Thinking today about how easily people are offended especially by cuss words. If ever there was a time to grow up and rethink your priorities, it is now. (Yeah, I do have a “preacher thing” in me, and it’s riled up, but I won’t sound like a traditional preacher, but will almost definitely offend your mother and probably you.)
It’s past time to pull your head out of the sandbox, put down your tea cup from your little country club churchical tea parties, and look around and say, “What the fuck?” & “Where did we go so wrong?” We need a little, no a LOT more of that.
Offended by “shit”? Well, I’ll tell ya what offends me–hate speech, treating others as “less than” blindly following political morons and religious fanatics, not questioning that -what worked 1,000 years ago is not going to work today.
Consider that-in the time of Christ, if a prophet had a vision, they’d describe seeing “an angel” or “a flaming chariot” in the sky…. Now zoom forward to today. Can we not take perhaps a slightly different perspective? Do we not know a zillion things more today about science, technology, space and other galaxies and universes? Are we truly supposed to keep our heads in a mindset that was established when people could never fathom airplanes and thought the earth was a flat expanse of a few thousand miles and that the sun died each evening and recreated itself each morning (they did in some areas, maybe still do.)?
If you want to be offended, be offended by hatefulness disguised in superiority, blind, willful ignorance.
I am not a person who wants to go around destroying people’s faiths, and as I said to someone a few months back, I DO have a faith of a sort, it just may not look like yours. Because my head is firmly OUT of the sandbox. I see the world as it is, I see what we’ve done to it and how our own fear and hate and prejudice will absolutely bring about destruction, if we do not move to stop it.
Cheeseball as it sounds, it is time for all “people of light and love and compassion and empathy and hope and faith” (for lack of a better way to frame it–the “good” side of the force)–to rise up and love one another, set aside your ignorance and learn and grow and LOVE for fuck’s sake. (Yeah, I did that purposefully.) Maybe I will offend and shock some into thinking about their priorities. I hope so. Grow some ovaries (or balls) and stand up for what is right. If you think you were taught something out of scripture that justifies killing, hate, prejudice, and willful ignorance, I feel sorry for you and I think you may be backing the wrong horse. Get off the crazy train before it’s too late.
I cannot help but “preach” my own special brand of message, and if it offends your delicate sensibilities, you know where the door is. Ovary up. Sack up. Rise up. The time of the delicate flower and the tea parties is over.
(And BTW there are something like 50 trillion billion planets, I hope you do not still hold on to believing earth holds the only life in all the universes.) Learn. Grow. Study. Open your mind. Faith and facts are not mutually exclusive, if you’re willing to open your mind and heart.
If you care to discuss, I won’t on Facebook but you can email me at plswyers@gmail.com. Haters needn’t bother.
Friggin’ Peace Out, babes!