I believe that thinking about and trying to understand difficult ideas helps us to learn and grow. So if you have a leader that doesn't think you're capable of understanding difficult ideas, I think it would be harder for them to make the right decisions for the people because they might think less of them.
In the Scriptures, the best leaders were the ones who tried to understand their people, and didn't think themselves better than them.
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I do think ancient scientists were important, even if everything they said was wrong, because it got people thinking. If it hadn't been for people who were willing to think outside the box, we would probably still think that mythical gods controlled everything. Not to mention things like math, or even the alphabet. I think it's much better to use our brains and try to find solutions to things, and get it wrong, than to just not try at all.
I do think that words have a longer life than deeds, because words can live forever, (in a sense) in people's minds, through stories and books. For example, we don't know exactly what happened to the people that wrote the bible, but we're still reading what they wrote.
I don't think where you live affects the way you are. I think it can affect the way you do certain things (such as, the language you speak, what food you eat, the clothes you wear, etc.), but not your personality, or the way you act and think. I think that no matter what country/state you live in, whether you're rebellious and loud, or soft spoken and shy, you would have been that way whether you were born in China or the U.S.
I'll give you an example of why I think of it this way. My sister and I were both born in the same state. We've been raised by the same parents, live in the same house, and have done roughly the same thing, all of our lives. YET WE ARE SO DIFFERENT! So, if where you live affects the way you are, wouldn't everything else you are exposed to affect the way you are? How could my sister and I be so different? Wouldn't we be pretty much the same? But we're not. We're different, because that's the way we are, and were supposed to be. I think there's only one thing that can affect the way you truly are - and that's yourself. |
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