Courage or Mental Defect?
Driving home with Karisa down Kamehameha Highway. Passing Pearlridge Mall on our left, there at the bus stop we see this bearded guy in an aloha shirt and jeans who's facing the small crowd. He's holding a huge sign that reads:
EXCEPT YE REPENT YE SHALL ALL LIKEWISE PERISH!
Now I could only get a quick look as we zoomed on by, but I could see clearly that he was preaching. Preaching with passion. And his audience was captive-- only because they had to stay around or else chance missing their bus.
And I started to wonder.
Either this guy has such faith, such a strong conviction to his beliefs that he can summon the courage to stand in front of strangers, speak from the heart, risking retaliation and ridicule from an angry mob...
or else dis guy stay small kine nutz. ka-ray-zeeee, li'dat.
Who am I to judge, though? Am I to admire his bravery or smirk at his insanity?
Who am I to say? To many in Hawaii, the way I practice chiropractic with the Honor Box is cause for a similar evaluation:
That thing Dr. Shiraki does with the Honor Box, is that courage or mental defect?
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