"Orality................."

The question of whether or not our thoughts are linguistic is yet with me, not that words aren’t a part of the process, but more along the lines of wondering if the usage isn’t simply a communicative function learned along the way. Our mentality often responds to stimulus. Someone throws a snowball and we duck without any need for conversation. Can it be then that, as the author suggested, in connecting with others we simply use that which was taught us and the practice has evolved into a piece of who and what we are? We talk to ourselves, topside, seemingly, the brain figuring into it in some manner? I’ve long thought of us as having a “computer” in our head, available to our spirit, but not always utilized to its full potential by that part of who we are. Jesus referred to men owning eyes, yet living without vision, as possessing ears, but giving no evidence as actually hearing what was being said. In our Bible class the other week, at one point we spoke of existing with a certain mind-set, life as it comes to us held in a certain perspective gained along the way and each day consumed through our own personal explanation of events. Do any of us really see any farther than the end of our own reasoning? Is it true, in a sense, as Descartes once put it, “we are only here because we think we’re here”? For me, Christ is a “resurrected Truth” who has re-connected with me via the Holy Ghost, an “anchor-line” rod-and-staff directing me in my stumble down the path. The Bible surely factors into that, but in no way do I assume myself having conquered the message in its entirety, the big question being “Faith? Faith in what?” The journey has taught me well just how much this old man can trust his own thinking. Assurance is in the next step, the next visit at the oasis in a meeting with Him……