Sainthood is a difficult journey and I obviously will not reach the zenith, but if we are talking about something sacred, I would be a poor son if I did not place my best example at that final depot. Perhaps just one more "MOMISM" is appropriate since I disagree with the definition listed here. www.dictionary.com
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Well said, and your wise Christian mother, today, would be the exception not the rule. I wish you would write more about her witticisms of goodness.
I wish I could be more like your mother. In my 18 years as a county commissioner as a Conservative /Libertarian in a mostly Authoritarian county, especially around the county seat, I had to learn to fight for what is right, truly right; not my opinion, but what is absolutely right. That may be why Trump is really growing on me. |
How true.
I have spent the last half of my adult life trying to become the person I should be instead of the boisterous person I used to be. I credit that to my mom, whom I seldom talk about but try to emulate daily. She had the ability to take the scriptures and convert them into a character that she lived by. She also had a way with words that was simplistic but educational. She could turn the scripture into language a small boy could understand without the necessity of using Chapter and Verse. One of her sayings, which I often paraphrase. "I suspect that heaven is full of reformed sinners, but I doubt there are many judges there." In short, I have tasted combat (both actual and verbal) and found it counterproductive to advancing any change of opinion or attitude from either side. |
No, the Left goes straight to "'R' Word".
Maybe, they are the RACISTS(!). I really don't know who the RACISTS(!) are, but, they are not Bobby Tony, Stan Deatherage and John Kelley. |
I make a concerted effort to watch my old regional witticisms that may have some overtones from the Segregated South where I was raised. I am prepared to accept the criticism when I occasionally stray from my self-imposed BobbyTony-Correctness.
However, I would prefer that name calling build up along a line of ever increasing degrees before reaching the "R" word. 1. Insensitive 2. intolerant 3. narrow-minded 4. chauvinistic 5. biased 6. bigoted 7. A$$hole |
Regarding the "Empty Barrell" analogy:
Could the mighty Left be right, and confirm what many had already suspected? Plato was a RACIST(!). Bill Shakespeare was also a RACIST(!), that is widely known. His "Othello" was just a mere dramatic forerunner of "Amos and Andy" - the classic comedy from those that were also RACIST(!). Still, it is rumored that Lightning once pontificated, "Beeesst jooobb I eevver haaad Kinnngfiissh." My heart broke for Lightning's dramatic future for he not only lost his beloved job as the lovable, hapless janitor, but was forever typecast. The same problem occurred for Bill Shakespeare's Othello. Never worked again. I say, the RACISTS(!) were to blame. |
As expected, the debate has now deteriorated into a racial donnybrook in the media.
Some Say Empty Barrel goes all the way back to Plato or before. We do at least have a written reference to "empty vessel." "I never heard so loud a voice issue from such an empty heart. It's true what they say, the empty vessel makes the greatest sound." Henry V Act 4 Scene IV. The field of battle. Now the question is: Is it possible to criticize a person of color and not be a racist? (I fear that we may be approaching the Rubicon with the overuse of this word-BT) |
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My wife complains on occasion: "You are not the man I married."
I answer: "Lord knows, I hope not."