Maggie Nice post!
I can clearly see that you have alot to say. When I was reading your post, I can definitly see that we have alot of stuff to say in common. Some of the things we have in common is the subject of how people let other people determine their live rather than themselves making that decision themselves. One quote that you said in your response made a think extra hard. When you you said "Banach thinks that the outside influences act like expectations that we have to live up to but we always have a choice to live up to these expectations or not.". It was so good I had to re-read it about 3 times. I understand what you mean you say that. Banach does think the people around us are influences against what we want. I like the fact that you brung that point up. It show's that you know exactly what he his trying to tell his readers.
You really know how to express your thoughts into writing. You are good at showing your emotions and how what you are saying is right in a way. I like how you bring up specific quote's that Banach says and analyze it. You know how to explain a quote really good and you have good opinions and thoughts about it.
For your future post I suggest that you try and create some of your own question's that you have about his writing if you haven't done so because it can help you. question's can give your reader a better understanding on what you are thinking and what argument you are trying to persuade.
Overall it was a nice post. Nice job!
Monday, September 28, 2009
post for sam
Sam I don't Know what it is about your post but I am always commenting on it. I think it is becaue the way you think about things or because you have alot of interesting points and questiongs but I like it alot.
Great recent post!! I like how you mentioned a specific question that made me think alot. it was "If being real is what freedom consists of, according to definition, then wouldn’t you say we’re all fake?" That question made me think alot. I felt "Since we are being something that other people want us to be, ARE WE BEING FAKE?" I thought about it and I felt that we actually are being a alittle fake. If we want to be something and instead we are being something that other people want us to be then we aren't being want we want to be, intead we are letting people decide our lives.
I like the fact that you bring up good point't on how you feel about the whole way of people not creating their own lives and how they let other people decidev that for them. I agree with you on that one. People need to realize that you are the only person that is living your life, which means YOU are the only one that should be making the choice of what you want to do. Like you said "We are molded by the people around us", there isn't other way to put it. You said it in those 8 words. I quoted this because this one of many things that you said that really hit me and that me stop reading and say wow.
For your next post, I suggest that you answer more of your questions. I say this in a good way not a bad way(so don't get offended lol). I want you to answer your own questions more becasue you always have omething thoughtful and strong to say about things like this. I feel if you answer more of these outstanding questions you have, it can give the reader a better understanding then they already do on what you are trying to portray.
But other than that you post was unbelievable and I look foward into reading more of your post! You constantly keep me thinking and that is what I love about your posts! keep it up because you are doing great and your writing is phenominal!
GREAT JOB!!!!!!!! =]
Great recent post!! I like how you mentioned a specific question that made me think alot. it was "If being real is what freedom consists of, according to definition, then wouldn’t you say we’re all fake?" That question made me think alot. I felt "Since we are being something that other people want us to be, ARE WE BEING FAKE?" I thought about it and I felt that we actually are being a alittle fake. If we want to be something and instead we are being something that other people want us to be then we aren't being want we want to be, intead we are letting people decide our lives.
I like the fact that you bring up good point't on how you feel about the whole way of people not creating their own lives and how they let other people decidev that for them. I agree with you on that one. People need to realize that you are the only person that is living your life, which means YOU are the only one that should be making the choice of what you want to do. Like you said "We are molded by the people around us", there isn't other way to put it. You said it in those 8 words. I quoted this because this one of many things that you said that really hit me and that me stop reading and say wow.
For your next post, I suggest that you answer more of your questions. I say this in a good way not a bad way(so don't get offended lol). I want you to answer your own questions more becasue you always have omething thoughtful and strong to say about things like this. I feel if you answer more of these outstanding questions you have, it can give the reader a better understanding then they already do on what you are trying to portray.
But other than that you post was unbelievable and I look foward into reading more of your post! You constantly keep me thinking and that is what I love about your posts! keep it up because you are doing great and your writing is phenominal!
GREAT JOB!!!!!!!! =]
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Response to Banach lecture part 2
Do I really feel alone in this world? I feel I cant talk to nobody about what is on my mind. I can't even understand my on thoughts really so how alone really? I don't understand my emotion's, pains, or feelings, so where does that leave me in this world. I understand Banach's point of each of us having own "island of subjectivity". Its like we have some kind of secret island that we are only able to find the coordinates on the map. No one knows how to get there except us.
Banach suggests this, and I agree with him.
