A white piece of paper, an empty slate. This is supposed to represent our empty, somewhat innocent, mind at the start. As we move on, it becomes "furnished" as Locke puts it. The "vast store" of knowledge, ideas, skills, capabilities, and comprehensibility translate to colors, painting, and art. These can brighten and beautify the paper, or dampen and stain it. Each overall adds to the visual "look" of the paper, or taking it out of the analogy, the "shape" of a person.
Character, moral base, ideals, ideologies, and worldviews all stem from a person' background, heritage, demography, etc. What would be our "shape"? Does our society deform us, or has it made us conform by the repetitive nature of sin? The bigger question is, is my paper stained?
This is the only question I could think about while reading this. All experience creates who we are. It founds our knowledge (what we know) and our reason (how we think). Have I been exposed to something for so long that I accept it? Or to better word is, have I become so accustomed to (fill in the blank) in experience that I accept it? Our experience does not guarantee absolute truth, because our perceptions are flawed, and our senses are limited.
If anything, this should be an example to show us how we shouldn't base all of our truth and knowledge off of what goes on inside of us, because as Locke said, these things "spring out of our thinking mind", and don't flow from the Father's Word. "Our heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" The mind (reason and knowledge) can be a very powerful ally, but also a very dangerous tool. Use what you've been given wisely!!
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Character, moral base, ideals, ideologies, and worldviews all stem from a person' background, heritage, demography, etc. What would be our "shape"? Does our society deform us, or has it made us conform by the repetitive nature of sin? The bigger question is, is my paper stained?
This is the only question I could think about while reading this. All experience creates who we are. It founds our knowledge (what we know) and our reason (how we think). Have I been exposed to something for so long that I accept it? Or to better word is, have I become so accustomed to (fill in the blank) in experience that I accept it? Our experience does not guarantee absolute truth, because our perceptions are flawed, and our senses are limited.
If anything, this should be an example to show us how we shouldn't base all of our truth and knowledge off of what goes on inside of us, because as Locke said, these things "spring out of our thinking mind", and don't flow from the Father's Word. "Our heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" The mind (reason and knowledge) can be a very powerful ally, but also a very dangerous tool. Use what you've been given wisely!!
I commented on Spencer's and Caroline's posts!
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