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Public Apology

Monday, May 31, 2010 at 11:19 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Public crime, public apology.  It’s been nearly a year and a half the incident occurred.  Once I called it a scandal; now I call it thus no more.  It stemmed from a certain journal entry that I adapted for the internet.  Date-stamp, Sunday, July 6, 2008 at 7:11 PM.  The post either exists no more or sits, abandoned, in the WordPress database, marked “deleted.”  Fortunately for me, I kept a copy of this text.  I’m not sure who read that post, except I’m quite sure a certain individual read that post.  She pursued me for that writing because she found it slanderous.  Was it true?  It was an opinion, and it has been said that an opinion is neither true nor false.  However, facts are either true or false, and the fact stands that I voiced my opinion candidly on these issues.

It was a mistake.  Better that I would have remained silent.  Let none believe that I intend irony or sarcasm.  I am genuinely sorry that I, lacking the wisdom to hold my tongue, maligned this authority, to whom I referred as “the principal.”  I’ll extend my apology one step further, to the “language arts [...] and social studies [...] teacher [...] who gave [colouring] projects,” as well as to the “French teacher [...] who knew a lot about what she was teaching and what she was doing.”  I reiterate the apology that I made above: I am sorry that I spoke badly of you.  This apology includes any damaging comments, likely no longer available to the public (including myself), that I have made on the Xfire blogs of my friends.  True or not, it matters not, for the Bible commands me “to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready to do whatever is good, to slander no one, to be peaceable and considerate, and to show true humility toward all men,” (Titus 3:1-2, NIV) without regard for the nature or the behaviour of the authority.  Therefore, it was inappropriate that I gave such damaging testimony without necessity.  I ask your forgiveness for this mistake, and sincerely hope that it will not be held against me.

And to the Crestwoodian who discovers this post first, please direct the relevant people, the ones for whom this apology is intended, to this apology.

(Quotations, aside from the Bible quotation, are from the original post “Reflection on Last Three Years at School and Farewell to Friends”)