In the beginning, before the world was created, there was only Everything and Nothing. Nothing was the void, and Everything was the matter which filled it. At first, Everything and Nothing were content with their existence, but they soon grew to be lonely, and bored, with nothing to do other than simply be. They decided to have a child, and ended up with twin boys, Chaos and Order. Chaos and Order, as twins were naturally competitive, but their sibling rivalry soon got out of hand.
They were always in a competition to one-up the other, and to prove which brother was better. Chaos was the older of the two, and therefore always got to go first in these competitions, with Order forced to try and make some sense out of his brother’s mess. Chaos created the planets, swerving crazily all around each other, so Order made the sun for them to orbit around. Chaos made darkness all around, so Order made the stars to light up the constant night. Chaos flooded Everything and Nothing with water, so Order forced all of the water into Everything, with Nothing binding it all together as a seal.
Eventually, their parents tired of these violent disruptions and outburts, and decided to kill Order and Chaos and try again for some quieter children. Order and Chaos overheard their parents plotting, and uncharacteristically decided to work together to overthrow their parents. Brought together for a common cause, Order and Chaos were stronger than Everything and Nothing. Locked in a desperate struggle, Order and Chaos triumphed over Everything and Nothing. As punishment for their parent’s treachery and conspiracy against them, the brothers forced Everything into a tiny ball, and flung Nothing high above her, so that their parents could never again mee...
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...ome Order in his heart, as he demanded that the brothers return to their original agreement: Chaos first, and Order second. Each brother put two fundamental concepts into the human heart, to predispose them toward Order or Chaos. Order gave the humans time and hope, while Chaos gave them greed and emptiness. Then both brothers watched and waited in their ultimate competition. Depending which path the human heart chose, and which concepts were nurtured in it, the brothers would have their answer. If Order was the stronger, then the human race would overcome their inadequacies and truly become the caretakers that he had intended them to be. But, if Chaos was the stronger brother, then the human race would disregard their planet and watch it fall into ruin around them. The brothers are still waiting for the day when their human creations decide which of them to follow.
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The Scientific Context of the Word Chaos In a scientific context, the word chaos has a slightly different
...ndaries, overpower nature and therefore control society, will result in adverse affects. Both creators, ultimately lost control of their creations; representing their loss of power and both creators attempting to play God faced death from their creations. Human nature embodies rationality and passion and also undeniably, the lust for power and control. Humans and “artificial” humans are seen to convey these elements. However, challenging the heirarchy will only lead to corruption and destruction of the individual and society.
In “The Plague”, by Albert Camus, Joseph Grand experiences a creative stagnation. He cannot get past his opening sentence: “One fine morning in the month of May an elegant young horsewoman might have been seen riding a handsome sorrel mare along the flowery avenue of the Bois de Boulogne.” Having revised it and rearranged it for years, he cannot make sense of it and fails to generate a story. His idea of perfection ruins his creative side. He frantically wants the precise words and thinks that learning Latin will make him a better writer. He uses all of his time and energy creating a first perfect sentence, something that he never achieves. Every time he finishes the sentence, he is unsatisfied and writes it again. He does not allow himself to create his masterpiece since he is so preoccupied with the degree of correctness and clarity.
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Moral panics surrounding the health, wellbeing, and behavior of teenagers have flared up consistently over the past decade, from getting drunk off vodka tampons to getting ‘high’ off MP3s downloaded on the Internet, or i-dosing. The popularity of the Internet among youth has inflamed moral panics, in which parents shift the blame onto a media form due to their fears about a new technology or a cultural phenomenon that they cannot control, and which they perceive as negatively impacting society. In his article The Cultural Power of an Anti-Television Metaphor, Jason Mittell discusses how framing a perceived societal ill as similar to a drug makes people believe it is a public health threat. The scientifically baseless moral panic of i-dosing illustrates the fears of parents, community authority figures, and the media that the Internet
It is ironic that the entity in existence was the being called Chaos, for although it's Greek translation is Chasm, or emptiness, I believe that chaos and disorder will be their fate if the gods continue this eternal cycle of increasing self destructive behavior. All of this, however, was created as through the beliefs and imagination of Hesiod. Historians and mythologists still can not concretely separate, in his two stories, the Theogony and the Works and Days, which parts were of his imagination and which were not; it is therefore difficult to determine what the author's overall message was to the readers. It is possible that Hesiod wrote these stories in order to discredit the gods with gossip of their alleged human-like violence and sexual transgressions.
