I mean, I have never heard of free muffins before” Squeaks asked “Yes, cause if you don’t you’ll end up on the watch list and you will be confined to only being able to move a few yards every hour…any more and you’ll get shot” “That’s rough.” Said Old, after a few seconds he then asks “Then is it Really ok for him to eat the last two muffins?” “it is, this is an experiment as to the effects of the drugs that were mixed into the batter” The soldier realizes that he wasn’t supposed to mention that “I mean, uhh, hmm, blueberries?” “Seems legit” Timmy said as he ate both of them in the same bite “I feel fine so far” he said after a few minutes of waiting afterwards he thought he thought he would try to dismiss the soldier “you did our government proud, he said sarcastically” Old started to get an eerie feeling. He felt as if time was slowing down he thought he could make something out behind Timmy. A thin, pale figure with a grim and expressionless face. His gaze was like a hook that attached itself to a piece of…
A great example of the destruction of ignorance would be my cousin who has been an avid drug user for the last ten years. She started using drugs out of pleasure. This selfish desire for constant pleasure led her away from her priorities; she nearly dropped out of high school, and found herself pregnant at fifteen. Despite having the responsibility of raising a child, she dated the town drug dealer and found herself pregnant at twenty one. Somehow her overdosing twice on drugs never feared her…
Strassman is a intelligent scientist, who uses multiple of hypotheses to validate his theory. One hypotheses is if you discipline yourselves spiritually than you may activate the spirit molecule. Meaning, if you don’t put harm in your body, like drugs, alcohol, and stress. Another example would be the use of psychedelic drugs will help us identify what causes spiritual reality. There are other alternative hypotheses that Strassman uses, however, the alternative hypotheses Strassman’s uses…
authority has more control of the system than in Brave New World. In Brave New World the system starts by brainwashing them from “birth”, and are made to be controlled by the system and believe in specific truths. They’re kept in brainwashed by the drugs that the government gives them. The people are forced to take the drugs to continue to believe in the truths the system wants them to. “By this time the soma had begun to work. Eyes shone, cheeks were flushed, the inner light of universal…
But is that really a valid justification for this behaviour? Would trying to be the best at punching yourself in the face be justifiable, just because you could become the world champion? Without getting too psycho-analytical; you could say that humans, of all ages, will do whatever it takes to recapture the approval and attention that they once received as small children. This explains why teenagers can so easily get caught up in drugs, crime, and anti-social behaviour. And why some young…
Certain people believe that regardless of the situation at hand, one should never tell a lie. One argument is that “[t]he more one lies, the more matters one lies about” (Ekman, 1). This can be true in many cases because after a lie is told, other lies may be needed in order to back it up leading to a somewhat slippery slope. Although this can be a negative effect of lying, it does not mean that lying is never justifiable. There are many situations where it is justified to lie and even though…
Lailah Gifty Akita, once said,“If you do not ask questions, how can you find the answers you seek?” (Lailah Gifty Akita, 2009) In other words if you don’t question your surroundings you will never move forward. This is a common theme in John, a character from Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley. John is a lonely truth seeker, he constantly questions his surroundings, who tries tries to unveil the truth. Although he may seem like a heroic guy, he is a complete alien to society in Brave New…
stories narrated by the poets lack any moral substance. The problem with these stories is that they do not transmit the truth, but shadows of the truth. This premise is based on Plato’s theory about the mimetic nature of the poetic art. For Plato, the art of poetry is the result of a process of mimesis which consists in imitating the appearances of ultimate reality, but not reality itself. According to this notion, the art of the poet is doubly removed from reality and the poet himself cannot…
universal truth and morality. The movie narrates a story of the relationships between a famous film director Martin (starred by Federico Luppi) and his son (young Juan Diego Botto), who has the same name. Family ties become central to the movie plot, as unwanted by his mother and her new family, young Martin moves to live with his father in Madrid, where the father’s homosexual eccentric friend Dante and young lover Alicia become his new family. The conflict between generations often escalating…
makes it easy to account for one’s knowledge of propositional facts whose justification one has forgotten. Moreover, the Gettier cases like the lost-dog case I established before, were the result of some inference that was made from a premise that was considered a justified belief, but not about something true (that being in the lost-dog case, seeing the rock and thinking it was the dog). The massive advantage of the casual theory is its ability to eliminate inferences (a conclusion reached on…