Is thinking more efficient when it is practiced in a linear fashion? Or, is it more efficient to think about things in parallel?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nThoughts are like cars. Thinking is done on a highway<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
Which seems less stressful? Which seems like a situation with fewer collisions?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Is multi-tasking a new and useful skill?<\/strong> When I commune with God, I find it extremely difficult to clear the thought waves. I find that to hear what will be told to me, I must listen and wait in near silence. I do know that I am wasting my time if I tried to hear the ideas he offers when I try to think about four or more things weighing on my mind. In these moments I realize the folly of man using technology to attempt to increase an evolved brain capacity to think more and failing by trying to think too many thoughts in a cyclical effort to think more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So why does God laugh?<\/p>\n\n\n\n The greatest of all beings did not think it was capable of multitasking. Instead the earth was built one day at a time. Read ahead if you like to the scriptures below. Each day God did a bit more. A monumental bit more to the wee human. But notice he took six days. He focused on each task in a specific order and completed each in a specific order before moving on the next task.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A reminder from Genesis, Chapter 1 (KJV – Bible)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n 5. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n 6. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n 7. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n 8. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n 9. And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n 10. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n 11. And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n 12. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n 13. And the evening and the morning were the third day.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n 14. And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n 15. And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n 16. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n 17. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n 18. And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n 19. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n 20. And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n 21. And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n 22. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n 23. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n 24. And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n 25. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n 26. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n 27. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n 28. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n 29. 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What happens when thoughts within the pack collide or are interrupted by external forces?<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/babylonrivers.com\/imageShare\/Multitasking.jpg?w=900\")
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But what about the teenagers? During a conversation in which I realized my student was no longer listening to me and I was therefore wasting my time and my thoughts after a query as to why they were communicating so intensely with someone who was not actually in the room we sat int, she then asked me, “well, don’t you want us to learn to be connected?” Being connected is good, but being connected to to many or to much is detracts from the quality of any single connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWho are we to think that we are more capable of juggling activities
then the creator?<\/h2>\n\n\n\nI am sure if God had invented
a smart phone at this time,
God would have turned it off for the day.<\/h2>\n\n\n