Pictures and Points
To help pay the bills I do story telling, and as part of that activity I belong to an organization that promotes story telling among senior citizens, locates opportunities for them to speak, and helps to train them. During a training session I told a story of the meticulous detail my family put into the decoration of its Christmas trees and indicated that our trees were so beautiful that people from the neighborhood would drop by to see them. At the end of my story a constructive comment made by one of the trainers was that she would like to know (she meant see) what the neighbors looked like, how old they were, and what they wore. I appreciated her comments and decided that if time allowed I would fit those descriptions into my story. An aspect of that story that the commenter did not “see” was the concept or point. The point was that if a tree is beautifully decorated people would appreciate it. That concept will exist regardless of who the people were or what they wore, and will remain after all the people are dead and buried. Men speak to each other in concepts; they get the point-it’s not necessary to paint the picture. That’s one reason that men don’t have to talk a lot to each other-they deal primarily in points.
There are metaphysical truths contained in the difference between pictures and points. Points remain while pictures pass. The unseen world will remain long after what is seen passes. Pictures emanate from points, what is seen emanates from that which is unseen. All great religious texts are written in such a way that the truth is offered in both a seen and unseen manner. “Whatever a man soweth, that shall he also reap”, is a picture representation of the unseen universal law of cause and effect. Women think in pictures, men think in pictures and points, which enables men to write the great truths both ways.
Because women think in pictures there are no points to their stories. I have never heard the trainers at any of my story telling training sessions ask, “What is the point?” Stories without points are descriptions of sensation. That is what women talk about, their sensational responses. Men understand this trait of women and accommodate them where possible, however; there are times when men want to discuss the point and can’t because of the presence and involvement of women. That was the reason Paul in his letter to Timothy stated that women should not speak in church, and if there was anything they did not understand they should ask their husbands when they got home. Spirituality deals with the unseen. Men understand the unseen and can converse about it. Women cannot; they are equipped to nurture the race, which is a seen activity.
Getting back to story telling and the request for more physical detail by the trainers-which means they want to see more of a picture-is indicative of all social, academic, and professional intercourse in the Western culture. To accommodate by law the picture people, the point is not addressed. Consequently we deal only with effects (the seen) and not the causes (the unseen). It’s time to address the point and not be lost in the picture.
Do you get the point?
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Thurston, if you think I am digressing from the point, I suggest you re-read my first posted entry (#8), well before you joined in. There you will see that I said clearly that I could see EGs point. Are you blind? To help with your braille-work, its the first 5 words.
I went on to say, MY main point, that he had failed to make the gender connection sufficiently or even substantially. I finished by repeating that.
Please be a nice gentleman. Ask your good lady to deal with the sucking issue that digresses you.(#35)
Cons – excuse me (no, not really)for making the point grossly clear that it could not be intelligently deflected, as evidenced by Am thinking he is entitled to a response to his digression from the point.
You made the Point powerfully and the Alpha Biker I play music with said it two nights ago ” Men communicate for information, women communicate to realte.”
Watched it last night as the guys to my left and right were giving information making business contacts.
Meanwhile Biker wife, NHS 3.83 GPA was talking to another wife about potty training, son’s penis size, and practically taking her breast out to show how the implants were done.
He looked at me, “Women communicate to relate”.
So I see that I am just scary to you folks who want a happy little world where everything is nice.
If it is nice, then you must be paid to be here.
Its winter here Cons. The steam pressure drops when I switch it to room instead of just computer.
I am still waiting to get an answer to the masculine connection as opposed to intelligence. Folks keep avoiding the point.
By the way, I don’t know if EG noticed (#47) or just ignored it but Joyanna did say (way back at #9) that the patent was taken out by Hedy in ‘41.
Mike has developed an obsession with EG’s action
Joyanna is researching Tesla
Thurston has irritated a couple of folks (again)
Amfortas is buggering at his PC and ISP again (which rings the better if imagined in the voice of the roving gnome!
MMX has once again made it clear he has EG’s back.
Then
EG stuck his head in the room again…………
Well, momma said on Sunday we’s goin fishin, but that I and little Timmy would have ta stay tagether so’s I could carry his walkin stick.
Its a happy day.
Seriously…I’m not sure there is progress that can be made here on this matter. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen Amfortas yield an inch, or find some commonality at least as I am he rarely come to clash…and conversely for the record I don’t recall doing same for him. This is a perception issue, and you either perceive it or not. I do, Am doesnt, and thats pretty much that.
I’m building a bunker now because if thurston ever gets his hands on those Tesla frequencies we will either have an EMP shutdown of the electronics in the country or worse, a global polarity shift. Only toy compasses would work.
Tesla spoke Romanian as well as a few other languages….he may be hiding in Bucarest’i. I do know that family law is MUCH more sorted out in that country. Mike perhaps its time to otganize one of these cruises that sites and stations do, where all the local personalities and lowly readers like me can rub elbows on a Black Sea cruise.