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John121
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Hi I read a lot but struggle with remembering things all the time is there saints or theologians or even philosophers that have perfected this art please links books etc
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John121
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My problem is that a lot of the books on memory some times go into occult esoteric philosophy what does a priest study or theologians study for memory work ?
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Mintaka
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Until modern times, most educated people used “the art of memory” (are memoriae) to remember things more easily and in an organized way. There is nothing esoteric or occult about it, although I agree that some moderns treat it that way.
Basically, the idea is that, if you are going to a place, like your own house, you remember and can find things. You can go lots of places along a road by memory. This sort of spatial memory can be exploited by imagining reminder images at familiar places, and “visiting” them in a particular preset order. A lot of medieval illuminated books include such reminder images in the margins. (And many involve terrible medieval puns.)
Kevin Vost has several books giving practical Catholic applications for the art of memory. I have a poor visual memory, but even I could understand his instructions!
If you would rather learn things by rote, try putting them to music and singing them, or putting them into rhyming verse.
Basically, the idea is that, if you are going to a place, like your own house, you remember and can find things. You can go lots of places along a road by memory. This sort of spatial memory can be exploited by imagining reminder images at familiar places, and “visiting” them in a particular preset order. A lot of medieval illuminated books include such reminder images in the margins. (And many involve terrible medieval puns.)
Kevin Vost has several books giving practical Catholic applications for the art of memory. I have a poor visual memory, but even I could understand his instructions!
If you would rather learn things by rote, try putting them to music and singing them, or putting them into rhyming verse.
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John121
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Kevin’s book on memory seems to be what I need I must say the more I learn about truth and self development of our reason and knowledge and wisdom the more I see how bad of a catholic school I really went to instead of reading about the philosophers of Old and learning real knowledge from the Bible we were being thought false doctrine about coming from monkeys and evolving from the sea. And the saying these days is survival of the fittest meaning it’s greed and not altruism that gets you by!
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BartholomewB
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“False doctrine”? That is some kind of extreme Protestant fundamentalism. The Catholic Church has no quarrel with evolution.false doctrine about coming from monkeys and evolving from the sea.
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John121
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It’s stated that God created us we did not evolve from the creatures
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HopkinsReb
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Literally nobody teaches that we evolved from monkeyscoming from monkeys
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John121
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Darwin said that monkeys, apes and humans must have a common ancestor because of our great similarities compared to other species
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HopkinsReb
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Yep.Darwin said that monkeys, apes and humans must have a common ancestor because of our great similarities compared to other species
You’ll notice that that is not the same thing as saying that we came from monkeys.
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John121
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So it says we have a common ancestor which is false that’s to say that there was no separation of species at the time of creation who ever decided that a theory based of a man who had not one bit of evidence to prove a change of kind in species that’s why it’s still a theory is aloud corrupt the minds and innocent minds who are looking for God at a young age to be told that we descended from the same species as a monkey and evolved from the sea taking out Gods creation
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HopkinsReb
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…So it says we have a common ancestor which is false that’s to say that there was no separation of species at the time of creation who ever decided that a theory based of a man who had not one bit of evidence to prove a change of kind in species that’s why it’s still a theory is aloud corrupt the minds and innocent minds who are looking for God at a young age to be told that we descended from the same species as a monkey and evolved from the sea taking out Gods creation
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There you go: feel free to intersperse those punctuation marks throughout your post for better readability. Then I’ll consider responding.
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John121
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It’s no surprise that you have a attitude towards punctuation yet believe Darwin !
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HopkinsReb
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I like the things I read to be readable. Five lines devoid of punctuation is quite poor English, unless you’re William Faulkner (and you’re not).It’s no surprise that you have a attitude towards punctuation yet believe Darwin !
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John121
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When a man speaks does he use punctuation’s
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HopkinsReb
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In a sense, yes. He pauses in places and emphasizes some words over others. But you’re not speaking to me, so it’s irrelevant.When a man speaks does he use punctuation’s
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