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When Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff started his company in 1999, it was little more than four guys and an idea in a one-bedroom San Francisco apartment. The server was stored in a bedroom closet, and one of his co-founders slept on a futon he stored under his desk.
Now, 19-years-later, the company has transformed into a 29,000 person behemoth with more than $10 billion in annual revenue and a market cap of $87 billion.
And while Benioff remains the effusive and boisterous face of Salesforce, he didn't build the company alone.
These are the 10 people who helped build Salesforce into what it is today —and the people charged with moving it toward an ambitious $22 billion revenue goal in the next four years and beyond.
Parker Harris co-founded Salesforce with Marc Benioff in 1999, and has since masterminded the product and engineering side of the company.
Harris — described by his peers as kind and demure— is considered the voice of reason at Salesforce, and an important counterbalance to Benioff's impassioned business strategy.
Like Steve Wozniak was to Steve Jobs at Apple, Harris is credited with executing on the untethered ambitions of a visionary CEO.
"Marc is showing us a vision, the direction," Harris told Business Insider in 2015. "And I'm right there with him figuring out how are we going to get there. We bounce ideas off of each other to try to make it the right path together."
As chief operating officer, Keith Block manages the day-to-day at Salesforce, from growing its global sales and marketing units to keeping the company's 29,000 employees moving in the same direction.
Analysts attribute Block's 2013 hiring from Oracle with Salesforce's move from serving primarily small customers to winning business with large enterprises.
Under Block's watch, Salesforce has signed more large enterprise deals than ever and continues to expand into new industries, turning itself into one of the largest business software makers in the world.
Salesforce has been signing big deals at a record pace, and now has roughly 150,000 customers that are under contracts worth at least $13.3 billion.
If Marc Benioff has a favorite in the organization, it's Bret Taylor, the former CEO of Quip.
Salesforce added Taylor to its team in 2016 with the $750 million acquisition of Quip, a cloud collaboration tool akin to Google Docs. Salesforce has since added Quip as a product offering, but what Benioff really wanted was Taylor himself.
"He's one of the absolute rising stars of our industry," Benioff told Business Insider in 2016. "It's been my dream to work more closely with Bret Taylor."
Taylor reports directly to Benioff, and has even attended monthly private dinners at Benioff's home.
Two years later, Taylor is now president and chief product officer for Salesforce, where he runs the company's global product design, development and go-to-market strategy.
One more thing to know: Before starting Quip, Taylor was chief technology officer at Facebook. He's credited with inventing the company's acclaimed "Like" button. And before that, he co-created Google Maps.
Benioff plans to grow the company from $10.5 billion in revenue in fiscal 2018 to $60 billion annually by 2034. And it's up to chief financial officer Mark Hawkins to make sure that it happens.
When Hawkins joined Salesforce in 2014, he brought along with him decades of experience running the financial side of enterprise tech companies like Autodesk, Logitech, Dell and Hewlett-Packard.
Autodesk, where Hawkins was CFO for five years, has a similar cloud subscription model to Salesforce, so he came in with a leg up on the competition.
But his job is much more than just making sure that Salesforce reaches its subscription revenue goals. To reach $60 billion, analysts believe Salesforce is going to have to go on an acquisition spree and expand beyond its existing understanding of customer relationship management (CRM) software.
Hawkins has gotten down to business, most recently securing the $6.86 billion acquisition of MuleSoft. Analysts are skeptical of the price tag, but they also feel optimistic that the acquisition will supercharge Salesforce's efforts to grow its revenue.
Suzanne DiBianca runs Salesforce's philanthropy efforts — which is to say that she is one busy woman.
Alhough corporate giving and community relations are outside of the traditional business structure, it's a huge part of Salesforce's overall strategy. Benioff frequently pitches the company as a benevolent force in a sea of corporate greed, and it's up to DiBianca to make sure the company follows through on that promise.
DiBianca is credited with creating Salesforce's famous 1-1-1 corporate philanthropy model, through which the company donates 1% of its equity, 1% of its product and 1% of its employees' time to non-profits or volunteer services.
Corporate philanthropy is an impactful marketing initiative for the company as well, both with customers who want to work a company that shares their social values, and for employees who want a workplace that give them more than just a salary.
As president of technology, Srinivas Tallapragada leads a global team of engineers and overlooks all of the engineering and development of the Salesforce product and platform. He's the man behind the product that customers come face to face with every day.
Tallapragada, who works closely with Parker Harris, is a huge proponent of the idea that customer success should drive products design.
For that reason, it's Tallapragada who's the mastermind behind the three times a year upgrade cycle that keeps Salesforce engineers and app designers constantly on their toes. In 2016, Tallapragada and his team hit a huge milestone: 50 major updates to the platform.
"I take pride in building a diverse engineering team that delivers innovation and customer success at scale," Tallapragada told Business Insider, adding that since he joined, the product has grown significantly across cloud, social, mobile, artificial intelligence, and IoT. "Each time Salesforce delivers a release we need to seamlessly update the tools and features that customers are using without disrupting service or breaking anything-- almost like changing a tire on a moving car. To say that we've done that more than 50 times is an amazing engineering feat and I'm so proud to lead the team responsible for this work," Tallapragada said.
As president and chief strategy officer, Alex Dayon works closely with Salesforce customers to figure out what it is they're looking for in their products.
Dayon, who trained as an engineer in his home country of France, joined Salesforce in 2008 when his company InStranet was acquired.
He was soon put in charge of launching Salesforce's' Service Cloud — a product, aimed at support centers, that was built off of the acquired InstraNet technology. Dayon's work on Service Cloud is credited with moving the company beyond its role as a software tool for people in sales, and into its current incarnation as a customer relationship management behemoth.
Dayon's colleague Bret Taylor, who joined Salesforce in 2016, became chief product officer in late 2017, at which point Dayon moved from his role as head of product to run strategy for the organization.
Richard Socher is the brains behind Einstein, Salesforce's artificial intelligence product, which purports to add an intuitive layer to the company's entire CRM platform.
Socher joined Salesforce in 2016 through one of its many AI acquisitions. Socher was the CEO of MetaMind, a platform that makes predictions based on image and text information, at the time the company was acquired. MetaMind was promptly folded into Salesforce's existing structure, and Socher was named chief scientist for the company.
"Einstein is a game changer because it is removing the complexity of AI and empowering every Salesforce user with AI where they work. With Einstein we've taken AI out of the lab and into the hands of our customers by embedding it across sales, service, marketing, e-commerce and more," Socher said in 2017.
While the Einstein product is still a work in progress, Socher himself is fairly renown in AI. He teaches computer science at Stanford, where he also got his PhD with a focus on AI and deep learning.
Around 18 years ago — just one year into Salesforce's existence — Andrea Leszek joined the company as a technical writer and developed the very first online help documents for the product. Now she's leading an entire arm of the company, but her objective remains the same: to help people engage with Salesforce faster and better.
