Be careful who you share information with, especially that innocent looking sexy girl!
Quote of the Day – “Loose Lips Sink Ships” is a phrase that I had never heard before, until my dad brought it up while reminiscing about an old construction job from his past.
I had never heard anything like it, and I think it is quite an amazing quote with all kinds of different ways to interpret it. And not only that, but it ties in Biblically with how God teaches us to live our lives…
The Bible explicitly speaks out about gossipers and how gossip and the love of it is ultimately corrupting and leads to all kinds of troubles. It causes rifts between people, and all around is a bad idea. Gossip is really the essence of this quote, which comes from the US Navy. The quote was used to keep soldiers from running their mouth about what unit they were in, what ship they were on, what mission they were doing, who their commanders were, etc. Why?
Because if they weren’t careful, the enemy would pick up on these loose rumors via spies or moles, etc., and if they weren’t careful they’d find their position compromised and their ship sunk.
Thus the phrase, “Loose Lips Sink Ships”. But I think it is a wise motto for life as well. Running your mouth is not generally a positive thing to do, and the Bible talks a lot about holding ones tongue, and how idle talk is not productive. It also says the power of life and death is in the tongue…
I have another life motto that says, “Do not take unnecessary risks”. I use this motto to remind myself to take an extra step instead of cutting corners, which can cause accidents. I got the motto when I was lazily pulling out cords, without looking or even paying much attention to what I was doing… and three times in a row I got shocked. From then on, I told myself I would take the extra step to pay attention. And I use the quote to remind myself to not take unnecessary risks when they can be avoided by taking an extra step and not being lazy.
I think I’ll file “Loose Lips Sink Ships” right next to “Don’t Take Unnecessary Risks”. :)
Electronic text does not convey the uniqueness of one’s own penmanship….
“To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.” By Phyllis Theroux.
This is an interesting quote. I’ve always maintained that seeing how someone writes to you gives you an entirely new and different look at their soul. Because people write, often-times, how they actually would say something in “real-life” if they could.
The problem comes from how things are vocalized, and typically when you vocalize something it doesn’t come out exactly the way you meant it to come out when thinking it in your head… or how it sounds or was meant to be said is lost once the thought exits your brain and comes out of your mouth. Thus I think writing someone offers a completely new perspective on that person… a look at the REAL person deep inside. This is even more true for shy people, or people who do not like or are not comfortable socializing.
Indeed, many of us know a shy person who says little in-person, but online or via text (or possibly when speaking to them in-private), you find out they have tons to say and will speak and talk just as much or more-so than others… and yet that story of their soul is trapped inside a being who cannot and will not vocalize these thoughts in front of others… Writing allows them to let those thoughts loose. And that is why people love social networking online, and new-age apps like Twitter, which allow the shyest person to become the most outgoing person with the most to say… because it is done online. In the privacy of their own bedroom, that person can speak to the world on a grand stage without ever feeling nervous, anxious-laden or embarrassed at how these words would come out in-person.
Do you believe letter-writing is a dead art? Because of computers?
Here’s the question though, “letter-writing” used to be something really special.
You could compare it to writing a letter to someone who is in prison. That letter means everything to them, it is that special and unique. Nowadays, via text, email and chat, computers and the Internet have all-but-replaced true letter writing.
Even so, we still get to read written text from that person regularly… but we do it so often that it doesn’t contain any special meeting in and of itself. Yet, we still ARE hearing from that person’s head, rather than their mouth… even if it is done in text form. Thus the words can and do still have weight to them… however the uniqueness of a person’s penmanship, and the art of pouring over a letter and writing it as good as possible, is lost in electronic text. But does that matter? Many would argue letter-writing has been so lost in the modern age that receiving a letter now holds more weight and is more special than it used to be, when penning a letter to your far-away penpal was the ONLY way to communicate with the outside world. Although someone from the “age before Facebook” who used to penpal regularly would probably disagree with the aforementioned argument.
Almost everyone in the modern age knows someone whom they’ve had deep text conversations with over their cell phones, and had a conversation that lead somewhere that would not have broken down that way if you were speaking to them in-person. Because speaking to them via text is different than in person… Thus, I think this is a really interesting question.
Do you think the act of letter writing has been killed by the Internet star? I’d be interested to hear your comments on this. :)
Texting I Love U… It’s just not the same, is it? But do the words still hold weight? Many say yes…
Einstein looks like he is praying in this pic. Great photo.
Quote of the Day for May 26th 2012, “The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.” by G.K. Chesterton
Isn’t this a fascinating quote?
There is so much truth to this, and it is amazing to me that people can deny it. Even Einstein considered himself to be a person who reveled in the Creation of a universe beyond the measure of man: “I want to know how God created the world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details.”
“You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.” – Gandhi
This is a powerful quote because it reveals the strength of the human spirit even during the most intense times of despair. Additionally, it reveals the fact that our thoughts and our human spirit are intangibles… no one can take them away from us but by death, and no one but God knows what is truly going on inside of someone’s mind.
Isn’t that infinitely interesting to think about?
Here is a very interesting, actual video of Gandhi actually speaking on video!
Additionally, here is an audio speech given by him; regarding God and Gandhi’s concept of God.
