ART . . interesting journal. My sister learned German and then went to Germany to live for 6 months when she was a student many years ago. She told me that after a while speaking German constantly she began to dream in German. I find this fascinating. If you want to find a new soul . . learn a new language.
it is hard to get my mind around the fact that my thought processes are constrained by the English language and the base 10 numerical system.
Writing in chinese in pictograms from top to bottom, or counting on an abacus must surely mean your mind will work differently . . . and yet . . like you say . . a baby raised out of context will simply grow up adopting the environment of its guardians (and most probably the religion of its guardians?) . . all of which implys that none of us has any real control over 'how' we think.
But maybe it doesn't matter. . . . just because a chinese person 'thinks differently' from an English speaking person . . it may be of no consequence . . maybe we all reach the same conclusions regardless . . like typing a letter on an Apple Mac or a PC . . it still ends up as a letter.
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Where your talents and the needs of the world cross . . there lies your vocation.
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