Itâs not easy being a prophet in the internet age. Obviously, in terms of getting your message out, there are advantages. You can quickly build up a faithful following, and with each disciple comes the potential for word to spread further. Twitter, Facebook (FB), blogs and other social media are the stuff of dreams for your modern day David Koresh. However, with this quick and easy access to rumour and gossip comes a major downside. Itâs easy to verify whether you are talking rubbish and when your miracles donât come to pass you are open to fast and widespread ridicule. With this in mind, the trick to being a prophet these days is to brainwash your followers to such a degree that even evidence of you getting it consistently and totally wrong is not enough to shake their faith. They will instead condemn the media who have failed to report your prophecy. It must have come true, right? âItâs a conspiracy of silenceâ they will cry. In this respect Philip McGillivan has performed admirably. Heâs managed to get 99% of his prophecies wrong but still has a faithful and increasingly large following amongst the more eccentric in the Celtic support. These poor unfortunates will cling to anything in the face of their team faltering so badly in the title race. His prophecies are in the very narrow, and some would say unlikely, area of Rangers Football Club. It seems odd that a self confessed supporter of Irish Republicanism, the IRA, Sinn Fein and Celtic would be the recipient of information about Rangers but there we have it. God (and Philipâs mind) moves in mysterious ways. Philip, we are told, has a hotline to the legal minds involved in Rangers ongoing struggle with the tax man. These legal minds are âstaunch Rangersâ men and yet have chosen Philip to disseminate the confidential and highly damaging information which he claims to possess. Now Philip, some of you may recall, was the mastermind behind the âFakeoverâ campaign on Twitter and FB. The Craig Whyte takeover was all a sham. It was never going to happen. Craig Whyte was a front and a distraction invented by David Murray. All of this, of course, turned out to be total nonsense. Undeterred however, Philip just moved on to his next prophecy, putting the mistake down to an unreliable âsourceâ. Who knows, perhaps this voice in his head has now been banished, never to return. Suddenly, Philip had a new âsourceâ to which he gave credence with the news that this âstaunch Rangersâ man had actually told him that the âFakeoverâ information was incorrect. If only he had listened⦠So it was with confidence that Philip and his band of brainwashed minions moved on to the next day in the âPhilipianâ calendar. The 27/28th of October (it never pays to be too specific when making things up). This, we were told, was going to be a âmomentous day in the history of Rangers Football Clubâ. The inference being that the momentous nature of the day was not going to be positive for the club. In fact as the date drew nearer we were informed with increasing certainty, and not a little gloating, that this would be the day that Rangers went out of business for good. I believe the phrase âGame Overâ was overused. Well Philip â Aberdeen, Celtic and the SPL league table would disagree. Philip to his credit does not give up. Even at 10pm on the night of the 28th we were told that Craig Whyte was holding a crisis meeting at Ibrox at which his âsourceâ was present. Rangers had âceased to tradeâ he told us. Ibrox seemed like an odd venue for this meeting. Presumably somewhere more cloak and dagger would have been appropriate, had the meeting actually taken place, but this sent Philipâs minions on blog sites and Twitter into a frenzy. The âhunsâ were out of business. Praise be to Philip. Well it turned out to be pish again. This prompted even Graham Spiers, no friend of Rangers and a serial apologist for any unpleasant behaviour at Celtic Park, to label Philip as journalismâs âultimate chancerâ. Personally I thought this was quite generous since Philip isnât really a journalist at all but Graham did then undermine his point somewhat by making a prophecy of his own â that Rangers would in fact be out of business within 14 days. Itâs difficult to resist the allure and attention of the prophetâs life apparently. Now it seems increasingly likely that Rangers are going to face some form of administration unless they win the tax case or come to some mutually acceptable arrangement with HMRC. This will no doubt be met with cries of âtold you soâ from Philip and his minions. However, let us not forget that Craig Whyte himself has already acknowledged that administration is a likely outcome if the tax case cannot be resolved in our favour. Itâs hardly breaking news. Presumably guessing that every week is going to be the week that it happens is now enough for Philipâs disciples. If, or when, he eventually getâs it right heâll be hailed as a Celtic hero. The man who brought the âhunsâ to their knees. Well thatâs not really the truth but truth doesnât play a large part in the minds of these people. If Rangers emerge from this whole affair unscathed then something along these lines will happen. It will be declared a disgrace by Philip. Some shadowy, âestablishmentâ organisation will have taken matters into itâs own hands and will be blamed for rescuing the club. Indeed this conspiracy theory is already being prepared and has been given some major consideration â just in case heâs got it wrong again you understand. Disciples have been urged to contact Celtic (and any other SPL clubs they can pretend to be fans of) to ensure that they do not give any support to the idea that a âNew Rangersâ should be allowed to continue in the SPL. This of course ignores the financial realities of life in the SPL without either of the Old Firm, but reality, like truth, is not the currency in which Philip deals. If it does come to pass that somehow Philip has got it totally wrong again, then his disciples can be assured of one thing. Philip will strive to expose any Rangers related miscarriage of justice â if only his disciples can keep his website alive a bit longer with all their kind donationsâ¦â¦ http://chrisgraham76.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/the-rapture-according-to-philip/
Yet for a man who gets it wrong so often he gets right under the skin of rangers fans So much so that one of the most deluded posts an article all about him So Medro you must be happy that Phils stories on the tax case, Hugh Dallas and Craig Whyte are all false.....oh wait....there is a tax case, Dallas did send that email and even the rangers board members and the BBC don't trust Whyte Ah well at least you got to pound timmy for 5 minutes
Do you think I posted an article without reading it? "With this in mind, the trick to being a prophet these days is to brainwash your followers to such a degree that even evidence of you getting it consistently and totally wrong is not enough to shake their faith."
Ok Medro There is no tax case....its all lies Hugh Dallas is still head of refereeing in Scotland...it was a ruse Craig Whyte is a stand up guy....all the rangers men who have left ibrox recently, including the greatest ever rangers, hate rangers and want Whyte to fail What was that quote about brainwashing again?.....
What don't I understand? The bits that are wrong? The date you expire? His last article on this was written in September and it speaks of you still being afloat in December....but we can ignore this because it doesn't suit....as usual "99% wrong" and rangers fans try to shut his site down...does that make you paranoid?
Mind the step is beelin' Did you read the bit about the rabid followers being brainwashed? Crack open the kestrel kiddo, it's going to be a long day for you.
I don't think anyone can believe a word this mcgullivan says. He is a liar. He falsely claimed travel expenses for visiting someone in his care while that person was lying dead in their residence. Untrustworthy and work shy.
No it doesn't. He made a suggestion that the 28th would be a big day for Rangers. That article is him trying to weasel out of it.
