Get Into This Words Of Wisdom!

“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”

~ Jonathan Swift

“Stop The Hate In ‘o8″

Please allow me take this time to say that my most recent video is not at all a negative shot at Angel and Concreteloop.com - but the message is really just me pouring out my heart about how necessary it is for us to Stop The Hate In 2008!

People seem to want to SAVEBSCOTT. Let’s be clear about one thing Love Muffins! I love the Lord - he heard my cry and pitied every groan - long as I live and trouble rise I’ll hasten to his throne.

A major factor in HATE is ignorance. You know? Really get this and understand that “people perish for lack of knowledge.” And yes - I have to go there. All the way there. How dare people call themselves lovers of God, claim to “know” him and have a relationship with him but only spew words of anger and intolerance? This is not the way to get your point across. I am me. I am B.Scott and that’s all I know how to be. I believe that God made me the way that I am. But even if you disagree and you believe that I am damned to hell… hating me and being evil and ugly and angry is not the way to win me over or “save me from my sin.” The Bible even says that - You hate the sin - Not the sinner. And I’m not saying that I in any way believe that my lifestyle is a sin - I’m just saying - the methods have to be different. What about compassion? What about practicing the true ideas of Christ? What about loving your neighbor as you love yourself? What about “he without sin cast the first stone?” What about the fact that Christ says that even in our righteousness we (in our flesh) are all filthy rags? I could go on and on… but the point is - HATE is not, has never been, and is never ever going to be the way to bring change.

Come on people. We have to learn to love one another. We have to learn to foster change in our communities. We have to learn that whatever you say - is what you will have. So when has calling someone an ugly name - ever brought forth something beautiful? If you keep on sowing ignorance and intolerance and hate - you will get the same in return. All I can do is pray that people will one day really realize that you have to have your own personal relationship - you can’t get to heaven for B.Scott - and B.Scott surely can’t get to heaven for you… Now I’m not challenging anyone to a “Who Can Quote The Most Scripture Contest” however I am offering to you a different approach to this thing. If Love Can Conquer A Multitude of Things… Why don’t we try that out and see how that works in our favor rather than continuing to move further and further away from Gods true intent for his people - which is to love one another and bless him in our obedience…

Get Into These Words Of Wisdom!

“Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.”

~ Plato

Get Into These Words Of Wisdom!

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love & affection.”

- Buddha

Get Into These Words Of Wisdom!

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”

- Edward Estlin Cummings

Thanks Margaret from Sao Paulo, Brazil!

Question Of The Day: Is Blackface Ever Okay?

Hey Love Muffins, I have a question for you guys. This morning I was reading my Entertainment Weekly (perhaps some of the wittiest writing of all the pop culture magazines out there), when I was struck by this photo. Initially I paid the picture no mind. It just looked like another screen cap for an upcoming movie, however, when I read the article I realized that the black man in the middle is in fact Oscar nominated actor Robert Downey Jr. …. in Blackface! He plays a white actor who choses to play a Black role in the movie-within a movie.

The picture is from the new Ben Stiller movie “Tropical Thunder” which is supposed to be a comedy satirizing Hollywood. To be honest, I really don’t know how to take this. Blackface when done with clear malice or racism is by no means acceptable but if it’s done for the sake of comedy can it ever be OK? I personally think that comedy is one of the ways people have become comfortable with the subject of race and addressing all the baggage that comes along with it. I can’t watch Comedy Central, Def Jam, or Comic View without hearing a joke infused with some sort of racial humor. For the most part I laugh because I understand where it’s coming from.

On another point we let actors step out of their normal lives all the time without complaint, should race be any different. Straight actors are allowed to play gay (Tom Hanks, Heath Ledger), women allowed to play women (Cate Blanchett, Felicity Huffman), and White people have played Interracial (Angelina Jolie in “A Mighty Heart”). In all in roles there was no intent to be humorous or satirical. Each of these roles the actors were trying to convincingly play someone of the opposite sexuality, gender, or race. One may argue that there are too many availible gay or ethnic actors to have other people stepping in on the very limited number of roles available to them in Hollywood.

I know this was a little long (and believe me, I cut it down) but this just struck me as a good talking point. Thoughts?

Get Into These Words Of Wisdom!

“What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.”

- Oprah Winfrey

Sunday Words Of Wisdom

Your Major Gifts will make room for you. Your Minor Gifts will establish you.-Tudor Bizmark

There is so much inside of you that needs to be used. We all have major gifts. Some of us sing, dance, write, excel at sports. Others use their intellect to challenge ideology, act, draw, design, etc. Those can be considered major gifts. Your major gift will make room for you. It will open doors for you.

However, we also have minor gifts. Michael Jordan’s major gift is putting a ball into a hoop. His minor gifts are selling underwear and real estate. Michael Jordan’s major gift made room for him. His minor gifts are what have established him. Just think if Michael Jordan hadn’t allowed his minor gifts to establish him. He would have been the greatest ball player to ever touch the court - and just a fond memory from our past.

Use your major gifts to your advantage. Allow what God has given you to open doors for you. But also be mindful that you have so many different talents inside of you. Search deep and use them as well.

[Translated understanding of a sermon by Bishop Tudor Bismark]