Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf.

                                               a Cree proverb

then along comes the louts who cant leave well enough alone Listen, or thy tongue will make thee deaf. 

Really junk it up with thy and theeChristianise it try an claim it

think it through

                proselytising advocating converting coercing lipservice oral  when one sits before a pulpit the celebrant rants he or she hears nothing he knew that irrefutably when he was a young teenager  he took exception to a priests remarks during Sunday Mass

                                 as at school he sat up front because he was easily distractionknew it he was sitting in the second pew directly before the lectern he raised his hand to be recognised

the priest continuedglared at himpeople to either side of him shifted they too glaredhe could feel their electricityvibe they desperately wanted to pull his arm down but didnt dare

                                                            he felt their delicious Who do you think you are?

push comes to shove

                      slowly he began waving his arm the circumstance degrading from sermon to circus to carnival

when the cotton candy of cobwebs was apparentthe church didnt employ bouncers he quit waving he stood quietly excused himself worked his way to the aisle then rather than exit to the rearretreat he crossed in front of the pulpit the yammering Father under crucified Christs hanging head and took a side Fire door

that was the last he was in a church except for weddings and funerals

Cree  Nehiyawak in their tongue

                                      had their shit together

Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf.

                                             he asked a friend what he thought the proverb meant

What is says.

Whadoes it say to you

To listen.

Care to elaborate

                   The word or is a conjunctionconnective junction confluence where two or more events things occur at the same point in time or space  Coexist

Jesus, man, how you read things; nothing's ever simple to you.

Simple Meaning black an white

                                  Yareally don think things are black an white                                     

Not black and white, but simpler than you make things out to be.

Listen  Or

Listen listen, I’ve already agreed with you.

                                             he put a puss onthe puss he wore when he dug his heels in 

he was deaf

             didnt have to use his tongue

  

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