...From a very tender age up until of late, I used to believe in so many things which I had not put to test yet. I was so positive with life, always believing in everything for the mere beauty of how sincere it looked. Sometimes I would simply believe everything because I was told, not considering the fact that anything emanating from a human being can either be the truth or the opposite of the truth-lies. It always caught me by surprise when I would be brought back into reality with the fact that all I had thought to be true was a mere factor of letting things flow in the right direction to please me-but not a reality of the same. Not only did I believe everything I heard but I would also believe that there are people in this world who are stronger than others in each and every single way. I believed that they were stronger in all aspect; emotionally, spiritually, physically and mentally. I believed that even when shaken, my father was the strongest man in the world. I was little boy by then and I did not know that he also was human and that he had a weakness. From the time I was a small boy, I viewed my father as being a hero and a legend at the same time. He was big physically, rich and had the power to do anything. To me, there was no one on this earth like him. I feared him because he was a no nonsense man. He did not entertain any form of failure. These are some of the qualities that made him respected and feared by everyone around him. Even my very own mother feared...
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...According to Staniszewski, in her article “Believing is seeing”, all art before the past two hundred years is not art. She says that everything, what was made in ancient times, is allocated by our culture and turned into art. I do not agree with her argument because there are many proofs that art in ancient times existed. Also, she says that art is what we can see in galleries, museums and exhibitions. People in ancient periods did not have many chances to present and demonstrate their works to general public therefore some artworks were found as an art only nowadays. Art is an integral part of the life of every state, city, people and me. The word "art" has many definitions, characteristics and features, but each person imagines it in one’s own way. In my opinion, the art - it is a figurative representation of reality, the main goal of which is the communion of man to the beautiful, sensual, interesting and beautiful, sometimes even to the inexplicable and contradictory. I think that movie, painting, architecture and other arts should cause a variety of emotions, feelings and thoughts in the soul and mind of man. Undoubtedly, the same work of art can cause completely opposite feelings in the souls of men. Art is cognition of the cultural and spiritual world; it is the expression of...
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...So you believe in the saying “seeing is believing”? This idea is about 50/50 but I myself disagree with this saying. There are many things people believe in without evidence. One of the two reasons why seeing is not believing is that people often make false conclusions. Two is that people often take only what is seen as the truth I will show you why seeing is not believing. People often make false conclusions. An example of this is found in “Magic and the brain”. This can be found on page 80 of the 7th grade collections book lines 76-84. These lines state “Like visual illusions, cognitive illusions mask the perception of physical reality. Yet unlike visual illusion, cognitive illusions are not sensory n nature. Rather they involve high-level functions such as attention, memory, and casual inference with all those tools at their disposal, well-practiced magicians make it virtually impossible to follow the physics of what is actually happening-leaving the impression that the only explanation is magic.” This explains how when people see things they can make their own conclusions to explain it which maybe incorrect....
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...What is perception, and what is reality? Perception is from your point of view, and what you think and believe in. But, reality is what is actually happening. Sometimes people get confused when they think that something is true, like magic, but the truth is that it’s just an illusion, but you believe it is something else. Seeing is NOT believing because there are confusing things that trick you. One reason seeing is not believing is that they are sometimes illusions. in the article, “Magic and the Brain,” the magician Tomsoni blinds the audience with a bright light, and then dims it, and hidden devices pull off the white clothes quickly, and when the light is on, the dress she was wearing under was red. It says in the article, “Magic and...
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...Have you ever thought about the question, is seeing really believing? Well, I have. In my opinion, I think that seeing is not believing. I have been doing some research and I have found some really helpful articles and an example of my own life to finally answer my question. Seeing is not believing. First of all, a great example of our perception being tricked is, of course, magic tricks!! According to my research, I have found the ways that magicians do things right before your eyes but aren’t seen. In the article, Magic & the Brain, there are some strategies I have learned about, that tricks your brain. In the article, I have learned that the attention-grabbing assistant is the biggest factor of the trick. Of course, the beautiful assistant grabs everyone’s attention as they think that the trick was hidden behind the assistant but you thought wrong. The magician does everything in front of your eyes, for example, changing the color of the assistant's dress. The attention goes to the woman in the dress waiting to see if they could catch the trick while the secret is with the brain. The light goes out with a blinding white light following. The eyes think the dresses color changed, while nothing even happened....
