Coming up with an original thought is like saying, "don't breathe the same air as someone else." This air we breathe has been breathed by the ancients since the dawn of time; it's just been recycled by trees.
That is the way thoughts are. One idea's origins cannot be 100% original, because there cannot come something from nothing. Influences spark ideas, but those ideas came from influences sparked from another idea that came from an influence sparked from another idea that came from another influence that... you get the idea.
Put someone in a padded room from birth to death, with no other life-contact or interaction, and see what original thoughts they create. And then of course, there's human nature, and ITS sole influence... which cannot be stopped... only what one does with it is what makes the change or stasis. Most people choose the "path of least resistance," instead of altering their course... mostly on account of fear.
But HERE'S an idea for for an original thought... you be the judge of whether or not I pass or fail this assignment:
Compared to other people's thoughts, none of my thoughts are original, nor are the ideas I have ever thought what someone else hasn't... but they are ideas I have never thought. The ideas themselves ARE original to my mind.
Now I just have to think of something I've never thought before.
So just how do feathers grow?
I like that so many people continue to have unique thoughts (of their own) and ideas that go outside of the general norm... in which case EVERYONE has something original to say and think that originates from themselves AND from the influences that create "new" thoughts... and that those that know this DON'T CARE whether or not they're being original, as much as they desire to speak their mind.
This "nothing is new" thing has been around since Earth's day one. Ecclesiastes, anyone? Or for the more modern music lovers, Kansas' "Dust in the Wind," anyone?
And I don't mind thoughts that have been"thunk" before, so much as I mind when, 1) people claim originality of someone else's thought, 2) when media shoves certain agendas in the face of the mass public, or that television is people's GOD so much that they ASK it to tell them how and what to think/act/live/be... 3) that people actually ACCEPT this tripe by default, and 4) when the default isn't questioned at all! WHO is it that tells them this, and are they of sound mind? Are they NOT also human, and prone to imperfection? What are they selling? WHY?
BUT...
If a person's mind questions the why's/how's, and the intentions therein, and comes up with a contentedness in accepting the "norm," SO BE IT. I'm not bothered by that... unless the norm is NOT in LOVE (i.e., hate, hurting others/themselves, sin, apathy, etc.)... but that is another topic of discussion.
...And for this idea to get out to more than a few people in this vast universe, called the Internet (or should it be called, "Uni-net" or "Interverse?") would be a miracle that I cannot hope to generate... and am too shy to instigate.
If I ever want to do something more interactive with this post, I will have to draw on the influence of others' ideas, because it just isn't in me!
Originally Yours,
LGB
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
The Madness...!
I am absolutely beside myself these days with Spring Fever, Cabin Fever, and March Madness. I am one sick puppy. But all is well... as well as "well" can be... just don't go visiting the mountains around this time of the year... we bears are getting grumpy in our caves, all across the face of this big "rock." Taking a walk in Colorado, you worry less about being mugged than you do about being mauled... by animals of various size and species... even the squirrels are sinister. The pine-cones they chuck are deadly! They've got the madness, too.
Besides all that, the Part 2 of my last post will have to wait... gomen-ne!
I have much to do today, but I AM getting better at this "post-thing" I think. I just have to make the time, amidst work, my home-study courses of Japanese and Math, daily specific ob's (obligations), Word-Searching, and finding some time to be active (a bear has little room to stretch, let alone exercise in his cave!), and the snow hasn't thawed yet... nor is the air warm enough for this wimpy bear! Did I mention I hate cold?
Trundling off to be about my "to do's,"
LGB
Besides all that, the Part 2 of my last post will have to wait... gomen-ne!
I have much to do today, but I AM getting better at this "post-thing" I think. I just have to make the time, amidst work, my home-study courses of Japanese and Math, daily specific ob's (obligations), Word-Searching, and finding some time to be active (a bear has little room to stretch, let alone exercise in his cave!), and the snow hasn't thawed yet... nor is the air warm enough for this wimpy bear! Did I mention I hate cold?
Trundling off to be about my "to do's,"
LGB
Monday, March 10, 2008
Stop This Train, Part 1.
