Philosophy and Ethics: Says Who?

My thought on this lesson 2 was very confused and not easy to understand everything. I am sure that I was not able to catch up when he is talking but still it was different than lesson 1. During I watch this lesson, there was one thing specifically catched my attention. It was Cosmic Cube. Here in this lesson, Cosmic Cube is a closed box which there is a room for anything which must be materially perceived. Therefore, in Cosmic Cube, there is no God because He is figureless. While I concentrated on this question, Dr. Dell said "God is and He has revealed himself to us". Which made a complete connection between Cosmos and God. It quite made sense to me, but still there was one question. The question is that actually some people believe just believe, then why do they just believe. People believe someone because he or she shows confidences at something. But! A confidence is not a material. Then, is it possible to make us to believe God, if God shows us confidences? If so, He didn't have to send his son on this earth. My question did not get the answer but video kept going on. Next thing Dr. Dell talked about was philosophy. What I wanted to hear from this topic was the answer for the meaning and purpose of life. However, because our class time ran out and we could not watch it all today, I could not get the answer for it. I want the answer would not be the boring one like we live because we need to serve God and honor Him because that is what we can easily think of and also we cannot easily accept. But I want the answer to be the one that has many supports so that I can think about it enough to understand.

Veritology: What is Truth?

Why was Jesus born? Why did He come into this world? I always thought He came into this world to make connection with God though him. Maybe other people might think he came here to save us or to show people there is God who created this world. My opinion for those thoughts is it can be all right. But here, in this video, Dr. Dell specifically says Jesus came into this world to testify to the truth. He goes on with what is the truth. He tells us here Jesus mentioned about the truth 75 times and He answered people with the word "Truly Truly..." 25 times. It was amazing how Jesus actually focused on truth very much just in the New Testament. Also he tells us how we are connected with sins. It was understandable that men are sinful nature. However, in the third person's position, believing that Jesus is God and there is a god who created us is hard to understand because God does not have a feature to make us possible to believe there is God who made us and He is amazing. I think this project was focused on believers not the non-believers because Dr. Dell mentioned that Jesus said worrying about things happening around us proves that we have little faith as a support of our actions reflect what we believe to be really real. To me, this video will give a lot of changes in my life but I doubt that whether it may impact on the non-believers. I have more times to watch this project but one thing I wanted from this lesson one was it would have been better if this project started with attempts to give them sources and supports that there is God and we are made by Him not evolved from monkey or something.

Blindness

In the movie "If Only",which is my favorite movie, there comes one couple. The guy is a successful business man and the girl is teaching children violin and also plays in a concert. They live together so they go to their work places together every morning. The setting of the movie is one day morning in England. This morning, he has a important presentation to perform. But by his girlfriend's misunderstanding, she comes into his presentation to give important file which she thought to give him even though she realizes the file she brought is wrong file after. After she leaves, he finish the meeting and thinks his presentation is messed up. So he decides to go meet his girlfriend. He takes the taxi and he unexpectedly talks about his girlfriend with the taxi driver. He goes to her concert, tells her how she messed up his presentation, and also tells to break up even though the taxi driver told him to thank her and just love her. This story does not end like this but also it is not happy ending. He is blind. He cannot see how she is precious to him because he focuses too much on his work. Even though he loves her and live together, he decides to break up for work. It was a very extreme decision because he could think of anything that can solve his conflict but he choose to break up. I understand how he felt at that time. But I think he made a wrong decision because I think people can be successful men if they work hard but people can not be successful in love unless they do give their whole heart. In this movie, he has a second chance to solve his same conflict again. AND? he shows how he felt when he is in love with her. I think everyone does not realize which things are important and which are less important but what we need to do is think carefully if we miss something in our lives.

Anxiety

Since I am changed as time passes, my way of dealing with anxiety also changed.

I used to deal with anxiety by just expressing to anybody when I was young. It was very bad way to deal with it. But since I know it is a bad way, suddenly I started to cry, listen to music, or eat a lot. Still this time, I have no idea that whether those ways are bad. However, it makes me at least calm down even though nothing has changed. Those are the way I deal with anxiety and my strategy I use is playing the piano. The song? of course I play noisy and fast one. It is a really good strategy for me to get rid of my anxiety because when I play the piano, that time brings my focus 100%. So after I play the piano. My anxiety suddenly disappear. Of course this strategy is applied when I'm having a conflict with people. However, It is not the way I am solving the conflict. The way I am solving the conflict was ignoring that people completely. But NOW? I am different. Since my mother teaches me why ignoring people and avoding people are not good, I am now trying to solve a conflict through conversation.