We Are Alive! August 20th, 2022 Words Mean Things
After a restful morning, we took things slow until it was time to congregate for Bible Study in the afternoon. It was just our family and one other, but as we are 8 people, it's not that small of a crowd.
We talked about the power of words, how me may unintentionally curse ourselves or others with the saying we say. Things like "my bad" or "no problem" or "take care". These may seem like simple harmless phrases, but we were pondering if perhaps speaking these words can have a negative effect in our lives. The phrase "take care" came up, in the context of "care" meaning "anxiety" or "worry". When we hear the phrase "take care" we don't think "receive more anxiety", but according one of the definition of "care" that is the curse we may unintentionally place upon people.
It was a lesson for us to use caution when using phrases like "i'm talking your ear off" or "I'll be darned", words mean things and can have a profound impact on yourself and others.
It was an interesting discussion.
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I have not thought so far that "care" has such meanings, but I am not a native English person. "Care" was (and still is) a positive word for me.
The "I'm talking your ear off" is a funny saying, but if you take it seriously and literally, then it can be some kind of curse. The "I'll be darned" is certainly (literally) a self-curse. I have not said that so far, and I will not say it in the future either.
I've also always looked at the word "care" as a positive word, like "taking care of a person in need", but then there are phrases like "Casting off your cares" or "living care free". This means "casting off your worries" or "living worry free".
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A great lesson! I often try to support my children not to put themselves down saying things like "I'm so dumb" and other destructive phrases and instead reassure them they are smart, we are always learning etc. !ALIVE !CTP !LUV
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Yes, we are always learning. It takes some effort learning the correct meaning of words. It's a fascinating study seeing how the definition of words have changed. Words like "suffer" (doesn't mean pain, actually means to allow) or "without" (doesn't mean you don't have, it means outside of, the opposite of "within"), or "want" (doesn't mean desire, it means lack of).
It is a destructive phrase. Dumb used to mean "cannot speak", people would say "deaf and dumb" as in they could not hear and could not speak. Today it generally means "unintelligent".
This is a constructive phrase, as we understand it today. However I learned that the word "smart" used as a verb means "a sharp pain or wound", as in when you get poked with a needle and you say "that smarts" When someone receives a stabbing comment, they say "don't you get smart with me". That concept of sharp was later applied as adjective "smart", meaning a sharp mind, or "intelligent" as it's understood today.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/smart
Probably nit-picking the semantics, but the concept still stands. The lesson I learned is to study and learn the meaning of words and be mindful of their meanings so they can be used correctly.
Thank you Ben for the great response. I think this is a really good habit that many of us should adopt. It is something I now do more regularly to check the words and their meanings.
It is a shame the propaganda in the media tries to confuse some of the meanings with propaganda and double-speak. But I guess this is all part of learning the artic of rhetoric. This leads me onto:
One thing I found astounding when reading some of the texts of Bishops on the Vatican website was how scientific (natural science) the church is compared to actual modern science. Considering how religion is supposedly based on a belief system, it is actually grounded on some very logical thinking in many areas.
Yes, I firmly believe the ancient believers had a better understanding of this world, health and physics than we do. We marvel at modern technology and innovation, but if compared to the wisdom of the ancients, we would be embarrassed. We're supposed to believe the ancients were apelike cavemen and their greatest inventions were fire and the wheel. In reality, they built a more advanced civilization than we could imagine. Every ancient was a theist of some sort, because they understood that we live in a created environment, it was just an argument of which theos.
Words are devolving, loosing their weight. The word "fear" used to mean "motivating factor" now we associate it with irrational fright or paranoia. We today would never associate "fear" with health, yet the ancient writer Yeshua ben Sirach understood exactly the benefit of Godly fear.
The enemy has taken the word "fear" and changed it to "phobia" and attach all sorts of concepts to it, islamaphobia (irrational fear of Muslims) or homophobia (irrational fear of homosexuals) or transphobia. They want these concepts to be our "fear", our motivating factor in how we live our lives, so they can control us. They want us motivated to obey, since obedience is the greatest form of worship. They fancy themselves little gods, that all the "unevolved" must worship. The god of this world wants to steal the divine reverence from the Most High God. We don't fear the devil, we fear God.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts Ben. Appreciated.
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This is a good lesson it is easy to overlook a passing comment, people should mind their words as it creates thoughts and thoughts become things.😎
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This is a great lesson.
Truly we unintentionally harm others with the words from our mouth.
Thanks for sharing.