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...Tony Goodloe Eng 112 Dr. Blumenthal 8 April 2013 If Seeing is Believing, Then Please Take a Second Look! When companies want to sell their product, it is normally done with a famous person as the spoken person for that product. Have you ever wondered,” Does that person really use that product? Another way businesses or companies sell their product is by using sexual images or suggestive words for their ads. Companies might also use a controversial topic to spark up interests for that product. The way that the images of a photo is shown or the way the ads make a play on words can be very tactful or very harmful depending on the way a person views the ads. The two ads that were chosen for this paper shows how both sexual content and controversial topic are being used to sell a product. HUMO is a Belgian satire magazine that makes the basic premise that this is so compelling that an individual doesn’t notice the chaos or danger around him or her. The QSOL.com ad made the statement “QSOL Servers Won't Go Down On You” meaning there servers will work all the time. Advertisements can be funny and help sell a product, but ads should not be offensive to people. The HUMO ad made the statement this magazine is so compelling an individual does not notice the chaos or danger surrounding him or her. The intended audience for this ad seems to be Caucasian, white collar worker, European readers, and professional people who are avid readers...
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...Perspectives Life Span & Introduction to Sociology PSYC-2314-S03 In class we have been discussing the analogy of perspectives. A perspective is a way of seeing, also thought of as a ‘point of view’. This mental view or outlook can both enhance and constrain how we view the world in our own eyes. In the field of psychology and sociology there are many ways to perceive our world in which we live. No one perspective alone can define the world. Each perspective has its own distinctive strengths and blind spots. In class we have discussed different theories and analogies to better understand the complexity of perspectives. Perspectives will both facilitate and constrain perception. A good example of this statement is the Burke Theorem. The Burke Theorem states that “A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing- a focus upon object A involves a neglect of object B”. My understanding of this theory is that if you only focus on one perspective for viewing, you end up neglecting other perspectives, which doesn’t allow you to fully see reality as you could from looking with more than one perspective. An example given in class was how each student viewed the same exact water bottle. Students sitting on different sides or directly in front of the water bottle will have different views. Students sitting in rows towards the left and right sides of the classroom saw the sides of the bottle, while students sitting directly in front saw the front of the bottle. And on the other hand...
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...childhood 4 men are Tightly chained around the neck and the legs unable to move in a sitting position forced to stare at a wall . In a dark cave ,to a post ,4 men,are given the only source of reality which is in front of them on a wall that is dimly lighted from a fire that is positioned above and behind them.Between the fire and the prisoners there is a raised platform with a low wall built to hid the bodies of the marionette’s who are displaying the shadow of puppets and shapes onto the wall.These men have been in the cave so long that they have the belief and without a doubt that the figures and animals they are seeing are represented accurately to what we know them to be.One of the men is released from the chains and slowly begins his ascension up the stairs and when he reaches the outside of the cave he is just left awestruck and disbelief at what he is seeing and begins doubting what he see’s compared to what he grew up with and saw in the cave. But his disbelieg turns into understanding which enlightens his interpretation of things he experienced in the cave and his intelligence to the level of what most would consider a philospher .But he is left with symphony and guilt about letting the other prisoners know what he has discovered but is only responded by the others that he is crazy and if anyone were to leave the cave they would just become insane like him....
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...senses it is apparent that our minds would be just as Aristotle and Locke called it a ‘Blank Slate’ (Kirby & Goodpaster, p.54). Quite like how food brings our body energy and life as we feed it, our senses tend to the same for our brain; without them our brain would be almost empty (p.54). Our senses must be present in order to know who we are or who we want to be. Three reasons for believing the accuracy of sensory information are how we perceive things, how we react to them, and what we know of them. Although all senses play equal parts in the affect it has on our brain and our lives in general, sight is one that I would deem most accurate. For example, if you see an accident on a busy highway your first inclination would be to find a different route or calculate how long it will be until you reach your destination, or if you see something dangerous your response is to move away and dial 911. Although sometimes your sight can trick you into seeing things that aren’t really there, majority of the time the information you receive through this sense is accurate. Its like the saying seeing is believing. Taste is another excellent example in accurate sensory information. If we are trying something new for dinner one would tend to determine whether we like it or not within minutes maybe even seconds after hitting our taste buds. Touch is also an example, we are able to determine whether something is hot or cold, rough or soft by just feeling it. This information is always correct because...
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...a grid for different philosophical anthropologies that answer the question of personhood. Complete the following chart in the context of defining what it means to be human according to Christianity, Materialism, and your own Personal View. Refer to the assigned reading for explanation of characteristics listed on the left. | Christianity | Materialism | Personal View | Relational | The building block of the church, the community. | Relationships built off of materials for beneficence for someone. | I believe this is to be building a relationship with God and with those who will do you good. | Multidimensional | One believing or serving more than 1 God, believing in or seeing different dimensions such as the heavenly realms. | Humans are material objects because of their body parts (veins, blood, etc.). | I believe this is to be believing in multiple Gods. This is also how we act as a human which is important since we are seen as multidimensional. | Sexual | Part of human nature, not meant to be thought of as a defining human characteristic. | Modern attitude towards sexuality. | I believe this should wait until one is married but this is not realistic in today’s time. | Moral | One is aware they are were made in an Image of God and his application of laws come into effect such as different behaviors. | Society that excels in creativity. Values can only be mad made related to humans. | I believe this to be human rights, a description of obligations and...
