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Tamar and Recognition
This week, I am going to breathe life into the myth of Judah and Tamar, as told in Genesis. Kant, in our other reading for this week, attempts to examine what the early chapters of the Genesis story have to … Continue reading →
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help please
what’s going on with this website? as you can see, i tried to post a video and you can only see it if you click directly on the blog post? why doesn’t it just show up? how come the formatting only applies to the blog post? any advice would be greatly appreciated. also watch the […]
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Rebellion in Monotony
It is interesting to me how society can be so repetitive when one of the things that society is best at is rebellion. It is almost as if we spend our lives trying to find loopholes and ways around rules that we don’t agree with or rules that we don’t like, yet, we all end up in the same place, more or less.
From the very beginning of Genesis, we have Eve disobeying God in the garden. Her disobedience is not met with death, but rather, it receives an invitation to go on living, albeit somewhere else. This point seems to resonate with even our society today: everyone makes mistakes and most of us just go on to live afterward. Even Moses stresses this point, as he includes a large number of genealogies throughout the entire book of Genesis. Even with Noah and the flood, some part of society is allowed to go on living, even though mistakes were made.
This continuation and repetition is more of the philosophical, circle of life type of point, but what is more intriguing to me is how our choices and rebellions contribute to change. For example, Eve’s decision in the garden resulted in clothing, among other things, which made for a slightly different way to continue living life. It seems to me that change is sprung though rebellion and disobedience, and the change builds up on a small-scale to create a large-scale different way of living that advances society over generations, without straying from the path of life.
Immanuel Kant brings up an interesting point at the start of his Conjectural Beginning of Human History that alludes to Plato’s Cave Allegory. In essence, Kant writes that the freedom to choose a way of living is not something that one can turn from, once it is discovered. Basically, we like to feel as though we are in control of our lives, even though nature dictates its length, which Kant further touches on. Kant notes later in the text that nature restricts the level of advancement that can be achieved through freedom of thought, in regards to science. In this sense, he acknowledges that humans are intelligent, and capable of creating change on a large scale, but we are restricted by death. In this way, nature allows only for change on a small scale, while forcing a repetitive rhythm of life: birth, education, contribution, death.
I am one that believes in change, whether it is genuine originality, or a remake of a previous idea. I do, however, appreciate that change most often comes in small increments, which, I suppose, indicates that I don’t mind the repetitiousness of life as I know it. Going back to last week, it is easy for me to imagine Sisyphus as happy, as perhaps he is content in knowing what comes next, and change may come in his lifetime-a change in weather patterns or, in his case, muscle mass, it doesn’t come fast enough to have a huge impact on his life. Change only comes fast enough to keep life interesting.
Hippocrates states: ars longa, vita brevis, meaning “Art is long, life is short”. I think that the same concept can be applied to change: Change is long, Life is short.
commute
i feel very weird when i am on the bus and reading about lot and his strange, frightening daughters.
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genesis
this guy’s amazing. ps. if you like his stuff he also removed all the sound from the first harry potter movie and then narrated it himself. you can watch it online. it’s called “wizard people, dear reader.”
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Origins
The beginning does not exist. At birth, drawn from an infinite void, we are thrown into existence, projected towards death as a possibility and an inevitability. But does this not presuppose a faith in origin? Does not the fact of birth make clear the act of origination, an act so seemingly concrete that no one would […]
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Bonjour to you all
Hey Everyone out in cyber world, This is my blog. This is the blog of Seamus Fera so get ready for a fun time. I will start out by saying that I am a complete NEWB when it comes to … Continue reading → Continue reading →
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Classes cancelled on Wed., Sept. 18
As you may be aware, undergraduate classes are cancelled on Sept. 18, to allow students and faculty to attend events related to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Canada. Here is a Q&A about the events and how you can … Continue reading →
