...something that we all go thru at one point in our lives, something that makes our word our bond. We agree to something and we decide to put it on paper for how long no matter what comes up we stick to it. Now contract can be so testy we don’t know if we are breaching it or right on task. There are contract almost everywhere that we go, when we get a car, buy a house, even when you sign up for a credit card you are putting yourself in a contact. Now every time that you think about something that you want to get into a contract with, it's always smart to think research and make sure that what you are doing is great for you. For example people everyday get into a new car contract because they really need it. Now I have done this in the past but before we got into the contract I made sure that we were able to afford it. Now something that my wife does is takes all the information that we gathered from the car lot and made sure that it would fit in our budget. Now after a long talk we were able to come to the decision that we would take the car. But we wanted to make sure that this is something that really wanted to, I know that if we were not going to be able to afford it then we would be in more trouble for not having that ability to pay for it. Now we are really going to get into this car contract a little deeper and by that I mean we are going to see what is good and what is bad about all decision that will be made in the final hours of the contract. So we will skip past...
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...TOPIC 1: Do you really know anything? With reference to Descartes’ first meditation justify your answer in full and respond to possible objections. A belief is any opinion or any view whether you are committed to the view or not. Thus, if you know something, you are entitled to believe in it. The subjective nature of knowledge partly is based on the idea that beliefs are things that individuals have and those beliefs are either justified or not justified (Pardi, 2011). However, Descartes notices that over the course of his life, he has from time to time accepted false beliefs and the falsity of these beliefs have influenced other beliefs. Thus, Descartes aim in his first meditation is to find out if what we know is truly correct (Blackburn, 1999:15). Once we have figured out what beliefs are beyond any possible doubt, it is suggested that we can use reason to deduce the rest of what is knowable (Pardi, 2011). There are three conditions when one can say they know something is true (Pardi, 2011). Firstly, you believe in something, secondly, it is in fact true and lastly you are justified in believing a statement is true. Of course it is possible that there are no complete unshakeable truths, it is also possible that we might discover that our prejudices cannot be detached or that the beliefs we think are our grounds for all our other beliefs are not really ultimate at all. For this reason, it is why rationalist say that knowledge comes from within, the only beliefs we can really...
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...God’s word and truths. The first story talked about in the book was of when Brennan was a child. She talked about how us girls like to make little pretend worlds. Where we wont have any pain, rejections, suffering, hate, that others, and other things along those lines will always love us. She said how little girls do that but sometimes we even catch ourselves today living in a world we created to stay happy and away from the negative in life. Body image was also talked about in the book. Brennan struggled with anorexia when she was just in the seventh grade. Without knowing the true truths of how God created each of us to be ,we can all get caught up with our body image. If we do not truly believe that we are each created from God then we can get so idolized of how we look making ourselves unhappy. The book talked about how coming to God and finding your true identity in Christ will fill that need of wanting how your body should be and accepting how God made you and that you are beautiful in his eyes. That is where the book talked about finding your true identity with Christ. Once we accept that we were all made uniquely and for a reason and a purpose we will realize how much we are in need of God and how we will find our true identity within him. We then realize that we are a treasure of God. Also, once we stop letting our negative thoughts about ourselves and the opinions of other and letting that dictate...
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...from Barcelona would come in forty minutes. It stopped at this junction for two minutes and went to Madrid. ‘What should we drink?’ the girl asked. She had taken off her hat and put it on the table. ‘It’s pretty hot,’ the man said. ‘Let’s drink beer.’ ‘Dos cervezas,’ the man said into the curtain. ‘Big ones?’ a woman asked from the doorway. ‘Yes. Two big ones.’ The woman brought two glasses of beer and two felt pads. She put the felt pads and the beer glass on the table and looked at the man and the girl. The girl was looking off at the line of hills. They were white in the sun and the country was brown and dry. ‘They look like white elephants,’ she said. ‘I’ve never seen one,’ the man drank his beer. ‘No, you wouldn’t have.’ ‘I might have,’ the man said. ‘Just because you say I wouldn’t have doesn’t prove anything.’ The girl looked at the bead curtain. ‘They’ve painted something on it,’ she said. ‘What does it say?’ ‘Anis del Toro. It’s a drink.’ ‘Could we try it?’ The man called ‘Listen’ through the curtain. The woman came out from the bar. ‘Four reales.’ ‘We want two Anis del Toro.’ ‘With water?’ ‘Do you want it with water?’ ‘I don’t know,’ the girl said. ‘Is it good with water?’ ‘It’s all right.’ ‘You want them with water?’ asked the woman. ‘Yes, with water.’ ‘It tastes like liquorice,’ the girl said and put the glass down. ‘That’s the way with everything.’...
