1/18/2023 0 Comments Sleeping dogs lie![]() In fact, “sleeping dogs” have displaced “elephants in the room” by the kennel-full. We hate entering into emotionally uncomfortable, disruptive situations SO much that we take the above measure of, “the disturbing situation is currently causing no problems” to the extreme: That unless the problem is threatening life as we know it… we’re NOT going to confront it. “So what?” In reality, what are the key words, concept in the above claim? Yes… most of us tend to avoid emotional discomfort of most any kind. And yes, regarding this dilemma, the church has taken on the same attributes as the world: Don’t go bringing up “the messy stuff.” So let’s not stir one another up! Rather, just let sleeping dogs lie. Breaking this pact is usually accompanied by high relational risks.ĭiscomfort, dissonance is the enemy of the emotionally unintelligent, worldly, conflicted human being. Please spend some time chewing on this claim: a) In a culture where emotional ambivalence-defined as “the coexistence of opposing attitudes or feelings toward a person, an object, or an idea warring, contradictory, incompatible emotions remaining unresolved in a person’s spirit particularly complex emotions characterized by tension and conflict that is felt when someone experiences both positive and negative emotion simultaneously”- is the NORM… b) the vast majority of people make an unspoken covenant between each other to “Let sleeping dogs lie.”… Or, in other words, AVOID bringing up ANYTHING that reveals the rampant and disturbing emotional imbalance, warring in BOTH party’s spirit. The Proverbial saying, “Let sleeping dogs lie.” means we should avoid interfering in a situation that is currently causing no problems-but might do so as a result of “interfering”, speaking up, shedding light, judging between right and wrong, or making an uncomfortable, revealing observation in any way, shape, or form. Today, Emotional Ambivalence Rules the Day. The Preface For Every Part of This Series: Revival… we seek to model biblical Christians living in word and deedĬonstructive Revolution… we seek to spread the true gospel right where God has planted us with urgency, compassion, and radical self-abandonment Reformation… we seek to abide by and serve up the true truth, pure doctrine of the Bible Let’s feast.įeast of the Heart exists to help bring about Christ-centered “reformation, revival, and constructive revolution” (Francis Schaeffer, Death in the City) so that God will be glorified and people blessed. (1 Corinthians 9:24 Hebrews 12:1 2 Timothy 4:7) Exhausted, depleted from running the Godly, good, and being-a-blessing-to-others race? Welcome. The website's consensus reads, "Though Sleeping Dogs Lie treats its subject and characters humanely, it's unable to overcome the low-budget production and Bobcat Goldthwait's pedestrian directing.Welcome marathoners in and for Christ. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 63% approval rating with an average rating of 6.2/10 based on 52 reviews. Bobcat Goldthwait ( uncredited) as Roy Orbison.Amy decides to go with the lie, thus "letting sleeping dogs lie." Ed thinks he's discovered Amy's secret: she was pregnant and engaged to John, but got an abortion and her parents were incensed. As it doesn't work out between Ed and his wife, he and Amy become a couple. Some time later, Ed and his wife are trying to work things out and Amy realizes her feelings for Ed. He instantly begins to blame Amy, who leaves quickly before Ed can figure out what Dougie is trying to say. Amy and Ed visit Dougie in prison to inform him of their mother's death. With the help of her co-worker Ed, Amy finds a new apartment and begins a relationship with Ed after he learns that his wife has been cheating on him.Īfter Amy's mother dies of an aneurysm, Amy returns home and reconciles with her father, who gives her a letter her mother had written her prior to her death. She shacks up with Linda and her boyfriend Carl, but leaves due to their noisy lovemaking. Despite all their attempts to fix things, one night while drunk, John calls her a "dog-blowing cunt" and Amy decides to leave. Once back, Amy and John's relationship is strained. Amy and John leave as her father will not speak to her and her mother says that she is ashamed. The next morning, Dougie, Amy's drug addict brother who had overheard the conversation, spills the beans at the breakfast table and, much to her parents' shock, Amy admits that he is right. On a trip to her parents' house, Amy finally relents to John's badgering and tells him. When John suggests complete honesty, Amy lies and tells him that she had a lesbian experience with her best friend Linda. ![]() Eight years later, she lives a seemingly ordinary life as a schoolteacher and is engaged to nice-guy John. In college, 18-year-old Amy impulsively gave her dog, Rufus, oral sex. ![]()
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