Short Story: The consciousness of society. The power of right speech

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The Reverend, Horace Argyle, was giving a sermon on humanity, and in particular, he was focusing in on what consciousness was. The Reverend was a bit of a philosopher at heart, and the way that he spoke, often turned some of his parishioners off, as they could not fathom much about what he was actually saying. He talked in long paragraphs, complexly compiled, and joined together by confusing word choices, that mixed up a person's mind, listening to him speak. Here is a part of what he said that day: "The generational view of each generation depends on the consciousness and awareness of the individual within that generation, and the generational view is the lowest view seen from the lowest consciousness in that generation, as everything has to be arranged to the lowest denominator, for it to work for all parts of itself, and for all people, as otherwise a separation is achieved, which creates a split of elitist souls higher than others, so to speak, and yet it is not the soul, but the consciousness of its vehicle that we mean here." At the end of his service, a man took him aside at the door, where he was greeting parishioners, and said to him. "You should not speak in such highfaluting ways, but speak more simply for the lowest consciousness here, as you put it yourself, in your talk today." The Reverend smiled, and replied: "It requires the right words, for the right words to be spoken. The truth of my words will hit the listener with what they are ready to hear, because they are ready. Those not ready to hear, will not hear, no matter how I phrase what I say." "Do you have the ears to hear?" he then asked this man. The man huffily replied: "No, nor have I the mind to try to fathom out your ideas of truth, which are gobbledygook to all but to you." "Consciousness is like a thorn," the Reverend replied. "It finds someone ready to grow higher in consciousness, by pricking them more awake with itself, and yet, if one is void of love, consciousness remains just a thorny bush to you, and you never see its flowers, on that same bush." "Have a good day, my friend." he said, and he moved off to talk to the next person, exiting the church. Afterword: To ensure that we talk understandably to others, we should keep these 3 simple rules in mind: 1:/ We need clearness/clarity in what we are saying. 2:/ What we say should normally be versed in an interesting way, for the hearer, and should not be framed in a way, just interesting to us. 3:/ Care about who you are speaking to. Voice what you say so that it can be understood by all, in your audience. The Reverend, here, broke all 3 of these rules of good speech. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com