And I agree with him, the idea is not to sneak into Heaven. The idea is, trying to be accurate here, I might be falling on my face ---- the idea is HONOR. I've been reading Romans chapter 13 a few times over the last couple days. We should honor those who are worthy of honor, those who have taken on the challenge of resisting temptation and are 8 to 10 or more, coming along victorious. We should honor government. We should honor the governments' clerical workers. But we should LOVE one another. Bros & sis' in Christ should love each other, as Christ Himself loved us. We should love everyone else as well, as one of the other places in The Bible the pastor pointed out a couple weeks ago, it's not the same depth of love that we have for each other as the bridegroom but it's more akin to honor; rather than debase them or belittle them or humiliate them, we should respect them for the potential that is within them and their inherent value as imagebearers of God, and we should communicate what we can about God to them when opportunities arise to do so, but we should not have inward affection toward them the way we do toward other members of The Body.
Anyway........that wasn't a very strong closing sentence, but I'm kinda half needing to go to bed and I'm out of things to say at the moment......
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