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1. A Social Think as printed in my newspaper, “Guardians of the Constitution” in July of 2004.
This newspaper bit the dust. I tried. It was fun, but a total failure. Anyway, I love this
article called “A Social Think.” I didn’t write this article. It was submitted for printing.
There is something I must warn you about. It is similar to having a drinking problem. I came
from an area of non-thinkers. No one I knew was a thinker. Because of this, I should have
had no tendencies or weaknesses in this area, but it happened to me, and it could happen to
you or someone you love.
I all started when someone I had long suspected of being a “thinker” offered me a social
“think.” I politely declined explaining that I was a non-thinker. However, he was insistent
that I try just one think. I hesitated but thought: what could one little think hurt? That was
my first think, but I really liked the feeling it gave me, and before long, I was having one
think after another. As embarrassing as it is, I have to admit that by the time the night was
over, I had become pretty well thunk.
The next moving thought struck me, “what would everyone say? Bob has become a thinker.”
I tried to keep it hidden, but when you have a thinking problem, it is hard to hide. Word gets
around a small town. Besides the social thinks, I found myself constantly sneaking off to
have a think on my own.
At other times, I would seek out places where other thinkers would congregate, so I could
hang out with them. When you surround yourself with thinkers, it all seems so normal, but
sooner or later you have to return to the world of non-thinkers.
In that world, I was leading a double life, you do your best to talk and act like the non-
thinkers, but it was useless, non-thinkers can spot a thinker a mile away. It wasn’t long
before my thinking began to affect my job performance. I was getting caught thinking on the
job. I even began to think in church. Thinking can interfere with just abut everything.
Finally, my closest friends and pastor surrounded me one night and told me, “Look Bob, we
care about you and want to help you with your problem.” I asked, “What problem are you
talking about?” I was in denial, but they had me out-numbered. They insisted that my
thinking problem was out of control. “You think too much. You have to stop all this
thinking,” they said. They were right. I thought I could control it; but, in no time at all I had
become a heavy thinker.
Later I realized that it wasn’t me they were so concerned about. It was themselves. When
non-thinkers are around even one single thinker, their lives can become a virtual nightmare of
mental confusion. A non-thinker’s life is very simple and uncluttered. The non-thinker has
the television to tell him what to like or dislike, what to wear, eat, drive, and the newsman to
tell him the news and what to believe is going on in this world. At church, the preacher tells
him what the Bible says and doesn’t say, what to believe and not to believe. The non-thinker
likes to keep it this way. I know for I was a non-thinker for years until that first social think.
I realized as a thinker I would be mostly alone. Not wanting that, I tried all of the traditional
cures. I watched television, and forced myself to laugh at all of the sitcoms and stupid jokes
and the endless programs that non-thinkers enjoy to no end. However, all of this only drove
me to temptations to think. I immersed myself in sports and meaningless chatter with non-

2. thinkers about the latest fads, the weather, movie stars, cars, homes, etc. I pretended to be
enriched by the drivel which filed the newspapers and magazines. I listened particularly to
my preacher’s endless array of hodgepodges of half truths and lies. I tried hard but found
myself wanting, needing, craving, a think – any kind of a think would do. I fell back to
thinking. I would think for days even weeks at at time. Nobody could stand me except my
thinking friends. They understood. They had been through it with their non-thinker friends
and family.
I used to spend hours wondering why can’t the world be full of thinkers? We could all get
along. Is there anything really wrong with thinking?
I must again warn you that having read this far, you may be feeling the temptation to have
your first think. If you succumb, it may forever alter your life. However, you may already
be a thinker. If so, we look forward to hearing from you. Patrick M. Morgan said: “Mankind
has a great psychological need to explain the world and God. He has no such need to explain
it correctly.” “The Lord beckons us, come now let us reason (think) together.” Isaiah 1:18.