Has it all been done?
Occasionally when I speak with my mother we come around to discussing things such as how the American system of learning, inventing, etc. is different from that of the Brittish due to the atypical foundation of our country. At that time, Brittish educators were of the belief that all that was to be discovered had been and that all its present pupils could do was to engage in witty discourse concerning these developed sciences. American scientists, on the other hand, had only to go into the neighboring field, observe a novel flower, leaf, what have you, draw it, catalog it, and call it a scientific discovery.
All this to say, sometimes I just feel as if it's all been discovered, all the good jobs are taken, every sport has been mastered, each beat has been jammed to ... creative juices occasionally run low I suppose.
Today I was thinking about how I'd really like to do something great ... either life is a daring adventure or nothing at all, it goes at least something like that. However, it's really hard these days to make a brilliant discovery. Civilization has come unbelievably far - awesome, but still it makes it hard to imagine making some ground-breaking discovery.
Really, this is a great advancement in society because it eliminates distractions of considering scientific or technological advances as having arrived and places more of the emphasis of greatness on to relational pursuits. Quite an evangelisitic breakthrough.
Samuel P. Huntington, a well-known Harvard professor somewhere in the humanities, has written a book titled "The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order." It's a great anthropogical, economic, geographic, all those fancy studies book covering a range of modern concerns. Well ... he claims that today's world is shifting from an allegiance to a specific country on to allegiance to a specific ethnic group.
Science continues to show God's guiding hand in his creation. He is the creator and gives creative inspiration ... and hope. These truths counter my earlier doubts and inspire me to continue on in my great adventure.
Good night.
All this to say, sometimes I just feel as if it's all been discovered, all the good jobs are taken, every sport has been mastered, each beat has been jammed to ... creative juices occasionally run low I suppose.
Today I was thinking about how I'd really like to do something great ... either life is a daring adventure or nothing at all, it goes at least something like that. However, it's really hard these days to make a brilliant discovery. Civilization has come unbelievably far - awesome, but still it makes it hard to imagine making some ground-breaking discovery.
Really, this is a great advancement in society because it eliminates distractions of considering scientific or technological advances as having arrived and places more of the emphasis of greatness on to relational pursuits. Quite an evangelisitic breakthrough.
Samuel P. Huntington, a well-known Harvard professor somewhere in the humanities, has written a book titled "The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order." It's a great anthropogical, economic, geographic, all those fancy studies book covering a range of modern concerns. Well ... he claims that today's world is shifting from an allegiance to a specific country on to allegiance to a specific ethnic group.
Science continues to show God's guiding hand in his creation. He is the creator and gives creative inspiration ... and hope. These truths counter my earlier doubts and inspire me to continue on in my great adventure.
Good night.
posted by Shelly at 9:12 PM
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