it's amazing how much we are just a product of the people around us.
your belief system is only what you've heard, your knowledge is only what you've been told, your change is only when you've been challenged.
so the question then is: how are you influencing everyone else around you?
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okay, okay, yessss, this is what I was trying to say. *tries not to self combust*
I think it's when we STOP becoming a product of the people around us that we gain an identity. When we say that we're not going to let anybody, no matter how prestigious or wise, spoon-feed us the answers. When we become mirrors of Christ rather than mirrors of our best friends- then, and only then, do we shine as we are supposed to.
Does that even make scence? lol, i'm not sure.
then of course God does work through people so we should consider how we are influencing the people around us. good point.
yes! that's it.
but again, it's like trying to lose bias. it's never completely clean.
also, you are a product of others even if you are not just like them. maybe they influenced you in the OPPOSITE way than they are, because you saw how ridiculous their behavior made them look.
Hi! I'm Emily's friend. I hope you don't mind if I post.
I just thought your discussion was really interesting--like how do you know what you believe is right if it's just what your parents have always taught you? What if you had grown up as somebody else's child? At my school it's kind of interesting to hear my civics teacher (Mr. Bond) go on and on about those evil liberals and how biased the media is towards them. I just wonder how much is actually true--don't the liberals think the media is biased towards conservatives?
yes-that's true.
liberals look at fox news and world magazine and see horribly closed-minded biased excuses of journalism.
i see the bias in a few people in cbs and networks like that, but i don't see them as an organization out to get conservative ideas. they criticize far far right ideas and far far left ideas. and that hurts far right conservative's feelings, so they snipe back "at the media."
yeah, I agree with everyone. HI ALETHEIA!!! nice to meet you. *waves* I'm Verya. I'm crazy. nice to meet you. do you like LotR?
Yes, we are totally influenced by people around us, both to be like them and to be their opposites. But that isn't necessarily a bad thing is it? think about it this way: if you're on an uninhabited island, what/who do you learn from? you can learn things to take care of yourself, but you only learn the things specific to your situation. we in america are (or should be) learning things specific to our place in life.
but, this gets dangerous and gets to be a bad thing when you allow only certain people to influence you, to do your thinking for you, and to teach you only one side of things. We are responsible for making sure that we are well-rounded people, getting influenced (just a word for learning knowledge and beliefs, etc.) from all sorts of people. From there, we have a job as Christians to base what we believe on Christ, to imitate Him. Not to believe it because our parents believe it, but because it has proved itself over and over again to be TRUE.
That's why christianity rocks - it isn't believed because other people believe it. I mean, you could learn about God anywhere in the world, because He's real and He is everywhere with us!
The only thing is, how do you know you're getting well-rounded? I mean, you can't learn everything in the world--you've got to choose what to listen to. Postmodern thought says we should accept ("tolerate") everything and that nobody is right or wrong. When do you stop taking in more information and make your own concrete view of the world? Some things really are not to be tolerated.
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