From writing customer how-to guides and designing lessons on Salesforce's training platform Trailhead, to making sure internal engineers and product managers get on-boarded quickly, Leszek and her team play a fundamental role bringing new people into the fold.
Salesforce is a high-growth organization, and its Trailhead training platform is a huge part of that. Though at its core Trailhead is a tool to teach people to use Salesforce software, the company has created a whole culture around it. There are events for the community, and people who excel at it are deemed Trailblazers.
So while Leszek's role is officially "enablement" — Salesforce speak for helping people use its products — she's really a leader of culture in the organization. And that culture is a directive that comes straight from Benioff himself.
Among her most successful projects is Salesforce's Women's Leadership program, an employee development initiative she worked on with Leila Seka, the executive vice president of AppExchange, with support from CTO Parker Harris, to make sure women have equal opportunity throughout their careers at the company.
Tyler Prince is a key strategy guy for Salesforce. Though based at the company's Chicago office, Prince reports directly to Keith Block and is responsible for growing the company's customer base in specific industries like healthcare, financial services, retail and manufacturing.
Among Prince's tasks: managing the huge partner ecosystem that makes it so Salesforce's technology can work alongside other enterprise tech companies on the market. In some cases, this is other companies like DocuSign and FinancialForce that extend what it's possible to do using the Salesforce product. Other times its companies like Deloitte and PwC who work with customers to figure out how to use Salesforce to meet their business goals.
The Salesforce platform is a success with clients, in part, because it's so sticky. The company has worked hard to build an entire ecosystem around its products, so that if you're not getting what you need from it, you can add in another company's product rather than abandon Salesforce altogether.
These partners are also a huge part of Salesforce's strategy to hit $22 billion in annual revenue by 2020. In fiscal year 2018, more than 55% of its new business came through its partners. And around 87% of all Salesforce customers use applications from its partners, according to the company.


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CenterForLit Director Adam Andrews led another Teachers In Service event for parents and teachers seeking to avoid the winter blues in January 2018. However, it is for any time of year when unmet goals and unfulfilled expectations threaten to sabotage your classroom. The theme is Identity, and we'll be asking and answering questions like: Where Does My Identity Come From? Who Are My Students, and Who Says? What Are My Most Important Goals? and What is the Definition of Success as a Teacher? Our aim is to remember who we really are and what we're really striving for, and to build each other up for a year full of rest and peace.

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There are so many types of art supplies, which can be bought for completing classroom tasks or for preparing a master piece by professional artists. If you are wondering how you should even start brushing up on the many types and brands of art supplies that are being sold these days, you can easily rectify that by going online and doing some research, asking for feedback or opinion of people who are in art or are knowledgeable about them. Starting an art supply store is also a wonderful idea. A lot of countries all over the world have many art supplies stores because they are quite profitable ventures. You can definitely set up shop and start your own art supply store if you have enough knowledge about the trade and are imaginative enough to stick to it.
The total budget needed to start a serious business will depend on the location of the store, the type and the amount of art supplies that will be placed, number of staff, promotional charges and so on. Getting personal loans from family and friends for your initial investment into the business is a common way to get started. If you hope to immediately start earning as soon as your sales start coming in, you have to brush up on the latest and relevant business tactics and technical know-how regarding the line of business you are in which is, of course, art supplies.
In order to gain basic knowledge, you can refer to books or net. There are also some introductory classes that you can enroll in..
When you are setting up a general store, location is not of great importance. For specialized stores, however, you must think a lot about your store location. It should be somewhere in, or close by, a university or a school. If the university has fine arts related programs, this will be an added advantage. The more population or human traffic there is in the area, the better it will be for your business.
You should also decide early on whether you will be a wholesaler or a retailer. Get your art supplies inventory from a wholesaler of said products. Then you should draw up an inventory of items that you would need for your store. Paints, water colors, brush sets, shimmers, papers and other drawing media, drawing stands and more advanced easels, specialty items, and others can be included. There are so many accessories like knives, palettes, cutters, scissors, and mount cutters and so on, that will be required for arts and craft works for schools.
As for canvases, you can sell simple canvases and sketched canvases. Easels are a wonderful choice if you want to specialize in selling certain art supplies. You can choose from the most popular table easels and studio easels. Field easels and mount boards are also good alternatives. Sketching surfaces, watercolor surfaces are also sold in wide range of sizes and shapes. There is a lot of profit to be made from selling coloring items, particularly acrylic and water colors, since they are the most widely used ones. There are also shops that sell Gouache colors. Basically, Gouache is water-based paint. It's pretty much the same as regular water colors. It is opaque, thanks to its chalk ingredient.


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Few online platforms cater for serious non-news content. Supposed dialog on social media sites is disjointed at best, and usually mired in personal attacks, whilst the barrage of page content screaming for reader attention only cements a thoroughly distracting experience. Meanwhile, personal feeds are increasingly censored and tuned to keeping people trapped within their own think-bubbles.
Nonetheless, you can find some of my content on Medium or Minds. Writing can require feedback to fine tune the message.
Time and effort goes into everything online. Please consider sharing and linking to my entirely-free content. I have no promotional framework, and really cannot be bothered jumping through all sorts of technical hoops just to get in people's faces. But it would be dishonest of me to deny that I see this content as philosophically significant.
How I write
After continued difficulties composing NOR (Non-Objective Reality) ideas in book form, I began writing much shorter self-contained pieces that seemed more readable.
I generally opt for a generic narrative with the goal of minimizing distance from the reader. This also avoids the pettiness of specific details, whilst framing points to have the broadest possible relevance. In any case, we all have unique experiences and it seems unreasonable to expect the reader to be familiar with mine.
More generally, NOR sees all details as potentially distracting and easily triggering intractable disputes about yet finer details – derailing debate over whatever point was originally made. It is my opinion that for as long as human understanding is to be founded exclusively on detailed knowledge, real and wholesome understanding can only be blinded by a resultant snowstorm of facts.
In today's age of science, it is just too easy to mistake a host of references to peer-reviewed studies and popular theories as a form of sound and suitably critical thinking. It is also too easy to quote the words of well-known intellectuals as if those words carried more weight for having come out of a particular mind. But unfortunately, such approaches have long become the robotic behavior of our increasingly unthinking world of academia. In response, NOR argues objective science to be a flawed and increasingly corrupted paradigm, as explained throughout these pages. However popular objectivity and the scientific perspective might currently be, these remain simply two closely-tied perspectives among numerous other ways of seeing the human condition.
Hence, at risk of being accused of just making stuff up, I present various ideas that are only loosely substantiated. The justification of this stance is that bettering one's understanding often demands increased levels of impersonal introspection – if not also correspondingly decreased involvement in trivial worldly details and distractions. If seeking more than mere entertainment, readers may have to fill in some blanks by reflecting on their own experiences. This is an inevitable consequence of challenging objectivity and the modes of thought on which it is based, given that objectivity itself only makes sense as the complement of subjectivity.
