When I log into Facebook for the first time every day, I find my newsfeed filled with all sorts of memes, quotes and sayings. Some have to do with life, some with spirituality and others politics. It has become like wading through a wasteland of Bartlett's, Nouwen and Sanders. Or Gingrich. No matter.
People post other people's words regularly and constantly instead of their own.
There is beauty in a well-turned phrase. Sometimes, there's also truth and wisdom. If it wasn't so, then what someone said centuries ago would have long been forgotten.
However.
However,
However, like Jim Rome often says, "Have a take."
Real thinkers use the words of others to frame and support their own arguments. Nonthinkers use those same words to be their arguments and, in doing so, I suppose, hope to make themselves appear as thoughtful and wise as well.
An occasional witty saying has the potential to delight. A steadily flowing stream of them mutes and numbs.
Show some original thought, even if it isn't eloquent. Discuss if you like; it's far better than pontificating with words that aren't your own.
For goodness sake, just have a take.
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