I find it interesting to think that the world could have possibly been ordered by God as it is depicted in the readings from "Primal Myths". I have heard my own stories and my own versions of the creation story and I have even compared the two different readings from Genesis in a previous class as the reading also does. However, I find it crazy to think of all of the different stories of creation and that only one can be the true story of why we are here and better yet, how.
I never really pictured that the element of chaos could play such a role in life until entering this course and the more that I read about it, the more and more I am becoming slightly astounded by it. My idea of chaos is nothing more then a crazy situation with a great deal of confusion or an outbreak in public of some sort. However, after the reading on pages 169-171, I am beginning to realize that chaos is so much more then that. Chaos in a sense played a large role in the initial creation of the world but yet to me, chaos is what will tear the world apart....
I think that the Mayans knew what they were talking about when they said that the world is coming to an end. This is not because we are dead and gone, but because I look at the way the world lives now and the way we view right and wrong and the consistent tragedies that sweep over our nation and I realize that the world is slowly collapsing on itself and sadly all there is to do is watch. Chaos is what brought this world together and I think chaos is going to be what takes us out.
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Its interesting to think about the control that society puts over the youth of our nation. To think that we can be so easily influenced over the smallest bit of peer pressure. To think of the urge we have to do something just because our society forces it into our mind as cool. It's just shocking to me at this point in my life as I continue to grow in my own maturity level.
Our society relies so much off of smartphones and computers and higher technology that we lose our roots and sight of what really matters in life. Its not even the fact that we forget all about our education or paying attention in class. Its that people put their smart phones and their social life ahead of them. An english class can be learning about a new topic in class but yet only a small portion of the class will keep their head into the lesson while others are playing "Words with Friends" on their smart phones. In a way this is funny because we are avoiding knowledge and using knowledge in the mean time. It just goes to show that society has a different ranking system and a completely different set of preferences. It shows that we have the talent and the drive to gain and to even use knowledge that we obtain but for some reason, we choose to focus on what our age group sets as a high standard. Which in our case is high technology.
Albert Einstein always feared the day that technology would take over our society and the important aspects of being social would be gone. It would kill him to see the way we live nowadays. You cannot be anywhere in public and not look around without seeing a smartphone, a macbook, or anything of that sort in use. Goes to show that we live in a world where common conversation is a thing of the past and that the best way to communicate is to talk over text or on twitter. Will things ever begin to look up for our society?
Our society relies so much off of smartphones and computers and higher technology that we lose our roots and sight of what really matters in life. Its not even the fact that we forget all about our education or paying attention in class. Its that people put their smart phones and their social life ahead of them. An english class can be learning about a new topic in class but yet only a small portion of the class will keep their head into the lesson while others are playing "Words with Friends" on their smart phones. In a way this is funny because we are avoiding knowledge and using knowledge in the mean time. It just goes to show that society has a different ranking system and a completely different set of preferences. It shows that we have the talent and the drive to gain and to even use knowledge that we obtain but for some reason, we choose to focus on what our age group sets as a high standard. Which in our case is high technology.
Albert Einstein always feared the day that technology would take over our society and the important aspects of being social would be gone. It would kill him to see the way we live nowadays. You cannot be anywhere in public and not look around without seeing a smartphone, a macbook, or anything of that sort in use. Goes to show that we live in a world where common conversation is a thing of the past and that the best way to communicate is to talk over text or on twitter. Will things ever begin to look up for our society?
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