Another Interesting Night

I know I had a previous post about a friend who lost his marbles and how I felt obligated to help him, this is sort of the same concept.W ell actually not really. This situation involved another friend and I felt as though something put me in this spot because it could of had a different outcome had I not been there. I realized that it was free will that made me want to help my friend, but also my altruistic nature that made me care for my friend's well being. Now after a long talk to myself I though of God and his ability to be all knowing and all powerful. If it was my free will that made me help my friend I feel as though it determined the flow of the rest of the night. I don't know I'm still confused about it. Any thoughts?

So we talked about trying new things in class and also how when we experience something once it's not the same the tenth time around. I know that I feel like this when ever I help someone sometimes, sort of the opposite way though. I feel not that excited about helping someone, but eventually after the fifth time or so I have fun and I'm all for helping them. Now my question is that is that a part of human nature to be skeptical about helping people not until we know them personally, since were sociable creatures.

Monopoly

I was walking around campus as I usually do on a Thursday afternoon and I was thinking about determinism and how there are things that are determined for us. Since I have faith in a all powerful God I wonder if our life is like a game of monopoly and we all have a place to be or go. Yet, we have free to go where ever we want on the board. I know it doesn't make sense but I've sort of always though of God looking down on us on a big game board and seeing where we go.

Green Lantern

So I watched the movie Green Lantern last night and it was really a nice action packed movie. Well anyways, as I was watching the movie I realized the main character was really a selfish jerk. Once he got super powers he decided to help people because he had the power to do it. Yeah, So where am I going with this? I was thinking while I watched the movie would we as people be altruistic if we didn't have the power to do good things for other people. I know it's a weird connection but it's just a thought. What really makes us want to make other people's lives easier and do good things for them? I know we are sociable beings but why do we do it? Are we trying to gain acceptance?

Would we feel guilty for not helping, knowing that we possibly had the power to change something?

P.S. I realized that my last two post have been about movie and it's come to me recently that so many movies have a lot to do with some of the things we discuss in class.

Interesting Night

So last night I was faced with a problem concerning one of my friends. It was really an intense conversation. Hence the reason I didn't talk so much during class due to lack of sleep. As I was helping a friend find his lost marbles and guide him to a leveled ground I thought of how nice of a person I was to help him out. I thought I was pretty cool then I started to question my generosity. What was I gaining from this? Why do I feel obligated to help this person when it was their own fault they ended up like this?

I know I wasn't trying to gain anything from giving up my sleep time to make sure my friend was okay. I was just trying to help because that's what I do. I did realize when I decided to help my friend I was the only one out of a group of people who looked and laughed at my friend. I felt guilty because no one helped him so I decided to be the odd ball and help when others didn't.

I think I just realized why I try to do nice things for people. It's because they sometimes need someone to step outside of the crowd and offer a helping hand because no one does and sucks to be left alone. I sort of know the feeling.

Seven Pounds

So on Monday and Wednesday we talked about altruism and how people sometimes do it unknowingly and others do it because they feel obligated to. As classes ended for the day on Wednesday I watched a movie with a few friends. The movie was Seven Pounds starring Will Smith and I thought that this was a perfect thing to blog about because the purpose of the movie was him feeling guilty for something that he committed in the past and he felt that he should look for genuine people who deserved things that he could provide for them. I brought this up in class on Friday and learned that him feeling guilty and helping others because of that guilt doesn't make him selfish.

P.S. You guys should all see the movie it's really fantastic

The Grammy's

I know I'm a little late with this blog post but I felt as though I should do one just for the Grammy's. As I watched little clips of the award show online and got updates via Facebook and Twitter I thought to myself this is so stupid! Why would we as people spend millions of dollars to glorify an artist who no matter if they win an award or not will continue to make good music. The reality is that people love to swim in their own accomplishments and show everyone else that they are on top. My question is why are they so concerned with what others think of them and competing against each other? I wonder if any of those people are actually happy with being in the spotlight and having everyone's eyes on them instead of their own lives.

What came first?

So during class on Wednesday we talked about what came first the chicken or the egg. I did some research and found out that a scientist believes that the chicken came first because they have a particular protein that only a chicken can produce in the womb, without that protein it would be impossible for an egg to be produced without it. I found this article very interesting because it went along with our discussion about causalism. Seeing how we would try and trace back why we do things or our very existence is very complicated, and tricky. I thought that this was my favorite discussion in class yet because we all had a different idea of what came first.

Happiness

What is the point of looking for happiness when it's never going to be achievable?

So I asked this question on Friday during class and the response that I got was that I wasn't looking for the meaning of what it means to be happy. I was actually looking for the meaning of life. Surprisingly, while I was finishing up my Q&A I kept thinking of what it meant to be happy and I couldn't find an answer. So I brought it up in class and got a completely different question all together.

I think I can understand now why I wasn't asking the meaning of happiness but the meaning to life. I realized that no matter how you look at it, happiness has a plethora of meanings because you can literally do anything and be happy.

My friends and uno

On this cold Friday/Saturday early morning my friends decided to play a game of uno and I was thinking that this was going to be a normal game but it wasn't. It was full of tricks. I know I was probably over thinking a simple game of uno, but I started to think. What's the purpose of the game? It's to be the first one to lose all of their cards. I started to think of Aristotle's four questions and how the game was brought into existence. I know that I won't find why the game was brought into the world but I know that the purpose from my point of view, was to stimulate competition. Maybe that the purpose of all games is to stimulate competition? But now the question why does it matter who comes first and who's last? Maybe this simple game of uno is me over analyzing way too much but it's interesting.

The Cave

So yesterday we talk a lot about Plato and how we as humans are chained by our shadows. As we went over this I thought of sin and addiction and how people are chained to kept repeating the same sin or being an addict to something. I remember while I was at a christian retreat a year back we were told to break the chains of the devil. Now looking back at that moment Christianity and Plato have some similarities; such as breaking the chains holding you bound and walking out of the cave of darkness and finding the truth which can be God or the truth.

What are your thoughts?

Do you guys agree, disagree or have another point of view?

Forms

This past weekend/Monday after class I started to think about how I have always unintentionally made forms in my mind whenever I read books. I didn't realize it until now that I had a perfect idea what the book would look like in reality, but there was no such thing. Director's have a form of what the movie should look like based on the book or idea but it's never up to par with the form they created in their mind. It was as if someone else thought that their form of the book would be better than everyone else's that read the same book not to be mean but I think that's pretty selfish. Am I wrong? But then you realize that you can't satisfy everyone because it's just not possible.