A song I've been listening to that I wanted to share the lyrics to.
***
No, I'm not colorblind...
I know the world is black and white.
Try to keep an open mind,
But I just can't sleep on this tonight.
Stop this train,
I wanna get off
And go home again.
I can't take the speed it's moving in.
I know I can't,
But honestly, won't someone stop this train?
Don't know how else to say it,
Don't want to see my parents go.
One generation's length away
From fighting life out on my own.
Stop this train,
I wanna get off
And go home again.
I can't take the speed it's moving in,
I know I can't,
But honestly, won't someone stop this train?
So scared of getting older,
I'm only good at being young.
So I play the numbers game,
To find a way to say that life has just begun.
Had a talk with my old man,
Said, "Help me understand..."
He said "turn sixty-eight...
You renegotiate."
"Don't stop this train,
Don't for a minute change the place you're in...
And don't think I couldn't ever understand,
I tried my hand.
John, honestly we'll never stop this train."
Once in awhile, when it's good,
It'll feel like it should,
And they're all still around,
And you're still safe and sound,
And you don't miss a thing...
Till you cry when you're driving away in the dark.
Singing...
Stop this train,
I wanna get off
And go home again.
I can't take the speed it's moving in;
I know I can,
'Cause now I see I'll never stop this train.
***
A song by John Mayer, that has "strummed my pain with his fingers." But I can't go on right now... I'm off to work for the night...
But today has been a very reminiscent day... and a day that I am very thankful for having Bobby in my life. More to come...
Ittekimas'!
***
No, I'm not colorblind...
I know the world is black and white.
Try to keep an open mind,
But I just can't sleep on this tonight.
Stop this train,
I wanna get off
And go home again.
I can't take the speed it's moving in.
I know I can't,
But honestly, won't someone stop this train?
Don't know how else to say it,
Don't want to see my parents go.
One generation's length away
From fighting life out on my own.
Stop this train,
I wanna get off
And go home again.
I can't take the speed it's moving in,
I know I can't,
But honestly, won't someone stop this train?
So scared of getting older,
I'm only good at being young.
So I play the numbers game,
To find a way to say that life has just begun.
Had a talk with my old man,
Said, "Help me understand..."
He said "turn sixty-eight...
You renegotiate."
"Don't stop this train,
Don't for a minute change the place you're in...
And don't think I couldn't ever understand,
I tried my hand.
John, honestly we'll never stop this train."
Once in awhile, when it's good,
It'll feel like it should,
And they're all still around,
And you're still safe and sound,
And you don't miss a thing...
Till you cry when you're driving away in the dark.
Singing...
Stop this train,
I wanna get off
And go home again.
I can't take the speed it's moving in;
I know I can,
'Cause now I see I'll never stop this train.
***
A song by John Mayer, that has "strummed my pain with his fingers." But I can't go on right now... I'm off to work for the night...
But today has been a very reminiscent day... and a day that I am very thankful for having Bobby in my life. More to come...
Ittekimas'!
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Love.
I love love! I LIVE for love! I live because of love, so I will live TO LOVE.
I want to be an active researcher of this great epoch, called the Bible. A mind full of wisdom is one that is open to understanding… and I’m not talking about being open-minded (that’s a worldly acceptance of mediocrity and un-truth). I mean to open my mind to see from as many perspectives, points of view, and ways of seeing and learning.
Through every possibly creative way, I want to learn. I want to know.
Why?
Because I want to know the love that created me, and everything that IS… was, or ever will be!
It is an impassioned desire; the way a lover yearns for more of the one they love; to know everything about them, to show them love, and to be loved by a beautifully and wonderfully made being… to be loved by the one you love…! There is no greater reason to be alive!
Love is life’s purpose!
So in order to know this love, be in it, and to show it… I will do everything I can to learn about this love… whether by learning to know, in a way I’ve never learned before, or by going about it in ways I’ve never considered…or to learn by ways I already know…! and to use my brain in every capacity that God has made it for!! That is why I am thankful to God for making this mind of mine! Its every creative capacity is a venue for learning, knowing and LOVING my God!
