There's probably one thing that I can't stand in this whole World; gossip. Ok, there's more than one thing, but that is the topic of this post. Religion to me hasn't taught me much, apart from using it as an excuse to kill someone (not something I've personally done mind you) etc etc (yes, that was a bold statement, but I'm in one of 'those' moods), yet I found a Jewish proverb that really sums up what I want to say here: 'What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth'. All I can say to that is 'too true'!!
Living away from it all, i.e. not England for some time, whether it was in the states, up north in England (yes that is another World too) or over here I recieve emails from friends and family etc and depending on the context I try to connect to it in some way. I 'read' the Sky news reports online, but they are about as useful as a screen door on a submarine: they report with grammar and spelling errors, let alone half arsed stories: so what is one to believe? Well history is one big biased passage of time. Only the people that ever succeeded wrote history, otherwise it wouldn't exist! So if every history book is a biased account that has been falsified to fit an image or personal thought for who it affects, what should we believe? My point here? Well this is it. Im not sure if Swedes have a saying 'straight from the horses mouth' but gossip can happen unintentionally- we all percieve things differently and like chinese whispers, we tell the next person with a slight word change, they change another then job done, the whole point is changed.
I say this because things happen with friends and family that are completely independent of everyone, yet people's names for example get drawn in to this distorted picture, where 'so and so said this'.......etc etc. Now it is like being back at school when 'Sven said he doesn't like you' so now tell Sven 'I don't like him' when the cheeky fucker passing the message on is the shite stirrer themself!
I guess we all let gossip in some way or another affect us. After all most of our knowledge is based in this way: we read, we observe, we hear stories etc. There aren't many people who 'have been there' when the accounts were made etc (besides we bias when we see anyway!). May be this is a strength of human character: the belief in things, i.e. to trust other people or information. May be it creates weakness in the form of naivity. Who knows.
I believe there are some things to take with a pinch of salt and may be some to think about a little more. If its ever a 'she or he said...' (especially as a negative) then please please ignore it. The person saying it has more than likely twisted the hell out of it to their advantage, rendering it completely untruthful (yes lots of 'its' I know). Remember if you don't hear it from the actual person then don't assume there's anything in it!! (confront the person, then beat the crap out of them for being a twat.....ok don't really, even if you want to)
Living away from it all, i.e. not England for some time, whether it was in the states, up north in England (yes that is another World too) or over here I recieve emails from friends and family etc and depending on the context I try to connect to it in some way. I 'read' the Sky news reports online, but they are about as useful as a screen door on a submarine: they report with grammar and spelling errors, let alone half arsed stories: so what is one to believe? Well history is one big biased passage of time. Only the people that ever succeeded wrote history, otherwise it wouldn't exist! So if every history book is a biased account that has been falsified to fit an image or personal thought for who it affects, what should we believe? My point here? Well this is it. Im not sure if Swedes have a saying 'straight from the horses mouth' but gossip can happen unintentionally- we all percieve things differently and like chinese whispers, we tell the next person with a slight word change, they change another then job done, the whole point is changed.
I say this because things happen with friends and family that are completely independent of everyone, yet people's names for example get drawn in to this distorted picture, where 'so and so said this'.......etc etc. Now it is like being back at school when 'Sven said he doesn't like you' so now tell Sven 'I don't like him' when the cheeky fucker passing the message on is the shite stirrer themself!
I guess we all let gossip in some way or another affect us. After all most of our knowledge is based in this way: we read, we observe, we hear stories etc. There aren't many people who 'have been there' when the accounts were made etc (besides we bias when we see anyway!). May be this is a strength of human character: the belief in things, i.e. to trust other people or information. May be it creates weakness in the form of naivity. Who knows.
I believe there are some things to take with a pinch of salt and may be some to think about a little more. If its ever a 'she or he said...' (especially as a negative) then please please ignore it. The person saying it has more than likely twisted the hell out of it to their advantage, rendering it completely untruthful (yes lots of 'its' I know). Remember if you don't hear it from the actual person then don't assume there's anything in it!! (confront the person, then beat the crap out of them for being a twat.....ok don't really, even if you want to)
