When slanguage goes bad.

There’s a remarkable trend of dudes in L.A. addressing each other as “god.” Even some friends of mine have tried to greet me with it – it’s nerveracking and a bit problematic.

“Yo god" is no way to address another person. First off – because someone from New York says something, does not make it brilliant. Secondly, your friends are not gods and you know it. When you fall sick or broke or hungry, you will call “God,” but it won't be your friend – your boy may come through to give you some soup, but that's about it. Thirdly, there's a clinical term that professionals attribute to those who find joy in being called God or think of themselves as God – the term is “insane.”

One of the problems is that people always want to see God, and that's cool (if you say so.) It gets worse though, people start drawing, and then they call their art God. Now there are those who call their friends god. And hey, if you believe that there is no God and no judgment day, that's alright, more of a reason to not call one of your friends “god” (that’s my only point.)No one says you have to believe in God the almighty, it’s a free country.That's the cool part about America; you really don't have to believe in anything as long as you pay taxes. But for a person who regularly uses the term "god", one would assume that person has some belief in the concept. If you won't believe that God is something truly superior to yourself (or your buddies), then why believe in God @ all?

If you do believe in a God or a single creator though, consider how much the creator has done for you. Think about it, how many species in the animal kingdom have the intelligence to cook? If you believe in a day of judgement, then on that day you will have to account for everything you do and everything you say. You don't want to tell your God that you called your next door neighbor “god” every morning; do you?

Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me – that is a fallacy. We should be more careful about what we say, because words affect us than we know.


P. S.
Black men are not dumb, but what is so difficult about finding a word somewhere between “nigga” and “god”?