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It recently occurred to me that I have never had an original thought in my entire life. Neither have you, most likely.
There is an actual theory about this. It’s referred to as the Original Thought Theory. I don’t know who originally thought of the Original Thought Theory, but based upon the theory itself, it wasn’t an original thought.
The Original Thought Theory suggests that anything anyone can ever think of has already been thought of by someone else. Do you believe that?
Even the Bible doesn’t buy the notion of original thought. In Ecclesiastes 1:9, it reads:
That which has been is what will be,
That which is done is what will be done,
And there’s nothing new under the sun.
So what do we mean by “original thought?” First, let’s explore the word “original.” Various online dictionaries define the word as new, fresh, inventive, novel. It’s something created, undertaken, or presented for the first time.
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Thanks Michael 🙂
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Thanks for the reblog, Sue.
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My pleasure 🙂
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I do believe it. I remember when “Trivial Pursuits” became quite the rage as a game. We had ALL been playing some version of it for years. We just didn’t have cards and a board. We just threw questions out and whoever got it, did the next question. But the people who put it on the board with the little chippy pieces made millions. There was nothing original about it, but they still made a fortune.
But.
Somewhere, someone, somewhere DID think of it first. It may have been back in the caves, but there WAS a first. It wasn’t necessarily recorded or written — or even spoken out loud. Someone WAS first. Not you. Not me.
Someone, sometime, somewhere.
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There is always a first…and always someone who takes an idea and makes it work… but what lies between will remain a mystery 😉
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