Thursday, September 27, 2007

Converting ( my new better microfiction)- written by......- me of course!!

The old man lay on his death bed . This man lived life to it's fullest and at the ripe age of 90 was giving up. " I have decided I want to convert!" the old man stated . "What? papa your religion?!" his daughter asked. "Oh no, not that I have decided that I want to..... buy a Mac!"

human vs beast, (or did you mean human vs animal?)

What does man vs beast mean? Nothing. It means absolutely nothing.
Nothing really separates us from animals except the fact that we as humans chose to act out of spite,anger,willfulness; and animals don't do that unless they are trained to. Humans on the other hand are beastly in general. We kill each other because of differences in beliefs, we downgrade each other, we hurt each other and for what?, differences of opinion of skin color; trivial things that should not matter to us.
We may or may not have evolved from the animals I don't know, I wasn't there when it all happened. But even so, being an animal and being a beast is different. So are we beasts or not? Because we have a tendency to act beastly we have beastly characteristics but we are not beasts persay, but neither are animals.
In fact Human vs animal is another subject entirely.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Coexisting




OK this is not related to an assignment that you, (meaning Mr. Ephraim) assigned us but, you did say that if we found something cool we were supposed to post it on our blogs. So I think this graphic is cool and it has a profound meaning as well.
I like this graphic because instead of all of us on our own in a dog eat dog world we should reciprocate only the good things like love. We should learn to live with each other in harmony. We should coexist.

Incognito



Incognito: in disquise, in hiding, and undercover.

When I think of Incognito I think a detective, some one who goes under cover; Sherlock Holmes.Or in hiding: the runaway slaves and the story of the underground railroad.
Incognito gives me this picture of a guy in a trench coat with a fake mustache.
I chose this picture because Sherlock Holmes was a famous fictitious detective who was undercover.

We all have glasses. Do they blur or help our vision?


A paradigm is how you see the world. If you see the world through rose colored glasses you put a tint on your perspective that doesn't necessarily have to be there.
We all have a paradigm or glasses, something that can help us see or can blur our vision.
If paradigms are glasses and we all have them then no one perspective is right or wrong and no two perspectives are the same either.
So I did a picture of rose colored glasses, symbolic to the fact that every one views the world from their position and no one position is the same.

Define reciprocate: a hug for a hug


For Reciprocate I picked this picture because I feel that reciprocating should only be done if it is done for something happy. For example I don't believe in a tooth for a tooth, but I do believe in a hug for a hug.

So this picture means to me all the happy things you could reciprocate like a hug or friendship and stuff like that.

Monday, September 24, 2007

All about empathy


Empathy: (noun) the quality or process of entering, through imagination, into another's feelings or emotions or motives. This is the dictionary definition according to the world book dictionary.

Granted this definition isn't wrong, but it isn't really workable for the average human being.
My definition is shown by this picture. I think that empathy is being able to stand in someone else shoes and hence feel what they are feeling not through pity but through understanding.