Writing takes some thinking. So whenever I see writing, whether on an Internet forum, or in a book, or in a letter, or in a newspaper, I know some thinking has taken place. The written word is old and valuable. It may be the single greatest thing that has distinguished us above other mammals and other earth life. What builds cultures, cities, religions, wars and nations? I don't think that only the spoken word could have done what is in the world today. The spoken word gets too distorted from mouth to mouth and is too reliant upon memory. Words in a book are more permanent. All you have to remember is where the passage or bookmark is without remembering the whole passage. Words leave a surer record to build upon, challenge, correct, debate, and I believe in the whole scheme of things, to bring everything to a better and higher cause. How can the spoken word be brought to perfection when hardly two people can repeat verbatim the same thing? So written words help build a great world the Lord says shall be without end. Never mind what world unless you want to start thinking. Because whatever world it is will have come through some form of us. So I've become slow to challenge what others have written even though I may vehemently disagree, simply because they've had to think, because really any case can be made. That is the first thing that needs to take place. But just because a much deeper device or agenda or a much clever person can make their unproven thoughts appear truer than a less experience person, don't close the deal. Because everything is going to get washed out? So let it all be said. It all has to come out so this great intricate pattern of thought can all be worked out that is mostly preserved by the written word. You never know when someone will write a thought that is the missing piece to something you've been looking for a long time. It may be your enemy, your spiritual opposite, your inferior neighbor, your incompetent fellow forumer, an uneducated friend or family member; and have you grown enough to even recognize the thought as something you might be missing, let alone receive it, proving what undoubtedly at one time or another you thought was your superior position. If someone writes where you read and you hate their thoughts, what they are, where they came from, and hate their very person, are you trying to keep the world down with a lower mammal populating it? Do you want the world to be only your size? Because if all thoughts aren't weighed, low and high, you'll never know what you missed or should have received until it is to late. Because if you haven't grown with your claims, you're of a baser world yet, and your claims are as empty as they can be no matter who you assert them over.

But as a warning to the writer, the writers and thinkers are held to a higher responsibility, are usually more passionate making them a risk for recklessness, and their fires of correction burn hotter.

Brent

Nicely written.

Thanks Brent. Interesting thoughts.

Writing has been a way for me to study. To place many or all issues relating to a subject on paper can help a person to make a better choice. I sometimes have thought that putting things on paper in seeking answers on any subject, is similar to placing numbers on paper in seeking answers for math. It simply helps one to see and comprehend things more clearly. Regarding math, putting numbers on paper enables our minds to find answers that we could never find otherwise (without a calculator). If one feels he has the answers about Biblical matters and has never put all the related Scriptures down on paper, nor other basic issues that relate to the subject on paper, he is not in a very good position to come up with a good answer. Yet honestly must be included with putting things on paper, if one expects to find truth. Writing really has been a way for me to research and learn, and at the same time I can share with others the reasons for my conclusions.

According to an interesting story, a certain Indian was thought crazy while he was developing writing for their tribe, but when the Chief then told him something and he wrote it down on paper and then another man came in and was able to read what the Chief said, the Chief got very excited and said something like "this paper speaks my words". This system of writing then helped unit and organize the tribe.

Books and writing have greatly increased knowledge, while the computer world is another step in doing the same. Without writing much knowledge obviously would get lost. Yet man obviously still is very disagreed and in great lack of truth. May God have mercy on me and all of us.

"Writing has been a way for me to study."

Amos,

In a way you fulfill for me what I wrote. I may be using it a little different than what you suggested, but that line of your's did spark a better understanding of how I study through writing. I write and then look for errors and am always trying to perfect what I writing or how I write and what I should write.

Brent