Within the human condition there sits a series of common retorts to some of the issues and questions of life.

When conversation turns to spiritual things, or the views you believe are held up to a ridicule in a common retort.

Answers for these moments are often wanting.

Why?

Most people just aren't prepared for them, and often are quite taken aback when they happen.

Here are some of those retorts, often thrown into the conversational mix as a provocitive statement or intended as an final statement on the matter.

What you learn to do next can change the shape of your relationship with those who toss the retort-grenades.

Often you can simply win the day by how you respond.

I intend to show you how to do just that.

 

Example retorts...

* There is no God?

* The Bible is full of mistakes, it's just the words of men!

* Evolution is a fact! everyone knows that!

* Religion is for losers and suckers!

I used many just like these myself in my formative years.

Usually to bat away an unprepared and unguarded persons attempts at winning me over in a conversation.

Often repeating what I heard from someone else.

This is often the way with these things.

 

It usually takes hold like this.

You are a kid, growing up in a fast paced, every changing environment.

You better have some answers, because people are going to be dealing you theirs.

Like it or not.

So listen up.

You watch, you see how people can and or cannot respond to these hand-grenades of communication.

You pick up on them and toss a few yourself. It works. Effective time saving device for future use when needed.

Often you seem to win the word war, get left alone and move on to do what you were going to do.

 

Isn't that what is often behind the catch-alls.

You want to do what you want to do, and the consequences of those actions need to be washed out.

So the ready made conversation retort-grenades come in handy.

But are you doing yourself any service with this approach to life.

The source of these statements often lies deeper than you might ever imagine.

And your use of them is far more dangerous than you ever considered.

So let me tell you more...

 

You can quote but you can't hide!

There are a lot of statements like these that get carried from generation to generation without a lot of though applied to the validity or authority behind them.

They don't change, just the delivery, which often is still word-for-word of the last generations.

I want to address these defensive retort-grenades of the human condition.

So...

I am going to produce a one-a-month video examining these social catch-all's.

I intend it to be serious fun.

By that I will examine them and have a bit of fun at their expense.

Enterainment is the heart of the internet. So I better get on that bandwagon sooner or later to keep you coming back for more right?

 

The "Who Taught You That?" Videos

This introduces the 5 to 8 minute video series that will be starting soon on the fresh-oil site.

It is another podcast entry.

Podcasts come in three types: audio, video and pdf, just so's you know.

The purpose is to take a quick poke at some things people repeat without really having considered the source or the facts of the statements.

While understanding the reality that you cannot change an opinion unless the respondent wants to change is true.

I still intend to contend with the notions that get set forth as the be-all and end-all facts, that often are not!

 

Storms in teacups!