Post by Jordin Hackerd on Mar 7, 2016 2:03:33 GMT
1. How would you feel if you realized that you were just “stuff”, just this body, and that there was nothing “meta” physical about you? Be sure to use your “I” voice and present your reaction in an autobiographical framework. Also make pertinent references (when possible) to the film on mysterium tremendum.
Honestly, if I had come to the realization that I was not human I was just “stuff,” makes me confused and wonder what stuff am I. If there was nothing “meta” physical about me then the mystery behind me would be to find out what kind of stuff am I really. In the film it talks about Heisenbergsche Principle of Uncertainty. Uncertainty would definitely describe me because I am stuff but unknown stuff and there has to be a logical explanation to what stuff I am. It was also said that, the more certain or real mystical encounter seems the less likely that one is to believe that such is the product of subject transference. So coming to the conclusion, if I was more certain as to what I actually was the mystery behind me would not be as confusing and weird then just knowing I was stuff.
2. Using your own life as a template, provide two or more examples of Plato’s Allegory of the cave. Hint: think of those times in your life when you mistakenly believed something to be true or real but you later realized wasn’t. Be sure to think within the context of the movie.
All of my life I remember being scared of the dark as a child thinking that the boogieman was under my bed and he was truly there. Come to find out, that the boogieman was just a scary bedtime story and was not real but, as a child your mind wanders and makes you believe that these stores are real. Also, I can remember a time when I thought there was spirits or apparitions in my house because of a figure I would see at night in the reflection of the mirror in my bathroom. I could have sworn I would see something but I had come to the realization one day that it was the reflection of the chandelier we had hanging down that gave off a figure shape. Plato’s allegory there is a story of prisoners that were locked up in a cave all of their lives since birth and they would see shadows. However, it tired out to be illusions in their mind and that was exactly what I did to myself with the mirror.
Honestly, if I had come to the realization that I was not human I was just “stuff,” makes me confused and wonder what stuff am I. If there was nothing “meta” physical about me then the mystery behind me would be to find out what kind of stuff am I really. In the film it talks about Heisenbergsche Principle of Uncertainty. Uncertainty would definitely describe me because I am stuff but unknown stuff and there has to be a logical explanation to what stuff I am. It was also said that, the more certain or real mystical encounter seems the less likely that one is to believe that such is the product of subject transference. So coming to the conclusion, if I was more certain as to what I actually was the mystery behind me would not be as confusing and weird then just knowing I was stuff.
2. Using your own life as a template, provide two or more examples of Plato’s Allegory of the cave. Hint: think of those times in your life when you mistakenly believed something to be true or real but you later realized wasn’t. Be sure to think within the context of the movie.
All of my life I remember being scared of the dark as a child thinking that the boogieman was under my bed and he was truly there. Come to find out, that the boogieman was just a scary bedtime story and was not real but, as a child your mind wanders and makes you believe that these stores are real. Also, I can remember a time when I thought there was spirits or apparitions in my house because of a figure I would see at night in the reflection of the mirror in my bathroom. I could have sworn I would see something but I had come to the realization one day that it was the reflection of the chandelier we had hanging down that gave off a figure shape. Plato’s allegory there is a story of prisoners that were locked up in a cave all of their lives since birth and they would see shadows. However, it tired out to be illusions in their mind and that was exactly what I did to myself with the mirror.