User talk:Verbatim128

If we could listen such as to hear word for word, exactly, literally, what we are coherently told, regardless of what WE believe, think or expect...would that be the premise or the outcome of (good) understanding? Assuming, of course, that we are all acting in good faith. Verbatim, June 22,2006 Musing.

Curiosity of intellect makes the crowning of an intellectual. Discernment defines the quality of the “crown”. Verbatim ,May 21,2007

Bad enough we have a limited capacity for abstract thought. But the little grasp of abstract concepts is also impaired by a good dose of spin to suit each of our respective definitions, certain convenient modifiers, and an order of precedence unique to each individual. Verbatim, May 21,2007

I like this quote by Cicero from Quintus Ennius’ Iphigenia : “No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars”. How many possible meanings there are here? This one I have paraphrased thus: Pity the idealist who pretends gazing at the stars to avoid regarding the muck at his feet; he neither glimpses the beauty of the celestial  nor does he escape the earthly quagmire. Verbatim, April, 2010.

Fear rises from doubt, is fed by imagination, and soon becomes self-propelled. Once stirred, can hardly be shaken. Verbatim, June, 2010.

Man must be naturally inclined to vile deeds. Why else would he have to be told what to refrain from doing: Nine out of the Ten Commandments proscribe, one out of ten exhorts, though to little avail. Meantime he prays: And lead us not into temptation. Huh? Verbatim, May, 2011

Temptation is not entirely foreign to us, rather inherent : The outside source may provide the stimulant but it is the receptor in our mind that makes it work. Other than that, nobody, not even the devil, leads us into temptation, least of all God. Verbatim, July, 2011

To withhold setting a negative example, even harder, to refuse accepting a negative example once offered, that must be the best example one can set. Verbatim July,2011

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