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Week 12 post 3

 Combining dualism, people of color did not ask to be placed at a disadvantage, therefore placing all people on their rightful platform of equivalent importance would no doubt increase the advancements of this world immensely. And of course, for a person with white privilege it is much easier to say "black people need to work harder" rather than disturbing your own comfort to fight a problem that is damaging to your fundamental equals. I think in the end, those who submit to the laws of man and ignore the laws of nature [that point to a supreme understanding of love and kindness and equality] will end up suffering the most. As C.S. lewis said:              “The sins of the flesh are bad, but they are the least bad of all sins. All the worst pleasures are purely spiritual: the pleasure of putting other people in the wrong, of bossing and patronising and spoiling sport, and back-biting, the pleasures of power, of hatred.” What are more way...

Week 12 post 2

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 Amid all of this political tension, there is so much denial surrounding social injustices. One of which being unequal opportunities. Not only do people not accept that systemic racism is still extremely prevalent in the United States, they don't understand why "hard work" is not a reasonable answer to the problem.  In electromagnetism, photons vibrate at different frequencies which result in unique energies. This ranges from x-rays, radio waves, ultraviolet light, visible light, gamma rays and so forth. A higher frequency a photon has, the more energy it carries. Take visible light for example:  Red is the color with the greatest wavelength, lowest frequency and therefore lowest in energy. Purple on the other hand has the shortest wavelength, highest frequency and this greatest energy. You can compare this to a person with privilege and a person with a disadvantage- In this country it is safe to compare the color red to someone with white privilege and purple to a person...

Week 11 post 3

 The sentence about harmony being two complimentary halves to one whole and this whole being a separate greater entity reminds me of emergence. I don't really believe in a traditional God from any major religion, but my research has given me great reverence for the strong apparent force all around us that when we treat well, we are treated well back. As people we sometimes subliminally strive to optimize our well-being, but turn to laws of man in order to find that happiness. Unhealthy compulsions towards material objects offsets balance in nature and in turn hurt people. What do I do post 12 on?? Wouldn't the world be so great if everyone wasn't so obsessed with the social constructs of the world like MONEY?! #ew. In our society we are raising our children often times with a target goal is being smart going to good school and making lots of money. It is so sadddddd. How would the world look if people were raised with the ideal of making peace with nature rather than making...

Week 11 Post 2

 Taoism is an eastern religion that originated in china. It emphasizes living in harmony with the Tao (or "the way) and "advocates for humility and religious piety" (Oxford Languages Definition). The religious book of Taoism is the Tao De Ching written by Lao-Tzu. In it, Lao-Tzu explains how earth is a reflection of heaven, and run by universal heavenly laws- not laws of man. The more man interferes with the natural balance produced by the universal laws, the further away harmony retreats (The Tao of Pooh, Benjamin Hoff). The four principals of Taoism are simplicity, going with the flow, letting go and harmony.  Simplicity is ensuring a rudimentary lifestyle that emphasizes self sustainability and thus a good relationship with your environment. Going with the flow is accepting the things way are- accepting the way. It is living in harmony with the present and taking advantage of ones situation in the moment. Going with the flow is living in the present; "rather than...

Week 10 post 3

 I think it is really interesting that the Church was so reluctant to abandon the very  egocentric world view with the earth carrying the humans in the center of the universe.  I also love that I learned about deductive and inductive reasoning. I always knew that religion and science were similar in that they could not always define reality to its full extent (there is still room for error) although science is still more deductive than religion as it gives more logical explanation to natural phenomena.  What are more examples of scientific methodology and its religious parallels? Is that a sandwich?!  I have always been interested in the idea that if there was infinite knowledge, that would prove how little we know about reality in knowing that anything divided by infinity would be zero. But of course we can't prove infinity and we dont know if there is infinite knowledge!!!! also why does pee come out of the nipples?

Week 10 post 2

With 8 billion people on earth and an equal amount of vastly different perspectives of the world, there are equally as many different conclusions on the the essence of reality. But would it be accurate to conclude just one of those many different views is right? Clearly there is an essence of reality, but no one person could provide a perfect explanation of it.  Carrying off of week 6 is the idea of humility in that no one person is better for the reason that they have a better understanding of reality. The human mind is forever muddled with the obstructions of experiences and wonders and genetics that compose their definition of reality making it impossible to make 100% true deductions about our physical existence.  Collectively, world views of the universe are changing all of the time. Beginning with the arostotilian paradigm, it was widely accepted that   the earth was at the center of the universe and held in place by crystal disks. That was until Galileo and Copernic...

Week 9 post 3

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 Over the summer, I thoroughly enjoyed looking for examples of the fibbionacci sequence in nature, here are some more examples. Also, I am thinking about how in the bible God said "it is good" on the final day, I wonder if when that was written, the author was perhaps referring to beauty and good things in nature. People are attracted to beautiful things, people want love and peace. Similarly to botanical growth and efficiency, take a look at the shape of the water crystals after certain things are repeated to them (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-0PeUeYbqw) The positive words and sounds result in beautiful visuals while the negative sounds and words show asymmetrical almost disgruntled looking visuals. Also, I think positivity is definitely universal. Think about how dogs respond better to positive tones, and how plants grow better in more uplifting and light environments.