Well i don't know why I'm posting so much in a row.. maybe I'm trying to make up for all the time i didn't post.
But today in history really got to me. Mr. Warner, however much a goof he can be, really makes me think so hard that my brow will actually furrow and I can feel the electricity in my brain spreading across trying to make sense of the things he says. Those things he says, aren't just facts about history... their riddles of questions.... like the essential questions Rut made us do, only they are about our past, our history, our world...
What is the purpose of having to have an answer to everything? What makes us hate things we cannot figure out? Has our society made us act like this, or by our own will did we become this way? Is our education system make us think like this? If we changed it, would people start thinking differently?
What is a good decision? Is there such thing as a good decision? Is it the same thing as the right decision? What is good? Who decides what's good? Are the people we deem weird or sick in the world not get the truth, or are they the right ones?
What is in our best interest? What do we really want in life, and why? What makes us place high value on things and none on others? Is what we value really motivate us to make the choices we do?
Do humans really have free will, or are they always predictable? If in some set equation, will we always do the same thing? Or will one time when I drop something, will it float and our entire world be disproved? Do we have the power to predict anything, or answer anything? If not, why do we attempt to?
In the course of forty minutes... all these questions were asked... and made to ponder...
Welcome to basic World History 11... its a duzzy.
I love it shelby. can't wait for next year.. Warner seems like an amazing person.
ReplyDeleteEspecially one day.. I was sitting int eh hall trying to do a project for Bake. I was looking for quiet, and all the cubbies were taken. Thus, i sat in front of my locker, FAR away from the rest of the class. Mr warner came out with his bucket from his coffee thing. When I asked him waht it was, he told me and then said, "it's very jack and jill-ish actually."
As he walked into the bathroom and the back to his room he did nothing but non-stop talk about how that story amkes women seem weak or something and the only reason he stopped was because i ask a question on a different topic.
It made me happy.. =P
Oh my. He would say that. Anything and everything demeans everyone. Always and forever.
ReplyDeleteWow. next year is going to be amazing! And yes I think people are predictable and have no free will in the grand scheme of things. The only free will anyone has is when, where and how they're going to die if they chose to take that into their own hands and out of the hand of Fate.
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