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...I’m always careful around Mr. Sherman. I notice everything he says, everything he does. He walks over to a woman I know as Brittany, who has long, straight, brown hair. She has a sense of authority to her, though not as much as Mr. Sherman. I eavesdrop on their conversation, because, I can. “Are we ever going to stop?” Brittany asks my old pal. “We take these children from their families, and then what? They just live their lives like nothing ever happened, like they don’t remember, because the problem is they don’t. They’ll never know about their real lives, and I don’t think that’s right, Sherman. I think it’s time we stop.” “We still need more kids, we need a bigger army,” Sherman answers casually,...
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... “This is the guy who said, ‘death is yet --- [Background conversation] So Bucky Fuller 30 years --- [Background conversation] [0:01:47] So Bucky Fuller died 30 years ago and everybody went, “Bucky Fuller’s dead, we should wrap up all the stuff, put it in an archive.” And I went, “Wait a minute! This is the guy who said, ‘this is not me, this is yesterday’s breakfast. And when this is gone doesn’t mean I am gone, it means that you need to find other ways to communicate with me.’” And I actually just got an email yesterday from a woman who said, “Oh! I’ve been dreaming about Bucky Fuller and I actually saw him in the mall the other day.” And I am like, “Whoa! This is pretty interesting she’s in Australia.” And I think that his influence is like everywhere. [0:02:27] What I decided was that I was going to do -- that he had conducted a 56 year experiment to determine and document what one individual could achieve that could not be accomplished by any religion, government, organization of any kind. So it’s basically what one man can do and he documented it and I said, “Well, when somebody does an experiment, you don’t just archive it away. You actually examine it.” So that’s what I’d spent the last 30 years doing literally. And doing what he told us to do, which is what all the great teachers say, they all say, don’t believe a word I say, don’t believe a word I wrote, right? Checked it out against your own personal experience, take what works and use it, what doesn’t -- I...
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...Veterans are really important to this nation for many specific reasons. They are so called "veterans" because they have fought in war and managed to survive. I don't know any veterans in person, but I do know of a few that are really famous. A lot of the veterans are voluntarily in there to provide for us, some are forced like before. I am grateful that we have people like them, without them I really don't know where we would be. When they go to war, veterans have a lot at risk, they risk losing their family to a brutal death. One reason veterans are important to the nation is the fact they simply fight for us. They risk everything they have at home to protect for people that they don't even know. That is being brave, we need more people like them. Now a days people aren't willing to do things that like, they're afraid of losing what they have. But certain kids now are headed in the wrong direction, and need to join military to get heir life straighten out in some kind of way. I'd suggest more of us become soldiers and troops, not only do they right for us, serve a good cause, but the army also serves us for the good. A lot of people join for help, a sort of rehab, and it works!...
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... Total darkness and the power of God are moving over the water. With his command, everything appeared. Then we have the day and night. Then, He divides the water and keep it in two separate places, and so on and so forth. He created every single thing that man will need of, for its survival. At my young age, I have a lot of question: Why the earth is round? Why is the sky so high and why man can’t reach it? Why there is land, mountains, seas, rainbows, trees, and grass and animals and flowers and fruits? Why God created all these? I know very well that God made us human the highest form of animal, thus protector of all His creation. It is now our obligation to do protect all that he created. How can we do that? What is the power of man that God has given to protect his creation? Do we really have to be concern about God’s creation? Do we really have to care for our Land, Water, and Air? How do these creations affect us Human? Maybe this time we have stop, and think. They say ecology is the scientific study of interactions of organism with one another and with the physical and chemical environment. How do we people interact with these organisms? It seems so simple, but it’s not. Interactions, there is a relationship, right? What is this relationship that we have to create? How can we build good relationship with our environment? There is an effort a big work a must do, to make things happen. Did you ever watch the movie Noah? He made a big ARK to save God’s creation...
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...(1596-1650) is an example of a rationalist. According to Descartes, before we can describe the nature of reality (as is done in metaphysics) or say what it means for something to be or exist (which is the focus of ontology), we must first consider what we mean when we say we know what reality, being, or existence is. He suggests that it is pointless to claim that something is real or exists unless we first know how such a claim could be known as a justified true belief. But to say that our beliefs are justified, we have to be able to base them ultimately on a belief that is itself indubitable. Such a belief could then provide a firm foundation on which all subsequent beliefs are grounded and could thus be known as true. This way of thinking about knowledge is called foundationalism. In his Meditations on First Philosophy (1641), Descartes indicates how we are able to guarantee our beliefs about reality by limiting what we believe to what is indubitable or is based on what is indubitable. That involves him in a series of six "meditations" (of which we will focus on only the first two) about the proper method of philosophical reflection and the conclusions that can be drawn from using that method. Throughout these Meditations Descartes insists that (1) we should claim to know only that for which we have justification, (2) we cannot appeal to anything outside of our ideas for such justification, and (3) we judge our ideas using a method that guarantees that our ideas are correct...
