Tuesday, December 4, 2007

"I don't want to sell or process anything that's been sold or processed." (Say Anything)

Sometimes my defense turns into offense. But sometimes on purpose. On The Rock Church's YouTube channel, some "stirring" conversation about one of the videos led to this post:

User Oneak: no, i dont. Have you ever noticed that the idea of god has to be preached and tought over and over? It also must be engrained in a person from a young age, or shown to a person at their most desperate hour.
However, things that are ACTUALLY facts, like Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, only needs to be tought once.
The very fact that jesus needs to be injected into EVERYTHING at ALL TIMES just shows the fagility of the belief. THE TRUTH IS NEVER FRAGILE.


And that prompted my response:
fyi, facts are taught over and over and over. it's called school. and there's the famous quote "people who don't know history are destined to repeat it."
and other facts, like how to spell "taught" "fragility" obviously are needed to be "ingrained" over and over.
thomas edison took many (over 2000) iterations before he successfully created the incandescent light bulb. it didn't happen over night. he had to fail numerous times before he was successful.


And I did look up "ingrained" and it can be spelled either way. Also in my haste I placed a space in overnight.

The comment "The truth is never fragile" caught my attention. Truth isn't, but our preconceived notions and expectancy of truth are.

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