12/3/12

12-03-12 – Okay, guys…shut down your parentally taught misconceptions and listen for a second. When someone writes the word Christmas with an ‘X’ in front of it instead of ‘Christ’…they’re not being satanic, evil, childish, uninformed, uneducated, or disrespectful. ‘X’ is the Greek letter that represents Christ in that language. End of story. Now…I’m sure the people that have started the smear campaign against the almighty Xmas are also responsible for saying that AC/DC stood for ‘After Christ, Devil Comes’ and KISS stood for ‘Knights In Satan’s Service’! If you try hard enough…and are talented enough…you can turn almost absolutely anything at all into something that fits your needs. For example…let’s take, oh I don’t know, the BSA. You and I both know that it stands for ‘Boy Scouts of America’ but if I wanted to turn it into something sexual and disgusting…I could shoot for it’s meaning being something along the lines of ‘Boys, Sex, and Adults’ or ‘Bobby’s Sore Ass’! Ooops…wait a second…both of those acronym explanations were already taken by creepy scout leaders decades ago! Ok…here is another example then. Let’s take a name that most of us can associate with and turn it into something totally different. GREENVILLE! Taking my rather unique talent and mixing in a teaspoon of loathing…I get ‘Greedy Racist Egotistical Election Nabbing Villains Inheriting Lady Like Emotions’. All too easy! It doesn’t necessarily give our beloved city an entirely new meaning…it just says what we’re all thinking! Let’s do another one because this is fun! How about GEUS…another one of our favorite local acronyms! Generally Expensive and Useless Service! Wow! See…you can turn anything into whatever you want if you want it bad enough. Little old church ladies thought rock and roll was evil so they came up with names for the rock bands to scare away the young little fishes. On top of that, I’m almost certain a few hundred sermons or two have been preached over the years using those as subject matter and it was just heard, absorbed, accepted without question, and passed along. I think I’ve sat through a few of them myself! This whole world is full of acronyms and shortcuts around saying things for the sake of space, time, and the false impression that we are indeed smarter for using them. I’m not sure how the Xmas bashers started out…but I’m sure that it had something to do with a nagging old preacher’s wife having an epiphany and then not shutting up about it until her husband agreed to preach it to the masses! Since the Greek alphabet has been around far longer than the English alphabet, it’s only fair that the Greek alphabet has first dibs on what we call things! Xmas wins by seniority alone! Who are we as a society to strip someone of something that they’re entitled to? Oh yeah, we’re Americans. We’ve been doing that since the beginning if you think about it. We could no longer handle the rules and laws of England (criminals can’t handle rules and laws), hop in boats (that we probably stole), land on a foreign continent and set up residency (squatting and land snatching), and then killed off the native population (murderers)! Our forefathers, essentially, were mostly repeat offender, thieving, squatting, murderers by that logic so it’s no wonder why changing up someone’s language would be a minor thing. Actually…it kind of explains why society is the way it is today in this country. We haven’t changed or gotten worse or gotten lazy. We, as a society, are just leading by the examples set forth by the ones that founded our great nation to begin with! Of course our children glorify bad behavior and sexual practices set forth in pop music! We, as a nation, glorify our constitution…which was signed by the people who were obviously the best at thieving, squatting, and murdering. They lived long enough to sign it, didn’t they? Only the strong survive and our situation is no different, really. Hell, we even carved the best of the best’s face into a mountain side and elected him our first official leader! If you think our current leader is bad…wouldn’t you like to see the skeletons in George Washington’s closet? Of course…if you stuck with me and read this entire rant, you’d know that I’m just making stuff up and using it as an example on how easily we are influenced by people who have the talent to write and the gumption to stand up and speak. It means what they want us to believe it means. Evil is in the eye of the beholder. Good is a point of view. Don’t be afraid to stand up for what you personally believe in…and…above all else…have a Merry Xmas and Happy Holidays. I'm not God bashing at all. Even though I've never personally seen him...I HAVE seen the devil. This proves to me that God totally exists because there wouldn't be one without the other. I’m not trying to keep Christ out of Christmas either…tons of theologists are. The majority of them believe that Jesus wasn’t born on December 25th. It just so happens that the 'loudest' theologists are the ones we normally hear first and listen to... Howl, Growl, Snarl...