Fooled on the internet
On the internet I am often tricked. Here’s what I mean:
In my Inbox came a message entitled: BRILLIANT IDEA.
Just in case this was a valuable email, I opened it. Inside was a link leading to a magazine that wanted me to subscribe to it.
It could be an amazingly fine magazine, and I will not subscribe. Actually, I am so inundated with all that comes in, I don’t subscribe to anything anyway, but because I felt like a fool for opening the email, I for sure won’t.
Heaven Admin would say that this spamming approach does work. He says the company must get subscribers this way, or the company wouldn’t do it.
I would have liked it better if the subject of the email had been: “Take a look at our spiritual magazine and see if you would like to subscribe.” Do you know what I mean?
But, Admin is probably right. If the subject of the email had been what I suggest, I probably wouldn’t have opened it at all.
There was one more recent email that I felt misled by. The content was written by a well-known well-deserved modern-day spiritual leader. I read the first few paragraphs that told about this person’s entry into the spiritual mainstream, and I was entranced. But it turned out that the beginning of the email was a build-up to the real message which was a request for a monthly donation to their cause.
The cause is good, but I get so easily turned off.
Are you as resistant to this sort of thing as I am?
Godwriting is a blog by Gloria Wendroff and is about Gloria's daily life as the Godwriter of the Heavenletters project that is having a profound effect on the lives of people around the world.
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