Friday, March 1, 2013

Philosophy


Imagine a world, where Hitler didn't die and that he did succeed in taking over the world. To some people this image above is offensive to look at, to others it may bring a certain type of pain, and some people don't even care about this image.

What would the world look like if Hitler took over? 
would people even bother telling the Holocaust a different way other than the winner stand point?
Hitler would be the hero of all time
He would be all of history and it would be as if it is good
society would conform and there would be no other that go against Hitler because he is a hero

In Ishmael the protagonist of the story took a philosophy class and he wrote a story that Hitler took over the world and all was good. Some person in the story felt like he was being lied to and that is how he ended his paper. Was the paper he wrote too far fetched or is it something we as a society can relate to? In fact, did something like that, happen to us? Have we been lied to and made to think that this is the right way to live because this is the only way to live? I think that our Hitler took over our entire nations minds and created a monstrosity that we are okay with.

your cousin

Walking through the woods a person would expect to find picturesque trees, cute little bunny rabbits, some forest brush and scrub, and maybe even a cute little squirrel. what a person wouldn't expect to find however is a big screeching, hairy, non showering big foot. A clarification, BIG FOOT, commonly referred to as Sasquatch and closely related to the Yeti. Not an average Joe or Jane with big feet but a supposedly mythical creature. Some people believe he's real, some people even swear they have real footage of the stinky, hairy monster of a cousin. Others think that bigfoot is a fairy tale like santa clause or the tooth fairy. Whatever people believe they should take into consideration the history of this world. something grandparents might know...

or you know...the Hobbit!!!! LITTLE ITTY BITTY people :)

So in fact, the hobbit was a mythical creature until recently because of obtained knowledge. so if this is the case maybe it's applicable to big foot. maybe he's real we just do not have enough evidence to support it yet. or maybe the government has covered it up just to piss off the people that have spotted it.

either or, just because we dont have enough facts to support an idea doesnt mean its not real or possible. so go out there and find out and do the supposed "impossible"








Monday, February 4, 2013

Ishmael

So I am writing this blog for my Hnrs 192 class. I'm not exactly one hundred percent sure what my teacher wants out of this blog. I have never used a blog before and i am not tech savvy so this blog is not going to look pretty :/ This is worth a hundred points so I might as well do it and just jump into writing about this book we're required to read, called Ishmael. The idea behind this book (my interpretation) is that the author is trying to encourage people to "save the world." No, not put on blue spanks and a red cape on but be a better person type of save.

The core of this topic isn't saving the world but do people want to save the world do they care that they are sucked into a mediocre type of life style. that people are trapped in a cage that they don't even know about or seem to care. Am I the only one that doesn't like the life style that American's have? I love the country I live in, I love the freedom of religion, and speech and equality. However, something seems very wrong. Are we supposed to live this way? Were we meant to succeed far beyond any other culture?  In being so ahead we have seemed to crush every other type of lifestyle there is. What happened to the Indian gatherers, the nomadic people, the indigenous way of life? I'm not saying that I want to go back to that life style, or that it's the only way to live. I'm saying that we were not meant to be the rulers of the world and kill off everyone else. we killed the rain forests, and we killed off entire species. I'm not a hippie tree huger type of person but I do feel wrong.

The type of wrong like in wally. I could see us going that far. So filled up in our own mess and over taken the world that we have to move away, maybe not to space. I do see people killing off lots of other races for more space though. "Oh, Africa I am very sorry but we have to strip you of your beautiful territory so we can grow food there and put our trash there because everyone in America with there over abundance in excess Superbowl gear had no where else to put it so we are dumping our crap on you."  We then go on and keep with our mentality that everything on earth is ours to take. We can kill who we want, destroy whatever we need, and there is nothing wrong with that. 
We are trapped in our minds. We don't see that the way we are living is bad. We don't seem to care. Just as long as we pay the rent and reproduce, everything is okay.



If You Could Save The World, Would You?