“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
- W. Somerset Maugham
Hahahaha. Isn’t this the truth. I think it’s funny how people always try to put rules to writing and to the English language. In actuality, THERE ARE NO RULES! Write how you want to write, and forget about those who criticize. It is true that there are a few rules to making your writing seem professional or formal, but new words are coined everyday, and there is no word-police that can truly stop you from writing how you want to write and using words you want to use. Even if they are made up!
Afterall, Shakespeare coined many of the words we use today… words that were “fake” and made-up in his day. And he was famous for saying that he would even spell his name differently on different occasions. At least I think it was Shakespeare who said that. I’m too lazy to look it up.
The Gayfish episode (Fishsticks) of South Park with Kanye West making love to a fish....
Today’s Quote of the Day comes from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the “supreme genius of modern German literature.” And no matter his views on life or what you think of them, these words ring true.
“There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.”
This to me is one of those quotes that is infinitely interesting. I have long held the view that comedy is one of the most secretly dangerous influencers in modern America today. And it is made much worse by the type of extremely crude, mean, blasphemous and empathy-less comedy entertainment that saturates the world of today. Whether it is TV shows like South Park, The Simpsons or Family Guy, or comedians like Bill Maher, John Stewart, David Letterman, Stephen Colbert or George Lopez.
But it’s not just entertainment (I didn’t even mention movies), one area where damage has been done in a major way in my opinion is in the area of “fail” videos and the like. These are videos that pervade the Internet (and on TV via certain shows) where people laugh at others who have “failed” at something… However often this involves the person getting hurt in some manner, whether it’s falling, bailing on a skateboard or running into a pole, falling into a hole, etc.
I know people who absolutely love to watch these videos and will spend hours on the Internet laughing at the expense of others. While I agree that the above isn’t the same or direct cause (necessarily) in creating a person who is completely absent of compassion, it IS still a step in that direction when you get used to laughing at what should offend or cause one pause. And the sad reality is that our society’s love of fail videos has lead to many of these situations happening in real life, and people doing absolutely nothing about it… except laughing. We’ve all seen news coverage of bad things happening, and people simply minding their own business and walking by, not lifting a figure to help. Or even worse, laughing about it or at the person involved (such as during school fights….). Then again, “The Good Samaritan” is a Biblical story that’s as old as time itself, and even back in those days people were walking on by when someone was seriously injured…
While the violence in our media and the like may have some impact as well, I think the real damage is not in the media itself, but in the tendency to see the world without empathy and compassion at the expense of the person on the other end; all for a short laugh on your end.
And I don’t know what the solution is other than to try and influence your friends and family to avoid that type of “entertainment” or to avoid saturating themselves in it. And constantly reminding yourself that it isn’t cool to laugh at someone else’s expense. Period.
Having said that I can enjoy an episode of South Park as much as the next guy, so I’m not trying to say that one has to halt all viewing of said entertainment, but I do think you need to be careful to keep your empathy and compassion intact and be careful that those around you are not growing a tolerance to seeing others in pain and finding it funny. Because it isn’t. And that worldview is a dangerous one indeed. One only has to look at Nazi Germany to understand what happens when a society grows to lack compassion for all individuals.
"Thinking is indispensable on the path to passion for God. The mind serves to know the Truth that fuels the fires of the heart."
“Thinking is indispensable on the path to passion for God. The mind serves to know the Truth that fuels the fires of the heart.”
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This is an incredible quote by pastor and writer John Piper.
The Words of Jesus and the Word of God are at no way in odds with free-thinking, debate and learning. But ultimately it is that thirst for a greater power, for Our Creator, and the hole in ones heart, and the thought-process that leads to that place, that must be filled in order for us to find a renewed fire and passion for life; and for what comes after-life, and for reaching the lost who do not yet have a passion for life and the afterlife as those who know the Truth in Christ Jesus possess.
It is up to us to share that passion and bring others along for the wide, all the while by getting them to think outside of the box that they put themselves in by rejecting the reality of God and the sacrifice of Jesus.
The penalty of stoning; abolished by Jesus. If you are sinless, cast the first stone.
There is an old Russian proverb that goes something like this,
“Judge a man not by his words, but by his deeds.”
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It sounds cool whichever way you frame it or arrange the words, and certainly, it rings true. It also parellels nicely with the teachings of the Holy Bible, such as the verses below.
“Even children are known by the way they act, whether their conduct is pure, and whether it is right.” – Proverbs 20:11
“God will give to each person according to what he has done.” – Romans 2:6
“You can identify them by their fruit, that is, by the way they act.” – Mathew 7:6
“As the old saying goes, ‘From evildoers come evil deeds,’ so My hand will not touch you.” – 1 Samuel 24:13
“The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control; against such things there is no law.” – Galatians 5:22
“But someone will say, ‘You have faith; I have deeds.’ Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by what I do.” – James 2:18
This is a word of knowledge that will keep you from stumbling in life. Everyone knows that hanging around foolish people can lead you to do foolish things yourself; and ultimately there is no area in which you will be encouraged if you are constantly around people who act and talk foolish. Often getting you in trouble in the process. It can only bring you down. So be careful about who you associate with and choose your friends wisely.
“Leave the presence of a fool,
Or you will not discern words of knowledge.” – The Bible, Proverbs 14:7
Case in Point:
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Here is a Quote of the Day for you, which should add some encouragement to those who feel they can’t write or don’t have the natural “skill” to do so…
“The desire to write grows with writing.”
- Desiderius Erasmus
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