The passages read from Calvino’s Cosmicomics used abstract concepts to get Calvino’s ideas and statements across. Calvino used an ageless being named Qfwfq to help him get his ideas and thoughts across. Calvino not only uses an ageless being, but he also uses love stories, since love is universal, to help the reader feel more connected and understand what Calvino is trying to say. The love stories Calvino uses to explore his ideas on complexity for simplicity are similar as they are different. There are four passages that had some sort of a love story to portray Calvino’s ideas. Throughout each love story Calvino uses Qfwfq to fall in love with another character. A commonality found throughout each passage was that Qfwfq always had an …show more content…
While the moon was close Qfwfq, some of his family, and others who knew about the moon would climb ladders to be on the moon and collect the milk. After some time Qfwfq began to fall in love with a woman on the ship named Mrs. Vhd Vhd. This passage also had a love triangle going on with Qfwfq who loved the Captain's wife Mrs. Vhd Vhd but she loved Qfwfq deaf cousin, and Qfwfq’s deaf cousin loved the moon. This love story is similar to “The form of Space,” because Qfwfq was jealous of another man who stole his lover. In “the form of space” Qfwfq was jealous of lieutenant Fenimore who had at times the attention of Ursula while in “the distance from the moon,” Qfwfq’s deaf cousin had the attention of his lover Mrs. Vhd Vhd. Both of these passages had a love triangle that Qfwfq had to deal with. They both also had Qfwfq either think or do something indespicable to get his lover. In the passage “the form of space” Qfwfq dreams of what he would do if he crossed paths with Ursula or lieutenant Fenimore. In “the distance from the moon” Qfwfq actually jumps onto the moon to be with his lover but regrets doing so after some time on the moon with his lover who just sits hoping to be like the moon. Not only are there commonalities but there are also differences that take place throughout the different …show more content…
Throughout the passage it is very clear which side Vug is on and which side Qfwfq is on. Vug likes the crystals with more edge and prefers a lot of small ones that are each unique, while Qfwfq wants a huge single crystal with a recurring pattern and lining to it. Comparing both passages and the different sides Qfwfq takes is a very interesting topic to think about. It was quite shocking to hear Qfwfq talk about a topic that was outside of his usual thinking. Calvino was very persistent throughout his previous chapters that he was on the side of complexity. When this chapter was presented and Calvino started arguing about the ideas of simplicity and how much he would rather appreciate a single crystal with a simple pattern than what Vug wanted, which was the complete
similarity they share is that to not judge people based on there looks. Some people judge right
In the article The Cosmic Perspective by Neil deGrasse Tyson he examines a range of topics from human life coming from Mars to how our perspective of the universe relates to religion. In the year 2000, a new space show opened at the Hayden Planetarium called Passport to the Universe, which compared the size of people Milky Way and beyond. While a show like this might make someone feel minuscule and insignificant, Tyson says that seeing the size of the universe actually makes him feel more alive not less and gives him a sense of grandeur. I agree with his idea that looking at us as a people in comparison can actually give you a sense of grandeur. However, when I compare myself to the vastness of space, it puts events on Earth in perspective while showing how influential we can be as a people even if we are small.
The two were alike in many aspects as described above, but had some dissimilarity as well which are summed up as:
Cleanthes is trying to argue, using the analogy of the Watch and the Watchmaker, that an intelligent designer must be assumed for the purpose-revealing watch, so an intelligent Grand Designer may be inferred in explaining the purpose-revealing world. Both products, the world and watch, reveal an intricate and positive design; thus, each has to have its own intelligent designer. Also, because the universe is like a watch, we can infer it has an intelligent designer by the fact that it may be proved to be mechanical through mathematical concepts. In a watch several parts are put together for a purpose. The parts are together in a particular formation, so there must be reasons for its placement, giving away its cause of existence. Given that the watch has a purpose, this obvious design would force one to conclude the watch must have had a maker. Perfection, like that in a watch, needs a creator because the coincidence or chance of being made without a creator is highly unlikely. The belief that a watchmaker will always exists, even if the individual does or know a watchmaker or has seen a watch made, no other explanation of a watch’s existence could be feasible or logical without believing that there was once a watchmaker. Whether the contraption works or not is not the focus; the focus is on whether a plan has been made for the instrument to reveal that a design was intended.
