In the previous post I wrote about common sense; where do you think this common sense comes from? Is it an energy that is floating around in the universe that we can draw from when needed? Or is it something in our brain the computes logical information? I’d love to know your opinion.
God speed!
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Friday, June 8, 2007
Common Sense
We all have common sense. If we didn’t have any we wouldn’t be alive for very long; we wouldn’t have survived the monkey bars on the playground. Some of us appear to have an abundance, maybe enough for two people, and some of us appear to have very little but looking at the definition of these two words, it might shed some light on each of our circumstances.
Common: “Belonging equally to or shared equally by two or more; joint: common interests. Of or relating to the community as a whole; public (American Heritage Dictionary).”
Sense: “Natural understanding or intelligence, especially in practical matters (American Heritage Dictionary).”
So we could say that there is this universal understanding that belongs to all of us. This understanding gives us the practical discernment to determine a result before it happens. Well, we all want a good result. We don’t want an event to cause us harm; we don’t want to be hurt so we use our common sense, which gives us good judgment so we can get good results.
Common sense tells us things like; you don’t buy more than you can pay for. You don’t eat more calories in a day than you can burn off.
Our common sense should be used for the common good. We can share our common sense with others to prevent others from harm. Our good judgment can be applied, with kindness, when those around us are having trouble sensing their common sense.
I find it interesting that people that struggle with believing in God, or Godliness, have no trouble believing that they have common sense. Jesus said “And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever— the Spirit of truth.” That’s the Gospel or The Good News!
God speed!
common. (n.d.). The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Retrieved June 08, 2007, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/common
sense. (n.d.). The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Retrieved June 08, 2007, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sense
Common: “Belonging equally to or shared equally by two or more; joint: common interests. Of or relating to the community as a whole; public (American Heritage Dictionary).”
Sense: “Natural understanding or intelligence, especially in practical matters (American Heritage Dictionary).”
So we could say that there is this universal understanding that belongs to all of us. This understanding gives us the practical discernment to determine a result before it happens. Well, we all want a good result. We don’t want an event to cause us harm; we don’t want to be hurt so we use our common sense, which gives us good judgment so we can get good results.
Common sense tells us things like; you don’t buy more than you can pay for. You don’t eat more calories in a day than you can burn off.
Our common sense should be used for the common good. We can share our common sense with others to prevent others from harm. Our good judgment can be applied, with kindness, when those around us are having trouble sensing their common sense.
I find it interesting that people that struggle with believing in God, or Godliness, have no trouble believing that they have common sense. Jesus said “And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever— the Spirit of truth.” That’s the Gospel or The Good News!
God speed!
common. (n.d.). The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Retrieved June 08, 2007, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/common
sense. (n.d.). The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Retrieved June 08, 2007, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sense
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