Post by nickgutz on Mar 7, 2016 5:18:59 GMT
Nicholas Gutierrez
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.
Throughout my many spiritual explorations, in search of the meaning of life, in hopes of attaining a higher consciousness that parallels the Buddha, Mohammed, and Jesus. I have reached the conclusion that we are made of physical “stuff”. From the bones, to the flesh, to the very chemical reactions that allow our human mind to understand these very sentences. We are just stuff, limited to the physical realm, the only true realm. I have romanced the idea of a spiritual realm, a meta physical realm, a realm worth seeking after to add mystique beyond my human body. My very conclusion has taken my very meaning of life, in a spiritual sense. I was left empty handed but not empty headed, for my head is three pounds of meat with complex neuro connections that allows me to ponder such fantasies. I realized our imagination with the meta physical is just part of our current state of mind in this phase of human evolution, which I learned to accept as my reality of consciousness.
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.
When I was a child, my parents would use the scare tactic on me to do whatever they needed me to do. To get me to sleep or even do the chore, all they had to do was mention the boogieman. As I a child, I remembered how much fear I had from this creature that I have never seen. I would do whatever it took to avoid coming in contact with the boogieman, whether it was cleaning my room or falling asleep before 10 o’clock. I even had night lights to protect me from the darkness in which the boogieman might lurk. As I grew older and my fear died down, I soon realized that what I have feared a creature that did not exist. As a child I denied the opportunity to figure out if the boogieman was real or not. It was just an ignorance of my youth.
In middle school, I remember experiencing what most people call puppy love. As at 13-year-old kid, I thought I was going to marry my suppose girlfriend at the time. We had named our kids and pets we were going to have. I remember a conversation I had with an older family member telling me that there is more fish in the sea. At the time, I could not understand what he meant by that. All that I knew at the time was the fish I have caught in the little pond that is my middle school. He tried to explain to me how big the world is but I could not conjure something I have yet to experience. Years later after I have graduated from high school, I have learned that the world is a lot bigger than I thought. That is when I realized what he meant by there being a lot more fish in the sea.
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.
Throughout my many spiritual explorations, in search of the meaning of life, in hopes of attaining a higher consciousness that parallels the Buddha, Mohammed, and Jesus. I have reached the conclusion that we are made of physical “stuff”. From the bones, to the flesh, to the very chemical reactions that allow our human mind to understand these very sentences. We are just stuff, limited to the physical realm, the only true realm. I have romanced the idea of a spiritual realm, a meta physical realm, a realm worth seeking after to add mystique beyond my human body. My very conclusion has taken my very meaning of life, in a spiritual sense. I was left empty handed but not empty headed, for my head is three pounds of meat with complex neuro connections that allows me to ponder such fantasies. I realized our imagination with the meta physical is just part of our current state of mind in this phase of human evolution, which I learned to accept as my reality of consciousness.
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.
When I was a child, my parents would use the scare tactic on me to do whatever they needed me to do. To get me to sleep or even do the chore, all they had to do was mention the boogieman. As I a child, I remembered how much fear I had from this creature that I have never seen. I would do whatever it took to avoid coming in contact with the boogieman, whether it was cleaning my room or falling asleep before 10 o’clock. I even had night lights to protect me from the darkness in which the boogieman might lurk. As I grew older and my fear died down, I soon realized that what I have feared a creature that did not exist. As a child I denied the opportunity to figure out if the boogieman was real or not. It was just an ignorance of my youth.
In middle school, I remember experiencing what most people call puppy love. As at 13-year-old kid, I thought I was going to marry my suppose girlfriend at the time. We had named our kids and pets we were going to have. I remember a conversation I had with an older family member telling me that there is more fish in the sea. At the time, I could not understand what he meant by that. All that I knew at the time was the fish I have caught in the little pond that is my middle school. He tried to explain to me how big the world is but I could not conjure something I have yet to experience. Years later after I have graduated from high school, I have learned that the world is a lot bigger than I thought. That is when I realized what he meant by there being a lot more fish in the sea.