how do i know what i know???

How do I know what I know, I think I know what I now because it is proven to me. Of course there is a lot of stuff that hasn’t been proved that I still claim to know but it is going to be that way until someone proves it to be wrong…

Good point… I know what I know until someone proves what I know to be false.

There is only one thing that I am certain of though, something that no one can prove to be false. I am certain of existence. No one can tell me I don’t exist for I am most certain of the fact that I am living today. I never find myself thinking about whether I exist or not, whether all of this is a big dream, whether my life is one big allusion. That never crosses my mind.

Some people say they know what they know because they read it in text books but someone had to write that text book. Then since you read it, it would be safe to say that you don’t know this because you are basically going off of what someone else said, and what they believe to be true and the question comes back up, how do they know what they know?

Maybe no one knows anything. Maybe no one is as bright as they think they are seeing how they don’t know anything. Maybe there is no such thing as “facts”… maybe there is, I don’t know

father and son, mother and daughter...... family

Father and son, the relationship between father and son is interesting, when the son is young they are really close they play together and have fun doing all types of father and son things. But when they grow older from time to time they have disputes and bump heads a lot. They almost never agree with one another, and seeing how they are both men they have a hard time talking to one another about certain things. They can’t really express their love for one another as they should but of course they love each other for they are father and son.

Mother and daughter, their relationship stays intact longer than father and son but of course they will too grow apart from each other. When the daughter is young they are as close as two people can possible be, they don’t do as much playing as the father and son but the mother is mostly trying to teach the girl how to be a lady and how a lady is supposed to act. They dress up together and do the things that ladies do, experimenting with makeup and all the good stuff. But when the daughter reaches that age, the mother has to let go and let the daughter live her life and hopefully she was taught right.

Mother and son, father and daughter. These relationships are very similar. There is a lot of protecting going on. The son wants to protect his mother and the father wants to protect his daughter as they should want to. But just as the other relationships there comes a time when they have to let go and stop trying to protect... because at the end of the day everyone has to live their life..!

our meaning

Hmmm…  what is my purpose in this world? Why am I here?

I think there is one and only one answer to this question. I mean… if there are more please let me know, but I think the meaning of life is to be successful in life. No matter the motivation, it may be fortune, girls, striving for fame, or even the material things such as cars, clothes, jewelry, etc. it really does not matter what a person decides to do I don’t think anyone starts something anticipating on failure, I believe they are striving for success.

If you invest time in something im sure you would want the best outcome no matter what route you choose. If you play basketball and you practice hard every day and you are preparing for a big game you wouldn’t approach that game betting on the failure of the team. If you invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in college tuition you would approach school as if you are expecting to become something out of going there, therefore you would be putting your money to good use. Even if you dealt drugs, you wouldn’t strive to be the worst drug dealer in the history of drug dealing, your goal would be to make money therefore trying to be the best.

What im trying to say is that I think my purpose, along with everyone else’s purpose in life is the become successful, start a family and keep the cycle of life going… have some kids… Boost that kitty

God in 2010

God in 2010… the question comes up a lot, is there a God? It is kind of a hard question to answer, damn near impossible unless you have had some type of encounter with the big guy himself.  Many people believe that God has decided to punish New Orleans for its many years of wrong doing, most of which happens during the time when Mardi Gras in going on. So when Hurricane Katrina hit these people felt as if the city of New Orleans had it coming and as if it was their fault when in actuality they could control that situation at all, it would have mattered if they committed every crime/ sin possible, hurricane Katrina would have had the same effect.

Many people have different beliefs of what or who God is, if they believe in a God at all. But as we discussed in class, people believe what the majority of the population believes. If there was ten people In the class and eight of them were to say that I am twelve feet tall in time the other two would start to believe that I am twelve feet tall no matter how wrong they thought the rest of the class was initially. So seeing how majority of the world believes in some type of God then that is what people would believe to be the truth. I think we as human beings tend to believe what everyone else believes, I call that JUMPING ON THE BAN WAGGON!!!!

does Candide's punishments fit the crime?

We live in a world where many of the punishments are too harsh and do not fit the crime. I the novel candied commits many petty crimes. Crimes that in my opinion shouldn’t be considered a crime. One instance is when candied kissed the princess, Miss Cunégonde, the baron’s daughter, decides to spy on Pangloss and Paquette (the maid), between her being nosey and her desire for knowledge she hurries to find Candide. Not only does she find Candide, she finds Candide and the princess smooching. Of course they wouldnt allow such a thing to happen so after the baron found out what had taken place Candide was surely banished from the castle.

I think banishing someone that hasn’t been exposed to anything other than the community that they have lived for all of their life is harsh seeing how they aren’t ready to endure what goes on in the real world because they only know what they have been exposed to. they would be lacking all of the basic skills needed to survive, such as, I don’t know, say ummmm… survival skills.

A series of events occur and this ultimately leads to candied serving in the Bulgarian army. His next crime is when he decided to take a walk one morning and four soldier capture him, and he is labeled as a deserter. He is given a choice between being executed and running the gauntlet, which is when a person is made to run between two lines of men who will strike him with weapons thirty-six times.

After running the gauntlet twice, Candide’s skin is nearly flayed from his body. After the brutal gauntlet occurs, the king of the Bulgars happens to pass by. Discovering that Candide is ignorant of the world and decides to pardon him, but Candide’s wounds heal in time for him to serve in a war between the Bulgars and the Abares. So basically, a little kiss and him deciding to take a walk has resulted in him being banished, beaten half to death, and taking part in a war, I would say the punishments most definitely do not fit the crime.