I am of course well aware that the objective outlook and the sciences which feed it are believed by many to unquestioningly constitute the highest form of truth. But this is basically a holier-than-thou view that often regards all else as more or less circumspect, even as it appears blind to the common sense idea that nothing claiming to be truth should ever be considered beyond question. I simply do not agree that objectivity should be afforded exclusive adjudication rights as regards what constitutes truth and knowledge, and I set out my reasons alongside the troubled state of human civilization as the tangible evidence such an approach is indeed misguided.
On a more positive note, transcending the corresponding illusions underlying today's human cultures is presented as logical, relatively straightforward, and immediately beneficial in both individual and societal terms.


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The Client
In its first major overhaul since launching in 2000, Gumtree set out to develop a completely new look, complete with a new logo, brand identity, tone of voice and improvements across its mobile and desktop channels. They set a big goal: to become a top 10 website in the UK, hitting every internet user by 2018. This was their opportunity to start afresh, re-assert their trustworthy reputation and provide outstanding customer service.
The Challenge
Our initial brief to support PR quickly expanded. To maximise Gumtree's modest budget, we were tasked with creating 'a big splash' for the re-brand across their social channels, making the most of the sentiment, seeking advocates and building an emotional connection between Gumtree and their online community.
Our Response
Early in the rebrand, we attended a tone of voice workshop where we discussed how we currently communicate to Gumtree's customers and their feelings towards the brand. Ultimately this helped define the brand's new tone of voice, crucial to revamping its social content.
We developed #ItStartsHere in response to the proposed TV advertising campaign. Themed around how Gumtree purchases can create opportunities in someone's life, #ItStartsHere perfectly complemented the campaign.
We embarked on a hunt for influencers across social media, people who love Gumtree. We analysed influencer profiles to discover what they liked, and used Gumtree to send them a gift.
The Outcome
As well as planned paid social, our team were engaged in community outreach throughout launch day. This resulted in a 14.88% Twitter engagement rate in the first 24 hours of the brand relaunch as well as 279,000 video views.
The following week was the exclusive social media launch of the new TV advert. To coincide, we stimulated trending conversation on Twitter, generating 17.1 million brand impressions, a huge success! On Facebook, the advert received over 553,000 views.
- 5.9 million impressions overall within 24 hours of brand re-launch
- Website visits prior to re-brand: 15 million users per month
- Website visits following re-brand: 22 million by the second week
- Traffic from social channels up 61.8%
- 20% increase in homepage visits
- 15.7million trend impressions on Twitter


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Day 105 – Kurdistan
Diyarbakır -> Silvan
Distance (km) : 82
Time on bike : 4h 30m
Average speed : 18.31 km/h
Total (km) : 5538
The stomac is Danish again!
Tone of the Day: Josh Rouse – Winter in the Hamptons
Walk along and on top of Diyarbakirs old city wall and have a first glance at the legendary Tigris River. Pretty nice thought having cycled all the way from Denmark to the Tigris River…
Again the landscape is a bit boring and not too varied with harvested wheat fields and constant hills – and then there was this fine Roman bridge…
We've now come to the Kurdish region. Whenever we stop we talk to people that tell us that they are Kurds – not Turks, for Gods sake! – og it seems very important for them to make the differences between Turkish and Kurdish culture clear for us – and obviously the identify with the latter. No one knows for sure how many Kurds live in the border region of Eastern Turkey, Northern Irak, Western Iran, Northern Syria and a small fraction in Caucasus ( See map) but some accounts say between 25 and 40 mio. Interesting change in the sociocultural landscape for the WT-boys!
We are now around 150 km as the crow flies from the Iraqi border and this proximity is felt by the Iraqi busses on the roads this afternoon.
In Silvan (64.000 citizens) we are told by the police that the area is very bad for camping. Unfortunately they don't let us pitch the tent in the nice grassy space inside the police station. We are then led to the "teacher's hotel" by a proud police assistant.
The boys in town are crazy and don't give us one second rest. I try to ignore them by keeping a motionless and indifferent look. And everything is fine until a little bloke on his bicycle says to me "Hallo, sexy!" Where did that come from? Soon the usual "Hallo money" is heard everywhere around us and we back to normal again…Damned kids!!!
It's now 9PM and Eric Zabel (aka Martin) is already in his bed. It's been a tough day for him and he's become all slim after the rough cycling and the verying daily programmes that Zülle (I) make up 😉
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Outlander Tour
During the summer we spent a few days in Scotland. I took an Outlander movie set tour, but to be honest, you don't need to be a fan of the books or tv show to enjoy this tour. The historic buildings are unique and interesting on their own.
The house below is Jamies' ancestral home, Lallybroch. It is completely defunct inside and only the exterior is used in filming. It is on private land, so permission from owners is needed to access property which is easy enough. They've gotten smart and have installed a ticket booth on the edge of the property. You can see the modern house next door.
Located on the Firth of Forth, Blackwell Castle stands in as the Fort William headquarters of Black Jack Randall, as well as featuring in the heart-wrenching scene of Jamie's incarceration.
Linlithgow Palace: The entrance and corridors of this ruined palace are used as Wentworth Prison where Jamie is imprisoned. Once a favoured royal residence of the Stewart kings and queens and the birthplace of Mary Queen of Scots, this wonderful 15th century site, with its elegant courtyard, still oozes charm and glamour.
The rustic town of Culross in Fife is a unique example of what a town in Scotland would have looked like during the 17th and 18th centuries. The town's Mercat Cross area is transformed into the fictional village of Cranesmuir where Geillis lives, and behind the impressive Culross Palace is where Claire's herb garden at Castle Leoch is located (S1).
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- The unknown men walked into Ivas Garden in Kabati, shot in the air once and then shot thrice at a private vehicle
- The criminals demanded to know where the vehicle owner was and vowed to kill her should they find her
- Police visited the scene and collected four spent cartridges
Four unknown and daring gunmen walked into a restaurant in Kabati, Muranga County and left a chilling message to their target by shooting her car three times on the night of Tuesday, May 16.
To further prove that they were on a serious mission, they told the watchmen to pass a blunt message to the target that they would kill her wherever they would find her.
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And they then casually walked out of the restaurant, leaving the spent cartridges at the scene.
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Ivas Garden manager Stephen Nga'ng'a said the four men entered the established and called the two watchmen to the parking lot.
One of them drew a pistol and shot in the air once during the 9:50pm incident.
He then shot at a Toyota Probox registration number KBN 588Y which was at the parking.
The vehicle, according to the police, belonged to the sister-in-law of the restaurant's owner who was however not at the hotel during the incident.
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After the shooting, the composed men who appeared not to be in a hurry demanded to be told where the owner of the vehicle was and threatened to kill her wherever they would find her.
They then casually walked out of the restaurant and disappeared into the nearby thicket.
