Connections- Criminal Minds

I was watching the Criminal Minds marathon this week. I noticed in most of the episodes the killer only did what he/she did was because society was mean to them, or they had a bad childhood. Not because of the show, but it does emphasize why I went to the “ I agree” side when we got asked if we think people are born good but society corrupts them. No one is just born to kill. Something has to scar them so bad that they feel the need to harm other people. In one of the episodes, a man wasn’t allowed to be with the girl he loved because he had a small mental problem and the public didn’t want them together. He ended up killing people and making a wind chime out of their ribs and sending it to his lover as a gift. Most of his actions were probably because he wasn’t mentally stable, but society just pushed him over the edge and not knowingly made him do what he did. People are born the same, but it’s the things that influence them and the people that they surround themselves with are what shape them. Some people are born with a mental disorder that might have them make bad decisions, but if they’re surrounded with love and positive influences then most likely they wont go and make harmful decisions.

Reflection

When we talked abut Jean Jacques’ Rousseau and his book about education, it got me thinking about what we need and don’t need in a school to have a better outcome. I know we listed some ideas in class, but here are a few more. I wish there was a way to make people read more. Reading is in everything and if you cant read well, the ACT is difficult. We should have a class that is required once a year to take that is strictly reading. We shouldn’t read boring biographies or trashy teen books. An up to date book that is a mystery or something interesting. To get everyone to read, the grade in the class would be mostly test grades and class work or projects. Sparknotes can only get you so far. I also think we need a grammar class. I’m so surprised that it hasn’t been added to the curriculum yet. Spelling and grammar are such a big part of our lives. When we write papers for professors in college, they’re going to expect us to know how to correctly use a comma. For seniors, I would have a class that teaches you the basics of living on your own. How to use a checkbook, save your money, and buy a car. A class on the How To’s of living on your own. A lot of kids (including me) have a hard time doing their own laundry. We could switch out a few electives and add in a few more that will benefit us.

Connection

Its October so all the Halloweentown movies are on! In the movies, people of our world go into another world called Halloweentown. Obviously this movie and Inception are two completely different types of movies, but they both have different “worlds” and needs way to get into and out of them. When the producer didn’t show how Cobb and Saito get out of Limbo, it reminded me of Halloweentown and how it doesn’t say how they get into the town you just assume its because of magic. This made me think about how Satio and Cobb got back from Limbo. In the movie Cobb said it was really hard to get out of limbo and I think that was somewhat of a lie. Cobb new that he would be the only one tempted to stay in limbo, because of Mal, if they all got killed, so he wanted to avoid going there. All Cobb and Mal did was get run over by a train to get out of Limbo, so it’s not that hard to get out. Cobb and Saito both new that they had to kill themselves to get out of limbo, so I think they killed each other with guns. That would kick them back through all the levels and have them awaken on the plane with everyone else.

Reflections-Hume

I really like Hume’s idea of the complex idea. It makes a lot of sense if you think about it. We have seen wings and a human figure but never together. Also how he talks about how we get our impressions and ideas from. Once we burn ourselves on a hot stove we get our “impression” and were not going to do that again. Hume talks about how reason isn’t enough to motivate human action unless you have passion and emotion too. This makes a ton of sense because most people do things well because they love it. I agree with Hume’s statement of we can’t prove the universe was actually created by God because we didn’t experience it with our senses. We just go by what was documented, which is enough evidence for me, and most other people too. We can’t say that there is another universe out there because that is beyond what we can experience by sensory perception. What he talks about makes sense. I like the fact that he emphasizes the importance of sympathy because it is an important factor in moral understanding and maybe help promote public good.

Sophie's World

No offence but this book is getting so creepy. How Alberto wants to meet Sophie all by herself in some run down church. This book was obviously written a long time ago because no one these days would ever think that’s okay. I’m also very inpatient and looked up how it ended. I think I liked your coma idea better. It makes more sense. I really like though how the book is written for all ages. Philosophy can be a hard subject to grasp but reading this book has made it a lot easier. Alberto relates the philosopher’s views to something that Sophie, a 13-year-old girl, can understand. The two cultures chapter has been my favorite I think. I enjoyed reading about Paul because I know he played a big role in Christianity and this book really explained it well. I knew who Paul was but now I can actually understand everything that he did. I never thought philosophy played a big role in human knowledge. I know realize that without philosophers, we would never expand further into our knowledge. It makes us think beyond science to give us a different perspective. In a way without philosophy, there would be no human being because philosophy is our guide to further evolving. It makes us think which is never a bad thing! 

Evil

I had my iPod on shuffle and song by Bad Meets Evil came on and it reminded me of the talk we had about can someone really be evil? Evil is such a bad term to use. That would never be the first adjective that pops into my head to describe something. When I hear the word evil I just think about superhero movies. I don’t really believe that there are necessarily evil things in our world. I think just “bad” things happen that comes with the freedom and gift of life. Just like we talked about in class, there has been evil people like Hitler, but I don’t think evil is something all around us. Evil is mostly found in people that abuse power. I looked up to see if there were an  “evil” Americans and number 8 was Ayn Rand! Wasn’t that one of our philosopher choices?  Almost everyone on the list was in some type of politics. Also one of the questions was if there is an evil then is there a hell? I don’t believe that hell is an actual place with fire and demons. Heaven is an actual place, but I think “to go to hell” is just saying your soul won’t be brought to God. Overall, the whole evil thing will go both ways depending on what your view on right vs wrong its.