Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Thursday, April 27, 2017
SENSE
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
Sensibility and sensible appear to mean, to connote consciousness; accruals arising from one's senses; certainly awareness derived from sensory intakes common to man, is a meaning contained in the general definition of sensible or sensibility.
Inputs from senses like inputs from food must be processed, however , in order to be assimilated properly.
Such processing is what separates man from men; separates woman from women. Processing involves more than senses. It takes tools, templates, temperatures: heat, cold; textures, labor, knowledge.
"Processing" preparation requires exertion of some kind to be able to process whatever may be received.
Thus, though all human senses are God-given, processing whatever is sought or received by the senses must be exertion-driven. Exertion means "effort" mental, physical or both, being brought to bare to be able to process and to assimilate properly whatever opportunity sensibility produces . Uncooked food is unsavory, unhealthy. Unprocessed information is useless, and people who do not exert themselves in the pursuit of processing apparatuses are insensible wasting away in rot!
"Act like you got some sense," is an old folks' aphorism that sums it up!