I
Love
Paris in the
the Springtime !
I'm curious to know if anyone has a problem with this statement. Read it carefully! Do we always see things the way they actually are?
Paris in the
the Springtime !
I'm curious to know if anyone has a problem with this statement. Read it carefully! Do we always see things the way they actually are?
8 comments:
Did this quote come from the song? "I love Paris in the Sprintime, I Love Paris in the Fall"? Since this is a perception question - need to know where quote came from.....
You might be thinking in the wrong direction. Read the quote again and count how many words you're saying in your head. Then count how many words I actually wrote to make the statement. Most people overlook what turns out to be an obvious error in the writing. Our perception of what it should say is more powerful than what our eyes actually see.
I saw that there were two the's but thought it was your error. Is that what you're talking about?
And here I thought you were trying to get real deep with that quote! Deeper anyways. I truely did not see two thes in the quote. Good point you are making here!
Most people do not catch the second "the"...me included. When I read it on another web site, I could not figure out what was wrong with the sentence. My mind almost completely blocked out the second "the". Some people catch it fast, but some are like me and it take several minutes to see (even when you know something is wrong).
And I was in a way trying to be "real deep". Trying to point out that looking a little more intently at something might expose a problem we had assumed wasn't there. That's pretty deep!
Ok lets take this a "little deeper" If you have to look that hard do you really want to find that problem that we had assumed wasnt there? Or is it ok to look that deep, past the surface that is exposed to everyone, to find a problem?
Ok, here we go.....Do we sometime look too deep that we miss the obvious?
We're having too much fun.
I guess the answer to both questions depends on what we are looking at. To put it in a religious perspective (which is where I always seem to gravitate to), we can see two different sides of the spectrum.
First Martin Luther changed Christianity completely when he looked at the religious institution a little closer (and found errors). And the religious leaders of Luther's time were unable to see these errors from possibly looking too closely at their religion. So Luther's observations brought to light the "obvious" in scripture that the religious leaders failed to see while studying the same book.
So sometimes looking at something (like church, education, politics, or marriage) from a different perspective can help bring about some needed changes, because history teaches us that we all have the ability to "miss the forest through the trees."
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