204 Let Me Elaborate

Montage Thinking: Significant Truth #3 would have to be relationships with an introduction by way of people and with sub-themes such as thought, feeling, choice, communication . . . and destiny! Just to mention a few—all presented by drawing on and combining with Significant Truth #1: God, #2: Meaning and #4: Mind—Being & Doing (Blog #186,193).

Let me elaborate a little more on Montage Thinking, Gentle Reader. With God as the model for being and doing (The first 100 or so of my blogs discussed God’s being and doing), I will now suggest a sketch of how people think.

Imagine a group of people existing in relationship with others. They have freedom of choice, are able to communicate and experience a sense of destiny. They are capable of considering the existence or non-existence of God, using their mind to form conscious thought and to operate their body for various tasks of doing. Their thoughts and emotions affect the direction of their lives. These powers are all God-given powers (according to Scripture), powers modeled after the conscious powers of evaluation, selection, retention, elimination, decision and action which God demonstrates, powers which He commits solely to the purpose of good.

Some of these people (like myself) will develop Montage Thinking. Some will not. Think of it this way, some will concentrate on building thinking powers while others will studiously avoid such a pursuit—to put matters simply. Over my lifetime, I have worked to develop my thinking by a combination of research and periodic sort-outs like this one—both meant to simultaneously build and streamline my thinking. My development of Montage Thinking, where distinguished pivotal concepts appear, where thinking rises to the level of an art form, is only lately evidencing in me (such is the plight of an airhead debutante)—but evidencing it is!

For example, just last night I realized that Montage Thinking is a lot like the operations of an iPhone—scrolling apps! You know, Gentle Reader, one turns on one’s iPhone and icons appear. Then one scrolls to and taps an icon and one is off and running in a well-developed little program that admirably serves one’s needs.

Take the iPhone image one step further and we have the large screen montage where one can shift icons or other types of data feed around by hand, slinging them here and there, enlarging one for a look-see, then shrinking it back to proceed to another, and so on.

How do I apply that image to thinking? Well, when one improves one’s thinking to the point where one can mentally perform such acts as skillfully manipulating data within one’s own mind or in writing, that’s what I call Montage Thinking—the mental manipulation of succinct, distinct, and excellently crafted ideas sorted-out for those of real and lasting beauty and value.

Yes, this takes work!

I guess that is at least one reason why some people will do it and some will never even try.

To be continued . . .