jueves, 25 de febrero de 2010

shcool rules, idol of the cave


My cousin, who studies in a public school, came to visit me in the summer. We start to talk and ask each other about our schools; what are the good things, the bad things in high school etc.

I ask which are the rules where he studies, he tell me that they are very strict, he explain me some examples like he can´t use long hair, or piercings, he also tell me that they can´t wear the uniform in bad conditions…etc he just talk about the rules like for 15 minutes and when he finish I tell him that in my school I can use all that stuffs and they don’t care they don’t punish me, he was shocked, he can´t believe that, in that moment he ask my parents if that’s truth, they tell him that that was truth and even he don’t believe us.

In this example we can show the “idol of the cave” because he can´t understand how that can be possible, because he was too customary to the rules of his school.

miércoles, 24 de febrero de 2010

God inportance in the middle ages



God in the middle ages was very important because the people try learning from god and understanding god, to make gods idea conceivable in our mind. That people in middle ages use faith that works with dogmas it means that that people can´t explain gods existence (one of the principal problems in the middle ages) they can not probe with facts or anything, but they still believe in it, and not only believe, they learn from it.
We can see that god in that epoch was the superior and most important thing, it’s omnipresent. The church realizes a very important and influential roll in the society and in politics and they use gods image to influence and convince people. That’s way is so important to learn from god to understand, because humans and people on that epoch specifically try to understand the “best thing” to be like that to have it as a model to inspire them.

domingo, 7 de febrero de 2010

Religious fanatics

What makes people follow a 10 years old kid talking about god and creation?
This video shows us the kind of ignorance that we still have in our world.
This fanatic people around the world is intolerant about other believes, other possibilities, or ways to understand this very common question “where do we come from?” besides this people is stubborn, because although there are facts that shows us that we are a result of evolution, and important scientists like Christian Pander, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, and maybe the most important Charles Darwin that write a very important book that is the start of the theory of evolution, call “On the Origin of Species” that tell us in 1858, that the natural selection allows the origin of new species, they do not believe, even this kid is accusing scientists of being liars, and saying that they degreed god. This kid even maybe is not his fault is distorting the truth saying that we came from the monkey, but we are of the same specie of monkey, millions years ago we were specie of monkey, then we evolve.
But the most concerning thing is that adults is molding and overwhelming the kids mind with stupid and non truth things. Maybe he even don´t understand what is saying. This kid convinced of something that he don´t understand tell a memorized speech to more ignorant people that believe it without thinking two times and even pays to listen it.
I think that people like that never going to change, but we have to teach the new generation in the world about what we think is the truth.