Speak Out of Love (from VNS Episode 9)
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In this episode, we discuss the importance of having courage to speak your mind on social and political issues, and how we can be more assertive in speaking our views on them. We also talk about the benefits of being assertive on social issues and what it means to be courageous.
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When we step into the world, do you have any recommendations on how to approach
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social or political issues that we face? Trent, go ahead and take this first.
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That kind of goes back to what we said earlier about courage. You just need to kind of have
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courage. There's a, I would say the biggest reason that so many of our societies like social
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and political issues have come about is because people have been afraid to speak up. That's a
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thing with our people, especially where we've always been so altruistic, I think. And lately
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it's gotten to the point of, you know, we don't want to hurt feelings or whatever, but you can
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be assertive on your social and political views without you know being a douchebag it
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you know you can just calmly say no to whatever it is or calmly say i'm not changing my stance
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on whatever it is and at the end of the day i mean yeah some people are going to get upset and
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go cry on twitter or whatever it is people like that do but for the most part i think you'll find
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people will respect you for it even if they're like okay well i want nothing to do with you
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they'll they'll just move on that's the biggest thing with a lot of this stuff is just having some
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courage to be and you know what to quote the odin's hawk motto uh just do right and fear no one
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so uh all of that but i think the other thing is
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is, and Trent said this, but just to elaborate on it a little bit.
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Don't be naive. Be courageous and stand up and say what you mean and mean what you say.
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But there's a big difference in that. There's this phenomenon amongst our people is when they
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go on the internet and they create a fake name and use a fake picture, they say the most outlandish,
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ridiculous things in the most in-your-face possible way because it feels so good to finally be able to
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say the things that you've been afraid to say. And so they spew it out in the most repulsive way they
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can think of because it's been repressed for so long. What I would say is speak nobly. Realize
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that what you say and how you say it is going to be seen by everyone, not just your friends,
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but your enemies, your employers, your family. So own it. Believe what you believe, but say it in a
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way that's honest and that reflects your real feelings. Most of us aren't bad people. We're
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good people who have good values and good things to say. Keep that in mind when you're speaking.
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it's really easy to become embittered and frustrated by all of the things we don't like
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and rightly so there's so many things in this world that are so far askew from how they should
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be it's easy to get mad don't speak out of anger speak out of love speak about the things you love
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the things you value the things you want for you and for your family I think that we do much better
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speaking politically or about anything to people when we talk about what we love rather than all
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the things that we don't like or all the ways things are messed up think about what we do want
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to see and the world we do want for our children talking positively about what we're trying to
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build and who we want to become those those are beautiful things and i think we need to speak