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Blogging Insights — Fingering Around

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It’s Monday and Dr. Tanya is back with her weekly Blogging Insights prompt. She provides us with a quote about blogging or writing and asks us to express our opinion about said quote.

This week’s quote is from author Isaac Asimov.

“Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.”

Isaac Asimov is one of my favorite science fiction writers. Back in the day I was a huge fan of his Foundation series and I Robot stories. I respect his opinion on writing. And sometimes, especially when I’m responding to daily prompts, it seems as if my fingers, as they tap away on the virtual keypad of my iPhone, are doing the writing.

However, Mr. Asimov’s quote reminded me of that old Yellow Pages — you remember the Yellow Pages, right? — tag line, “Let your fingers do the walking.

So my response to today’s quote is this:

Let your feet do the walking
Let your fingers do the typing
Let your brain do the thinking

Share Your World — Here’s What I Think

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SYWMonday means Melanie (Sparks From a Combustible Mind) and her world famous Share Your World prompt. She poses four or five different questions each week and throws them out to us to answer. So let’s get this show on the road.

Are you more a thinker or a doer? (Credit to Cyranny of Cyranny’s Cove for this one)

As I responded to Cyranny when she asked this question, I think a lot about doing, but most of the time, I think more than I do!

Why is beauty associated with mortality?

Hmm. I never really associated beauty with mortality. But then I think of mortality as the inevitability of death. But I suppose beauty can also be associated with impermanence. In my experience, however, real beauty is enhanced with age. Sure, there is beauty in youth, but that kind of physical beauty isn’t what makes someone beautiful. It’s what is on the inside of people that makes them beautiful. At least that’s what I keep telling myself now that I’m an old fart.

If everyone spoke their mind (told the literal truth), would this world be a better place?

Well, if you think the world would be a better place without human beings, then yes.

Can religious beliefs affect scientific thinking?

Now THIS is a provocative question. The process of scientific thinking involves skills such as observing, comparing, sorting, organizing, predicting, experimenting, evaluating, and applying. It’s all about evidence. Religious beliefs are dependent upon one thing — faith. Now I’m not suggesting that religious beliefs and scientific thinking are mutually exclusive. It’s just that those with religious beliefs are not applying a scientific thinking process to those religious beliefs. And that’s fine. There’s plenty of room for both religious beliefs and for scientific thinking. The former deals in the spiritual world, whereas the latter focuses on the natural world. It’s when religious beliefs attempt to stifle scientific thinking (or vice versa) that the trouble begins.

Share some gratitude in photo, written form, or song.

What better way is there to show gratitude than to share a song titled “Thank You”?

 

One-Liner Wednesday — Change

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63CC0F74-8C36-49B5-B3EE-43D27C6BA815“If you always do what you’ve always done, you always get what you’ve always gotten.”

Jessie Potter

That was the advice of Jessie Potter, an educator and counselor on family relationships and human sexuality. The context of his quote was about sex and love. He was asserting that change is needed in the American way of growing up, falling in love, raising a family, and growing old.

Similar statements have been attributed to a number of people, from Henry Ford to Tony Robbins and even to Albert Einstein, who also expressed a similar sentiment when he said:

“The world as we have created it is a product of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”

Albert Einstein is also broadly credited with saying that:

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results”

And Russian author Leo Tolstoy said:

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

All four of these quotes are about change. Changing the way you think, the way you act, and what you do. Because change is progress and failure to change is stagnation.

I promised myself I wasn’t going to go political in this post, but oh well. Conservatives generally don’t like change. They prefer to keep things the way they are — or the way they were, you know, like they used to be (“Make America Great Again”).

They don’t particularly like societal changes. They don’t embrace changing demographics. They deny climate change. They want the U.S. Constitution to be interpreted just as it was written around 230 years ago, as if time has stood still since 1787.

But change is as inevitable as the sunrise and the tides. And remember, if we fail to change, we stagnate.

Written for Linda G. Hill’s One-Liner Wednesday prompt.