Comments on: A place to belong http://reflections.voxtropolis.com/2006/03/13/a-place-to-belong/ Embracing the journey Sat, 10 Jan 2009 04:38:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Let Our Voices Shine » Blog Archive » ATM Machine http://reflections.voxtropolis.com/2006/03/13/a-place-to-belong/#comment-22 Let Our Voices Shine » Blog Archive » ATM Machine Wed, 15 Mar 2006 02:07:29 +0000 http://reflections.voxtropolis.com/2006/03/13/a-place-to-belong/#comment-22 [...] The point is we have made something shorter and easier and it lost the meaning.  This is something like Becoming’s post.  I feel like we do this so much, and I don’t even know if it can be stopped.  I don’t like losing meaning.  Maybe it is about education.  I’m sure a lot of people who say PIN number don’t really know what PIN means, but they know it’s a number.  I guess we need to explain things better, so we don’t end up making people feel stupid like in Reflections.  And, maybe so we don’t lose the depth of meaning that we should have when we say something.  Then we may keep from repeating the events in our history where two groups will agree on a word with different meanings and persecute a third who won’t use the word. [...] […] The point is we have made something shorter and easier and it lost the meaning.  This is something like Becoming’s post.  I feel like we do this so much, and I don’t even know if it can be stopped.  I don’t like losing meaning.  Maybe it is about education.  I’m sure a lot of people who say PIN number don’t really know what PIN means, but they know it’s a number.  I guess we need to explain things better, so we don’t end up making people feel stupid like in Reflections.  And, maybe so we don’t lose the depth of meaning that we should have when we say something.  Then we may keep from repeating the events in our history where two groups will agree on a word with different meanings and persecute a third who won’t use the word. […]

]]> By: Brian Bowen http://reflections.voxtropolis.com/2006/03/13/a-place-to-belong/#comment-21 Brian Bowen Tue, 14 Mar 2006 21:41:24 +0000 http://reflections.voxtropolis.com/2006/03/13/a-place-to-belong/#comment-21 that reminds me of something Donald Miller said at the Catalyst Conference... Sometimes we think the whole world is a movie about me. I'm the main character and everyone else are just extras. Or something like that that reminds me of something Donald Miller said at the Catalyst Conference…

Sometimes we think the whole world is a movie about me. I’m the main character and everyone else are just extras.

Or something like that

]]> By: Jake http://reflections.voxtropolis.com/2006/03/13/a-place-to-belong/#comment-20 Jake Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:10:34 +0000 http://reflections.voxtropolis.com/2006/03/13/a-place-to-belong/#comment-20 I agree. In fact, we get to the point where we don\'t even know some of what we mean. But more often we are just not thinking about others, so we don\'t think they may have questions. We are doing our thing; they are scenery. I agree. In fact, we get to the point where we don\’t even know some of what we mean. But more often we are just not thinking about others, so we don\’t think they may have questions. We are doing our thing; they are scenery.

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