Sunday, April 24, 2016

MAKING THE SIMPLE COMPLICATED

It’s axiomatic that a teacher’s job is to make complicated things easier for people to understand.

When someone comes along & does the opposite, it’s right to question them. Maybe it’s their motives (trying to sound smarter than everyone else); maybe it’s a lack of understanding (thinking it’s not worth knowing unless it’s difficult to understand).

Most things in life are not really that complicated. Sure, we live in a complicated world in many ways, but that doesn’t change ultimate things. God is God, humans are humans, & so on.
I’ve found that people who are motivated to make the simple complicated tend to have ulterior motives. They want to be seen as an authority who knows more than everyone else. They want to get people to follow their agenda (which, by the way, if stated plainly wouldn’t probably be embraced by most people).

Beware the sophisticate who tries to confuse you about what seems pretty simple to understand. 

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