I want to know, so others can know, so they too can know this love!
Strength becomes an issue, only when I rely on myself for all this “capacity and motivation” to “be about my Father’s work,” so I must ask HIM to be my strength.
And while I’m on this rant, I must also say that though I am created so uniquely and wonderfully (just as each of us is a wondrous creation in and of ourselves, by the hand of God), I am also NOT the focal point of this story; in this story, HE is. It’s HIS STORY.
I must become less, so He can become more and be seen in me… and so that the world may know of His love. In this unique creation of a being (me), He will shine HIS glory (not mine)… and once I am no longer wrapped up in my own “center of the universe,” He can be truly known.
His love is what I hope to show others, not mine. I can only give human love… in HIS strength, in HIS love, through me… and though it is a seemingly powerful love, my human love PALES in comparison… it is the love of God in me that makes the difference, and it is what people see. The less there is of me, the less I GET IN THE WAY of HIM. Instead of me standing there holding out arms of love, it is GOD’S arms, and GOD’S love.
This is what I want to accomplish by reading the God-breathed truth of the Bible.
And through HIS strength in me, everything can be done. Nothing is impossible THROUGH, BY, and WITH Him.
This weak human mind, and fragile human body gives way too quickly. Human love fades, and is not unconditional, I’m afraid. But where I am unable, He is ABLE and does NOT fail, or weaken, EVER. What I cannot do, He can, with or without my help)
A lover like that, who never gives up, turns away, fails, disappoints, hurts, or falters in truth, strength or love… there is no greater lover in all the cosmos.
I want to know this love… and though I AM already loved by this love, I want to EXPERIENCE it by knowing it more fully. I know love is not in wisdom… one doesn’t have to be versed in how love works to feel it… but in understanding love, I am able to love more deeply… in action I am able to show love… if I do not know that something exists, how can I show it? How will I know that it is love?
Love is defined in each person in billions of different ways… and no one way is more right than the other.
This is just my way… the way I have been created to love… by knowing love more fully, so I can show love to others.
“I want to feel real love,” to quote a song by Robbie Williams. And I DO… I just feel love more deeply when I KNOW it more deeply.
This may not be the same for others… and no one love is the same as another love. Love cannot be put in a box, just like God cannot be put in a box. Duh. God is love!
God wants us to show love in the ways he has meant us to show love, learn love, and feel love! Each way is unique…
And I am finally coming around to the idea that God is so incredibly creative, that he made each one of the billions of us an INCOMPARABLE creation… to further demonstrate His glory, and love. He loves every one of his creation with the passion of every burning star in the heavens multiplied to the power of infinity…! He created in us a fraction of that burning flame to share with every soul we come in contact with… and likewise that everyone is to do the same… NO MATTER WHO THEY ARE! And we can share this great love with the world, starting with everyone we know, and reaching out to those yet-to-be best friends we call strangers.
It is His commandment to us. Love. Period.
No love story ever written compares to this. No story is as great as His. All my fleeting phases of time and ephemeral “fads” or passions of life (though precious to Him, and wonderful to enjoy) will all return to dust… my memories (though dear) will all fade, one day… and as hard as that is for me to come to terms with… what awaits us all is far greater.
While I’m here, in the “testing grounds” of life, I dare to prepare for what is to come. I don’t know what I’m preparing for… but it must be something great!! For as horrible as this world can be at times, I must also admit how breath-taking it can be… and how love-filled it is… and this God-scripted world (though broken and imperfect) is His precious and invaluable creation.
Though I do not always treat it as such, I can hope to try. Through the little ways in which God has given me the capability to, I know I am commanded to love ALL. Love others, Love God, and love life.
LIFE is His gift to all of us, after all… as is His Son, who gave His life so that we may live ours, and serve God with our love and our life… and to do the same to others; to love by serving, and care by showing, and be active in learning about each other.
Even the seemingly fundamental flaw of free will, is in fact used for God’s glory. Without the darkness of sin we could not see how bright the light of freedom can be. The price of Jesus’ blood would not be so great, if there hadn’t been so much darkness and sin. His PERFECT light is now the light that shines in us, thanks to the greatest expression of love: sacrifice.
