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.

Ｗhy I don't Eat Faces

In continuing my response to the podcast about vegetarianism there is more I'd like to discuss. As I stated in the previous post about this we eat things that we feel aren't like pets such as we wouldn't eat a dog because he's a part of our family and we sure wouldn't eat other humans simply because we don't see each other in that way. For example, you wouldn't go over your cousins house and say man uncle tony looks mighty tasty to eat right now. You wouldn't find it very appetizing to do that because as humans we know pain so we don't want to inflict each other with it. We eat animals that we feel don't feel pain and we love the taste of it. What most people don't realize is cows, chickens, ducks,etc, can be a pet to a child that grew up on a farm and they become vegetarians because they have pets like cows and other types of animals everyone else eats.

Consciousness (2)

John Searle theory on consciousness is very interesting. His way of explaining consciousness is very different he believes that consciousness is a biological phenomenon. He says we think of consciousness as an ordinary biological history and should not be confused with self-consciousness. These are two different things according to searle, consciousness is biological while self-consciousness is about our minds and connecting to different things in life. Self-consciousness has to do with what we know as right and wrong, while consciousness is being aware of things around you. I don't agree so much with Searle and his theories about it but at some points in his lecture it makes sense to believe his theory as well. I do believe that self-consciousness is different then just regular consciousness because one of them helps us deal with life and all of the challenges thrown at us and the other makes us aware of our surroundings that involve life.

Go the Vegetarian

When listening to the podcast on vegetarianism it makes sense to become a vegetarian and why people are. It was very interesting to hear the reasons why we shouldn't eat animals but instead eat plant like organisms. The way you described it made a lot of sense and the explanation was I felt good. The way we classify animals and what we eat are interesting. We wouldn't eat a dog or cat because one it's out of the social norm and two because we think it has feelings and a consciousness but then what about cows and fish? We eat those like junk food but we don't think of them like we do a dog or cat because dogs and cats are pets and a part of your family. When we eat a cow we don't of them like we do our pets. We see a huge steak in front of us and we eat it not thinking about it was once a cow and to some had feelings and a conscious but we don't think of them that way.

I can see how people are vegetarians when you look at it in this aspect because it even made me think of becoming one. I am a meat eater to the max I love steak and red meat and chicken and all of those but when you put it the way you did in the podcast I could see how people are against eating animals and if I wasn't such a huge meat eater I probably would be a vegetarian myself but to me it's like a an addicting taste that I can never get enough of.