Shapes and Patterns

The pattern of this world: Romans 12:1-2
By Age 4 children are well on their way to identifying shapes and patterns. A child's ability to recognize shapes and patterns allows them to better interact and understand the world around them. Shapes and patters leads towards a better grasp on the geometrical world, the "3-d" word...the "REAL WORLD".
In Romans 12:2 the New International Version, the word "pattern" introduced, to further drive home the point that the Apostle Paul was trying to make- some translations simply say "conformity to the world", or "conformity to the age". The distinction is not on what this world is doing- but what we are being called too - BE transformed.