Just finished watching late night re-run of today’s `On the Record with Great Susteren on FOXNews.com` from 22:00pm to 23:00pm. Saw a news segment on Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who was a keynote speaker at a NAACP dinner in Glen Burnie, Maryland.
I’m controversial.
~Maw
Honestly, I find nothing offensive by anyone who is supposed to speak the truth, no matter how controversial. What I find disturbing are the sound bites taken out of context and how these messengers are misunderstood.
Sure, they don’t appear to give a damn but they speak straight and to the point, which hurts. But I find these types of people very intelligent. I hear it in Rev. Wright’s speeches. I hear it in Maw’s hard ways. But they are meant to make people think with both their minds and hearts.
Emotions can run high with any controversial issues from the highly charged sermons of the Reverent to the verbiages of a protective mother. But people like the Wright and Maw meant well and are sincere in their beliefs to shake up the more laid-back, clueless people, who think everything is just fine and dandy or honky dorie.
Critics will always make fun, which is not fair but is a given as the nature of humans try to define something objectionable as not good. But critics are fools, too; for they do not learn why these controversial folks make some enemies. Here is one of my favorite `Quotations from translations of the book The Art of War (6th century BC)` by Sun Tzu:
It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.
In other words, we are our own worse enemies. Because if we think the different points of views are always bad, battles continue, which explains why peace cannot seem to co-exist with hardened people.
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