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...and unavoidable. So either way you look at it, the mass media occurs in a person’s life on a daily basis. Which has a severe effect on the choices you make and the morals you live by. One cannot trust everything they see on TV either. Most commercials you would see today are overly exaggerated just to persuade consumers into buying the product. For example, in the 1930’s America’s first “drug czar” Harry J. Anslinger, began one of the world’s greatest public relations campaigns just to demoralize marijuana by telling apparent lies to society and persuading them to believe it. Such as that marijuana is more harmful to the body than alcohol, and tobacco. 70 years later people still believe the lies even after decades of scientific proof. Seeing as how media can “control your mind” we as a whole need to be more aware of it on a daily basis. The mass media has a responsibility to use only truthful explanations as opposed to exaggeration when arguing against the legalization of marijuana. The campaigns that Anslinger participated in consisted of many movies, musicals, and advertisements all demoralizing the usage, and or the distribution of marijuana. The promotion of marijuana making you insane was his main theme throughout his claims. Every single one of his claims missed some very important facts that make them obviously false. Studies over the years has proved that marijuana is less dangerous than alcohol or tobacco, and it is not a “gateway drug” leading to the usage of other...
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...Religious Life of Planet Earth Religion 212 April 29, 2012 I was asked by my superiors to visit the planet Earth and ascertain if people and the planet are religious and what they practice in the aspects of religion. First, it is important, for you to understand my opinion of religion and supporting aspects or views of religion. Religion is not only a way of living but also considered artifacts, practices and traditions of a belief that one worships a deity. People should not only have a belief but also contribute, participate, relinquish and devote their lives in living and having faith in their deity. I observed and researched what and how the people of Earth worship, how often they praise or worship their deity and what they do while practicing these traditions of beliefs. People long to make sense of life; to find the key that will unlock its mysteries and enable them to understand themselves and their place within the universe. Each religion presents us with a particular view of life, expressed in its teachings, scriptures, and traditions. But is it necessary to be committed to that religion in order to understand and appreciate what it teaches. In this human journey for finding sense, some turn to philosophy, the creative arts, and others- in fact the majority of humankind-take to some form of religion. Almost every aspect of life can become the raw material out of which a religious interpretation of life may be built. The word religion has many different...
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...Any time you dare to dream, there are risks involved. What if it never happens? What if it costs too much? What if people laugh at you? It's hard to hold on to your dreams. It's hard to believe when the world and those around you give you no reason to press in and press on. I've been blessed to realize many dreams in my life and ministry, and I'm convinced that a dream only happens when two things take place: 1. You live with expectant faith that the dream will happen. 2. You refuse to let go of the dream - regardless of the circumstances in your life. When God put the dream in my heart to acquire a sports arena as the location for Lakewood Church, I'll admit that even at first, I was unsure how it would happen. But I just kept believing God's Word. He encouraged me that with Him "nothing was impossible." As months went by, there were many times when the obstacles and problems outnumbered the possibilities for us to receive the promise He had given us. But during these times, I went to God's Word and learned something from the...
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...They discovered that the mind could be tricked into believing the rubber hand was an actual part of the body. The rubber hand illusion is a wonderful example of how multi-sensory perception can influence how we perceive our own body and this experiment proves that by applying this illusion our minds can be over-written by visual information, it shows the powerful connection between what we see and what we feel. However, it reveals even more than simply the way our senses are connected. It hints that a fundamental change in the brain is taking place, a structural change of the brain accommodating the rubber hand as part of the body is called neuroplasticity. This suggest that the brain can change in response to experience and since the brain is so easily fooled into believing something that is not real, how can we be certain that everything else is not an illusion or imagination? Is seeing actually believing? To what extent can we trust our sense perception? In theory of knowledge sense perception is defined as any of the faculties of sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch by which the body perceives an external...
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...very puzzling and it intrigues him to find out why someone would think this way. In an effort to understand why some people thought like this, Descartes tries to break everything down into its bare bones. He thinks that you cannot build a body of knowledge unless you have firm foundation first. This makes sense because if you’re trying to build theory’s and ideas of things without knowing where these ideas came from, or even if those ideas are truthful or not, then you are just fooling yourself and wasting your own time. Your superstructure of knowledge must have some sort of structural integrity to it. You can’t build your knowledge upwards or expand your structure without sure support beams to follow it up. Descartes then goes on to believing there is a demon that exists everywhere which tricks everyone that our senses are a...
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