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The Kabati police station commander and his party went to the scene and recovered four spent cartridges of 9mm caliber.
Investigations were launched to establish the identity and the motive of the gunmen.
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How Women Are Improving Legal Practices For Everyone
By Anna Johansson • March 03, 2018•Careers
One of the hardest parts of being a lawyer is that you're expected to work long hours, and while this stress has historically weighed heavier on women who are still viewed as primary caregivers, the tide is starting to turn. By fighting for greater flexibility and sustained work-life balance, female lawyers have made the law a more sustainable career path for everyone.
Overworked By The Billable Hour
Lawyers are chronically overworked as they try to maximize their billable hours, but that doesn't mean every lawyer wants to work until they drop. Rather, in order to avoid functioning on overdrive, many lawyers have opted to give up the salary perks and prestige of Big Law and transfer to small firms or opt for a lower intensity legal specialty such as copyright or real estate law.
Of course, there's no such thing as a low-intensity legal career, but historically the most family-friendly paths are those with more reliable court schedules. Real estate lawyers, for example, might handle multiple property closings a day but are less likely to face emergency circumstances than a criminal or corporate lawyer.
Another way women have tried to attain work-life balance over the years, despite the intensity of the field, is by choosing specialties that center the family such as education law. It can be hard to settle in at home after a day spent settling other people's divorces, but if you've worked to help a family get their child's education needs met or, as a residential real estate agent, helped a couple buy their first home, then coming home to one's own family can be a reminder of what you fight for as a lawyer – why you do what you do.
Full-Time Flex Time
Trying to gain some career flexibility via specialization is an option, but it's not a very good one, which is why women lawyers have been trying to transform workplace standards for years now; we're finally gaining traction, and everyone is benefitting. One version of this is the implementation of full-time flex in which any lawyer at a firm can work part-time, some of the time. As type-A personalities, most lawyers don't want a lax schedule; we couldn't function working part-time. But we do want to be able to attend school events, eat dinner with our families, or go on vacation without being considered lesser lawyers.
Men, on the other hand, have also come to see more flexible schedules as a boon for many reasons. First, it offers them an opportunity to participate in child rearing and family life, which is not just expected today but also something many men enjoy. Additionally, it offers them a chance to start side businesses, pursue hobbies, and do volunteer work. After decades in which lawyers have been expected to give up everything they loved to practice law, all lawyers are being offered a chance to take those things back.
Women carried the bulk of the burden of fighting for flexible scheduling, but as companies and workers come to recognize the mental health and performance benefits of work-life balance, the concept has grown in popularity. Pushing ourselves to the limits isn't always best for us, our families, or our clients. By taking on the worst parts of the billable hour, we've made the law a real dream job.
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Round 16, #186 Overall: Steve Cishek
At this point in the draft, I know I need to collect more speed. But I'm not going to take it earlier than I need to, so I'm essentially playing chicken with the draft a bit and looking to pick up more value first. I know my rotation is not going to be strong on starters, so I decided to go with the best closer left in terms of job security. This gives me three closers, and assuming all stay healthy and productive, I can pencil myself in near the top in saves. While my wins and strikeouts aren't looking hot, I also have a good thing going with my ERA and WHIP thanks to three closers and Chapman.
Also nice to know I could have gotten my catcher here, eight rounds later. Oh well, what can you do?
Relevant players taken after: Alejandro De Aza, Brandon League, Ernesto Frieri, Miguel Montero,
Salvador Perez, Josh Willingham.
Round 17, #199 Overall: Alexi Ogando
If I'm going the excellent ERA and WHIP route, Ogando seems like a good fit here being "Chapman Light": converted reliever who should give me about 150 excellent IP. Also nice potential for a keeper league. Given the quality of starting pitching left and what my strategy looked like, I think this was a solid pick.
Relevant players taken after: Emilio Bonafacio, Todd Frazier, Shaun Marcum, Jarrod Parker.
Round 18, #210 Overall: Ichiro Suzuki
With two more good arms rounding out the pitching staff a bit, it was time to finally grab another stolen-base guy.
Relevant players taken after: Jean Segura, Xander Bogaerts, Cameron Maybin, Nick Swisher, Andrelton Simmons, Alcides Escobar, Marco Estrada
Round 19, #223 Overall: Coco Crisp
I was really hoping to grab Segura or Escobar with this next pick, and kill two birds with one stone by filling in my MI spot and getting the rest of my needed stolen bases with one player. Sadly, those stolen bases are still needed, so I took Crisp here and slotted him into my utility spot. I'm well aware he'll probably be injured at some point in the season while giving me 30-40 stolen bases, so I like having him there where I can easily plug in a sub when he does inevitably go on the DL.
Relevant players taken after: Michael Young, Lorenzo Cain, Derek Jeter, Lance Lynn
Round 20, #234 Overall: Alexei Ramirez
Another domino effect from not getting Escobar or Segura a few rounds earlier. Not crying too much about getting Alexei for this spot though; if anything, it makes taking Aybar in Round 11 look worse.
Round 21 and 22: A.J. Burnett and Tim Hudson
These were the last two picks to round out the starting team before getting to the bench, and I was fairly happy getting these two veteran guys. Burnett provides the strikeouts I need to hopefully get me closer to the middle in the category, and Tim Hudson provides some reliable innings that won't ruin my plan to maintain a great WHIP and ERA. He'll also pick me up some solid wins, which I could use.
Crunching the numbers at this stage, I'm actually projected to come in first in the league! Pretty surprising, as I was beating myself up over the few questionable picks I made. Of course, this is just running the numbers off projections, so they're not set in stone, subject as they are to my opponents' bench moves and the general ebb and flow of the season.
The biggest positive I got from looking at the projected stats at this stage was confirmation that my pitching strategy can work. As I expected, I'm towards the middle-bottom of K and W, but the other stats are good enough to make me competitive.
Bench picks:
Round 23: Kyuji Fujikawa
Round 24: Sergio Santos
Round 25: Brandon Moss
Round 26: Dillon Gee
Round 27: Francisco Liriano
There are a few things going on with the Fujikawa and Santos picks: first, I already have three closers, so getting a fourth one only provides marginal value (I might gain something like 2-3 points going from third in saves to first). But these picks do protect me if one of my three closers loses the job, or gets injured. Second, and perhaps most importantly, they represent excellent potential value this late in the draft. If and when they become closers, they give me another asset I can trade to strengthen my team in other places. And finally, having two of the better "next in line" closer candidates also allows me to control the market a bit. I know I need to place near the top in saves to win the league, and having this many consolidated means when I do trade some of them for value, I can make sure they go to a player who won't trump me in saves and cause a loss of points.
Brandon Moss: Serves as the best Morneau caddy I could find at this stage of things. There's a lot not to like in his peripherals from last year, but he's a good pickup at Round 25 if he can somehow repeat that power in a full time role.
