I want to speak a bit about disingenuousness---hypocrisy, deceit, artificiality, phoniness . . . whatever you want to call it---deception, pretentiousness, pseudo-ism. I suppose one can be too bluntly honest; I may be guilty of that at times (along with several other crimes). But, I constantly encounter people who are remarkably two-faced and slick in their speech and actions, failing to grasp that those around them for the most part really are aware of their posing. It seems to me to be perhaps more prevalent in the generation just behind mine (I don't know why, and I'm not absolutely sure I'm right).
"So, what do you call a fake noodle? An impasta." Look around you please and start calling out the "impastas" who are trying to use their social skills and fakery to reign---to control the people around them and to satisfy their personal wants and to get by doing next to nothing, instead of striving for perfection. These fake noodles need to be tined by a thousand forks of genuineness. They are worthless and unnecessary, and they hold people back from achieving their complete potential. They make life miserable for those around them, while they gallivant about merrily. They cause immeasurable pain and trouble for innumerable numbers of folks. It is inexcusable to leech upon the good will and love of those in one's world---shame and blame may not be adequate punishment.
Perhaps, lack of intelligence can lead persons to focus upon themselves and their needs and wants to the exclusion of every other motive. Evil can do the same! "No one who practices deceit shall dwell in my house; no one who utters lies shall continue before my eyes" (Psa 101:7). Hate leads one to disguise himself as something other than what he is. In Romans 16:18, we're told: "For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive." Phoniness is completely unacceptable: It is not a minor fault to be casually overlooked.
If you find yourself entwined in the grasp of a pretentious controller, cut every cord. Jesus never once said we should enslave ourselves to someone else. We are free in Him. Pseudo-ism (my term) is a way of life for the politically correct and those who mouth concern for others, yet in no manner, really do anything other than serve themselves. Fakes are always superfluous. Pardon me, I warned you early on that now and then I would rant . . . and so I have.
"So, what do you call a fake noodle? An impasta." Look around you please and start calling out the "impastas" who are trying to use their social skills and fakery to reign---to control the people around them and to satisfy their personal wants and to get by doing next to nothing, instead of striving for perfection. These fake noodles need to be tined by a thousand forks of genuineness. They are worthless and unnecessary, and they hold people back from achieving their complete potential. They make life miserable for those around them, while they gallivant about merrily. They cause immeasurable pain and trouble for innumerable numbers of folks. It is inexcusable to leech upon the good will and love of those in one's world---shame and blame may not be adequate punishment.
Perhaps, lack of intelligence can lead persons to focus upon themselves and their needs and wants to the exclusion of every other motive. Evil can do the same! "No one who practices deceit shall dwell in my house; no one who utters lies shall continue before my eyes" (Psa 101:7). Hate leads one to disguise himself as something other than what he is. In Romans 16:18, we're told: "For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive." Phoniness is completely unacceptable: It is not a minor fault to be casually overlooked.
If you find yourself entwined in the grasp of a pretentious controller, cut every cord. Jesus never once said we should enslave ourselves to someone else. We are free in Him. Pseudo-ism (my term) is a way of life for the politically correct and those who mouth concern for others, yet in no manner, really do anything other than serve themselves. Fakes are always superfluous. Pardon me, I warned you early on that now and then I would rant . . . and so I have.
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