Ancient Greek creation story, the earth began with darkness and nothingness- a void, or Chaos, as known to the Greeks (Genesis 1:2; Tripp 159). This Chaos was the bearer (meaning that he gave birth to) of Ge/Gaia (Earth), Tartarus (underworld), Eros (love and sex), Erebus (darkness), and Nyx (night) (Tripp 159). In the Christian creation story, God is the parallel to the Greek Chaos in that he invents the same things (with the exception of an underworld; the creation of Adam and Eve and their later reproduction could be comparable to Eros) as Chaos bore (Genesis 1:1-18).
Everything else was silent, empty, dark, and endless. Love was then born out of nowhere, bringing a start of order. From love came Light and Day. Once Light and Day was born, so was Gaea, the earth. Then Erebus and Night slept together, and gave birth to Ether, the heavenly light and the earthly light to Day.
The symbolic world views of how the world was created can be described through the cosmogonies of Genesis and the Laws of Manu. It is through these theories that one can learn how the universe came into existence. Many individuals consider a certain religion to be their ultimate realm of reality, and it is within religion that these symbolic world views come into play. The cosmogony of Genesis began along a sacred history of time where god created merely by speaking. In contrast, the Laws of Manu involve creation through thought. In Genesis, there is only one god and in Laws of Manu there is more than one god. Both cosmogonies have many similarities as they have many differences, yet both of them are significant in understanding and interpreting the philosophy of religion and its traditions. Although god believes that everything he created is good, I believe that the existence of god is questionable when there is so much evil in the universe.
This disturbance exhibits the interference of malicious forces, the rage of God himself because of said forces, and the eventual correction of the wrongdoers in the end.
During the Destabilization phase, which occurred between 1960 and 1975, consisted on political individuals, policy makers, and other important bureaucrats started to question what was known as the “penal status quo”. During this time frame there were numerous new opportunities being formed, due to the civil rights initiatives as well as anti-war protests. These opportunities were not necessarily positive; these opportunities were starting to modify the penal and political fields. These changes created the perfect environment for what was termed as emergent crime politics. This basically is when a political leader or runner is benefiting off of crime to gain ground politically. This then caused a response at a state level to actually define
In Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad, the strongest conflict is an internal conflict that is most prominently shown in Marlow and Kurtz. This conflict is the struggle between their image of themselves as civilized human beings and the ease of abandoning their morality once they leave society. This inability has a close resemblance to the chaos theory. This is shown through the contrast of Kurtz as told by others and the actuality of him and through the progression of Marlow's character throughout Heart of Darkness.
Otalora is the manifestation of the Order Created by Man, or rather the illusion of the Order Created by Man. Throughout the story, Otalora is completely unaware of the trap that is being slowly set for him, and is convinced that he is in complete control. While the reader knows, or at least believes, that he himself is nowhere as uninformed, brash, and reckless as our protagonist, nevertheless Borges is trying to say that we shouldn’t completely surrender ourselves to the egocentric idea that we are in total control of ourselves and the world around us. There is something deeper, more sinister, subtle, yet ultimately controlling and unavoidable; that is the Chaos of the Universe.
The “why” and “how” of proper order are two themes of four major ones that help explain proper order. In edict to have a good understanding of both the “why” and “how”, we must take into account the “what” and “where”. The meaning behind these two concepts, integrated with the former, are sufficient for a knowledgeable explanation of proper order as being fragile and paradoxical. Confucius, Mencius and Xun-Zi give us a great in-depth understanding to analyze a possible answer to “why” and “how” in proper order as ‘life’.