Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed..............?

Question

So, do you disappear a lot?

I was just using Jesus as an example...or, should I say Bob Dylan was using Jesus as an example to get his point across.

This question has nothing to do with God.

Answer 1

That's an amazing question, and I should tell you I smiled thinking of Jesus, conversely, attempting to "disappear a lot". Most people survive living as the actors of their lives, representing a single role their/our entire life time. (Eugene Barba says it, he is a famous theatrologist) Common people have their own "mask", and wear it to be normal, avoiding at any means being focused as especial people in society, as a means to live long lives in peace, and have good children and lovely great grand children for whom tell stories one day. It's being humane and that is part of everyone's life in the whole world, for we do need a social protection, as acting a bit, in order to survive by disguising us a little bit in the crowd to escape from the atack of intruders, from the bad people who would in the least tell you things about the way you behave. Problems may arise when you try to be different, as for exemple a performer actor or singer are different people, deffinitelly! And Jesus, as Bob Dylan or Madonna, all of them lived an uncommon life, in slightly different ways one from the other. They performed characters, each one. Each one used many "masks" in order to stand for their own rhetorics presenting their messages and showing their potential, very much as what is the task of actors do (mask comes from the Perse, persona - they've "worn" many characters, many persons) and for this reason they were all noticed in the crowd, each one in his/her own hazardous way. Well, we know Madona broke a leg falling from one of her horses in the farm. Bob Dyland is not among us, anymore, (so lone and depressed he was using drugs) and Jesus, the poorest among them all, all he found was two blokes who deprived of everything, as he did, the only ones to accompany him in the end of his life and available to speak with him in the cross, willing to accept being granted by Jesus with the very keys to open the doors of the kingdom of heaven: appart from Jesus, they were only a thief and a murderer.

Answer 2

Well if that quotation originally came from Bob Dylan, then he was probably referring to the burdens of fame, which most of us don't have to grapple with. There is a wide medium ground between being famous and "disappearing". The advantage that most people enjoy is that we can "disappear" in a crowd of people. If there is no one there who knows us personally, there's a good chance we'll be left entirely alone. That is quite different than disappearing in the sense of cutting off communication with friends and family, or deliberately isolating yourself.

Also, the internet is an increasingly popular place to interface with other people in total anonymity. You don't know who any of the people answering this question are. You might pass one on the street tomorrow and be none the wiser. In that sense it seems we all "disappear" sometimes.

Answer 3

I think not being noticed is a lot more painful than being noticed. I wouldn't mind getting crucified I knew people would remember me for two thousand years

Answer 4

Anonymity is quite a luxury. But, Jesus died because he had to and wanted to be noticed.
I used to drop below the radar from my friends and family for a few days to relax from being myself.

Answer 5

Jesus wasn't crucified because he got noticed...he knew it would happen like that..it was foretold...God sent Jesus here so that He could be crucified..otherwise we'd all be going to hell no matter what...now you'll only go to hell if you do not choose Christ and believe in Him as your one and only Savior.