perception

currently in school, i'm taking a module on effective communication.
one of the things taught about is the matter of perception and how one perceives an action or a sentence makes a whole difference.

so just now, i was browsing through yahoo looking for things on karate when i stumbled on this question in the yahoo question and answers page.

the question was on whether according to the Quran, did Jesus ever refer to God as his father?

then there was this answer that i tot was amusing and made me really wonder too.

here's the excerpt:

"The 'Father' was the name in which many Jews called God in order to acknowledge His Divine Power of Creation. Jesus(A.S.) never meant it LITERALLY. So when someone called another 'the Son of God', it meant that he was a righteous man. It's just how the language was back then.

For example... Nowadays if I wrote you a letter saying you were 'the sh*t', 'the bomb', or 'my angel', you would understand the meaning behind it.

But what if our culture dies out, our language becomes a dead language and a later civilization tries to piece it together, what do you think THEY'LL get out of it?"


yup. i thot that shit part was funny. and that i started thinking of other normal words we used. like stoning. haha... ah well... matter of perception indeed.