March 16, 2012
Truth
As a playwright,
George Bernard Shaw included humor in his craft. Personally I am not a fan of
Shaw’s, but I find his quote interesting, "My
way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world."
In my world truth is serious business and I just can’t wrap my head around it
as being humorous or a joke. No doubt there was humor in Jesus’ life, but he
prefaced much of his teaching and remarks with, “I tell you the truth…” Somehow I don’t think anyone in His
audience was laughing at the time.
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Gail;
-----In an odd sort of way, G. B. Shaw is right. Truth stands as what it is. It does not bend or shape to anyone’s opinions or desires. It is what it has been and it always will be just that. So when it is experienced it measures you. And it has measured you right. You take it serious because the truth is profoundly eternal, indelibly final, and absolutely certain to either carry its fans into its unending security, or leave its detractors forever in the deceptive mess they more enjoyed. The funny thing is, it measures them right too. The only way one idea can be joined with another while disregarding the truths of either is to laugh off those truths - play them away with dismissive mental jesting. Shaw’s way of joking does not make a joke of the truth. That is not possible because the truth con not be made what it is not, and it is not a joke. Whether he knows it or not, his way of joking is to be the joke of a pig with a pearl. The pearl isn’t the joke. The pig having anything to do with it is. (If you cringe at a pig equation, examine the truth of what Shaw was - the euthanasia of his solution for handicapped folks, Jews, and basically anyone else who did not particularly fit his own persuasion. His self gravitation sucked like a black hole. I assure you “pig” is lite for this man.) Hopefully he stopped chuckling and caught hold of the truth just before slipping over the edge of death. I would delight to rejoice with a reborn Shaw for eternity.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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