"If persons of influence have stated words that have created a dysfunctional understanding of one another (as a peril, as a virus, as a disease, as less than human), then those words will not return empty." Rev. Dr. Soong-Chan Rah Do y’all agree with Dr. Rah? I do. It evokes the prophet Isaiah (“So shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty.”) and Hans-Georg Gadamer (“The meaning of a text goes beyond its author not only occasionally but always.”). Words create situations. Functional and dysfunctional understandings. Words form and deform minds regardless of what we mean or think we mean when we write them, speak them, or cast them off on the oceans of Internet. Impact and intention will differ not just sometimes but always.
Words create situations.
Words create situations.
Words create situations.
"If persons of influence have stated words that have created a dysfunctional understanding of one another (as a peril, as a virus, as a disease, as less than human), then those words will not return empty." Rev. Dr. Soong-Chan Rah Do y’all agree with Dr. Rah? I do. It evokes the prophet Isaiah (“So shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty.”) and Hans-Georg Gadamer (“The meaning of a text goes beyond its author not only occasionally but always.”). Words create situations. Functional and dysfunctional understandings. Words form and deform minds regardless of what we mean or think we mean when we write them, speak them, or cast them off on the oceans of Internet. Impact and intention will differ not just sometimes but always.