Hello my friends. Today in my series on normal things dark tetrad parent fubar for kids, I'm exploring concepts of "woke" vs. ignorant. And yet again, I'm reminded how they twist words to suit their purpose. And how they define words one way for themselves and completely differently for other people. What baffles me is how folks just fall in with their machinations.
So, to begin with, when I was a kid growing up under a dark tetrad regime, we didn't use the term "woke." But I was woke, as in the general meaning now, before it was a thing. My eyes and heart were opened to suffering, captivity, enslavement and exploitation of others. (It would take me 60 years to awaken to my own). I always understood that seeing clearly was preferable to lies and deception.
However, now, MAGA wingnuts have done their utmost to taint the idea of being "woke" to others' needs. They've thrown sand in our eyes to make it look like a bad thing. And they've exalted ignorance, prejudice, profiling, racism, bigotry and hatred to cult status. So let's look at what "woke" actually means. It means to be enlightened, awakened, made aware of, to see the light. Curiouser and curiouser.
Because, um, these are good things, as per the Bible which the haters quote ad nauseum at others. God's word commands sleepers to wake from their slumbers. We're to rejoice that the people who walkrf in darkness have seen a great light! Jesus opened the eyes of the blind. Jesus is called the light of the world. St. Paul says that once we saw dimly as if in a darkened mirror, now we see clearly. And yet these same Bible-Trumper-thumpers, preach against light and clear vision. They favor blindness and obscurity.
Well, that is their stock and trade, to blindside, to muddy what is clear and to do nefarious things in dark shadows. And pass off their darkness as wisdom and enlightenment and "truth." Wow, nothing could be further from. We're told that there are none so blind as those who WILL NOT see. We're warned off being misled by people who commit dark acts in secret. We're told to keep clear of those who plot and deceive.
Proverbs 6:16-19 takes it further. God, it says, hates "haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers." Sound like any 47th president we know? A president, I might add, whom my parents worship. Yes, I said worship.
So back to these dark tetrad parents of which I had four. I'm told they read their Bible. But I don't see how they could. Either that or they aren't reading THE Bible. Because the gospel they preach is so very contrary to the word of God. And what they live is not Biblical, nor Christian nor even just garden variety good human. They do the very things they punished me for doing. They bound everyone else and especially me, up to burdens which they do not carry themselves. So I have no choice, now, but to accept that they're not agents of God. They're passing their own whack-job agenda off as the "good news." And believe you me, it's not good at all. It's shamed -based, self-righteous, finger-pointy, judgey as all get out and completely hypocritical. All I can say is ya better watch out. Because God will not be mocked.
How did I not see, for all these years, their dark hypocrisy? Why did I just accept that there were rules for me and different rules for them? Well, all I can think is that I did the wrong thing for the right reason. And I did what I had to, to survive. I trusted my parents and loved them. I believed that they had my best interest at heart. I let them get aways with all manner of wickedness against me because it seemed that this was "honoring my father and mother." The Bible said nothing about me honoring (obeying, being enslaved to) their spouses. That was value added religious gaslighting on their part. But I say again, God will not be mocked (or weaponized, or used as a pawn) so, yeah.
It wasn't till I "woke" to the fact that they didn't love me or have my best interests at heart, that I began understand how damaged I was by their exploitation. When I let God pry my hands off my eyes, I saw their evil (that's not too strong a word). When I quit looking in their dirty mirror, I saw so their real motives so clearly that it took my breath away. If I'm honest, I'm still in shock. So, riddle me this. If being woke's so terrible, how's come it was awakening to my parents' deceit that saved me? Seems to me that waking up from a nightmare into the light of day, is no bad thing.
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