On Your Death Bed ... Reflecting
Lying on your death bed, what will you be thinking? Will it be, "Wow, I'm so proud of the nastiness and hatred I felt and tried to spread in my life. It makes me feel so good! I'm so happy I supported and witnessed the way Donald Trump made America hate again; how Ted Cruz and other far right wing supporters ranted against modern times and opposed the rights of some people to love one another. Gee they make me proud. There weren't many as brave as Trump, Cruz, Limbaugh, Michelle Bachmann, Hannity, and of course, Ann Coulter, who might be a better hater than all of them combined, well, except for maybe the Westboro Baptist Church, whose members cloaked their hate in religion. What a great bunch!
Yes, I'm proud of my hate and nastiness and I celebrate the hater in chief, Adolf Hitler. Now Hitler was a hater to make other haters super proud, a role model any want to be hater can look up to. Even as his life ticked down in its last hours, old Adolf kept hating, he never quit. In those last hours, he even had his own brother-in-law shot and he ranted against Jews in his final testament, so he never changed his positions, he stayed true to his hate. Wow, what a guy! And how about that Magda Goebbels? She was the wife of Joseph Goebbels, a great hater in his own right. It takes quite a hater to murder your own six kids, but Magda proved she was up to the task of being a true hater, supported by Joe, of course. So to all of you liberals, see, I don't discriminate against women.
So, like my hero, old Adolf, as I prepare to leave this world, I remain true to the cause of hate and I offer a big 'thank you' to all who have ever helped to prevent other human beings from receiving food, shelter or medical care, and an even bigger shout out, if it was to give tax cuts to billionaires, the truly needy among us; also to those who worked or spoke against military veterans and their families; who promoted war over peace; who knowingly trashed the planet, especially to pad their bank accounts; who promoted hatred against different races, religions, ethnicities, or hell, anything different from themselves, especially to derive political power. There are so many hateful things people do, I can't even think of all of them, but you've all earned the thanks of this grateful hater. And unlike some of you, I and Adolf don't claim to have our hate sanctified by a deity or deities, we just plain HATE!"
So is this how you would like to be remembered, even if not quite as extreme as I've presented here? None of us is perfect, but some are so hate filled and show little or no attempt to retreat from their hate. Assessing your own life and feelings is a start, so reflect now, before you go to your death bed.
WORD HISTORY:
Legacy-This word is related to "legation" and "delegation," but its distant Indo European origin presented here is not firm, although I am "definitely maybe" convinced. It was borrowed in the latter part of the 1300s from French "legacie," which meant, "group of envoys or deputies with written orders to fulfill a given task or tasks." This came from Latin "legatia," "an area over which a deputy has jurisdiction," from Latin "legatus," which meant, "deputy, envoy, official, officer, someone given power by a higher authority," from Latin "legare," a verb with the broad meaning, "to pick, to gather;" ^ thus, "choose," and in a specific sense, "to send a 'chosen' person or group (thus, "authorized") on a mission." This came from Latin "lex," which meant "law," perhaps from the idea, "gathered words used to rule, or in a contract." This went back to Indo European "leg-," which had the notion, "to gather, collect, pick."
^ It also meant "to read," from the notion of picking out written markings and deciphering them."
Yes, I'm proud of my hate and nastiness and I celebrate the hater in chief, Adolf Hitler. Now Hitler was a hater to make other haters super proud, a role model any want to be hater can look up to. Even as his life ticked down in its last hours, old Adolf kept hating, he never quit. In those last hours, he even had his own brother-in-law shot and he ranted against Jews in his final testament, so he never changed his positions, he stayed true to his hate. Wow, what a guy! And how about that Magda Goebbels? She was the wife of Joseph Goebbels, a great hater in his own right. It takes quite a hater to murder your own six kids, but Magda proved she was up to the task of being a true hater, supported by Joe, of course. So to all of you liberals, see, I don't discriminate against women.
So, like my hero, old Adolf, as I prepare to leave this world, I remain true to the cause of hate and I offer a big 'thank you' to all who have ever helped to prevent other human beings from receiving food, shelter or medical care, and an even bigger shout out, if it was to give tax cuts to billionaires, the truly needy among us; also to those who worked or spoke against military veterans and their families; who promoted war over peace; who knowingly trashed the planet, especially to pad their bank accounts; who promoted hatred against different races, religions, ethnicities, or hell, anything different from themselves, especially to derive political power. There are so many hateful things people do, I can't even think of all of them, but you've all earned the thanks of this grateful hater. And unlike some of you, I and Adolf don't claim to have our hate sanctified by a deity or deities, we just plain HATE!"
So is this how you would like to be remembered, even if not quite as extreme as I've presented here? None of us is perfect, but some are so hate filled and show little or no attempt to retreat from their hate. Assessing your own life and feelings is a start, so reflect now, before you go to your death bed.
WORD HISTORY:
Legacy-This word is related to "legation" and "delegation," but its distant Indo European origin presented here is not firm, although I am "definitely maybe" convinced. It was borrowed in the latter part of the 1300s from French "legacie," which meant, "group of envoys or deputies with written orders to fulfill a given task or tasks." This came from Latin "legatia," "an area over which a deputy has jurisdiction," from Latin "legatus," which meant, "deputy, envoy, official, officer, someone given power by a higher authority," from Latin "legare," a verb with the broad meaning, "to pick, to gather;" ^ thus, "choose," and in a specific sense, "to send a 'chosen' person or group (thus, "authorized") on a mission." This came from Latin "lex," which meant "law," perhaps from the idea, "gathered words used to rule, or in a contract." This went back to Indo European "leg-," which had the notion, "to gather, collect, pick."
^ It also meant "to read," from the notion of picking out written markings and deciphering them."
Labels: Ann Coulter, English, etymology, French, hate, haters, Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, Latin, Magda Goebbels, religion, Westboro Baptist Church
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