Showing posts with label arrogance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label arrogance. Show all posts

Saturday, April 12, 2008

???? Words ????

So I have been thinking recently about words. Fun times I know lol. As I read more and more, and discuss and continue to engage in my all consuming pass time of thinking I find that I run into a bit of a problem. I am confronted with words, that are larger or lesser used in out culture. I have tried to take from the wisdom of those who have gone before me who told me that the large ones vocabulary the deeper the understanding and the richer the mind. So i have taken on the onus of this task of trying to expand my vocabulary and descriptive capability.

Now here is my issue in which I expereice a certain sense of trepidation, in order to learn and think with more words one must use them regularly. But what happens when those around you dont use those words, or even worse dont understand them. I want to be pellucid with all in sundry, but still go about learning in a felicitous way. So how does one cultivates ones mind without comming of as arrogant or "better than" those around him/her? How do you develop your speech in an unbiguitous environment not conducive to such and enterprise??????

I hope you get my humor lol :)

Monday, February 18, 2008

********Hermeneutic of Humility**********


So I have noticed (Me being an observer, thinker and analyser) that those of my friends, or those that i simply know about, that are of the postmodern/emergent persuasion (what ever that means?) have an almost smothering emphasis on a hermeneutic of humilty. What i mean is that life is not simple, perspectives and the sociological environment have a huge impact on what one does and believes, sees or thinks. For example for one to say that the issue of say... homosexuality is just wrong, and the answer is simple, would be an overt act of arogance. The word arrogance seems to be the vice to the virtue, to the point that arrogance is almost the greatest sin, and openmindedness is the highest virtue.



Now obviously I really resonate with this way of thinking. However as I have observed this way of thinking has not been characteristicly a life virtue but only a conversational or verbal one. From my perspective a glaring example of this is at sporting events. Go to any MVNU basketball game and sit with out fans and you will notice a complete change of character. Listen to the attitudes towards the referees, and observee the things said to and about them. Suddenly there is no such thing as a hermeneutic of humility, but instead there is a clear, absolute, objective, and final decision on every play, and the fans of course can see and know exactly what it is. But for some reason the referees suddenly become incapable of seeing and knowing what is so obviously true. Therefore the referees are obviously ignorant and are obviously maliciously biased.


But the thing is the referees job is inherantly subjective, and they inherantely have the more accurate persepective.


I guess that I just dont know what to think when I or others are attacked for our supposed arrogance and narrow mindedness, but then when real life situations come, suddenly things change dramatically.


So what is wrong with this picture????


Which one is better to have hermeneutic of humility that is lived out in actions, and example but at times seems absent in intellectual conversation..................or to have a hermeneutic of humility that is blatently present in conversation, but seems to be absent in ones life???????????