No. David, seriously, please identify 15-20 authors who've influenced you. It would be an aid.
Paaaalllllllllleeeeeeeeeessssssssseeeee? . From: "David Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: November 16, 2004 14:35 Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Self-deception > Lance wrote: > > 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 > > If you do not want to receive posts from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you will be unsubscribed. If you have a friend who wants to join, tell him to send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and he will be subscribed. ---------- "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 If you do not want to receive posts from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you will be unsubscribed. If you have a friend who wants to join, tell him to send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and he will be subscribed.