Dillon Gee: I was unreasonably excited to take Gee here (granted, I am a Mets fan). His walk rate and strikeout rate have both gone in the right direction the last three years, and he's young enough where he can still have a breakthrough season. I don't think we expect it out of him since he doesn't have amazing stuff scouts rave about, but the numbers tell a story I like.
Francisco Liriano: Was already cut to make room for Garrett Jones off the waiver (this spot is likely to cycle a few more times based on Spring Training job clarity).
Full Team:
C: Yadier Molina
1B: Prince Fielder
2B: Brandon Phillips
3B: Adrian Beltre
SS: Erick Aybar
MI: Alexei Ramirez
CI: Justin Morneau
OF: Norichika Aoki
OF: Jay Bruce
OF: Alex Rios
OF: Giancarlo Stanton
OF: Ichiro Suzuki
U: Coco Crisp
P: A.J. Burnett
P: Aroldis Chapman
P: Steve Cishek
P: R.A. Dickey
P: Tim Hudson
P: Joe Nathan
P: Alexi Ogando
P: J.J Putz
P: C.C. Sabathia
Brandon Moss
Kyuji Fujikawa
Dillon Gee
Sergio Santos
Francisco Liriano
Lessons Learned
Now that you've slogged through about 6,000 words, I'll give you my top level impressions and takeaways that can help you with your draft:
"Wait on pitching" is a dead concept
Last decade, I always waited on pitching. Didn't even look at it until at least Round 7. While you can still find good value in later rounds, and of course pitching always emerges during the season, I don't think you can wait very late on it unless you have a specific and disciplined strategy. I think you need two pitchers capable of a 8-9 K/9 rate who throw quality innings: whether you take them early with the elite guys, in middle rounds with Darvish or Scherzer, or a later round sleeper who can give you this production is up to you.
With a bit more attention focused on pitching, I wouldn't have been shoehorned into my "Low wins and strikeouts, hope/pray for excellent WHIP and ERA" strategy. While it seems to be working based on projections, I'd still be happier with one more solid ace, or even one guy with ace potential. Taking pitching early is a delicate balancing act
Despite what I said above, there's also a significant dropoff in the quality of position players after Round 3. I don't think I'd draft Verlander, Strasburg or Kershaw for that reason, but instead I'd focus on getting the next tier. This is where I'm most concerned about my draft: Sabathia and Dickey are great, but they aren't getting any younger and my season hinges on them pulling off close to another 200 IP quality innings, 200 K season each.
You're not as clever as you think you are.
If you're playing with a bunch of random guys, you probably will be able to pick up Darvish, Scherzer, Altuve, and other players that are theoretically underrated by ADP. But if you're playing with good people, you can expect these guys are going to go much earlier than you expected. I don't think I'm just speaking for my draft either, I've seen similar trends in other draft recaps and mocks. Plan appropriately, and be ready to shift your strategy on draft day. The value you get by taking a good catcher is probably negated by the value you miss at other positions
Yadier Molina is a great pick at catcher. But taking him in Round 9 (which theoretically is a great deal based on an ADP of #52 at Fantasypros.com) when you can get Salvador Perez or Miguel Montero in Round 16 means the overall quality of the rest of your positions is going to be lower. I don't think it's the worst pick in the world, but if I had waited longer on catcher, I probably would have a better rotation and a better set of middle infielders. There are more respectable players at the back end of the draft than you think
I took Aybar in the 11th round, but I could have just as easily taken Jean Segura in Round 18, or Andrelton Simmons in Round 19. Granted, those are unproven players, but if that was my concern even J.J. Hardy was taken in Round 25 (and he's good for reliable power with a blah average).
Obviously, you don't want to be stupid, and you want to have a good player at every position. But you can dig up reasonable players for the thinner positions at the end of the draft, put players on your bench who can provide insurance, and trade for what you need. Granted, if you don't feel comfortable trading or that's not your style, this may not work.
Hopefully, the mountain of text you just waded through will help you on draft day! It would be great to see more draft reports like this if you have an outlet to write them up (I'm at least hoping to see a few here on Rotoballer). If you have any feedback, feel free to hit me up @revtoby on Twitter.


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Arising out of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, and later statutory instrument, are limitations on service charge recoverability relating to both qualifying works and services under the 1985 Act and, in particular, provides expenditure thresholds that trigger consultation procedures.
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The legislation has though never been explicit over who has the liability to consult when it is the superior landlord that has the intention to undertake qualifying works or enter into a long term qualifying contract and when it is subtenants who are ultimately liable to pay the costs of those works or services.
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In this case, the court found that the superior landlord had the necessary intention under the Act to do the works/services and that the superior landlord was the only landlord upon whom the consultation requirement was imposed by statute.
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The Philosophy of the Reformation and Its Historical Impact, by John Immel – Part 1
Taken from John Immel's first session at the 2012 Conference on Gospel Discernment and Spiritual Tyranny
Published with permission
~ Edited by Andy Young
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I was listening to the radio and a song by one of our modern philosophers came on.
"There's something wrong with the world today.
I don't know what it is.
Something is wrong with our eyes.
We're seeing things in a different way.
And God knows it ain't His.
It sure ain't no surprise."
This is from a song by Aerosmith, "Living on the Edge." The song's refrain says over and over that we can't help from falling.
It is true: there is something world with the world today. But I contend that it is not inevitable that we fall.
Throughout my life I have been involved in various flavors of Christianity, and I continually found myself running up against the same interaction over and over and over. And, of course, for the longest time the easy criticism was, "It's you. You're the problem." There are a lot of doctrines within Christianity that affirm that – yeah, it's probably you. If there is a problem, you are probably the problem.
But then I began to realize that the same problem exists whether I'm involved in the social dynamic or not.
How is that possible? How is it possible that I can go from denomination to denomination to denomination – from Word of Faith to Charismatic to Baptist to Methodist – and it didn't matter?
After much thinking I arrived at what I believe is the root of all failed human actions.
The Gospel According to John Immel, chapter 3:1-3
- All people act logically from their assumptions.
- It does not matter how inconsistent the ideas or insane the rationale. They will act until that logic is fulfilled.
- Therefore, when you see masses of people taking the same destructive actions, if you find the assumptions, you will find the cause.
The words "logic" or "logically" in this context refers to the consistent progression of a given set of ideas. That does not mean the ideas are logical in the sense that it is accurate thinking. I am talking about how Idea "A" through Idea "Z" go together to create an entire perspective. What I realized was that when the same people take the same action, they will produce the same outcome.
Let me break this down by section.
Verse 1 says: assumptions + logic = action.
Verse 2 says: faulty logic or erroneous rationalizations = ideas that flow from one to the next to the next.
Verse 3 concludes: mass action + destructive outcomes = common premise.
Something is wrong with the world today, but I submit that the error is imbedded in common faulty root assumptions. When I surveyed history and I saw men taking the exact same steps, coming to the exact same conclusions generation after generation, millennia after millennia, I realized they all held similar root assumption about man and about life.
