"Different cultures have different moral codes," can be seen as a universal truth. Morality can be based on cultural values which differ from culture to culture which leads me and others to believe that we cannot be inferior to anyone else. We all are different and we all believe different things.
Maybe in the culture of Vladimir and Estragon, waiting for Godot, in Waiting for Godot, is what they would approve. It may be from an existentialist's point of view, however that could be their society. We find it so hard to grasp these values because it is different and absurd from our own. It is okay to be different, that our society needs to understand.
Our society believes we are superior to other cultures, we have advanced. However this article explains that it is merely doubt. We cannot say something is progress if it is from the societal standards of that time. Cultural relativism would say that it is based on their society of what kind of advancements that the society is in at that time. We can not compare our advancements to the time in Things Fall Apart because it is a different time period. It would also say that the white people could not look at the villages and think they were above them, because it was a different culture, a different society. However they did. There would be more understanding if they used cultural relativism in their thinking.
In my sophomore year of high school I had my eyes opened to a different understanding. My chemistry teacher told me, while I was venting to him about some drama, that you can not justify someone else's actions with your morals and values. To me, this is relative to cultural relativism; different culture different morals. Everyone comes from a different past, a different background, a different lifestyle. Because of this lesson my chemistry teacher taught me I understand others better, and do not feel the need to push my values on to others. I do not ask the question of why or how so much anymore. Every culture is different and within every culture there are different people.
Sunday, November 30, 2014
Saturday, November 1, 2014
Fate vs Religion
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Fate and religion are coincided within my head. For me, I feel it is to make a decision on if fate exists and how it works. This is what I came up with:
There are paths that can be chosen, that can have different outcomes, however the path you choose the path you were ultimately supposed to choose. This could be considered fate. This also could be considered as God's plan. He has a predetermined path for us to take, or paths. And with free well we are able to choose what plan to take. I believe though that we are supposed to choose a certain path, one that could also be considered our instincts.
In Things Fall apart, Okonkwo is trying to determine his own fate by steering clear on his fathers. He wishes not to follow in his fathers footsteps. I have not finished the end of the novel yet, however because he is trying to control all directions of a path he has chosen, I feel in the end he will have received the fate of what was the result of the path chosen. Each path has many paths within it. It gets very complicated, but you only have one chance unlike Lola who asked for do-overs.
In the German film, Lola has three different paths set out for her. I feel the path that was supposed to happen would have been the one she chose in the present time, whichever one that was. You do not get to re-do anything, so the one that is chosen, is the one that was set out for you.
Odeipus had paths to take, he had options that he could've chosen. However he ended up to be where he was at the end, dead, because that was his fate. He could've changed his fate, but because he chose the path he did led him to his predetermined plan. The difference with our society and Odeipus is that he knew his fate before hand, so he was trying to steer away from it. We do not know our fates, so in that sense it seems that we have control but do we really? How could we know. And this is where I feel religion comes in.
Religion is a hard, complicated subject because you are told to believe something that often brain washes you, but every time I actually sit back to think about my religion I second guess myself. I need to come to a conclusion myself, not have a government force ideas into my face. Fate I feel, that faith is need and very similar. Both are intangible, and are our own opinion. But it is had for me, because I feel for myself to make decision, I need to truly evaluate how I fit in the jigsaw of Catholics.
Fate and religion are coincided within my head. For me, I feel it is to make a decision on if fate exists and how it works. This is what I came up with:
There are paths that can be chosen, that can have different outcomes, however the path you choose the path you were ultimately supposed to choose. This could be considered fate. This also could be considered as God's plan. He has a predetermined path for us to take, or paths. And with free well we are able to choose what plan to take. I believe though that we are supposed to choose a certain path, one that could also be considered our instincts.
In Things Fall apart, Okonkwo is trying to determine his own fate by steering clear on his fathers. He wishes not to follow in his fathers footsteps. I have not finished the end of the novel yet, however because he is trying to control all directions of a path he has chosen, I feel in the end he will have received the fate of what was the result of the path chosen. Each path has many paths within it. It gets very complicated, but you only have one chance unlike Lola who asked for do-overs.
In the German film, Lola has three different paths set out for her. I feel the path that was supposed to happen would have been the one she chose in the present time, whichever one that was. You do not get to re-do anything, so the one that is chosen, is the one that was set out for you.
Odeipus had paths to take, he had options that he could've chosen. However he ended up to be where he was at the end, dead, because that was his fate. He could've changed his fate, but because he chose the path he did led him to his predetermined plan. The difference with our society and Odeipus is that he knew his fate before hand, so he was trying to steer away from it. We do not know our fates, so in that sense it seems that we have control but do we really? How could we know. And this is where I feel religion comes in.
Religion is a hard, complicated subject because you are told to believe something that often brain washes you, but every time I actually sit back to think about my religion I second guess myself. I need to come to a conclusion myself, not have a government force ideas into my face. Fate I feel, that faith is need and very similar. Both are intangible, and are our own opinion. But it is had for me, because I feel for myself to make decision, I need to truly evaluate how I fit in the jigsaw of Catholics.
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