Friday, July 11, 2008

Guilt is an awful tool!



So, someone sent me this today. And I must say that I like the basic message of it. Even if the story isn't true, which I would bet money is the case, it has a good message, and a good moral. Now here is the tricky part...

I would NEVER send this on to my friends, christian or not, believers or not. Why? Because of the last 2 minutes and 10 seconds of it. I HATE guilt trips. Had it ended at 3:20 I would have passed it on to all my friends, but no, it goes on for another 2 minutes guilting people into feeling bad for sending on jokes, and for not having the "courage" to stand up to those who don't share their beliefs.

So I guess all I really have to say here is that I believe, and I don't care who knows it. But I don't think it takes me sending this on to all my friends to say it. And I don't think anyone who reads this should feel guilted into sending it on to their friends.

If only I knew how to edit these videos, I would cut off the last two minutes and ten seconds and send it on its way back into cyberspace to be passed from one believer to the next...

Posted by Pam at 10:54 PM  

1 comments:

Hamlie said...

I completely agree! I actually got the same post and refused to send it on because of the guilt trip at the end. You don't always have to send on a copycat message (especially if it may or may not be true) when you can be the message by being the example in every day actions, not just the 1/2 a second it took you to push a button.

July 12, 2008 at 1:44 AM

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