"All words are symbols that represent unspeakable realities. Which is also why words are magical." (Donald Miller tweet)

Thursday, September 06, 2007

mean people

Ugh. There seems to be an excess of mean people crossing my days this week.

Not mean TO me; I'm just hearing about, reading about, seeing MEAN PEOPLE all around me!!

What is that about??????!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why is everyone so crusty???!!!!!!!!!!!

It's the arguing that drives me crazy. Especially online, anonymous arguing, done by Christians, you know, the ones who feel it's their sole purpose in life to tell everyone else where they are ETERNALLY WRONG. They bash the living daylights out of someone who is so obviously baiting them, all in the name of "truth".

In my slogging through things this week, I have had to work through a few websites that are ENTIRELY DEVOTED to making lists of people and organizations that are wrong. With back-up articles to explain WHY they are wrong. Nowhere is there a single statement of, "Wow, here's something good that's happening."

And then there are the unreasonable people that you can't get away from, but you can't resolve anything with, because ... as I said ... they are not reasonable.

Ugh.

Again - none of it is AT me. But it's GETTING to me this week.

Help! Tell me some good stories! Remind me of what's good in the world!