Ah, sorry. Gotcha. Well, this is certainly true! What some see as a talent, others see as a problem, I guess. What do you do when you're confronted with a situation like this? My reaction, when I was young and precocious, was just to clam up and become rather reserved, because I never knew how what I said would be taken (a lesson I have yet to master, incidentally). How do you react?
Stacy Smith wrote: > I was trying to make points that not everyone appreciates the talents we > may already have. > > Stacy. > > At 01:04 AM 11/07/2002 -0700, you wrote: > > >That's why I included "opportunities" as part of the list. You have to > >make due > >with limitations placed on your talents, and "lack of opportunity" is the > >flip side > >of opportunity. Why do we have proportionately fewer serious music > >composers today > >than in the 18th and early 19th century, for example? Fewer talented people? > > > >Stacy Smith wrote: > > > > > What are we to do if our talents are being hindered? > > > > > > Stacy. > > > > > > At 07:58 PM 11/05/2002 -0700, you wrote: > > > > > > >This is true. Each has their own challenges, opportunities, talents, > > gifts and > > > >assignments in life. This is what I get from what Paul says in I > > > >Corinthians 13. > > > >YOUR challenge and MY challenge are to use those to the best of our > > > >advantage. I > > > >learned a very interesting lesson recently. I've been going through a > > > >great deal > > > >of physical pain due to some neurological problems (among other things > > I had a > > > >blood clot on the brain, between the surface and the lining of the brain, > > > >called a > > > >subdural haematoma, which they say is one of the most painful things a > > > >person can > > > >experience, along with childbirth and kidney stones). A neuropsychologist > > > >(who is > > > >a diagnostician, not a counsellor) told me that I would probably have this > > > >difficulty, due to brain damage in the parietal pre-frontal lobe of my > > > >brain, for > > > >quite some time, and I had to learn to separate pain itself, which I > > can't do > > > >anything about (beyond analgaesic relief) and "suffering" which he defined > > > >as my > > > >reaction to pain. He told me to take more "social risks" and if I have a > > > >seizure > > > >in public, well, so what of it? Other people's reaction to it is their > > > >problem. > > > > > > > >Now let's turn that around. If you have a talent, you have a > > responsibility to > > > >magnify it. Other people, who may not have that talent, should not envy > > > >you for > > > >it, but should be glad for you, and should not react negatively when you > > > >succeed > > > >in that area. We put a lot of barriers in our own way, and often attempt > > > >to put > > > >barriers in other people's lives, too. Don't let anyone put barriers in > > > >your way. > > > > > > > >And what I've said goes for Gary, too. I'm sure I'm not telling any of you > > > >anything you don't already know, but this is by way of encouragement. > > > > > > > >Stacy Smith wrote: > > > > > > > > > Not all of us are required to prove theories. > > > > > > > > > > Stacy. > > > > > > > > > > At 03:55 PM 11/04/2002 -0900, you wrote: > > > > > > > > > > >After much pondering, Gary Smith favored us with: > > > > > >>No, it is postulating a theory. Once a theory is set out for all > > to read, > > > > > >>then it is up to the rest of us to disprove the theory by testing it > > > > > >>against known evidences. That does not yet make it a fact, as future > > > > > >>evidence can always refute a theory. Without theories, we would not > > > > > >>advance in science or knowledge. The danger comes when we convince > > > > > >>ourselves that a theory is a fact, when in fact, it isn't. > > > > > > > > > > > >So basically what you are saying is that I can forward any way out > > weird > > > > > >theory, maybe like something that Velikovsky or von Daniken might > > write, > > > > > >and the burden of proof is on us to use evidence to showing how wrong > > > > > >headed my theory is. > > > > > > > > > > > >I disagree that a person can responsibly postulate a theory and then > > > > > >expect it to be accepted unless someone can disprove it. Even a > > theory > > > > > >needs to be supported with some kind of evidence. 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