Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Semantics!
Why do we call one who practices physiology a physician and one who practices physics a physicist?
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Verbage
"Goodness is a process of becoming, not of being. What we do over and over again is what we become in the end." -Joan Chittister
"It's not who you are underneath, but what you do that defines you." -Batman Begins
Yes, they're both admittedly very cliche quotes. But I heard/read both of these yesterday, and it clicked with something that's been ringing in my mind lately that says that no matter what's in our "minds" or our "hearts", it's not worth anything when on an everyday basis, the things we do don't particularly match up with it.
Someone I remember once said that you can have all the systematic theology (or for that matter any personal philosophy) in the world, but if there's no practicality about it, it's worthless.
I think the process of becoming who we want to be, or just acting like who we want to be, is a lot easier than we think. We make decisions every few seconds, and who's to say that we can't start making the ones we want to now??
That whole mildly entertaining ad campaign was "verb. it's what you do." It kinda works, though. We could spend all our time studying and never do anything that lines up with it, right? Worthless? Perhaps. Who really knows.
(In the meantime, my easily procrastinated "action" at the moment is doing homework...)
"It's not who you are underneath, but what you do that defines you." -Batman Begins
Yes, they're both admittedly very cliche quotes. But I heard/read both of these yesterday, and it clicked with something that's been ringing in my mind lately that says that no matter what's in our "minds" or our "hearts", it's not worth anything when on an everyday basis, the things we do don't particularly match up with it.
Someone I remember once said that you can have all the systematic theology (or for that matter any personal philosophy) in the world, but if there's no practicality about it, it's worthless.
I think the process of becoming who we want to be, or just acting like who we want to be, is a lot easier than we think. We make decisions every few seconds, and who's to say that we can't start making the ones we want to now??
That whole mildly entertaining ad campaign was "verb. it's what you do." It kinda works, though. We could spend all our time studying and never do anything that lines up with it, right? Worthless? Perhaps. Who really knows.
(In the meantime, my easily procrastinated "action" at the moment is doing homework...)
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