April 06, 2012
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In the past our local newspaper seemed to be pretty relaxed in the
publication of anonymous comments on their web site. I always assumed because
the comments were allowed that the readership liked the dissention and angst. When
the paper tightened up their blog guidelines, those wanting to vent had to look
for other venues to get their message out. A local community group appeared to
be trying to fill the void and sent an email to all their subscribers that they
would be open for ‘lively discussion’. I had to laugh when the first person to
spew on the site brought a flood of people asking to be removed from the
distribution list. It’s refreshing to know that the majority of people in the
community do not want to engage in, or read trash talk. “Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evil
men. Avoid it, do not travel on it; turn from it and go on your
way.” (Proverbs 4:14-15 NIV)
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Gail;
-----People don’t realize how much trash talk they put up with and even engage themselves. Neither do they realize how much trash talk really isn’t trash at all. I remember when “make love not war,” “hell no I won’t go,” and even “try it, you’ll like it,” and “if a tree fell in the forest and there was nobody there to hear it, would it make a noise” were all considered subtle bars of a giant left-wing melody of trash talk. But today, not only are those subtle bars considered pearls, the left-wing melody is becoming the super-market of our cultural ideas. Imagine that! From the trash to the market! And we are even pretty much the same people rejecting what we once accepted and accepting what we once rejected. If you want to see trash talk really make some people swing into action, then watch a teacher carefully and methodically lay out creation theory on a high school chalk board. Now that is trash talk! For a ride to jail as well, this teacher could pitch in a little Scriptural concept regarding homo-sexuality, or even sexual promiscuity. Several NFL talking heads and stars treated Tim Tebow’s conversation as trash talk.
-----So, shall we incline to believe trash talk is in the ear of the beholder? Personally, I believe God and all He supports for eternity are completely good. Everything else that is not likewise completely good is trash and will certainly be dumped by God like trash. And of course, our spirits have been pulled from the trash even as we are being pulled from the trash, because we are seen by God as pearls. But to otherwise elevate trash to good’s level, or to lower good to trash’s level, however politiely done, are both trash talk. In fact, the more it is stated with beautiful deference to the feelings and sensibilities of the listeners, then the more it is trash talk. You see, trash talk is deceit. Telling one another the truth in love is treasure talk.
-----Do you ever think about how deeply evil deceit is? Consider this simple principle, a person makes his decision according to what he knows. His decision put into action becomes one more extension of his life. But when he has been lied to, what he then knows is not real. This is the first layer of theft - a concept of reality has been heisted from him. So also his decision will be diverted from what it would have been had he actually known the real concept. This is the second layer of theft, a stolen decision. The outcome of the deceit is that his decision acted upon will extend his life more into unreality and less into reality. The third layer of theft is the stolen effects his better decision made upon the truth would have extended. When you consider that the ultimate reality for every soul is either eternal life or eternal death as determined by the effects of decisions, then you see how enormous are the thefts to which I refer. In fact, when you get an entire population freely sharing deceit, it builds entire unrealities that can be currently bad, so people get stolen even now: Jews are not human so gas them, man causes global warming so punish him, we evolved from swamp slime so what the hell, sexual intimacy is merely a social gesture, aren't you glad your swamp slime, and bless Mr. & Mr. Adam and Steve Smarmnow or go to jail. All trash talk has one end: God has no right to say! All treasure talk has one end: God says right. Both can get a bit rowdy (Jesus overturning tables in the Temple) and both can be sugar-sweetie, “Try it, you’ll like it!” Their determinate is not in how or with what words something is said, it is in the truthfulness or deceit of what is said.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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