"Your life on Earth."
PHILOSOPHIZING purpose and place in the #21C .
reflection.This project started with five essential questions; What is the purpose of (your/human) existence? What does it mean to live a meaningful life? AND What gives your life meaning? How do you characterize your (ethical) relationship with Earth/place/resources? How does your “intertextual” expression impact your personal philosophy? I found myself taking a personal route of self discovery, I saw this unit as a chance to help find and understand more of what I want to do now and in the future. The essential questions I sought out most during the unit was; What does it mean to live a meaningful life? I had a lot of fun with this question along with a lot of self discovery. The question that I ended up carrying through with my project was; How do you characterize your (ethical) relationship with Earth/place/resources? These two questions let me take on new perspectives and bolded some old ones. I was inspired a lot by how much I was given the chance to have a existential crisis, and I say I was given a chance, because it seems only right to have many existential crisis while learning about them. Going through so many helped me with life and connecting myself back to who I am. It helped me realize the harm caused on this planet, and the harm caused on us. It inspired art, music, and my views of the world.
I gained many new insights with this project about myself but also a lot about the human place on this planet and our place in the universe. Throughout reading the articles, books and movies that were discussed in class I gained a very suitable and reasonable amount of influence on how I shape my philosophy and my personal ethics. The first major influence that occurred in this unit was in the reading “The Meaning of Life” by Richard Taylor, there was three sentences I had underlined along with many that stood out when looking back at my notes. It read “Until what? What great thing awaits all this long and repetitive effort and makes it worthwhile? Really nothing.” That opened my eyes to even more realization. Before this project I had that same thought but going into this project helped with understanding it. What that quote does, is it helps with finding what is important, what is reasonable, and what is worthwhile. Remembering that, gives me what I call reassurance that a meaningless life is nothing but normal and that the definition of the meaninglessness of life is just as important if there was a meaning. All in all meaning is just another human creation that will end when we end. This one old and improved insight is not negative, do not take it as a negative view. Further work, concepts and topics that I will strive to explore are happiness, meaning, transcendentalism, interconnectedness and community, along with success and ambition. From gathering a list of things to still explore and learn about gives me the potential for furthering my knowledge and my chance to ask questions. Some of those questions that have my interest of exploring would be; Why is it most often perceived that happiness is the ultimate purpose of human existence? Why set out on the pursuit to find happiness? “Can science help us overcome the terror of existence?” Why is something that can not physically be seen like religion, and emotion be so controlling over our lives and sets our boundaries? |
VISUAL piece.WRITING piece.LETS LIVE OFF OF EVERYONE'S HAPPINESS
AND IGNORE THE MISERY. THAT’S A RICH REPUTATION TO LEAVE BEHIND. THE ROOTS OF HUMANITY RESTS IN THE SOIL OF OUR EARTH. WE LIVE IN A KINGDOM OF PURE POWER. THAT POWER, IF USED CORRECTLY WILL GIVE US THE STRENGTH TO GIVE TO ONE ANOTHER. IT WOULD BE A GLOROUSE ACT TO ACT UPON. AS IT WAS SAID, IT WOULD BE. ONLY OUR SOUR EYES AND OUR GREEDY MINDS CAUSED CRITICAL FAILURE TOWARDS HUMANITY. POWER WAS TAKEN AND THE BALANCE WAS BROKEN. ENSLAVED IN THIS WORLD OF GREED AND UNNATURAL CIVILIZATIONS. THE RICH SOIL WAS TAKEN FOR GRANTED. AND WE DEVELOPED A PRISON OF DESPAIR. IT’S THE HUMAN WAY OF PROGRESS. TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE NEXT MILLION DOLLAR IDEA. THE INVENTIONS OF WHAT IS BEING BROUGHT UPON US TURNS THE LIVES OF MANY INTO VICTIMS. OUR EARTH, OUR KINGDOM, PURE BLISS AND NATURES POWER. WE BROKE IT. THAT RICH REPUTATION TO LEAVE BEHIND IS GONE. WE TAKE POWER WITH PRIDE AND LEAVE MANY BEHIND. OUR MINDS HAVE GONE SOUR AND BLIND TO THE IDEA THAT OUR CIVILIZATION IS PERMANENT AND WHAT WE INVENT WILL NOT BE BROUGHT DOWN WITH US. BUT IT WILL CREATE EVER LASTING EFFECTS TO THOSE WHO GAVE. TO THOSE WITH THE MOST SIMPLEST OF POWER. NATURE AND BLISS. WE LOST IT AND WE NEED TO FIND IT. |