Wwe Shut Your Mouth Mod

[Mickie Bottiglieri]

Whathappens when we keep our mouths shut? In ways that may not seem obvious at first, restraining yourself is actually an act of love and hospitality. When you hold back, you invite others to step in. You are choosing the place of humility, consciously acknowledging that you do not have all the answers, and that others may have wisdom and insight that you lack and the immediate situation desperately needs!

Additionally, restrained speech allows for greater data gathering. Rarely do I regret withholding my opinion and perspective, especially if I have not had time to fully process the relationship or situation. Often wisdom is found in moving knowledge from our heads and into our hearts, and that journey requires time. Our good intentions can be ill-informed, and we therefore speak out of partial knowledge and add fuel to the fire rather than the refreshment of true wisdom.

Lastly, our ability to keep our mouths shut is not only for our own sake, or for the sake of those closest to us, but it is for the sake of those outside the faith looking in. Rather than an abstract list of doctrines or beliefs, people are most often drawn to faith through their lived experience of the Holy Spirit at work in you and me. If we claim to be filled with the life and light of Christ, yet speak in ways that deny that hope, it not only shows the true state of our souls, but it compromises and weakens our embodied witness to the hope we have. And so, counterintuitive though it may seem, at times evangelism invites you to shut your mouth for the sake of Christ!

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As I entered the working world, I soon discovered that there is a delicate balance between speaking up and keeping quiet and some people had mastered the art of knowing when, why and how to do this. Because I was always looking for tools and examples on how to keep my mouth shut I became a diligent observer of those experts and learned some of the best leaders were the ones who excelled in the art of keeping their mouth shut and speaking up at the right times.

Speaking your mind can be a gift if channeled in the right direction. If you know your audience and choose your moments carefully you will discover the power in your words. Equally so, you will find the power in your silence.

Many times I notice that I am interrupted when I am expressing my opinion. It is not that I do not let others talk or want to dominate the discussion. When the discussion is in right direction, I give my approval and contribute where I can. I do voice my opinion when I think the discussion is not in right direction.

There may be many participants and all may have one point of view...generally that of the Boss. And, if I think it is not correct, I do not mind calling spade a spade! And that is where you are likely to be interrupted.

# Every one agrees on one point and you think it is not right. You start giving your logic. They do not agree. Do not push it more. You pointed something that you think is wrong. They may recall it when you were right !

# You suggest a flow to the client and more often the client's aggressive employee interrupts with one sided argument and you try to reason why it shall not be done their way and what you suggest with lot of experience is correct. I am sure, more of your arguments will only bring in bad blood. Better shut your mouth and hope to handle it later after they gain confidence in your capability !

# A new employee tries to give you suggestions as to how to improve things. You may have thought over all those things and implemented many things. Never shunt their opinions/ideas and you shut your mouth. You know 99.99% of those ideas already. Still there is 0.01% which may be worth looking at ! A fresh look always helps!

# You meet a person working with a competitor and you may not like him. Better control your feelings and shut your mouth as he is doing what he is expected to do for his company ! You should not go personal for office related issues! Let Boss handle issues, if any.

# There is this one person who never agrees with any one. You get irritated and start arguing. It is not worth it ! You are never going to convince him that he is wrong. Forget trying to convince that your point is right !

One of the last songs I disabled before turning the music off completely was River by Bishop Briggs. The music is okay and the singing is pretty good, but the lyrics don't make any sense at all, and I keep getting them stuck in my head.

The rest of the song seems to be talking about a difficult, turbulent relationship. I think she's comparing herself to a turbulent river, and telling her man to be strong and deal with her difficult emotions as if he was navigating rapids on a river that he was running.

I think it is using different meanings of the word run to ultimately suggest sensuality and sexuality. Run can refer to her as a river and him running down her. On one end this can mean something like running his fingers through her hair but on the other end this could mean "running her through" as you would do with a sword. The sword being a metaphor for sex. This would go along with some of the other imagery in the lyrics about killing and shooting and stuff. Sex is also referred to as the small death or something like that in some culture.

Explanation: The relationship in question is so close to ending that a single word or breath might cause everything to crash. The singer wants her lover to not speak, but instead to make love to her before everything comes tumbling down.'Run me like a river' is a sexual innuendo.

Lyrics:Shut your mouth, baby, stand and deliverHoly hands, oh, they make me a sinnerLike a river, like a riverShut your mouth and run me like a riverChoke this love 'til the veins start to shiverOne last breath 'til the tears start to witherLike a river, like a riverShut your mouth and run me like a river

It means the act of navigating something or someone. As in white water rafting and the act of navigating numerous potentially dangerous obstacles in an effort to continue on your journey relitively unscathed.

It makes perfect sense when alternatively applied to a relationship and the ups and downs (esp. if more downs than ups and the fact that one party of said relationship is unable and doesn't know how to react to said "obstacles".

The specific lyrics can easily be in reference to the more problematic half of the relationship telling the other person not to give up and leave but to try and simply navigate around the difficult "obstacles" as they come up rather than think so much about each one and get stuck.

"Run me" as a slang term can mean "give me." "Run me that" is basically an order to hand over whatever "that" is (forcefully). It can also mean "step up" or "bring it on" in a confrontation, which could be a restatement of "stand and deliver." ("run me that sh@t").

HOWEVER, I think you were right in your first assessment (via an answer) that "Run me like a river [current] would" is a proper reading. I think that comports well with the rest of the lyrics: it is a passionate relationship that the protagonist does not want to end even though it is basically over.

In further comments we discussed the idea of the River current might "run" "rule" or "guide" something, as well as which meaning of "run" we might use here. I think the usage is in the sense of e.g. "I run a small team." I do not think that there is any reason to think that any kind of actual agency on the part of the River is required in order to apply such a metaphor to an encounter with a natural phenomenon. A quick check of google book search for the sentence fragment "the river had other ideas" (in quotes) brings up many hits for fiction.

One thought I have is that the Singer (and presumably songwriter?) spent a large part of her formal-education years in Japan and also an English-language private school in Hong Kong. It is possible that this is a limited form of disfluency(?) from studying International English at such a school and/or it is borrowing from Japanese or Hong Kong Cantonese culture.

Clearly this song is about a relationship that is either basically over or is very volatile. I also find it to be a very sexually charged song, especially if you hear her sing it live. "Run me like a river" means she wants her lover to have his/her way with her before he/she speaks and ruins everything. It's a relationship hanging on by a thread. Or maybe it's about make up sex. But it's definitely sex. That's how I read it.

They're all rather familiar and rude expressions. They're all correct (whatever that might mean -- to me it means that people say them, not that I think they're necessarily good or bad) and used. I would rank them all below the threshold of civility. You can probably say something like "And if you want to stay out of trouble, keep your mouth shut unless someone specifically asks for your opinion" without being rude, just frank.

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