tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10276952.post8087943311482390471..comments2023-12-29T21:34:44.579-05:00Comments on Political Yen/Yang: Sunday Reflection - VisionLA Sunsethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00445498119590721449noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10276952.post-22558583669973415382009-06-15T14:20:02.436-04:002009-06-15T14:20:02.436-04:00I actually made an error in calling the word Chazo...I actually made an error in calling the word Chazown Greek. I get confused sometimes when trying to do more than one thing at a time and yesterday I was. I was researching some Greek words just prior to reading your post. The word is actually Hebrew. I asked forgiveness for failing to catch my error before posting. It would appear that I was not focused!Tickerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13500388925461726862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10276952.post-77081642203585668082009-06-15T07:18:51.922-04:002009-06-15T07:18:51.922-04:00Sadly, Helen Keller was a leftist. I'm not de...Sadly, Helen Keller was a leftist. I'm not deprecating her -- merely stating the fact I discovered after I had spent years admiring her and what she achieved in the face of all the cards being stacked against her.<br /><br />Mustang said: <i>We cannot concern ourselves about opening hearts until we first find a way to restore the mind.</i><br /><br />That will be an uphill climb. Some are Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10276952.post-32895060662890942432009-06-15T05:12:14.550-04:002009-06-15T05:12:14.550-04:00Ticker thanks for the Greek lesson on Chazown.
F...Ticker thanks for the Greek lesson on Chazown. <br /><br />Focus is certainly an important component of vision and might very well be the hardest to maintain when the waters are rough.<br /><br />I have always believed that peace is not an emotion, but it is an understanding. Vision, in some instances, requires some understanding of what we are seeing. If we comprehend what we see, we have peace.LA Sunsethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00445498119590721449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10276952.post-28602464456629646902009-06-15T05:04:48.143-04:002009-06-15T05:04:48.143-04:00//Personally, I think it's been a little too m...//<em>Personally, I think it's been a little too much heart and too little brain lately, you're right.</em>//<br /><br />Emotions are strong things. Without them and intellect together, we would not be human. But as you say, we have tilted too much to the side of emotions and allowed that part of our psyche to overrule the intellect's natural counterbalance.LA Sunsethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00445498119590721449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10276952.post-163890795093346052009-06-14T20:38:22.299-04:002009-06-14T20:38:22.299-04:00There is a Greek word for vision as used in Prover...There is a Greek word for vision as used in Proverbs 29:18 and that word is Chazown.<br /><br />Those who have Chazown have four gifts; One the gift of focus. It is the gift that if you don’t have it, others have it for you. Second is the gift of Endurance; without it there will always be trouble in life and success will be unreachable. The third is Peace; Without peace we can not focus, we canTickerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13500388925461726862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10276952.post-29370018031900222182009-06-14T20:14:46.761-04:002009-06-14T20:14:46.761-04:00Personally, I think it's been a little too muc...Personally, I think it's been a little too much heart and too little brain lately, you're right.<br />Common Sense got replaced by Political Correctness.<br />How do you get over PC?<br /><br />That's my vision...This whole country needs a Miss Annie Sullivan, though she could be construed as an enabler in this analogy...At least I THINK we can still have our eyesight and hearing Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10276952.post-1471097421926359762009-06-14T19:48:14.886-04:002009-06-14T19:48:14.886-04:00//There is no other explanation for the path our c...//<em>There is no other explanation for the path our citizens have taken this country, other than the real possibility that most of our countrymen are suffering from a severe stroke.</em>//<br /><br />Excellent analogy. Sometimes symptoms of a stroke can resolve with very little residual. But that all depends on how fast treatment is sought. The more time that passes from the onset of symptoms, LA Sunsethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00445498119590721449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10276952.post-83398061866062315772009-06-14T15:28:24.002-04:002009-06-14T15:28:24.002-04:00Were we to pretend that we are looking at a very s...Were we to pretend that we are looking at a very sick patient, an enlightened physician might decide that it is possible that an ailment has more than one cause. In this case, the patient is society. Where do we begin our in-depth diagnosis, which is necessary before we decide about a treatment or likely prognosis?<br /><br />In this case, not only does the patient suffer from loss of vision, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com