“No greater love…”
“This is the very best way to love. Put your life on the line for your friends.” And how do I do that? By knowing the mind of the one who DID. To love like He loved, I learn how He loved. In the ways that He showed love, I want to show love. How do I know how He showed love? By reading about it in the ULTIMATE love story. By reading His will and His words for my life in this great epoch.
That is how I am created to love. I am really just letting this all out to myself… I’ve still been struggling with control, though. If I find a way that I think works, I want to share it with others, to help them, in case they’ve been struggling with the same thing. But I’ve been realizing lately, that if people wanted my opinion, they’d ask… and no one has said anything, so I must come to grips that everyone’s life is their own, and each of us learn how we want to, in what ways we think are best… and I don’t want to be one to judge what is right or not.
In the words of a wise man I know well, “Either I am God, and God is not, OR GOD is God, and I am not. There can be only one.”
Frankly, I don’t think I make a very good God… yet, from time to time, I think I know how to do it, and God doesn’t have a clue… so I try to take His jobs from Him… but once I’ve tried and failed miserably, I hear a still voice calmly assuring me, “I am perfectly capable of giving you a hope and a future…SO… can I have my pen back now?”
I have to be reminded that compared to God, I am a HORRIBLE writer.
Wow, talk about your non-selfish rant. I wonder how many times I’ve used “me, myself, or I,” in this post.
Okay… I’m done.
106,
Little Girl Blue
I want to be an active researcher of this great epoch, called the Bible. A mind full of wisdom is one that is open to understanding… and I’m not talking about being open-minded (that’s a worldly acceptance of mediocrity and un-truth). I mean to open my mind to see from as many perspectives, points of view, and ways of seeing and learning.
Through every possibly creative way, I want to learn. I want to know.
Why?
Because I want to know the love that created me, and everything that IS… was, or ever will be!
It is an impassioned desire; the way a lover yearns for more of the one they love; to know everything about them, to show them love, and to be loved by a beautifully and wonderfully made being… to be loved by the one you love…! There is no greater reason to be alive!
Love is life’s purpose!
So in order to know this love, be in it, and to show it… I will do everything I can to learn about this love… whether by learning to know, in a way I’ve never learned before, or by going about it in ways I’ve never considered…or to learn by ways I already know…! and to use my brain in every capacity that God has made it for!! That is why I am thankful to God for making this mind of mine! Its every creative capacity is a venue for learning, knowing and LOVING my God!
I want to know, so others can know, so they too can know this love!
Strength becomes an issue, only when I rely on myself for all this “capacity and motivation” to “be about my Father’s work,” so I must ask HIM to be my strength.
And while I’m on this rant, I must also say that though I am created so uniquely and wonderfully (just as each of us is a wondrous creation in and of ourselves, by the hand of God), I am also NOT the focal point of this story; in this story, HE is. It’s HIS STORY.
I must become less, so He can become more and be seen in me… and so that the world may know of His love. In this unique creation of a being (me), He will shine HIS glory (not mine)… and once I am no longer wrapped up in my own “center of the universe,” He can be truly known.
His love is what I hope to show others, not mine. I can only give human love… in HIS strength, in HIS love, through me… and though it is a seemingly powerful love, my human love PALES in comparison… it is the love of God in me that makes the difference, and it is what people see. The less there is of me, the less I GET IN THE WAY of HIM. Instead of me standing there holding out arms of love, it is GOD’S arms, and GOD’S love.
This is what I want to accomplish by reading the God-breathed truth of the Bible.
And through HIS strength in me, everything can be done. Nothing is impossible THROUGH, BY, and WITH Him.
This weak human mind, and fragile human body gives way too quickly. Human love fades, and is not unconditional, I’m afraid. But where I am unable, He is ABLE and does NOT fail, or weaken, EVER. What I cannot do, He can, with or without my help)
A lover like that, who never gives up, turns away, fails, disappoints, hurts, or falters in truth, strength or love… there is no greater lover in all the cosmos.
