State now there is a word, but what does it mean to state a fact.
What does one mean by this is statement.
Last week at a breakfast meeting I said “it doesn’t do any good to gripe.”
The rebuttal, rejoinder, or answer to my statement was I do not gripe, I just state the facts.”
I have often wondered how the stoic chief in Ndn oops I mean western true facts westerns would have answered me.
Would my rebuttal have resulted in a ferocious head butt? Maybe, the rejoinder would have resulted in a dislocated joint or joints? My gripe might have resulted in a deadly throat or neck grip!
Would I have ended up in state of disarray?
Today there is an army of gripers, complainers, and staters of facts.
But what facts? Sgt. Joe Friday would just ask for “just the facts” whether it was from a man or woman.
Now we have their statement of their facts mingled with fantasy. It has become more of their imagined rights.
Mostly it seems guaranteed by a constitution of delusion.
We do have certain rights but what do they really mean? How far do they go?
It used to be if a person had a gripe-complaint one could go to the Complaint Department.
Now it has become a right to gripe, complain, a right to be disrespectful to workers in the departments. The bible in 2Samuel 15:1-6 tells a story of a young whose main gripe was that he was not the king. So, he sat at the entrance to the city saying to everyone who passed by if only her were king he would hear their grievance. Grievance a fancier word for gripe, complaint, or disagreement.
Just as then, there is someone who will listen to your dissatisfaction with things to get their way.
There is a skit by Monty Phyton that in essence is about an argument department. In this skit you went up to the window where the guy asked what it is you wanted. You asked for an argument and he would ask if you wanted a five-dollar argument or a ten dollar one. You made a choice gave him the five and then it would start.
The payer stood waiting and after a few seconds would say well? The other answered well what? Well I gave you five. No you didn’t! Yes, I did. It would go on for about a minute of back and forth then the clerk would say times up!
Maybe this is what we need if people had to pay to air their gripes, complaints, or just to state the facts. This might deter some of the loudest and of those gripers, complainers, and staters of facts.
Back in the day of Kings and Ndn Chiefs would we dare say even Booo!