As much as we may think our lives are so much different from others, there are many ways that they can be similar. I learned this in a novel called “The Other Side of the Sky: A Memoir” by Farah Ahmedi. Although the similarities of our cultures are there, the differences are obvious from the beginning. For example, the way we dress, what religions we believe in, and the food we eat. There are many different ways that our cultures compare, including our religion, how we eat, and our languages.
The reason we do not go out looking for the differences between them is because some individuals are afraid of any difference that breaks their social norm. Each person is unique in their own way, having vast differences and challenges that they may face to become themselves. These differences and challenges are what bring us together and make up the communities we live in. They could be someones teacher, best friend, sister. or brother, they could even be someones role model.
The similarities begin with the creation stories, although these similarities are very minimal. In both the Christian creation story, Genesis, and in many accounts of the
shown plainly to be part of a cyclic design. The famous motif which dominates the first
...onversation among three individuals who have different beliefs. The aspect of the argument of design is an important one because it sheds light on Hume’s belief once Philo and Demea prove that the argument is weak. Cleanthes’ argument is an a posteriori argument (or empirical argument), which is an argument that solely relies on past experience and reason rather than faith or nature. Cleanthes tried to prove God’s nature through “past experience,” but because God is a deity and is not able to be seen, it is impossible to base his nature on past experience. His argument is certainly not believable, but Philo and Demea’s criticisms make sense and prove that the argument is weak. Since religion is so complex, there are bound to be things that are not going to be answered, including God’s nature. Hume’s Dialogues makes this evident and provides more food for thought.
These civilizations present many resemblances that were once part of the foundations of their society. Although both of these civilizations were at one point enemies of one another, they had similar correlations that shaped and formed their cultures and societies. The main difference between these two civilizations is religion. Without its differences, each civilization had governed its people in manners that it could not be differentiated among each other. Overall, these civilizations presented different methods of leading a civilization and still had similarities among one another.
Paley’s analogy came about from the concept of a stone. He encountered this stone during his walk and wondered how it came about (Paley, 1802, 196). He applies the idea that since a designer must have created this stone, this designer must have created other things just like how a watch is created by a watchmaker. His analogy for a watch and its watch maker becomes his key argument because he argues that you cannot come to a conclusion that a stone was formed by a natural process, just like how when you look at a watch it has a watchmaker (Paley, 1802, 96). When comparing it to a stone, Paley says someone must have created it.
At the universal level, all individuals are like all other individuals in some respects. All human beings share common characteristics such as birth, biology, love, death, self-awareness, and language.
When it comes to religious beliefs, people have opinions that can be very conservative, to people who have extremist opinions. It is nearly impossible to say whose opinions are correct, but one thing that can be found in their opinions is a middle ground. From religion to religion, people tend to have some degree of similarities in their beliefs or practices. I saw something parallel to this during my interviews. I interviewed four very different people, from different generations, and different religions, yet I found similarities within many of their answers.
Philo contends that Cleanthes’s comparison may be too narrow for a universe with so much diversity, in page 25 “When nature has so extremely diversified her manner of operation in this small globe; can we imagine that she incessantly copies herself throughout so immense a universe?” Since Cleanthes argument of design is used to prove that there is a God, and he is arguing that the universe is like a machine. Cleanthes argues that machines just don’t pop out of nowhere, that there must be an underlying cause. That this underlying cause is a designer that is similar to humans.
However, the diversity between the two is not always as spot on as they think, well, at least initially they don’t. They share characteristics such as independence and responsibility but play particular roles throughout life. Other characteristics that both compare and contrast such as innocence is a factor. And, of course, everyone develops differently with their own episodes as a child and then to become of