Will you kindly write for us an underived paragraph?
I just did. Those were my thoughts, not something derived from someone else. This does not mean that other people have not influenced my thinking in years past, but it means that I do not simply parrot others in the ideas and thoughts that I have. I think for myself.
Psychologists talk about different developmental stages in learning. One stage has been explained as a moralizing stage. This is the stage where people believe what they do because their parents or some authority have told them to believe it. Those in this stage of learning include students in school who basically just read others and parrot back what they have read. Some people never progress past this stage, but there is a higher stage of learning that graduates hopefully achieve. Usually it takes a person to be put in a teaching position to begin to develop their own thoughts and ideas and organize them in their own unique way.
I could be wrong, but it seems like you stay back in the moralizing stage, thinking that reading and quoting others is as far as you can go. Then you think others who claim to have gone beyond that are deceiving themselves. Am I close?
Peace be with you. David Miller.
p.s. The paragraphs I wrote above were not derived from other sources. They include concepts and ideas that have impacted me for many years from a wide variety of sources, but I am the only one to blame or praise for what is said because the thinking process that produced those paragraphs are uniquely my own.
---------- "Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man." (Colossians 4:6) http://www.InnGlory.org
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