Pal,
I want to deal with the absurdity of some of the principles we get pumped into our heads my external forces and which external forces come in the form of parents, teachers, preachers, governments etc. I'd see how far I can go.
First on the table is loyalty.
Loyalty simply says (and you can hear it speak to you right?) that you should have an unwavering faith in me if you want to be loyal to me. That means no matter what I do, be it good or bad you must take whatever I tell you and follow it.
Pal I need not tell you this principle is nothing but stupid. So my advise to you is simple. be loyal to no one. I mean If I were Abraham and God came asking me to kill my son I'd have refused because I believe in human rights. and don't tell me about God the all powerful because the same God makes us understand that we are supposed to be like him (and that's what the holy books preach right?).
So pal never be loyal to me because I won't be loyal to you.
Friday, August 5, 2011
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Is our God an insulting God?
Pal,
From homosexuality to insults: The media in Ghana seem to be getting everyone on a lazy-escape ride (while our problems remain) and no less a person than the president himself has gotten on board.
President Mister says 'politics of insults' must stop after a political opponent of his suggested he, together with a colleague, is gay!!! it was a mere suggestion pal. but the president took it seriously against my gay feeling and decided to call on osofos in the country to speak against insults.
So I say come and insult me pal. come, now! else, let's bid time; you'd make me president and after rain the insults on me as I sit to represent you! call me gay! call me bisexual! call me asexual. or call me handsome. anything. be it nasty or beautiful don't matter. just call me what you want and i'd not even 'put flatulence into it' (a number of Ghanaian languages have this phrase, meaning 'to mind'. I love it).
It's simple. I have my bias for unfettered 'free speech'!!! my manifesto which I presented in 2008 states so in article 11. and I don't give a damn about any opanyin (Akan) or onukpa (Ga) or ametsitsi (Ewe) or elder (English). I mean if an onukpa acts foolishly I should state so exactly.
so what is an insult? I've heard some refer to descriptions of body parts of fellow humans as insult. So if I say you have a big head (whether it's true or not) I should be said to be insulting you. Others stretch it to descriptions of material possessions by fellow humans. So if I say your car is rickety it could mean insult.
Insult really is an imprecise term in language. So when I see a chief I feel insulted. if you plant a tree in-front of my door to make my way narrow I'd feel insulted even though a tree should be a good thing. If you bring the most beautiful woman in the world to lie by me in bed without my consent I would feel insulted even though you'd think I should just 'take her' (say that in twi) as a man. and I feel insulted by my president claiming that insults should stop because I know they shouldn't.
Many blacks feel insulted when they are faced with racist chants (chants which would make me dance instead) and yet they don't expect whites to feel insulted when they refer to them with terms like vampires (who suck our resources like blood).
Obama and his Sarkozy-allies have insulted me with their operations in Libya and Ivory Coast. Bush rained some of the worst insults on me in recent history with his WMD lies. Bush meant that a person like me is a fool (he needn't say it in naked words before I know, you see?).
So if you don't need to call me a fool before I see that you are calling me a fool then how can insults ever stop? as for me I won't bother much about such a fruitless thing to say. Insult is part of communication; our language and actions and it has always been. You'd find it deeply rooted in many cultures even as 'organized insults' like the Ga 'kpa shi mo' which is about setting a day aside to insult leadership (to call them to order). There are many folk songs and tales that are nothing but insults, relating to all manner of situations in society and they are meant to be instruments of correction.
So insult is not always bad. Insults may be deserving or not deserving. and really there can be no line to draw a separation between what is insulting and what is not. There's no such line.
So pal, is our God an insulting God?
From homosexuality to insults: The media in Ghana seem to be getting everyone on a lazy-escape ride (while our problems remain) and no less a person than the president himself has gotten on board.
President Mister says 'politics of insults' must stop after a political opponent of his suggested he, together with a colleague, is gay!!! it was a mere suggestion pal. but the president took it seriously against my gay feeling and decided to call on osofos in the country to speak against insults.
So I say come and insult me pal. come, now! else, let's bid time; you'd make me president and after rain the insults on me as I sit to represent you! call me gay! call me bisexual! call me asexual. or call me handsome. anything. be it nasty or beautiful don't matter. just call me what you want and i'd not even 'put flatulence into it' (a number of Ghanaian languages have this phrase, meaning 'to mind'. I love it).
It's simple. I have my bias for unfettered 'free speech'!!! my manifesto which I presented in 2008 states so in article 11. and I don't give a damn about any opanyin (Akan) or onukpa (Ga) or ametsitsi (Ewe) or elder (English). I mean if an onukpa acts foolishly I should state so exactly.
so what is an insult? I've heard some refer to descriptions of body parts of fellow humans as insult. So if I say you have a big head (whether it's true or not) I should be said to be insulting you. Others stretch it to descriptions of material possessions by fellow humans. So if I say your car is rickety it could mean insult.
Insult really is an imprecise term in language. So when I see a chief I feel insulted. if you plant a tree in-front of my door to make my way narrow I'd feel insulted even though a tree should be a good thing. If you bring the most beautiful woman in the world to lie by me in bed without my consent I would feel insulted even though you'd think I should just 'take her' (say that in twi) as a man. and I feel insulted by my president claiming that insults should stop because I know they shouldn't.
Many blacks feel insulted when they are faced with racist chants (chants which would make me dance instead) and yet they don't expect whites to feel insulted when they refer to them with terms like vampires (who suck our resources like blood).
Obama and his Sarkozy-allies have insulted me with their operations in Libya and Ivory Coast. Bush rained some of the worst insults on me in recent history with his WMD lies. Bush meant that a person like me is a fool (he needn't say it in naked words before I know, you see?).
So if you don't need to call me a fool before I see that you are calling me a fool then how can insults ever stop? as for me I won't bother much about such a fruitless thing to say. Insult is part of communication; our language and actions and it has always been. You'd find it deeply rooted in many cultures even as 'organized insults' like the Ga 'kpa shi mo' which is about setting a day aside to insult leadership (to call them to order). There are many folk songs and tales that are nothing but insults, relating to all manner of situations in society and they are meant to be instruments of correction.
So insult is not always bad. Insults may be deserving or not deserving. and really there can be no line to draw a separation between what is insulting and what is not. There's no such line.
So pal, is our God an insulting God?
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