Typically, when I start talking like this is people say something like: "Well, people just need Jesus." What they mean to say is that ideas are irrelevant unless the mystical solution of "Jesus" is applied to the problem. But that can't be right because other people might say: "Well, people just need Buddha," and still others might say, "Well, if Islam ruled the world, all the problems would go away."
And here is why "people just need Jesus," is no answer to the world's problems: bromides are not solutions. Bromides never address the forces driving the problem.
The problem with faith is people tend to take their own faith very personally and very seriously . . . and very uncritically. They tend to assume that faith equals a license to subjectivity; that they are entitled to believe whatever they happen to believe just because they believe it.
So the challenge that I have forever run up against is that when I start talking about digging into the roots of our assumptions, the reaction is, "You know what? That's complicated. That requires me to think. And I don't really care to do that too terribly much."
I am sympathetic on many levels to that frustration. We would like to say to ourselves, "The declaration of God's love is so simple. Why on earth does this have to be complicated?" I understand that frustration. It seems that if something is so simple, the process of believing should be left to that simplicity. But here is the challenge – I contend that theological bumper stickers are not simple because thinking is at no point simple.
Let us use the following metaphor to try to illustrate this complexity. Throwing a ball seems like a very rudimentary process. You let it go. It goes from point "A" to point "B". Yet no matter how many times you throw a ball from point A to point B, it consistently drops to the earth. Now consider the question, why does the ball always hit the ground? Some very smart people put together the physics of throwing a ball.
D = (Vo ˟ sinθ ˟ t) + (½A ˟ t2) + h
D = distance
Vo = initial velocity
θ = initial arc angle
t = time
A = acceleration
h = initial height
Since I am no math wizard, I could not begin to explain to you the details of this equation. But that's okay. I don't have to. What I want you to understand is that a child throwing a football on the beach is engaging in the above formula. This formula details the level of complexity that is involved in throwing a ball from point "A" to point "B" even though a child can perform the action.
Now back to the issue at hand: thinking about what we believe and why.
Thinking is hard because thinking is also complex. It is just as complex as, if not more so, than throwing a ball because thinking is the mechanics of human action. This is where we get our energy to act in life. From the time when we are old enough to recognize our own consciousness to start motivating ourselves through life, the thing that dominates us every waking moment of our lives are the thoughts that we specifically put into action.
Here is the beauty of my metaphor – ideas are just as calculable as the mechanics in throwing the ball.
People want simplicity but it is in the details that we find the root problems. You may read articles on discernment blogs discussing the issue of "New Calvinism" or a resurgence of Calvinism and Reformed theology. Most people will conclude that denouncing the doctrines of those movements is grand conspiracy. The real solution is if a few "misled" souls would just get on the right path then all will be well with the church.
But the reality is conspiracy as an explanation does not satisfy the discussion of New Calvinism any more than liberation theology describes why America is treading down the path of Marxism, or why Marxism has dominated the whole of the western world, or why Islam is on the rise throughout the globe.
People prefer conspiracies. "Christians" would rather hear people say it is the Illuminati or the Bilderbergers or some dastardly mastermind twirling his mustache in a hideaway, spending lots of money to compel people to do things and take mass action. People prefer conspiracy and world masterminds because that is easy. Conspiracies are easy. Thinking is hard.
I contend that the issue driving the world towards the edge is ideas, and ideas are hard. Ideas demand that individuals invest a stunning amount of personal discipline. You must bring your "A" game every minute of every day to be about ideas.
Consider once again the metaphor of throwing a ball. There is a specific problem with that metaphor. It is the issue of gravity. When you throw a ball, of course, the ball at the end of its trajectory hits the ground. It is the existence of gravity within that equation which leads people to believe that the ball must hit the ground every time it is thrown. Because of that gravity, my metaphor tends to break down because in the grand scheme of ideas, I am overtly saying that we can control what we think. If we can understand the progression and the mechanics of our thinking, then we can arrive at a different outcome. But historically, the inevitability of the "gravity" of human action is the observation that man tends down the path of his own self-destruction over and over and over. It is this very observation which has been used as a case in point to say that man is in effect "depraved."
So how do I remedy the weakness of my metaphor? How do I integrate the immutability of "gravity" with the power of choice and the ability of man to set his own course?
The answer is, change the beginning assumption.
The formula for throwing a ball assumes that you are in an environment affected by gravity. The formula for throwing a ball assumes that your desired outcome is to propel the ball from point "A" to point "B." Yet with the right amount of velocity, acceleration, and arc, it would be possible to put a ball into orbit or escape gravity altogether. Therein lies the consistency with the metaphor.
I contend that when you challenge the assumptions that have dominated the whole of the western world, you can arrive at a new set of assumptions, and those assumptions can defy the "gravity" that has driven men down to self-destruction.
So now let's discuss Calvinism, New Calvinism, and Reformation theology. The question is: why within this emergent movement do we see such consistent actions, such consistent outcomes, such consistent stories of oppression and domination and coercion? Why, from one congregation to the next, do you see the exact same outcomes?
To answer these questions, we must first find the assumptions, and that means we are going to have to take on ideas. It takes enormous effort to fully evaluate the content of ideas. This is the process of education and expertise. One must be specifically aware of one's own thoughts. This is intentional consciousness. From the time, you are old enough to say, "I want a cookie," to the day you read, "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son," and every day after and in between, when you crack open a book and you read an equation and you determine to understand what the variables within that equation mean . . . all of these are examples of intentional consciousness.
It takes enormous discipline to order one's thinking, to evaluate the progression from "A" to "Z." It takes enormous effort to arrive at real logic, or non-contradictory thinking. Real reason is the determination to understand the over-arching mechanics of your own individual consciousness. By order I mean non-contradictory logic. It is what happens when you can follow the progression of thought from "A" to "B" to "C" to "D," and you do not find any inconsistencies in that progression. Such a process takes enormous self-definition, that is, an absolute trust in one's own rational faculties. And this requires self-esteem.
Bookmark the concept self-esteem.
My root assumption is that man is rationally competent. This assumption defies almost all historic Christian doctrine. Now the term "self-esteem" in American culture has been so utterly corrupted that I hesitate to use it, but it still captures what I'm after; an identification of the effectiveness of self. But you cannot get to self-esteem by someone holding your hand, patting you on the back, and telling you that you are okay. You can only get to self-esteem by doing the work, overcoming challenges, and succeeding.
The definition of human consciousness and self-esteem comes from the ability to successfully prevail over challenges. By contrast "New Calvinism" or Reformed theology is designed to undermine this ability at the root. It is designed to undermine man at his most fundamental level. It is designed to eradicate his specific ethical egoistic self. Most people don't understand that every argument you encounter in Calvinist doctrinal debate, whether it is the distinction between sanctification and justification, or whether it is your moral right to keep the substance of what you have, are all moral arguments designed to de-legitimize your self-esteem. The doctrines fueling the argument are designed to condemn you at your root: to prevent you from having the right to your own self and your moral responsibility for the sum and substance of your own life.
