I recently came upon a friend who has an interesting outlook on originality. Her point is, nothing is original. Because everything that you know is based on history, someone else's knowledge and most likely that person probably learnt his/her knowledge from persons before him/her. You have not a single opinion that's original because your opinion is formed from knowledge. If you know from reading, youre reading someone else's opinion. You agree with that opinion...So long story short, nothing is original.
Let me ruminate some more about this...I would like to think that everything goes back to God. God taught Adam and Eve right? So the most original you can get is God. That's like originality infinity. Ok, i might be crapping abit here...i lost my train of thought. Bleh...I'll be back after i catch that train.
Let me ruminate some more about this...I would like to think that everything goes back to God. God taught Adam and Eve right? So the most original you can get is God. That's like originality infinity. Ok, i might be crapping abit here...i lost my train of thought. Bleh...I'll be back after i catch that train.
the only original thing would be - to say and express something in a way that it hasnt been said before
ReplyDeletebut anyway, u got it right that God will give divine revelation thru the Holy Spirit. like paul. Pray for that if u wanna be original hahaha. but first u'll be needing to live a life that is so complete that u will be taught by the holy spirit more than learning from others.
however i dun think we'll ever reach the stage where we'll be taught solely by the holy spirit alone and that we have nothing more to learn fr people
so in the meantime, learn as much from everyone as much as possible and trust the holy spirit to reveal other things