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 Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 12:47 pm
When you take a look at an apple, you see it as an apple. When you look at building and someone says it's a City Hall than you see it as a City Hall. Even when someone takes a picture of a building or landscape when you go there that's what you see.
A long philosophical debate is if wheather or not we create our own world through our senses? That apple is only an apple because of faith. Fellow man know's there is an object there had a thought to call it an apple and than from there on it had become an apple.
When an object has already been given a name does that leave room for our own senses to create our own experiences?
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Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 1:19 pm
My English Literature asked us something like that recently she said "Is this really a table, It could be something completely different, but because I have told you and society has told you its a table you ultimately believe that" I think its like brainwashing... well maybe not brainwashing entirely but because something is named and called that you believe it to be true, like sterotyping... just because someone wears black doesnt mean they are a goth but because everyone tells you people who wears black are goths, you think that they are a goth when they could be a really happy and sunny person inside.
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 4:54 pm
It is kind of deceptive, how we've put so much faith in what our society tells us to believe. With people, though, even if someone tells me not to talk to someone because they're "mean" or "too weird" I ignore it and judge them for myself..... So I guess even though I've fallen for society's trick of telling me that an apple is an apple and stuff, I try to judge more complex things, like people, for myself, if that makes any sense...
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