What one calls something--or when--can either attract or intimidate, totally apart from its special properties .
Calling something a "problem" immediately frightens away many.
Calling a "problem" a proposition, instead, makes it more palatable.
Calling something math or geometry has the same affect on too many folks, who have been conditioned to fear math and geometry. They freeze.
Calling someone "out of their name" causes many fights, conflicts, and controversies, including fatalities!
Care in what one calls something is the basis of product research, and marketing, multibillion dollar industry.
Calling something or someone calls forth imbedded sensory imagery. That call encompasses denotations, connotations, implications, and ramifications, which influence one's physiology, history, memory, family, education, socialization and beliefs.
Care in calling forth or calling for is crucial. Remember :"Open says me" is not the same as "Open oh sesame!"-- by a long shot, as the fable famously teaches!
What makes the call also matters. "Deep calls unto deep." In another place, the Bible notes: "A certain sound of the trumpet." Also "Many are called but few are chosen."
Not all can hear the call: "my sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me." says Jesus. Early each morning the muezzin issues the call to prayer to Muslims from the minaret of a mosque; they respond.
Hearing the call is one thing; obeying the call, or responding to it, is quite another. That part is your call entirely!
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
THE CALL
THE CALL
What one calls something--or when--can either attract or intimidate, totally apart from its special properties .
Calling something a "problem" immediately frightens away many.
Calling a "problem" a proposition, instead, makes it more palatable.
Calling something math or geometry has the same affect on too many folks, who have been conditioned to fear math and geometry. They freeze.
Calling someone "out of their name" causes many fights, conflicts, and controversies, including fatalities!
Care in what one calls something is the basis of product research, and marketing, multibillion dollar industry.
Calling something or someone calls forth imbedded sensory imagery. That call encompasses denotations, connotations, implications, and ramifications, which influence one's physiology, history, memory, family, education, socialization and beliefs.
Care in calling forth or calling for is crucial. Remember :"Open says me" is not the same as "Open oh sesame!"-- by a long shot, as the fable famously teaches!
What makes the call also matters. "Deep calls unto deep." In another place, the Bible notes: "A certain sound of the trumpet." Also "Many are called but few are chosen."
Not all can hear the call: "my sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me." says Jesus. Early each morning the muezzin issues the call to prayer to Muslims from the minaret of a mosque; they respond.
Hearing the call is one thing; obeying the call, or responding to it, is quite another. That part is your call entirely!
What one calls something--or when--can either attract or intimidate, totally apart from its special properties .
Calling something a "problem" immediately frightens away many.
Calling a "problem" a proposition, instead, makes it more palatable.
Calling something math or geometry has the same affect on too many folks, who have been conditioned to fear math and geometry. They freeze.
Calling someone "out of their name" causes many fights, conflicts, and controversies, including fatalities!
Care in what one calls something is the basis of product research, and marketing, multibillion dollar industry.
Calling something or someone calls forth imbedded sensory imagery. That call encompasses denotations, connotations, implications, and ramifications, which influence one's physiology, history, memory, family, education, socialization and beliefs.
Care in calling forth or calling for is crucial. Remember :"Open says me" is not the same as "Open oh sesame!"-- by a long shot, as the fable famously teaches!
What makes the call also matters. "Deep calls unto deep." In another place, the Bible notes: "A certain sound of the trumpet." Also "Many are called but few are chosen."
Not all can hear the call: "my sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me." says Jesus. Early each morning the muezzin issues the call to prayer to Muslims from the minaret of a mosque; they respond.
Hearing the call is one thing; obeying the call, or responding to it, is quite another. That part is your call entirely!