“The Tri-Part Convergence”
Silent and still like a rock.
Silent, always withholding, never forgetting.
What was me has become a rock. I guard my mind, shields of psychic armor. They batter
me down, he blasts me. He attachs the chinks, he flashes images of her and of faces not seen
in centuries. He tries to appeal to part of me which he ascertains must still be human. But
the walls are higher and more numerous than even he can possibly imagine.
“Human” has no relevance when the body is gone, when physical need is diminished, when
individuality is marked only by an intuitive sense of one another’s “colors,” or auras, if you
will, and by the retention of one’s last bastion of autonomy: memory. John Locke insisted
that continuous memory holds the key to the unified sense of self. I long ago adopted this
philosophy in the hope, perhaps futile, of maintaining some form of sanity here...
Who and what I was has lost relevance. And yet I persist, static and in between, and none
shall pass throguh my psychic fortitude.
Time, another unsurety... I steel my mind against their battering rams, but periodically, I
must recite the story to myself to retain MYSELF. Countless recitations have reduced the
tale to little less than a nursery rhyme... the meaning has, perhaps, long been lost, like automoton
chants in masonic halls. But I persist, and I recite; I recite to persist.
Again.
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The Tri-Part Convergence and Its Effect of Life on Earth as We Knew It
A Brief Disclaimer on Impotence
Though perhaps recording such cataclysmic events seems futile in the advent of the destruction of our fragile
planet, I write the story nonetheless. I must confess that my role as a historian and lecturer holds little worth
now; my life p...
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...mors abound within the caves about a set of Scrolls which
hold to code to unlock Kaytal, but why would the Machine leave instructions for its own undoing? Alternately,
can we truly interpret the behavior of a purely synthetic entity as being human-like, even if infused with
millions of shards of human consciousness?
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It was after I had lost someone in my life that was my other half. I didn’t understand who I was, what my purpose was, what made me who I am. As far as I was concerned I was reduced to nothing more than an individual that was now alone. I didn’t realize that my identity was partly crafted from simply just being by their side all the time, that whenever I was introduced to someone, or was talking to mutuals about them, I was known for being their best friend. After the fiasco that became the end of our relationship, I felt as if I was just floating through the days and nights. This feeling went on for about 2 months until I slowly came out of it. I didn’t experience a grand epiphany of any sort that inspired me to change myself. I was painting and listening to music and the thought just slowly came to me. I love to paint, and I love listening to and creating and playing music. I began to gain back my sense of identity by engaging in activities I loved. I’m a painter, a musician, a writer, a passionate lover of movies. I’ve learned that identity can isn’t set in stone, there’s always room for
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What does it mean to be human? To most people it means being high on the food chain; or having the ability to make our own choices. People everywhere have a few things in common: We all must obey Natural laws, and we have preconceived ideas, stereotypes, and double standards. Being human is simply conveyed as human nature in “The Cold Equations”, by Tom Godwin, where the author shows the common ground that makes each and every one of us human.
Locke clarified the problem by pointing out his notions that mostly derived from the natural state of human beings. