Opening the Door to a New Way of Living
This joke will be familiar to a lot of people. But it bears repeating in order to really drive home a point. The joke asks a simple question. When is a door not a door? The joke’s answer is when it’s ‘a jar’. This is a play on a door becoming ajar. But humor aside, it brings up a rather important point. When does a door stop being a door? Or to clarify the point a little, when does a door stop being useful?
To really answer that question we need to look into just what doors actually are. The history of doors goes back roughly 5,000 years. To be sure, there were almost certainly doors long before then. But written records are vitally important. It shows us with absolute certainty where something sits in the historical context. What we know about ancient Egypt shows that they had a similar … Read more