The rumors all over social media, my friends…🤔😎. Yeah, we are friends because I share my thoughts with you and you listen. Feels good. Many thanks. 🙏🏾  

Have you noticed the way rumours are spread so fast these days? Many thanks to technology and social media platform and that we have access to them all. Should I also say many thanks to our gullibility and willingness to allow distractions stop us from asking some pertinent questions and shunning some of these when it’s clearly in bad taste or do we say the taste resides with the taster? 🤔🤔

Rumour could be defined as “a currently circulating story or report of uncertain or doubtful truth.” Dictionary.com. We have so much of it with some carrying gory photos & you stop to ask…how and when did this happen and who exactly recorded the scenes in circulation as we are meant to believe that these incidences were not prearranged. How did the originators get so much detailed information? Who are these originators sef?

These rumours range from how not to shake a gas cylinder as if you do, it would explode and you see the shaking and the explosion and it’s tough to piece the sequence together. Or that you have a snake stuck under your gas cylinder…then the snake 🐍 is there and you get a camera to record and broadcast…how did we get those details? Or the case of a deceased person in a developed country…we have the person’s photo being circulated as the authorities are unable to trace his or her relatives or the politically motivated rumours! They are just unending. 

Now I’m 💭 is their a market for rumours and rumour mongering? Who stands to gain and who are the losers. Ofcourse the platform on which these rumours get around and the internet service providers are “gainers” in terms of traffic…but what about the originator of these lies and half truths? What does s/he gain? Surely the peddlers to my mind are big time losers because they spend their time and energy as well as resources (purchasing data plans) and possibly relationships to spread and argue over something they don’t know the genesis or revelation of!

Shouldn’t we deliberately stop patronizing these acts that often seek to misinform and create disaffection amongst us. Shouldn’t we heed Philippians 4:8?

 “Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.”
‭‭Philippians‬ ‭4:8‬ ‭NIV‬‬

Much respect ✊