chasing what doesn't exist jus makes it worse
I have triple periods, I had two today.
There was this whole discussion about 'what is history'. two days of this lesson, and we're not even going to start with tudor england yet. not that i crave to learn about the annoying-ness of white anglo saxon europe and their later dominance over the rest of the world.
So there were loads of repetitive final definitions people came up with. Sort of along the lines of 'History is the study/analysis of what has happened.' and then 'since all sources are biased, we have to study all sources in the world which is technically unreal' and 'a study of all things important doesn't sound right since that would be a biased study'. basically what comes through is you study all those sources, you compare, analyze their reliability, evaluate the contents whether primary and secondary, then formulate your own biased opinion.
I wrote something like 'history is a highly controversial matter' etc. there was this one statement where apparently, history/past from a philosophical view questions our very existence. hilarious - "what can give us evidence that we actually exist and what happened actually happened?". Sounds like Plato to me. we don't know until we're not a part of 'existence', the whole cave and mirror issue. If that's so, why not bother study it, if you feel that our senses are just deluding us.
Hey, this actually occurred to me. I was reading Haruki Murakami, I think the book was 'Hard-Boiled Wonderland' where the main guy's brain gets wired to a different world. So basically, he exists in this world as a normal person but after this series of events, the countdown ends, the chip in his brain connects to this 'other world'. He becomes a vegetable in 'the real world' and lives in the other being a dream reader. In this land, there are unicorns and your shadow (the symbol of memories, former self, the ability to be curious, intuitive) is taken away from you. Slowly, the protagonist loses his past but just before he 'switches' he's left with this weird sense of deja vu - has he been here before? which world is real? which isn't? Is it what you sense or are you being deluded by your senses.
so i sat there in history, telling myself that if i keep asking this, i'll turn grey. literary genius #1 used mega long words to convey the fact that history itself, w/ it's preconceptions is the biggest proof we exist. Shes in my eng class, a little annoying, im probably just being jealous cause she can express herself a load better than me. my language is so convoluted. or messy, as it is here.
so at the end of the session, the boring people around me have come up with these generic 'philosophical' answers. all encompassing.
I got lost in physics, we spent the entire session calculating units, micro, mega, giga and conversions. that was hellish. and boring, the girl next to me is typical asian, math and science genius, so I had to keep checking my answers with here, which is pretty sad. And i'm starting off english w/ coursework - john keats.
There was this whole discussion about 'what is history'. two days of this lesson, and we're not even going to start with tudor england yet. not that i crave to learn about the annoying-ness of white anglo saxon europe and their later dominance over the rest of the world.
So there were loads of repetitive final definitions people came up with. Sort of along the lines of 'History is the study/analysis of what has happened.' and then 'since all sources are biased, we have to study all sources in the world which is technically unreal' and 'a study of all things important doesn't sound right since that would be a biased study'. basically what comes through is you study all those sources, you compare, analyze their reliability, evaluate the contents whether primary and secondary, then formulate your own biased opinion.
I wrote something like 'history is a highly controversial matter' etc. there was this one statement where apparently, history/past from a philosophical view questions our very existence. hilarious - "what can give us evidence that we actually exist and what happened actually happened?". Sounds like Plato to me. we don't know until we're not a part of 'existence', the whole cave and mirror issue. If that's so, why not bother study it, if you feel that our senses are just deluding us.
Hey, this actually occurred to me. I was reading Haruki Murakami, I think the book was 'Hard-Boiled Wonderland' where the main guy's brain gets wired to a different world. So basically, he exists in this world as a normal person but after this series of events, the countdown ends, the chip in his brain connects to this 'other world'. He becomes a vegetable in 'the real world' and lives in the other being a dream reader. In this land, there are unicorns and your shadow (the symbol of memories, former self, the ability to be curious, intuitive) is taken away from you. Slowly, the protagonist loses his past but just before he 'switches' he's left with this weird sense of deja vu - has he been here before? which world is real? which isn't? Is it what you sense or are you being deluded by your senses.
so i sat there in history, telling myself that if i keep asking this, i'll turn grey. literary genius #1 used mega long words to convey the fact that history itself, w/ it's preconceptions is the biggest proof we exist. Shes in my eng class, a little annoying, im probably just being jealous cause she can express herself a load better than me. my language is so convoluted. or messy, as it is here.
so at the end of the session, the boring people around me have come up with these generic 'philosophical' answers. all encompassing.
I got lost in physics, we spent the entire session calculating units, micro, mega, giga and conversions. that was hellish. and boring, the girl next to me is typical asian, math and science genius, so I had to keep checking my answers with here, which is pretty sad. And i'm starting off english w/ coursework - john keats.