(August 10, 2014 at 12:28 am)Jenny A Wrote: Does anyone have trouble saying "I love you.?" Can you say it too often and wear it out?She may feel that if the words become a rote response, then they don't have the same emotional weight behind them. But it's important to remember that our minds are shaped and guided by the things we do and say and experience every day. On one hand, saying it frequently will make it a habitual thing. On the other... is that really such a bad thing? I don't think it is. I think it's a really good thing.
We say it a lot in our little family, both between sisters and sisters and parents and girls, not to mention husband and wife. But my Mom has actually complained of hearing it too often from the girls--wears it out don't you see? --- I don't.
Any thoughts?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
