Projecting

In my early school days our particular school had what was known as a projector.

I think the school owned only one and the teacher had to plan ahead and schedule her/his use of it.

I don't remember how the projector worked exactly. It seemed that a roll of pictures was fed through a magnifying lens with a light which in turn enlarged the picture onto a screen, called of all things, a projector screen.

Thus projecting an enlarged picture onto the screen producing a movie. Movie theaters were the same principle only on a larger scheme.

Projecting has come to mean something else in today's vernacular. One definition is to project your undesirable behavior onto another person.

I wonder that it could also be to project a desirable behavior on to someone else, as in the Melanie syndrome from Gone With the Wind.

Melanie never viewed Scarlett as being devious or conniving, but the reader, and the audience did. Melanie wouldn't hear evil talking about Scarlett, but I have a notion, the Melanie personna carried that with her about others as well.

"Never say mean words out of anger.

Your anger will pass.

But your mean words can scar a person for life.

So, use kind words or be silent."

(I have no attribution except perhaps: 'Skinny Ninja Mom,' taken from Pinterest)

Galatians 5:13 "For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another. 14) For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. 15) But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. 16) But I say, walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh."