Bouncing
Monday, April 30th, 2007Here’s a thot. A person left to his own thoughts for too long, would most certainly fall into some form of extremism. Any longer than too long, he would go insane. Worse, if a person reads (and most people read selectively) and is left alone to his thots, the combined potency is a recipe for disaster.
Let’s take the example of the humble roti canai. You have to toss and wallop the dough to get the right texture correct. And if you don’t, the roti canai at best will be brittle (that’s what I’m told). Same thing with ideas you get when you read. You need to toss and wallop them so you get sound ideas, not crazy ones. To do that, i reckon that we ‘bounce’ our ideas with other people. Iron sharpens iron.
Another thot, a person who attempts to be humble on his own would most certainly be proud of it. Being humbled is not an independent, solitary act. But it is almost always (if not always) brought about by circumstances. And circumstances are brought about by a sovereign God. So effectively, it is God who does the humbling on us. The state of being humble is captured better in the word HUMILITY than humbleness. It takes two for humility to work. If no one is looking, there’s no need to feel humiliated. So we cannot be humble on our own.
So these are thots, wanna ‘bounce’ with me?