People in the world around us can "do what they want to my body, manipulate the objects or pictures on me on my mental TV screen, but they can never touch or control the real me". Its absolutely, 100%, impossible for someone to literally go inside you and feel your pain read your feelings. The most they can possibly do to you is destroying the personal belongings around you. And when he said that, it convinced me in a way where I can't communicate with nobody at all.
When people ay they can't do this or they can't do that it really fusturates me sometimes. I think for people to say they can't do this or that, it jut shows that they arent pushing theirselves to their farthest limit. "No matter how I try to avoid it, I am free to do whatever I choose." People don't seem to realize that if you want to actually do something and you put your mind to it, then you can do it. It's just that simple. People try to be something their not, and that be some of the reasons they don't think they can becertain things. Its your mind that keeps doubting your ability not people around you. We, and I speak for everybody including me, try's to do things that other people think is right instead of following their own dreams. we have to make the "Source of our nature and values our own internal decisions rather than the picctures of ourselves that appear in minds from external sources." We can't let these outside feelings get in our head and take over what we really want to go after and become.
Even though I agree with him deeply, I also have to disagree with him in some ways. In certain situations, people do go through the same situation. Like if I was to have a family problem like my mother being beating by her husand. If someone was to have the same family problem as me, they could undertand how i'm feeling about it and how it affects. I'm not saying that that person will understand 100%, but they will have some kind of idea on what I am going through. So in some cases people have other people to talk to in the world when they need it, thats why we aren't 100% alone in this world. But what if it was a ibling that had the ame experience as you? Are you and that sibling abl to know where eachother is coming from?
People do have freedom. People can do what they want. If someone wanted to rob a bank or kill someobody, they will do it. Even though it is against the law to do these actions, it's not going to stop people's action's. They can get penalized for it but at the end of the day, THEY DID WHAT THEY WANTED. Thats why people make decisions how ever they want and when they want. law's only can control them, but since it's an internal thing, there is but so much you can do to that persons mind.
But the question is, can we ESCAPE our freedom? I think not. How can you escape your freedom? How can you esccape what you are intitled too? How can you escape the fact that you can make your own decisions? "In choosing to identify ourselves with some externally determined object we are choosing none the less". Anything you do in life is made by a decision. It's that simple.
Period.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Comment on Jenise's Response
Jenise nice first response! I definitly like how you start off your response with providing the reader with an example of you and your friends having a argument about something ang how you were the only person who understood what you was saying. It was an excellent way to connects to Banach lecture and to start your reasoning. When you mentioned the quote where Banach said "When you think of it, each of us is alone in the world. Only we feel our pains, our pleasures, our hopes, and our fears immediately, subjectively, from the inside," I toatally agreed on what you were trying to say. Since we are the only people that can feel our pain or emotions and have our own experiences even if they are similar to others, it is sometimes to hard and complicated to understand and tryto explain to others. So that was a great point that you brung up because that was one of the keys of the lecture.
I like the way you portray your ideas and reasoning in this response because you have a tone where you are trying to ask a question about what he is trying to say and at the same time giving the reader a better way of thinking on the way Banach is trying to "sell" his point. I can tell you understand what he is saying, it seems to me like you are taking his side on us being alone in this world and then again you are disagreeing with him. So in a way your in the middle of it. You agree and disagree.
Overall, this response on the first part of his lecture, was thorough, detailed, and well explained and I clearly thought you got your point across on each side, agreeing with him and disagreeing with him.
Well done Jenise! Ihope to read more on what you have to say on this topic!
I like the way you portray your ideas and reasoning in this response because you have a tone where you are trying to ask a question about what he is trying to say and at the same time giving the reader a better way of thinking on the way Banach is trying to "sell" his point. I can tell you understand what he is saying, it seems to me like you are taking his side on us being alone in this world and then again you are disagreeing with him. So in a way your in the middle of it. You agree and disagree.
Overall, this response on the first part of his lecture, was thorough, detailed, and well explained and I clearly thought you got your point across on each side, agreeing with him and disagreeing with him.
Well done Jenise! Ihope to read more on what you have to say on this topic!
Comment on Sam R. response
I like your response very much ! I think it has alot of detailed opinions and evidence in it, and it shows that you put alot of effort into what exactly the point you wanted to get across.When you stated "So basically only we know ourselves. If someone’s feeling a certain way, the closest we can get to understanding them is by having a similar experience. Otherwise if they tried to explain to us how they feel, we won’t have any idea relative to how they’re feeling." I felt that we were exactll onthe same page. I undertand and very much agree with you when you staed this because we as individuals, are the only people who can know exactly how ourselves feel. Only the people around can see how we are feeling by sharing the same experience as us and only having an idea of what we are feeling. So that was an excellent point that you stated.
