So, as you may know if you are someone who follows this blog, this last week has been a little rugby-enduced fighty on the Facebook.
i had two people in particular who pointed out to me the problem [me] which seemed to somehow be linked to my having too much opinion on too many things on Facebook:
I’m troubled by the fact that you have an opinion about everyone and everything
Brett, you do seem to have a lot to say on Facebook.
So i was in two minds about what to post here. Part of me wanted to write something about why it’s okay that i have a lot of opinions about lots of things and a response of “You have an unfollow button at your disposal” [what they call a win-win] to those people…
Meanwhile i also had the idea of sending out a call to more people to have opinions on matters of importance [race, reconciliation, poverty…] so i wouldn’t have to have as many…
But then i kind of got distracted by a search for this Far Side cartoon strip which would have been far more appropriate for my train of thinking if it said “Stupid People” rather than “Jerks”
Because they really do abound on the internetwebs, and i do so often feel like i am also forced to respond in some way, almost as a means of civic duty to the world.
And then i stumbled upon this one which is ABSOLUTELY true to life for me that if such a society did in fact exist, that would by all means be one of the first questions asked:
And so i ended up not writing on any of those topics at all, but rather searching the house for a really large cardboard box:
Mark Twain might have been on the right track…
And as i looked back on the two comments from the people who decided i was too Facebook opinionated, i was pleasantly surprised to see that one of them [who i have since made peace with] wrote this absolutely amazing thing which i didn’t notice the first time around:
I think you could also be bit less ‘rude’
Which of course only made me think of this, my favourite Friends clip ever… i hope you “like” it.
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Ah, I love this post. I also suffer from overload of stupid often, but it is important that you don’t let it grind you. Stupid brings with it its own stupid sandpaper, which can leave you raw. Also, it is good to take a well earned break from social media every now and again, to quell the stupid kop geraas.
Ah, thanks Megs and you are right on all counts. Especially that ‘stupid kop geraas’ thing… it’s not like stupid is going anywhere soon…
I wish to apologise now because we had no comet. I study beforeitsnews.com and now I think it might be just fake. Please help to guide us as Christians how we must deal with aliens and stories of the rapture and all
hey Justin. No apology necessary. But the fear linked to your post is also not necessary. As followers of Jesus we can trust that He will take care of that stuff and simply live the best way we can now. He will take care of future things and so it’s a waste of time for us to busy ourselves fretting about them. He said No one will know the day or the hour. So no one will. But live as if He is arriving back tonight and plan as if He is coming back in a thousand years and you should be okay! Thanks for stopping by.
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