I want to know this love… and though I AM already loved by this love, I want to EXPERIENCE it by knowing it more fully. I know love is not in wisdom… one doesn’t have to be versed in how love works to feel it… but in understanding love, I am able to love more deeply… in action I am able to show love… if I do not know that something exists, how can I show it? How will I know that it is love?
Love is defined in each person in billions of different ways… and no one way is more right than the other.
This is just my way… the way I have been created to love… by knowing love more fully, so I can show love to others.
“I want to feel real love,” to quote a song by Robbie Williams. And I DO… I just feel love more deeply when I KNOW it more deeply.
This may not be the same for others… and no one love is the same as another love. Love cannot be put in a box, just like God cannot be put in a box. Duh. God is love!
God wants us to show love in the ways he has meant us to show love, learn love, and feel love! Each way is unique…
And I am finally coming around to the idea that God is so incredibly creative, that he made each one of the billions of us an INCOMPARABLE creation… to further demonstrate His glory, and love. He loves every one of his creation with the passion of every burning star in the heavens multiplied to the power of infinity…! He created in us a fraction of that burning flame to share with every soul we come in contact with… and likewise that everyone is to do the same… NO MATTER WHO THEY ARE! And we can share this great love with the world, starting with everyone we know, and reaching out to those yet-to-be best friends we call strangers.
It is His commandment to us. Love. Period.
No love story ever written compares to this. No story is as great as His. All my fleeting phases of time and ephemeral “fads” or passions of life (though precious to Him, and wonderful to enjoy) will all return to dust… my memories (though dear) will all fade, one day… and as hard as that is for me to come to terms with… what awaits us all is far greater.
While I’m here, in the “testing grounds” of life, I dare to prepare for what is to come. I don’t know what I’m preparing for… but it must be something great!! For as horrible as this world can be at times, I must also admit how breath-taking it can be… and how love-filled it is… and this God-scripted world (though broken and imperfect) is His precious and invaluable creation.
Though I do not always treat it as such, I can hope to try. Through the little ways in which God has given me the capability to, I know I am commanded to love ALL. Love others, Love God, and love life.
LIFE is His gift to all of us, after all… as is His Son, who gave His life so that we may live ours, and serve God with our love and our life… and to do the same to others; to love by serving, and care by showing, and be active in learning about each other.
Even the seemingly fundamental flaw of free will, is in fact used for God’s glory. Without the darkness of sin we could not see how bright the light of freedom can be. The price of Jesus’ blood would not be so great, if there hadn’t been so much darkness and sin. His PERFECT light is now the light that shines in us, thanks to the greatest expression of love: sacrifice.
“No greater love…”
“This is the very best way to love. Put your life on the line for your friends.” And how do I do that? By knowing the mind of the one who DID. To love like He loved, I learn how He loved. In the ways that He showed love, I want to show love. How do I know how He showed love? By reading about it in the ULTIMATE love story. By reading His will and His words for my life in this great epoch.
That is how I am created to love. I am really just letting this all out to myself… I’ve still been struggling with control, though. If I find a way that I think works, I want to share it with others, to help them, in case they’ve been struggling with the same thing. But I’ve been realizing lately, that if people wanted my opinion, they’d ask… and no one has said anything, so I must come to grips that everyone’s life is their own, and each of us learn how we want to, in what ways we think are best… and I don’t want to be one to judge what is right or not.
In the words of a wise man I know well, “Either I am God, and God is not, OR GOD is God, and I am not. There can be only one.”
Frankly, I don’t think I make a very good God… yet, from time to time, I think I know how to do it, and God doesn’t have a clue… so I try to take His jobs from Him… but once I’ve tried and failed miserably, I hear a still voice calmly assuring me, “I am perfectly capable of giving you a hope and a future…SO… can I have my pen back now?”
I have to be reminded that compared to God, I am a HORRIBLE writer.
Wow, talk about your non-selfish rant. I wonder how many times I’ve used “me, myself, or I,” in this post.
Okay… I’m done.
106,
Little Girl Blue
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