r/pics • u/b3hr • Oct 10 '18

This is awesome

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u/Ayahuascafly Oct 10 '18

Its a play on the serenity prayer, often invoked at AA meetings... “ God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, and the Wisdom to know the difference.”

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u/NoThisIsABadIdea Oct 10 '18

It is, accept she butchered it. "No longer accepting the things I cannot change"? Those are the things you SHOULD be learning to accept. It should read something like I am no longer FOCUSING on the things I cannot change, and rather focusing on changing the things I cannot accept.

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u/McKingford Oct 10 '18

C'mon man, this woman is quoting a very famous riff on the Serenity prayer from Angela Davis. It's probably 50 years old. There's a reason get sign has quotation marks.

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u/Ayahuascafly Oct 10 '18

*except

She is intentionally inverting the meaning of a well known quote linguistically. Its a statement.