Throughout this spectacular response, your tone that you say your detailed reasoning is more of a "I can relate exactly what he is tryning to say" type of way. In some parts it feel's like you are in fact Hannack and you are exaplaining to the reader on why ourselves are the only people that can know 100% how we feel and no one one the outside world can't.
I enjoyed your response on Hannack lecture and I definitly look foward into reading more of your responses on his lectures!
Throughout this spectacular response, your tone that you say your detailed reasoning is more of a "I can relate exactly what he is tryning to say" type of way. In some parts it feel's like you are in fact Hannack and you are exaplaining to the reader on why ourselves are the only people that can know 100% how we feel and no one one the outside world can't.
I enjoyed your response on Hannack lecture and I definitly look foward into reading more of your responses on his lectures!
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
BANACH HW #1 9/16
Individuality is when there is something about you that separates you from another human being. I feel that each person that lives on this earth has something that is different about them that makes them stand out from other people around them or even other people in the world. Especially if it is something that happened in there life personally that you can't see on their exterior body.
When Banach says "absolute individuals" he means that people are 100% independent. I totally agree on what he is trying to say. I feel that each person that lives on planet earth is fully independent because of the fact that everybody goes through different experiences. Even if they are similar, every body's situation is handled differently, therefore, you can't ever determine how someone is feeling. I also agree when he says that each person is an absolute individual because the only real thing you can get from a human being is their exterior. That's the only thing that you can judge. I say that because you can never know how someone can feel unless they tell you or your god. And when Banach follows up and says "Each of us is trapped within our own mind, unable to feel anything but our own feelings and experiences" that right there sums up what I am trying to say. So when he says that each person is an absolute individual, i agree because people don't know how someone feels since that is an internal issue that they face.
" What can the absolute freedom of absolute individuals mean" says Banach
Hmmmmmmm.....
I feel it means that humans live there own life, they have their own experiences, and they can judge anybody they want. To have their Absolute freedom, it's having the right to choose what you want to do or having the choice to say or do what you want. like specifically speaking,
you can have the choice of sharing out your judgments on somebody or having the choice to keep it to your self. When you as a person that can be judged only on the outside, you have the freedom to do as you please. (except to violently hurt somebody of course or do something to break the law unless you really don't care about consequences)
When Banach says "absolute individuals" he means that people are 100% independent. I totally agree on what he is trying to say. I feel that each person that lives on planet earth is fully independent because of the fact that everybody goes through different experiences. Even if they are similar, every body's situation is handled differently, therefore, you can't ever determine how someone is feeling. I also agree when he says that each person is an absolute individual because the only real thing you can get from a human being is their exterior. That's the only thing that you can judge. I say that because you can never know how someone can feel unless they tell you or your god. And when Banach follows up and says "Each of us is trapped within our own mind, unable to feel anything but our own feelings and experiences" that right there sums up what I am trying to say. So when he says that each person is an absolute individual, i agree because people don't know how someone feels since that is an internal issue that they face.
" What can the absolute freedom of absolute individuals mean" says Banach
Hmmmmmmm.....
I feel it means that humans live there own life, they have their own experiences, and they can judge anybody they want. To have their Absolute freedom, it's having the right to choose what you want to do or having the choice to say or do what you want. like specifically speaking,
you can have the choice of sharing out your judgments on somebody or having the choice to keep it to your self. When you as a person that can be judged only on the outside, you have the freedom to do as you please. (except to violently hurt somebody of course or do something to break the law unless you really don't care about consequences)
I wouldn't say that he is right about us as individuals being alone in this world, but I would say that I agree with him when he says that people don't know how other people are feeling internally. I agree with this part of his statement because if you think of it like someone being sad. How would you know that this person is sad if they don't express it on their external body? how would you know the experiences that they had can ever be similar to anybody else's? How do you you know how they are feeling about someone or something if they don't mention it? These are reason's why I can believe his theory about individuals being "alone" in this world. But if he was right about us being alone in this world, that we won't be able to perceive the world around us, and that we weren't able to connect to people, it would most definitely concern me. If we couldn't connect with anybody, how would we be able to express our feelings when we need somebody to talk to? How would we be able to see the world around us? most importantly, How would we live LIFE? To me, if I didn't have those things in my life I would most likely feel like I am a individual that can only talk to his self. It would feel more like a deaf and blindness put together. we would not exist to no one.
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