“A joke is a very serious thing,” said Winston Churchill, who ran a nation, during a war. Apparently, Winston.
So, someone wasn’t amused by my post about Mercy Me’s new blog. It’s a good blog. My friend Brody built it. Check it out.
Someone thought my post was a little mean to Mercy Me, who, by the way, has a new blog. It’s a good blog. My friend Brody built it. Check it out.
Someone thought it was in poor taste when I linked to that picture of Mercy Me’s tour buses and scooters – the picture I got from Mercy Me’s old blog that a member of Mercy Me wrote. That was poor taste! What was I doing on their old blog when their new blog clearly rocks much harder?? My friend Brody built it. Check it out.
My post was wrong – I suck. Especially the parts where I linked to Mercy Me’s ministry partners and called them great guys I’d like to tour with, and said I liked them, and said my mom does too – all those bits kinda wreaked of wrong to me too.
She does, by the way. Like them. My mom does. Really. That was no joke. They’re her almost favoritest. And now my mom is so happy because she can read their new blog! It’s a good blog. My friend Brody built it. Check it out.
And, awww, wook at the widdle kitty cat and his pwecious widdle ducky wucky. Wook at ‘em.
(Thanks, What Would Brant Do bracelet. Copyright 2008 Shlogspirational Toys.)
To quote a very gifted Christian soft rocker, “some people don’t have the gift of interpretation of the gift of sarcasm”……I would agree.
They’re her “almost” favoritest. That is classic. You’re awesome Shaun.
CAT is thinking…. “I ordered it Medium rare, not raw!”
yeah – sorry its lunch time.
almost favoritest…that’s pretty high!
“I can only imagine” what it will be like when someone realizes that widdle kitty cat is about to eat that pwecious widdle ducky wucky. Of course that response is probably already “spoken for”. Will the “word of God speak” or will someone rebuke you? It seems like most people respond “in the blink of an eye”. Kind of makes me “homesick” for a time before the impersonal world of the internet when people would be less apt to shoot across the bow since they were “here with me”. I guess that is because when someone is there with them, they can say “so long self” and be polite.
Just my thoughts. I kinda thought it was funny. I also knew you were being sarcastic since I already saw the link to them.
Out of curiosity, who is your mom’s “favoritest” musician?
so in respect to this blog entry.
how does that work with “encourage one another to love and good deeds” now that would be a great guidline for blogging.
I guess I didn’t realize how sensitive some people are until reading a few blogs sense that certain blog entry.
Geez man, didn’t you know sarcasm is not appropriate in typed word?
Sometimes taking ourselves less seriously frees us up to love and good deeds. Sometimes I’m not doing love and good deeds because I’m so wrapped up in all the small things that rub me wrong – anger is a mirror not a window right?
Shaun
I’ve never heard that before – anger is a mirror not a window, but I love it!
On a side note, I listened to “One Night In Knoxville”, and really liked it! Thanks.
Cynthia
Shaun,
Anger is a window when you let others look in.
Say more about that.
(Wow, that sounded like psychiatrist speak didn’t?)
Seriously, what else you got on that, Shawn?
Well you said “anger is a mirror not a window,” I think that anger is only an outward response to something going inside. So you said it’s a mirror, I agree that it is a mirror when we are ready to look at the cause. To others, it is a window that lets them see there is something going on inside that may come out as anger, jealousy, petty crap that seems petty but might have a bigger root that needs to be addressed. I often use sarcasm as an outlet to cover what I truly need to express, and that is not healthy. But this isn’t a perfect, but a broken world right? Not saying I know all the details, but it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to put two and two together.
So maybe it’s a two way mirror and we are just to wrapped up in our anger, we don’t realize what others are truly seeing. Hopefully I don’t sound as stupid as I feel for writting that.
Gotcha, Shawn. To the angry person, then, anger can keep them from seeing the world around them and instead cause them to be more self-centered than when they aren’t angry: a mirror. But to those around them it is a window that allows us to see that something might be broken inside the angry person. Gotcha.
Deep. And on a day off too. Wow.
Thanks for that, Shawn.
Great way of putting it, I think I have been guilty of that a time or two.