What I am describing is the study of philosophy. In the western world since Immanuel Kant, philosophy has been utterly corrupted, and thus most people have a negative impression of philosophy. And Christians are particularly fond of flipping the page over to Paul's consternation with what he called "vain philosophies" in order to de-legitimize discussing ideas. But regardless of how you feel, since philosophies exist, you need figure out how to deal with "vain philosophies." So despite Paul's anxiety over "vain" philosophies, it follows that understanding good philosophies is important.
Here's the reality: the ideas we encounter are no accident, and the outcomes are not happenstance. The source of all world evil can be found in evil ideas, or evil philosophies. The outcomes of those ideas have been displayed over and over and over, so we know they are evil. Christians are then confronted with this reality: if the world remains evil then the solutions we have been offering do not work. So one more sermon, one more frothing-at-the-mouth preacher, one more guy pounding his ESV will not fix the problem.
Instead we must have the courage to think, or maybe better said: rethink. Unless people are willing to turn on their minds and challenge their deepest-held beliefs, finding the solution is impossible. Nothing will change. It won't matter how much we dissect sanctification and justification or the centrality of the cross. It won't matter how many scriptures we stack up in service to pet doctrines. It won't matter how much we rail against misplaced church government (Is it presbytery? Is it democracy? Is it papacy? et al). That has already been done over and over and over, council after council, synod after synod, inter-Nicene fight after inter-Nicene fight. For the first time in history, men must rethink the historical fight from its roots.
Mystic despots have always ruled over the masses with portents and disasters for those who dared to live life beyond the mediocre. Tyrants can only succeed when men refuse to think. Autocrats rely on being able to compel outcomes because no one opposes their arguments. This is the challenge that I have as a man who is passionate about thinking: to inspire people to engage in understanding and scrutinizing the complex ideas that drive tyranny.
So here's my challenge: do not be seduced into believing that righteousness is retreat from the world. Do not be seduced into believing that spirituality is defined by weakness and that timid caution for fear of committing potential error is a reason to be quiet. Do not be intimidated by vague, hazy threats of failure. Do not let yourself believe that faith is a license to irrationality. Do not mistake the simple nature of God's love as a justification for simple-mindedness. Do not deceive yourself with the polite notion that you are above the fray, that your right to believe is sufficient to the cause of righteousness. There is no more stunning conceit. Do not pretend that your unwillingness to argue is the validation of truth.
Know this: virtue in a vacuum is like the proverbial sound in the forest – irrelevant without a witness. Character is no private deed. To retreat is nothing more than a man closing his eyes and shutting his mouth to injustice. Virtues are not estimates to be wafted gently against evil. Virtues are not to be withheld from view in the name of grace. Virtues are not to be politely swallowed in humble realization that we are all just sinners anyway. Love is not a moral blank check against the endless tide of indulgent action. Love is not blind to the cause and effect of reality. Love is not indifference to plunder and injustice and servitude.
The time is now, you men of private virtue, to emerge from your fortress of solitude and demonstrate that you are worthy of a life that bears your name. The time is now, you men of private virtue, to answer Steven Tyler of Aerosmith and all the nihilists that insist we are living on the edge and we cannot help but fall. It is time for you men of private virtue to take up the cause of human existence and think.
~ John Immel
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Pagan Thinkers Inspiration Found In Augustinian Aesthetics
As John Immel so successfully detailed for us in past TANC conferences, Augustinian orthodoxy (and ultimately authentic reformation Protestantism) is a fusion of Christianity and ancient pagan philosophy. The theological pedigree can be traced from men like Thales and Pythagoras to Plato to Plotinus. So then it should come as no surprise that medeival cathedral builders paid homage to these pagan thinkers in the construction of their cathedrals since they were so influential in shaping the orthodoxy.
Rapture Fever – Guest Writer, John Immel
I was 17, (I think) at Fishnet, a Christian Woodstock, when I had my first serious conversation about end-time theology. I had that conversation with Hal Lindsey, a preacher who has made his living packaging and repackaging all things Second Coming. If memory serves I disagreed with his reading of a passage in Daniel. He was less than amused; he was the authority and I . . . wasn't. My peon public objection was a threat to his livelihood. Preachers can never tolerate such things.
Back then I was under the delusion that preachers wanted to talk about the truth, about the ideas that shaped doctrine. It took me a long time to figure out preachers never have that motive. Certainly, had I understood this truth, Hal's reaction to my question wouldn't have surprised me.
Since I'm a hard-headed soul the interaction at Fishnet wasn't the last unwelcome doctrinal conversation I would have with preachers and certainly not the last discussion about "biblical" eschatology.
(Eschatology, for those of you who don't know, is the formal term for the Rapture, or End Time things.)
Anyway, the next notable time I entered this Rapture fray was during college: 1988 to be exact. A guy by the name of Edgar C. Whisenant, published a book titled: 88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988.
The book was garbage but it still took the country by storm. (If Wikipedia is to be believed, it sold 4.5 million copies.) True story. I visited a friend of mine from college in Virginia and when her mother (we'll, call her Mrs. H) heard me reject Whisenant's book she cried for two days. Mrs. H. started praying and fasting to save my soul and read from 88 Reasons Why . . . every couple of hours to persuade me. When that didn't work Mrs. H. gave me a Pre-Millennial systematic theology book by Dwight L. Pentecost. I pulled out of the driveway with Mr. H begging me to recant lest I be left behind.
So, you can imagine that if the country at large had this kind of emotional investment, the veritable belt buckle of the Bible Belt in Tulsa Oklahoma at ORU, my university of choice, was sweat soaked infestation: Rapture Fever burned across the quad in South Tulsa, like Pentecostal wild fire.
As a budding Theology student, and as an eager member of the ORU School of Theology, I joined the general academic outcry against the madness. A great college friend Bret Nicolson, now a pastor in Evansville Indiana, and I spent HOURS, in our ORU dorm rooms, arguing the merits and doctrines of the Rapture madness. Those many musings eventually culminated in me doing my Senior thesis on the subject. I titled the paper: "Are We Getting Out of This Place or Not." Dr. Autry was not amused. The upside was, the Dwight L. Pentecost book was a primary source for my rebuttal. Mrs. H. if you are reading this, thanks. And oh, . . . told you so.
Anyway, in 1988 the furor over the Rapture was new to me, but now I'm older and a LOT wiser. Rapture Fever infects the masses about every decade or so. Resurfacing again in my life time in 1995 when the world was treated to the Tim LaHay, Left Behind series. Just for the record, the only thing that got left behind in the books and movies was any respectable biblical exegesis and acting. But hey, he sold a LOT of books: 65 Million copies.
