410 Performance Art

Gentle Reader, over the past 40 or so blogs we have looked at some of both the many benefits and difficulties of human "being and doing".

Beginning in Blog 367, I pointed to the “Lets” of Scripture (listed in many preceding blogs) and eventually proposed these “Lets” as the organizing principles of being and doing. I also advanced the idea that these "Lets" can act as the anchor of both one’s faculty of Montage Thinking (Comparative Reasoning, Blog 394) and human destiny. Human destiny is influenced by The Holy Spirit when, by invitation, He elevates  basic Montage Thinking to divinely directed thinking (Blog 375).

I then sketched out the benefit of immersion in Scripture. Moving from there, I covered many of the difficulties inherent in the complex thinking involved in Montage Thinking, suggesting ways to consciously perceive some of the dynamics of such thinking and come to terms with them. We looked at Brain Freeze, Stress & Public Demand, Misinformation, Misinterpretation, Moral Dilemmas, Wisdom, Knowledge & Understanding, Moral Rectitude, Bewilderment, Mental Paralysis, and Indecisiveness.

Then we broached the subject of Comparative Reasoning as the primary tool of Montage Thinking, where one evaluates and interrelates parallel ideas (the very definition of Montage Thinking). We saw how emotionalism and being judgmental can distort Montage Thinking and learned that Communication is never easy.  Looking for remedies to avoid behaviors that impinge upon Montage Thinking, I proposed three: postponing closure, Holy Spirit power, and as the Girl Scouts recommend, being prepared (through Blog 409).

These blogs have been a real eye-opener to me, Gentle Reader. They have called me to great appreciation of communicators, the rigorous demands of the process of communication, and the impact of astute or inept communication upon an audience. Communication is truly one of the most demanding, yet potentially dazzling, human aptitudes and as Shakespeare (for one among many) would agree, it is meant to be embraced as a high performance level art.

To be continued . . .