Could Someone Please Define Authentic?

I deactivated Facebook........AGAIN! Consequently, no one will read this. I suppose that's good. Because this post will meet with GREAT opposition. Once again, I am in the minority. I am just an "out of touch," narrow-minded, bigoted, homophobe, who tends to be a little judgmental.

The hashtag #authenticself makes me want to vomit! Period. End of sentence.

The same rant applies to #authenticself that applied to #liveyourtruth. Am I the only one on the planet that sees this? If we allow truth creation, instead of truth discovery, then NOTHING, I mean NOTHING matters! And if NOTHING matters, then who are we to judge?

No one wants to celebrate Joseph Stalin, who by most estimates, is responsible for the death of 20 MILLION people! Should he not be celebrated for being his #authenticself?

We seldom hear of a baby being named Adolph. But I would suggest that Adolph Hitler was doing nothing more than "living his truth" and being his #authenticself when he sought to wipe the Jews off the face of the Earth. His goal took a tremendous amount of courage. Should Hitler not be considered posthumously for the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage?

And speaking of courage! In my mind, those boys that decided to fly those airplanes into those Towers and into the Pentagon exhibited a level of courage I will NEVER have! And if anyone ever "lived out their truth" and acted on the convictions of their #authenticself, those boys did!

I truly anticipate that #authenticself will soon be heard as a defense in our Court system. Eventually, some Priest who has diddled countless numbers of altar boys will simply state that he had to be "true to himself" and live out his #authenticself.

Some child molester will argue convincingly that he was born with the desire to have sex with 4 year old little girls and he felt it necessary to be his #authenticself.

We live in a society that really doesn't ask us to just "accept" people. It requires us to place them on a pedestal. To worship them! To adore them! To bestow honors upon them!

And society calls me a hypocrite? No, indeed society is the hypocrite. Because it does NOT celebrate, worship, and adore EVERYONE (the Stalins, the Hitlers, the Terrorists, the Predators) that are doing nothing more than being their #authenticselves!