(Evidently the Rapture is a growth business.)
And the next one that comes to mind was Herold Camping who said that May 24th 2011 was the day that big J was gonna whisk everyone away.
(Do you like how I did all that alliteration. That was kinda fun)
And then in 2017 there was an eclipse and Jesus is supposed to be coming back . . . again.
And of course, He didn't. He hasn't and he's not this year, not next, or the one after that or the one after that. (Mark my words. If not I'll be glad to say I told you so). But that won't stop LOTS of people from making really, really bad life choices even in the face of insurmountable evidence that whomever is making the prediction the day or hour or year will be WRONG.
So how can this be? How can ostensibly, intelligent, 21st century people, with a full grasp of reality in 95% of their life get so screwed up in the other 5%.
Where does this Rapture Fever come from? And why does it cycle with such consistency?
I'll tell you but, like Hal Lindsey and Mrs. H. and a host of other people I've encountered when talking about this subject, you won't like the answer.
Spoiler alert. I'm gonna rip off the band aid.
The rise of Rapture doctrine is inversely proportional to social/political chaos.
Or said another way, the more people feel uncertain about the future the more helpless they feel in dealing with reality, the more they abandon reality and look for a way to escape.
Or said another way, the feebler people feel, the more they yearn for someone to erase reality.
Or said another way, the Rapture, the longing for the return of Jesus, is an existential punt.
I told you, you wouldn't like it.
And we have seen this existential punt, drawn through history like a standing wave, cycling above and below the line as cultures and nations ebb and flow through civil stability and unrest.
And do you want to hear the real punchline to the joke: The cycle is exacerbated by historic Christian doctrines. The roots of Christian doctrine come from St. Augustine merging 2nd century Christianity with 3rd century Platonism. 90% of what you hear in church today, in the 21st century, is Augustine, which really means you're listening to Plato.
Hey, don't shoot the messenger. You can find this stuff out yourself in about 2 hours with that cool answer box called Google. Just think, I spent a LOT of money 20 years ago, to learn this stuff. You can get it for free.
Anyway, Augustinian dogmas turned the world into an insurmountably evil place, inhabited by a metaphysical aberration called Man and dubbed the cosmos malevolent. The height of this worldview is in the Dark Ages: the Dark Ages were dark in principle because people during that time took Augustine seriously and the result was a nightmare come to life. Thankfully, the world was pulled out of the madness by Thomas Aquinas: he reintroduced Aristotle to the world, and within 400 years the Enlightenment sparked the Age of Reason, that culminated in the American Constitution. Political freedom released the human mind to thrive and soon the world was filled with light: the cosmos was intelligible, knowable and benevolent. And for a while, it seemed that Augustinian doctrines would slide into the primordial ooze like so many disastrous ideologies that came before.
"John, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane! I don't listen to Augustine, I listen to my preacher and he reads the BIBLE! He's always telling me about the good that God does."
Hold on there, Festus. I get it. I'm Dorothy pulling the curtain back revealing the man pulling the very real, very tangible levers. I'm that punk in 4th grade who told you that Santa Clause wasn't real and it was mom and dad that put the presents under the tree. You might not like it but that doesn't change the truth.
The intellectual pedigree goes like this (assuming you are a Protestant) Augustine, Luther, Calvin, Reformed Theology—a bunch of 17th century thinkers—the 20th century resurgence of Calvinism, your pastor. There isn't any preacher in America that hasn't been affected by the resurgence of these doctrines. And I'd bet money that for every time that preacher tells you about the "good" he hedges and fudges with three times the reiteration of your sin, and depravity and guilt, and weakness.
And so here we are in the 21st century, being fed a steady diet of metaphysical gloom and doom and the name of Christian righteousness. The more Augustinian doctrines of self-doubt and human impotence overtake a cultural mind the more people pine for a world that is not this world.
So, there you have it. Go to church on Sunday and hear how wretched you are, how bad the world is, how evil life is. Watch the news. Watch America—the single most amazing political achievement in human history—tearing itself apart; watch people do evil and call it good, do crazy things and call it sane. It is enough to make grown people turn to alcohol or religion. Any religion. Any mysticism that can show them how to get away from reality.
You think I'm being cynical?
Nope. Just making an observation.
The problem is that the very doctrines people turn to for comfort and hope are the same doctrines that affirm reality is an evil chaotic place that no man can tame or grasp.
Now you can follow the progression to Rapture Fever:
- As the cycle of social unrest increases social instability, the more people go to mystical sources to find "answers."
- Preachers tell everyone that this world is evil and everyone is sinfully incompetent.
- Psychological impotence grows in its own echo chamber of despair.
- Eventually people accept the premise and punt.
Alakazam Poof! The Edgar C. Whisenant's and the Tim LaHay's and the Harold Camping's of the world seem like the clarion call of sanity. Their voices affirm people's greatest fears and satisfy their greatest hopes. Men will sell their souls for a glimpse of stability so if someone claims a special ability to reveal a new reality, they will lobotomize themselves to wipe out what they feel they have no power to master.
My greatest objection to Rapture doctrine has little to do with when it will or won't happen. My objection has always been against the underlying attitude: the wholesale abdication of civil responsibility. It is much easier to breathe portents of divine retribution and pretend you will be somewhere else when the bad #$%@ happens.
It sounds Churchy for preachers to thump their Plexiglass podiums while reading the book of the Revelation and ranting about God pouring out Fire and Fury against whomever violates their moral sensibilities. But in the end it is all posturing. People infected with Rapture Fever have no intention of taking any action, responsibility, or initiative. "I'm getting out of here so I don't care what happens next," is their battle cry. They capitulate, pretending that the course of human events is beneath them. They abandon the responsibilities of self-government and flee the obligations of a representative republic without so much as a fair thee well. The result: they contribute to societal decline by sitting idly, waiting for a bus that never comes and then complain their world is turning to #$%@.
And it is for this abdication that those infested with Rapture Fever should be called to account by the doers, the able, the rational, the responsible, and the motivated.
Get in the game!
~ John Immel


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Who doesn't like to eat?
People who are fasting, contestants on Celebrity Fit Club, the Olsen twins? God knows I do. Too much. We expect that you do, too. Thankfully, there's the Taste of Bethesda – one of the area's most popular food and music festivals.
Taste of Bethesda has been going on annually for two decades now. In fact, this year's event – which takes place in the Woodmont Triangle neighborhood of Bethesda, Md., on Saturday, Oct. 2, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. – marks the festival's 21st year. But, food is only part of the fun. Four stages of live entertainment will be on hand, as well as a kid's corner with cookie decorating and face painting.
The savory event, held in conjunction with Best of Bethesda Day, regularly draws 40,000 people to sample offerings from various restaurants. This year, more than 50 local restaurants are expected to show off their best dishes. Admission to the festival is free, but taste tickets are four for $5, and servings will cost anywhere from one to four tickets.
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