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...to keep out flies. The American and the girl with him sat at a table in the shade, outside the building. It was very hot and the express from Barcelona would come in forty minutes. It stopped at this junction for two minutes and went to Madrid."What should we drink?" the girl asked. She had taken off her hat and put it on the table."It's pretty hot," the man said. "Let's drink beer." "Dos credenzas," the man said into the curtain."Big ones?" a woman asked from the doorway. "Yes. Two big ones." The woman brought two glasses of beer and two felt pads. She put the felt pads and the beer glass on the table and looked at the man and the girl. The girl was looking off at the line of hills. They were white in the sun and the country was brown and dry. Ironic symbol—the hills, traditionally a symbol of attractiveness, beauty, tranquility, appear to Jig as not having these qualities. "They look like white elephants," she said. I've never seen one," the man drank his beer. "No, you wouldn't have." "I might have," the man said. "Just because you say I wouldn't have doesn't prove anything." The girl looked at the bead curtain. "They've painted something on it," she said. "What does it say?" "Anis Del Toro, It’s a drink." "Could we try it?" The man...
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...and I was wondering you know, is he going to be here or not because I have such awesome news. J: Yeah great. G: I have Bestel who is interested in investing 4 million dollars in this company, immediately. All we have to do is sign a few papers and we are done. Now the chairman of the board, do you remember Jack Schneider? Do you remember when he came in? J: I do. G: Ok. So I have known him since I was a kid, he’s almost like an uncle to me. Now he said, basically this is a done deal. Now his shareholders, they don’t get together until 2 weeks after the fourth quarter. But that’s not really a problem because I have talked to him, and worked everything out and done everything that he wanted me to do. J: does he have to get the shareholders to approve the deal? G: Well yeah of course. J: Well how is he going to do that if the quarter ends, he can’t legitimately sign the deal before he gets shareholder approval? G: Ok, well technically I know what you’re saying, but I’m telling you I know this guy. He’s like, like at thanksgiving and when I was growing up we would have picnics together, and he’s given me the OK. He says he’s got these shareholders on his side, and then he’ll have this meeting that’s kind of a technical problem but other than that, he said he will do it so it’s really not a problem. J: So if he does that though, are we authorized to go ahead and make this deal. Because obviously there is a lot of pressure in our department right now. I don’t know if you’re going to be...
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...Case Study 2 Public interest groups claim to work for the good of the whole society, not just one part of it. Public interest groups often have very different ideas as to how to improve society. Many public interest groups tackle a number of related issues. Greenpeace, for example, works to protect ecosystems around the world and to educate the public about dangers to the environment. They are a huge organization built around fixing the environment and making the world a better place. Greenpeace is a non-governmental organization that was started back in 1972 in Vancouver, BC. The founders of Greenpeace started it all in the late 1960s when the U.S had plans for a nuclear weapon test in the island of Amchitka, which is one of the worlds most earthquake-prone regions. In 1970 they sailed ships off towards Amchitka to stop the U.S from detonating another bomb there. Even though they got sent back, they felt sympathy for the protesters and decided not to continue with their plans to set of the bombs at that location. Greenpeace is now an organization, which uses non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems, and to force the solutions, which are essential to a green and peaceful future. This being their main mission they have many different ways that they go about doing this. These are some ways listed by them of how they are living up to their mission statement, by doing things like: Catalyzing an energy revolution to address the number one threat...
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...believe different things. Nietzsche believes we are incomplete and are in need of higher education and need to be taught in order to become superhuman. I partially agree with his views. We as humans are not incomplete in my eyes, but we do need higher education in order to continue to advance as a species. According to Bergson, humanity is an incomplete species, requiring higher education in the form of biotechnological transhumanization, in order to actualize the natural function of the universe. His views are partially correct in my eyes. Because we have made ourselves so dependent on technology, we do need it to advance to a certain extent. I do not think we need it one hundred percent. Kubrick’s view was a little to unrealistic. He seems to think that education by aliens was the way to achieve superhumanity. Since I do not believe in extraterrestrial life forms, it’s hard for me to even half way believe his point of view. From all the readings, I really agree with the works of Emerson. He believes that every individual possess a unique genius that they work their entire life to develop the gift they are given. “Everyone is potentially superhuman because we possess gifts which can never be absolutely actualized. Throughout life there are “godlike” men that come along and create masterpieces. The masterpiece completes a circle and we move on to develop the next. We are always developing toward super humanity, but we will never make it because there is always...
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...casey - I don't even know where to start. these past 6 months with you have been the best 6 months I have ever fucking had. you are the most gentle delightful human being I have ever met and I could write books about how you make me feel. you have done so much for me, I don't know how I could ever repay you for any of it. my favorite part about being with you is the memories we have and the ones we make, the things we learn from arguments and mistakes we make. we went from being best friends who bitched about everything to each other, best friends that talked about everything, to becoming this, which is a big ass leap from where we were from the start. I never knew I would fall this much in love with you, or anyone really, I didn't really...
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