Knowledge. Truth. Beliefs. All connected but never can be fully understood. How can a mere human give their opinon on truth if they only know a fraction of what is true? We question our beliefs all the time because we can't be 100% sure of something that we believe. The reason for this is because some truths can't be proven... and thats where the chaos begins.
You believe what you have been taught to be true. Many seek truth through knowledge because essentially knowledge is the search for truth. You can say what you believe to be truth and it not be true, but that doesn't mean you are lying. Lying is when you say the opposite of what you believe to be true. And through the search for truth we may come upon some lies that we believe. Yet knowing the truth is powerful, but if no one believes you how much power does it accually retain?
Plato's vindiagram can never be filled in correctly by anyone who doesn't know everything that is true, because in order to place the beliefs in the correct circles you have to know every truth and everything that is not true. But in general it does make sense; somethings that you believe aren't true, somethings that you believe are true, you just don't know for sure, there are somethings you know for sure, and then still there are things you don't believe that are true.
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Scooters(3)
Posted by Morgan at 8:19 AM 1 comments
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Thursday, January 31, 2008
A valid verdict of the victorious, vivacious, virtuous V (2)
Imagine a country where the government controls all by use of force and excessive security systems. No one wants to stand against the government for fear of death, except one masked man who does not fear death and is only known as “V.” This charismatic man is a voice for the souls who have lost their lives during Chancellor Adam Sutler’s reign of terror. He has the answer to this belligerent government and it seems there is no way to stop him from broadcasting himself all over the country.
Passion flows from every word spoken on TVs through out London. Citizens become intrigued by this unfamiliar face, as they are use to seeing the faces of the controlling media’s stars. He bluntly evaluates them by telling them they are responsible for the way things have come to be in their country and that it is their place to help stop it.
V shows these people that he has not intended to harm them by making himself appear more like them. He forms trust and credibility to get people to listen to what he has to say. Why would anyone take a man in a silly looking mask seriously if in fact he wasn’t just like them?
He knows that the government wants its citizens to believe that everything is just fine with their country, but he also knows that deep down they all know that he is right and that there is something wrong with the bigger picture. V intends to bring truth back to a country where weapons over rule the truth. “Words will always retain their power. Words offer meaning and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth.”
Injustice, cruelty, oppression are all words that strike fear into people. V chooses his words very wisely to bring out the specific emotion need to get his point across .
He doesn’t place all of the blame on them for the mere fact that their thinking was corrupted by war, terror, and disease. It was the government who used this to their unjust advantage. So V lets them all boldly know that he was the one who destroyed the Old Bailey, and that by destroying it he was making a statement. His statement was that London has forgotten what liberty and justice were
In the end he lets the citizens know how they can fight back, in a very simple way. All they have to do is meet him, a year from the time of his speech, to show their opposition of the government. V greatly inspires them with his words and he is very successful in that the turn out of people at parliament on the fifth of November was almost all of London.
Posted by Morgan at 7:13 PM 1 comments
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Thursday, January 17, 2008
In a nutshell...(1)
I have the best friends in the world. They keep my life interesting, with out them I would be so different. I don’t really enjoy shopping unless I am with my friends just having fun. Also they are the only ones I sing with because they understand just how tone deaf I am. They laugh at me because I like things a certain way, OCD they say. Some people think that I am shy but the thing is I only talk when I have something to say.
My job…well it varies, over the summer I am a lifeguard at Pelican Point, during the school year I babysit at least 3 days a week. I don’t really care much about money, it is a necessity but it’s not something that I look at as a value.
I am so excited about the future because I have plenty of things that I want to… no, that I am going to do. I want to travel the world, yea yea everyone says that but I am really going to. I don’t know what I want to do, job wise, but I’m not worried about it because I know I’ll figure it out soon. I like Math, photography, art, and traveling if I could find a job that lets me do all of the above that would be my dream job. I also want to be a missionary. I don’t think that I will just have one job my whole life, there are so many things I could do why not do as many as I can.
Posted by Morgan at 12:16 PM 3 comments
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