We grant instant credibility to the person with the loudest voice. We are addicted to them. But voice alone is not enough to change the world. The person who can change the world, person by person, is one willing to invest the life-long time to serving others.
Your message calls for a response. It offers information. It is important to you. Three questions que into how much you care about, or own, your message. What you say? How you say it? How people could respond?
James Harleman provides a healthy filter for Jon Favreau’s latest Iron man installment.
Every person, theist or deist or atheist, has the same tendancy. Humans like to put a divine stamp on their words and thoughts and actions. It is not just the far-right fundamentalists and left-field liberals, we all esteem ourselves higher than humanity.
Watch the Creation trailer. Can you find ways the writers are transfering symbols and icons? How does the writing and character development paint worldviews? What do characters represent? Is there an agenda? What is it?
What are the things you need to do, daily? Make a list; toiletries, breathe, dress (if you are going out and don’t want arrested), eat and drink (eventually but not daily), anything else? List the things you have to do. Consider the things God says happen and should happen daily.
People are blogging and tweeting and facebooking and IM-ing and texting. We pass memos on stenos. We give and get reports. In the midst of all the info we kill each other more, abandon and abuse more, destroy and destruct more…In the cluttering, compacting age of info were did all the wisdom go?
Hundreds of prophecies in the Old Testament foretelling and showing Jesus Christ. They said who he would be, what he would do and even where and to whom he would be born. Most missed it. Even well into his ministry most his disciples missed it. After his death they were still sheep wandering with no shepherd.
The movie started at 12:01 last night. I had been waiting with anticiaption for two years to see Michael Bay’s next installment of Transformers. I didn’t grow up with the toys, I just like good movies. I like good stories told well. The first movie was an optimal example of a good and fun movie. What I saw last night transformed my anticiaption into disappointment.
Three things form our perspective; context, experience and knowledge. Where you are, what you know and where you have been. Each of these factors form how we see and interprete everything, create paradigms and worldviews.
