So, in Philosophy we were talking about a man named Zenos who had this friend who said nothing about the senses actually exists. Don’t remember that guys name. Anyways, this is how the lesson proceeded.
Professor: “Now a lot of people disagreed with his friend’s statements, and so Zenos was like, “Yo, don’t be dissin’ my friend here because then I’ll haveta mess you up with a paradox.*”
[*Note: Apparently that was the current lingo of their time.]
Zenos paradox was that if you used reason you would logically come to the conclusion that motion does not really exist. Say you took a tortoise and Achilles and put them to a foot race. Tortoise - really slow. Achilles - fastest man alive. Now, Zenos says if you give the tortoise a slight head start logically Achilles would never be able to catch up to the tortoise because every time he would catch up to where the tortoise was, the tortoise would have moved a bit further. This would go on and on for eternity. Apparently this man is one of those awkward gentlemen that can never bring themselves to pass anyone on the street.
Like a football field, if you want to make a goal you start at the halfway mark. Then you go halfway from there, then halfway form there, and so on and so forth. No matter how far you go, you’ll always have to go halfway, and since there’s no end to dividing fractions, you will never reach the goal because you will always have ‘halfway’ to go.
Professor: “Now, Zenos said that if you go with reason, it is simple enough to come up with these conclusions, however, what you see contradicts this idea. Therefore, once of them must not exist. He said, “I BELIEVE IN REASON.”
Me: “Wait. Did this man even leave his house?”
Professor: “-laughing- He probably left his house, sometimes.”
Me: “…Or did he just sit there in one chair and never move because no matter how hard he might try, by his flawless reasoning, he could never reach his destination?”
Zenos’ reasoning pulls many other things into question regarding his lifestyle. For example, did he ever try to reach a bathroom or did he feel the need to wear diapers? How did he die? Did he starve to death by not believing he could reach the dining room table?
My goodness.
Anyways, we also discussed the development of a mono-theological view on God and also the development of the Trinity theory. Apparently, part of it might have been a big misunderstanding of a Socratic word that is often translated to ‘substance.’ This makes people think materialistically. The three are one substance. Actually, the word when used Socratically is much closer in meaning to the word ‘essence.’ The essence of their beings is the same, but they are separate. Bazinga.
Also, he showed the diagram of the Trinity principle. Here it is:
Amanda pointed out that it looked like the Flux Capacitor. I must say, the resemblance is uncanny.
There was a bit of snickering going on in the front row.
Anyways, that is my story for the day. Also, we ran out of balloons for our paper mache, so I need to come up with a new way to get the desired shape for my fish thing.
Friggin’ art is forcing me to be creative.
I also fell down the stairs today. It was storming. I actually woke up in a panic due to a loud thunderclap outside my dorm. Anyways, they need to replace the slip-proof mats on the staircase outside so inept kids like me don’t die on their way to Biology. My arm is dead; probably gonna be a nasty bruise.
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