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A bit of fun for Friday night and the weekend. Have you ever run across a bit of information that changed your whole perspective on something? Now, it might have been something large or small, but it turned your view, maybe giving you a new insight?
I listened to a lot of country music growing up, and lately I have gone back and found some of what I grew up with on the youtube machine. For instance, there is this song:
About a year ago, I listened to that, and something came through. That song was not written by a woman. That is guy talk. I looked it up. Sure enough, it was written by Joe South. Now, it was recorded by Billy Joe Royal before Lynn Anderson, but she really made it famous and made it her own. When I mentioned this revelation and research to my wife, her reaction was, "A woman could have written it." Yes, dear. It is possible. And flying monkeys could come out when my cat yawns, too.
That was one sort of insight. There, I realized something and then confirmed it. But there are insights that go the other way. For instance, and related to another song from my relative youth:
John Denver had been off the charts for a few years, and he made his comeback with that song. It was a more mature singer with a deeper voice than Denver had been a few years before. It really was a great song to make a splash with.
Most songs are not made famous by the songwriters. You might never even have heard of the songwriter, like Joe South, whom I mentioned above when talking about "Rose Garden." I looked up the songwriter of "Some Days are Diamonds," and soon had a revelation. The songwriter was named Dick Feller. No, seriously, that was his name. He was born and given the name of Richard Dean Feller by his parents. But as I was looking up information about him, well. . .
How did that second verse go again?
"The face that I see in my mirror
More and more is a stranger to me.
More and more I'm aware that there's a danger
In becoming who I never thought I'd be."
I have never heard that song the same way again.
Have you ever cottoned onto or come across a fact that changed the way you see something? It doesn't have to be about a song. It could be about anything in your life. Tell us all a story, Ricochetoisie?
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Don't keep us in suspense! What did your wife say to that?
Yes, but not now.
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I am not near as crazy as you think I am. I simply nodded. But I do not agree with her opinion. The songwriter's sex was so obvious that I was not surprised to have it confirmed.
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There is time.
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Absolutely.
Way back in My early years, discussions were, " I say this is right," and the other would say, "No, this is right." Leading to heated arguments.
I read Aristotle's De Anima and it had a profound affect on the way I have discussions.
Aristotle stated how He perceived Himself as a midwife to people's thoughts (brilliant). He would lead and guide the opposition until They would come to His conclusion.
Ever since then, instead of telling the opposition what I think, I question the opposition leading Them to what I think. Letting Them think They came to the conclusion Themselves.
Life changing perspective.
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Ain't I talked about the 2020 election enough already?
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