Baduism “On and On” is by Erykah Badu. In this song Badu expresses that life will continue regardless the circumstances. Her use of supreme mathematics, references to God, and hidden message work together to tell the reader that life does not stop for anybody. Badu uses a plethora of supreme mathematics in "On and On". For example, "I was born underwater with three dollars and six dimes/ yeah you may laugh cause you did not do your math" is a verse in her song. Supreme mathematics is said to be the highest system of mathematics in the NGE (Nation of Gods and Earths). Cypher is a representation of the number zero in supreme mathematics, and a perfect 360-degree circle. Knowledge, wisdom, and understanding are parts of the circle. Cypher is a key word in the song and she uses it many times. Cypher symbolizes the areas of one's life they have complete control over. A person's life does not depend on cypher to move forward. …show more content…
In any situation an open mind should be kept, realizing there is something to be gained. If someone think they know it all then they just might block their blessing; once the blessing is gone it is not coming back and life will continue. She then goes to say “most intellects do not believe in God but they fear us just the same.” Mankind is said to be made in God’s image. Badu tells the listener that people who do not believe in God still fear God’s people the same way they fear him. Humans are God’s creation; God gives humans life. Without God intellects live in fear, even though they do not believe in him they know that he is the creator. They continue life in fear knowing that the man they disown can take their life
A human being is a complicated entity of a contradictory nature where creative and destructive, virtuous and vicious are interwoven. Each of us has gone through various kinds of struggle at least once in a lifetime ranging from everyday discrepancies to worldwide catastrophes. There are always different causes and reasons that trigger these struggles, however, there is common ground for them as well: people are different, even though it is a truism no one seems to able to realize this statement from beyond the bounds of one’s self and reach out to approach the Other.
In conclusion, part of human nature is to demand knowledge. We demand to be able to easily understand things. We are also very possessive, to the point where it can destroy. This is shown in Till we Have Faces, by Oural demanding to be able to understand the Gods and by Oural destroying everyone she ever loved, such as Psyche, the Fox, Bardia, even her sister Redival. To be human is to ultimately destroy what one loves if it isn’t let go soon
Even as he questions their motives, he does not come to the logical assumption that these three evildoers are in fact pushing him down a path filled with evil and despair. He says that their visit "cannot be ill, cannot be good" and goes on to explain why it cannot be either of these two things.
...nt’s overpowering enforcement of conformity and their attempt to control the knowledge people have, while others understand the need for change but resist it. Change is difficult and uncomfortable. Those who have the knowledge to see injustice, and are able to step out of their comfort zone, ultimately attempting change that can benefit the society at large. When one considers that change is difficult, it is often easy to think that without wisdom one would not have to change. The happiness experienced from ignorance creates a simpler, easier way to live that does not involve irritating and painful change. Often it can be hard to pick between ignorance and knowledge. One must decide if they would be better thinking life is good, completely blinded from the truth, or if life would be better if they had the knowledge to face change, even if changing may be difficult.
In line with these questions, Durrell emphasizes that the inability to understand often leads to fear. Moreover, with little or no knowledge of an event or concept, people tend to feel powerless and out of control. Without this necessary understanding, they are unable to have any influence on the situation. One such situation is madness, which is little understood, and the source of madness virtually unknown. People often fear madness, and try to avoid others who seem "weird," different, or exhibit some sign of madness. The people who fear are "poor cattle, they do not understand" ("Zero" 266), and "they will never discover…for they have no faith" ("Zero" 264). Durrell encourages them to put away their fears and stop looking for a logical explanation to "madness": "Come. Enter into the creative activity in which you do not need your understandings. Do not mistake truth for the possessive process any longer – ratiocination, knowledge" ("Zero" 252; emphasis added). Durrell believes that not everything needs a "rational" and "logical" explanation. Furthermore, though "madness" cannot be completely explained, it does not need to be feared. The old man in the asylum attempts to understand, "look[ing] profoundly cautious, asking questions, and gathering the answers" ("Zero" 268), and he comes close to understanding the narrator. However, his fear keeps him from grasping the truth: "For the first time there is an understanding in him, but it is hidden in fear" ("Zero" 258).
The quote shows the creature’s feelings towards humanity. He believes that it is not his fault for acting like a monster but humans' fault for they refused to accept him. By isolating the creature they turned him into a monster who wanted revenge against the person who brought him into existence only to suffer. The creature only wanted to belong but when he was continuously treated terribly he saw that it would never happen and became the monster everyone expected him to be.
If one were to understand the purpose and mystery of human life as the coping with ultimate fear, whether it be death, pain, or meaninglessness, then it is possible to discuss the drastically different coping mechanisms that Camus and Christianity set forth. Both present a method in which to approach the phenomenon of fear, yet when it comes to actualizing a solution to the mystery, they turn to very different ends. The result is a society that has been left all the more confused, and has turned to both solutions in order to deal with the overwhelming fear and fundamental lack of truth that is prevalent in today’s post-modernistic philosophy.
Man's fundamental bewilderment and confusion, stems from the fact that man has no answers to the basic existential questions: why we are alive, why we have to die, why there is injustice and suffering, all this serve as the impetus for such a thinking. Man constantly wonders about the truth of life and realizes that the more you expect from it, the more it fails you or may be the more we expect from ourselves the more we find ourselves engaging in a futile battle with the odds. May be the truth is the realization of our limitations and the potency of these odds that press you down with their brutal truths….….brutal?, can the truth be brutal. But the truth is the God, ourselves, the destiny that rules us and fashions us, after a strange decree which we fail to unravel.
“Become accustomed to the belief that death is nothing to us. For all good and evil consists in sensation, but
about the darkness that lies within a person's heart, which can be seen in people's refusal to
“The wisdom of un-wisdom.”, “the meaning of unmeaning. The true meaning of life. It is that life is meaningless.” You cannot have and unmeaning without a meaning, you have to have a meaning to something for there to be an unmeaning. To me it contradicts itself. Just like meaning, you can’t have un-wisdom without some kind of wisdom to understand the un-wisdom. In the book the author says that, “deep down everything is shallow- empty, like an inflated balloon, once you get beneath the surface scrim.” In the story he points to a whole in the ceiling and points to it and says that that the world and it is fake. That made me really question our world today. I have noticed that we have a lot of fake people now a days. No one is who they want to be they are either trying to be like someone else or someone else has made them into someone they aren’t. Now a days it’s so hard to find someone that’s real, that’s knows what they want with life, who they are, and where they want to be. People now a days don’t fight for who they are. They just ignore it move on and do what that person told them the “right” thing
Though I do find myself judging others from time to time. Which I find to be more of an exercise (a positive) than anything else. I agree with both messages these philosophers are trying to deliver. Ignorance can be dangerous if we are not aware of its existence, however, by compartmentalizing our ignorance and adjusting the levels can we learn to live with it, still enjoying life. How not knowing too much or too little but just enough (balance), is the way to
Religion manifests in our midst by our parents. These illusions are "ready made." They are handed down to us from generations. We accept these ready-made ideas because these wishes speak of what is most important to us and what we're most afraid of, for example death. "Death itself is not extinction, is not a return to inorganic lifelessness, but the beginning of a new kind of existence which lies on the path of development to something higher"(pg.23). He states that religious ideas satisfy everything we are most terrified by. In reality we project human
“In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.”