Comment by nevertoolate

7 months ago

It is not that you get downvoted because they don’t understand you, it is because you sell your opinion as fact, like an apostle. For example what does it mean that software engineering is solved?

Prophets are always beaten by average citizens, because prophecy is always unpleasant. It can't be otherwise. At the same time, you can't tell right away whether a person is really a prophet, because it becomes known much later. That's probably why beating them (the simplest solution) turns out to be the most observed.

  • > because prophecy is always unpleasant.

    Not necessarily. 'Gospel' is translated as good news. The unpleasant news tends towards those within the power structure that the prophet challenges.