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Society of others Chapter 1
Two opposite statements that are true are I like speaking French, I don’t like speaking French. The two statements are true because I do like speaking French but at the same time I don’t like it either. The point of view of the narrator of the story society of others about having money is true because people sell different items to people but the people who sell those items buy other items from other people. I don’t agree with the narrator when he says he sees things as they are because he only sees the negative part of all the different situations and not the positive that he gets from each experience he passes through. I don’t agree that nature is selfish and that all creatures kill to survive because it is no true because not all the creatures kill to survive some don’t need to kill to be able to survive they can plant their food and also creatures help each other. I don’t agree that love is a mechanism to propagate the species because if it as only for that then how come people are still together and they haven’t left the person they are with. I do agree that beauty is a trick that fades because beauty is not forever it fades with the years. I don’t agree that friendship is an arrangement for mutual advantage because friends don’t expect nothing on exchange the help each other. I do agree that goodness is not rewarded and that evil is not punished. I do believe that religion is just a superstition. Also I do believe that death is annihilation because there is nothing else to live for. I do agree that God stopped caring of human centuries ago because everyone is making their own purposes for their lives. I don’t agree with the narrator’s point of view about school because students lean different thing even if they thin they don’t learn anything. I think that when the narrator says that when a person is on a mountain they can’t see is he refers that a person cannot see what they have accomplished because they already have it. The narrator does not have a good relationship with his parents because his parents want him to have a life and a job but he disagrees because he says that they should take care of him because they gave him life and he was born and now they have to take care of him. The narrator does not have a good relationship with his girlfriend because he does not want her he is only with her for sex. The narrator has a negative attitude overall because he only sees the negative part of everyone and everything. Three quotes that show an existential point of view are “Love is a mechanism to propagate the species, this is existential because people think tat they are only with one woman to propagate the species. Another quote is “religion is a superstition” people think this way because there is no evidence that there is a God. A last example of this is the quote “Nothing. I’ m tired by nothing. Nothing exhausts me.” A person that is existentialist is that they is no purpose of doing anything.
Add comment November 7, 2008
NATIVE AMERICAN CREATION STORIES
I believe the world was created by God or by meteoroids that created the world and life. I know this information because it’s in the books a science a hypothesis how life started. I think that the first people came from evolution they evolved from through the years that passed they have the figure/form they have now. I think that it does matter how the world was created because people know they key of life. Also to scientists to know how life started and be able to cure diseases and help people.
The Cherokee tribe believed that the world already existed that it was an island that was hold by four cords. In the story of this tribe that believed that the people were created at last the plants, animals, and sun were created first. The Salish tribe believed that the world was already created but only Gods lived on it. This tribe believes that the humans were created by the Gods from balls of mud a God took from the Earth. The Zuni tribe myth says that the earth was already created and that the Zuni came to the world to live on it. They believed that the Zuni came into the world with webbed feet, long ears, hairless tails, and moss-covered bodies and that they acquire human form after bathing in the waters of a sacred spring.
In all of these stories that I read the Earth already existed but only Gods lived there or in another stories there were animals and plants but no human people. Some of these stories don’t have sense that they exist. They could have been true or they could not be true. It all depends on the person who is reading the stories and if they believe it is true. The stories don’t tell that the people believed in anything. It does not say if they believed in Gods or in a supreme power. The stories tell that the world was already created that Gods, animals, and plants lived in Earth and that humans to the Earth and change with the past of the years or they were created by the Gods. There is no way to know if this myths or stories are true. There is no evidence to probe these stories were true and for that science cannot prove if facts are true. If there was evidence that this stories were true like buildings or some kind of fossil then science could do certain experiments to see how old they are and from there prove that these stories were in fact true. I think that my view of how the world was created has more sense than the stories of the Natives Americans. Science has theories of how Earth was created and there have been many opinions of this. Science explains that humans had various phases of evolution with all the animals that today exist and that how they got the shape they have know. There is also another theory that the church follows that is that a superior power created the Earth. Many of the followers of the church defend this belief while other support science. I all depend on the person to choose how they think earth was created and humans were created to.
Add comment February 25, 2008
