Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Intellectual Honesty

I like to be honest.

I don’t like “The ‘N’-word”, I like nigger.
I don’t like “The ‘F’-word”, I like fuck.
Ever wonder what ‘word’ will be next, and what happens when we run out of letters?

It’s not about being politically correct.
It’s not about being polite.

It’s about intellectual honesty: Saying what I mean, and meaning what I say.

When ‘we’ are intellectually dishonest ‘we’ end up with things like:

A) The people in front of our local abortion clinic claiming to “pray”, when they mean “protest”.

B) The people in CORE who are claiming to “renew” the ELCA, when they mean “remove gay clergy from the roster”.

C) Presidents who say “I did not have sex with….”, when they mean “I got a blow job from…”

Pretty soon, our words don't hold much meaning.

Let’s be grown up.
Let’s be honest.
Let’s be people of integrity.

And, well, if “they” won’t join “us”….then fuck’em

2 comments:

Angela Harms said...

:) A hug for you! And also, a blast from my past that I think you might like: http://blog.angelaharms.com/2006/a-lie-in-the-mail/

Sista Pastah said...

reminds me of the last SEPA Senior High Youth Gathering... being the chaplain, I had the mike to get them pumped up...

got up on the stage and yelled:
WHATS UP MY SHYGGERS! hahahahahahahaha...there was a sheer moment of "oh no she di'ent"...hahahahaha

afterwards a roar of laughter, and when other grownups addressed the gathering they sounded soooo stupid!

said in a white secretary voice: Good morning Shyggers....

that weekend was soooooo funny!!!

MAH SHYGGERS!!!