Thursday, April 14, 2011

Gandhi's philosophy of non-violence

I have always thought of Gandhi's story to be fascinating. Ever since the first time I ever heard about him or even learned. His story is so amazing and what he went through to help save his country was out of this world. The way he stuck up for non-violence was pretty heroic because now a days people would never think of doing the things Gandhi did. By him fasting and standing up for what he believed in, helped his country and his fellow followers to come to an agreement and get along unlike they were. It took a lot of courage to do what he did and even before he did the fasting, he was not very proud of his life and the way he was living it. He felt like a man who had a lust mindset and never knew how to get rid of it. When his father married him off to his future wife he didn't feel like it was the right thing to do because he was a young man and all he wanted was lust and he didn't like it.
To go through the things Gandhi had to go through would have been very challenging and no one in this day an age would even think about doing something like that. With the way our world and society is going Gandhi today would probably feel like his work meant nothing. Even though his story was famous and many believed to help out his nation, today many people don't even know who he is. I asked my cousin who is in high school if he knew who Gandhi was and what was his purpose and all my cousin told me was, "Was he that guy who was bald?" and I was dumbfounded by his answer because I learned about Gandhi in the fifth grade. I just find it hard to believe that a man with such impact has been forgotten.

Myth of Eternal Recurrence

While watching the film on Nietzche's gay science, it was very interesting to hear how they would put the myth of eternal recurrence. The example they gave was very interesting because I had never thought of something like to come to my mind. The idea of having that done to me would probably be very weird and I wouldn't want it. Nietzche's way of philosophy is very out of the ordinary because I would have never thought of a philosopher to see things the way he did. He was a homosexual who many disproved of simply because he was gay but many loved his way of looking at things and his philosophies. If he were to be living of this time I think he would be even more looked upon as great because of all the gay rights trying to be passed and more are trying to stand up for what they believe in.
I feel that Nietzche's way of looking at things or seeing things the way he did was amazing. I think it was bold to do what he did in sense to where here this man is a homosexual especially during the time he lived because I'm sure like today many disapprove of it and still do what he did is certainly astonishing. 

Flame on

I was so excited when I saw "Western education was formed by some philosophers who believed that homosexuality was a higher calling," on the website page. Even thought I'm not lesbian, I have bunch of friends are homosexual. The film illustrated there are so many famous and talent people from the Greek ancient time to now are homosexual. I know many religions, government, or people can't tolerate homosexuality. One of the reasons is they thought homosexuality will break down the reproduction. Another reason is they thought this is not follow God's rule. There are still many reasons, but in my opinion, it's not the excuse to give them the elbow. Being gay or lesbian doesn't mean they are wrong or bad person. For example, if we push M1 to love F1, but they don't love each other, what will happen? They won't get together in the end. It's the same idea about homosexuality. 
In addition, in my case, most of my gay friends are genius. I believe God loves everybody. All human beings are God's sons and daughters. God gives the talented gifts to my gay friends. To be honest, I really want to see people can live peacefully one day. I wish homosexuality would be treat totally fair one day. 

Why Turn Vegetarian?

After I watched the video, I was thinking if I'm "Wrong." I got sharked when I saw many disgusting pictures in the video. It talked about many reasons why people can't eat meat. One of the impressive reason is every package of chicken, there's a little poop. The first scene in my mind is lots of poop in my stomach. Second one is it's not fair to animals. Seriously, I used to concern about why people eat meat. I knew it's cruel but just for example, if we not kill a lion in Africa prairie, it must kill me. It's natural cycle. Third, they do not want to die and see their family be killed. I agree with animals have thought. They know what is going to happen, and they feel pain when they get hurt.
I'm not really sure if being a vegetarian is right or wrong because be or not to be will cause many problems. In my opinion, over or less is not good for the environment. The world needs balance.