One of my daughters takes copious notes, the other one doodles, and the inference from that is that the doodler isn't paying quite as much attention as the other. That would be wrong.
We were discussing this paragraph (page 261, Paragraph 12 from Concordia: The Lutheran Confessions)
Besides such necessary Church affairs, many important matters in the
political realm could also be improved. The princes and the estates
disagree. Interest rates and greed have burst in like a flood and are
defended under the law. Also, disrespect, lust, extravagance in dress,
gluttony, gambling, pomp, and all kinds of bad habits and evil. Subjects,
servants, and workers in every trade are insubordinate. The demands on the
peasants are unfair. Prices are exorbitant (who can list
everything?) These things have increased so much that they cannot be
corrected by ten councils and twenty commissions (diets). The council would
have their hands full if such important issues of the spiritual and earthly
realms that are contrary to God would be considered.
Our instructor thought it amazing that the cultural aspects that Luther was describing seem awfully familiar to us today.
And as the discussion continued, he asked, "So what was Luther saying here?"
To which, the doodler responded, "Twenty diets couldn't cure their gluttony."
That made us giggle, but he wasn't quite as amused as we were.
5 comments:
Are you sure? He may have a dry sense of humor.
Hey, she's right, though! I identify with the doodler. I listen better if my hands are busy doing something.
Anonymous is right, I shouldn't suppose to know the mind of someone else.
Perhaps he does have a dry sense of humor!
Makes me giggle, too.
Both Husband and myself are doodlers. He has even gone so far as to find research that shows that doodlers retain MORE information, for the exact reason Esther mentioned. If the hands are busy doing mindless things, the mind can focus on what's being said. Interesting, eh?
hehe... I totally thought that too, but didn't say anything.
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