Tuesday, January 21, 2014

death

David P. Dixon
Philosophy 201:Being & Knowing
CRN 15167
Instructor Stockton
Word count 886.

Bundle theory and Soul theory

            The bundle theory is that we are body mix with parts that work together as one.  There is no separate part from the body that makes you. With the bundle theory, you cannot live separate from your body.  Then you look at the soul theory is that you have your body and your soul. They are separate parts. With the soul theory, you can live without  your body. The soul theory is a better looking theory then the bundle theory. It makes you think there is more after death then there is. For most people I would have to say that is very important to think that way. Because people want not to fear death and if they live on thru the soul then they do not die. It is a nice thought.
            I have mixed feeling about the two theories. Bundle theory is the closer to what I think than the soul theory, because it makes more sense to me then the other, but I also do not agree with it all the way.  I believe that we do live on, but not in an after life.  I believe are genetics that we passed to our descendant’s are what keeps us living. I do not believe we truly die until our genetics die. I believe our genetics help make us who we are.
            I believe that in this life genetics help define us. They give us the tools that we need to make it in this life. I believe genetics help us deal with situations in life. Then because of the situation we learn from them to react better then the first time things happen. I think in life genetics give us the skill to learn and live. I believe I am who I am because of my ancestors and experience in life. With only one, I would not be who I am today.  I think both makes me who I am. Idea, I am my mother and father and their mothers and fathers, but different because of the life I have lived. My past is not the same as their pasts. Our experience is what make of different from our mother or father, but we are still them.  Why do I think this is right? I look at sheep dogs their genetics get pass down to be sheep dogs by instincts. Even if no humans were around, dogs would still be guarding sheep because of their genetics. That is part of why I think genetics plays a bigger role in our life’s then most will think. I believe in the theory of nature over nurture. I look at my son, I see my father in him, and some of the way he acts reminds me of my father. He never spent time with my father to pick up those acts. To me it had to be passed down through genetics. That is why I think who we are because of two things what pass down to us and what happens to us.
            I believe when we die we are recycled back into earth. I think the bugs and water help decompose us to feed the earth and the creatures and plants of earth. I believe that death is a very importation part of the circle of life. I do not think there is an afterlife or more to come when you die. I believe heaven and hell are here on earth and how we live. I believe that you are here on earth to help earth survive and the circle of life to work.  I think this because what I read and talk to people about. I think this deal with every thing living on this earth is to help earth work.  I believe our gift for helping earth keep living is life and that we get to pass part us down to the next generation and that group pass us alone to the next generation and so on. I think that the gift we get for death and feeding the circle of life.  Is the life we live now, which in itself is amazing, and I love the life I have lived good, the bad ,all of it. I look back and I am so thankful for everything.  I could be wrong or right who knows.
            Is it possible to know at this point? No, I think there is no way to find which is right or wrong. Nor do I really think most people want to know if there wrong.  People fear death as it is. If they could be, proven wrong on their ideas, who would know how they would react to it.  Even if they were proven right how would  that change them? I wonder. I do wonder if there will every be away to find out who is right and who is wrong.  I would love to know if the bundle or soul theory or my theory was right. However, that has to do with search for the truth and wanting to know.  It would not bother me one way the other on who was right. However, I would love to know. However, I do not fear death I embrace it.


Sunday, January 19, 2014

University Place Hotel worst place to ever stay.

Does not even rate a star. they charge me for room. Then charge me again for the room already pay for. Then I check on the date that I paid up to and they charge me again! the rooms had no wireless internet. The floor were dirty and room was not clean when I check in.  I posting photo of the room on my faceBook. It was the worst hotel i have ever stay in. This place stay away unless you like a nightmare like i had. I told them and all they say was sorry we will fix might take week on your money. this is room I stay in




 money.

Monday, January 13, 2014

Gilgamesh paper

David P. Dixon
Humanities CRN 15246
Gilgamesh
01/11/14

Gilgamesh

       The story of Gilgamesh hints that man it self needed to find ways to explain things in the universe that they could not otherwise explain. The way Mesopotamians explained what they could not was by using gods. They thought gods most of cause everything good or bad for example floods and love. Mesopotamians prayed to gods to help them in their life. They seem to use gods to produce hope. If something bad happening or like Gilgamesh who took, what he wanted and no one could stop him. They prayed to the gods for help. They cling to gods for hope and by using gods for hope Mesopotamians were controlled by their hope which the hope was base on gods. In the story of Gilgamesh, you can see this come to light. People prayed that he would change, and they tell the story about how Gilgamesh got help from the gods
The gods answered their prays on Gilgamesh by seeding a friend to him. Then that friend dies and Gilgamesh had to face his mortality. Then he went on ajourney forever-lasting life, and then found out he could not reach everlasting life he has to face his mortality. When he faced his mortality, he changed his life. He became a good leader. I equate this to the story we all live. When we are young, we fight and search out power and sex, but as we get older, and we face mortality, we change. When we face mortality, we start looking at our life and what we have done. Then we start changing into manhood, instead of staying as a child. This story could be all about boyhood for all of us and how we grow into manhood.

      The story is familiar in many ways. You have this story in the Bible in the stories of Moses and Noah and so on, that you can compare this writing to and movies like Hercules. However, where it is most familiar to me is not the stories I have read, but the life I have lived. When I was boy like most boys, we thought were ten foot tall and bulletproof boys thought we are gods. We lack the idea of death. Therefore, we act as if we will live forever. In addition, as teenage boys, we tried to be the leader of the pack and we used bad ways and good ways to be the top dog. In addition, we tried to use sex as power like dogs do to one another and if we find someone trying to be top dog we try to shoot them down anyway we can good or bad. Then as we get older, and face death. Then we start search for more meaning of life. We search we have to fight battles inside our self like the Bull in Gilgamesh. These battles help us grow. I would say the story is more like a coming of age in life and realizing what matters. It about how we all change as we grow. I think Gilgamesh was child and this is his story on grow in to manhood.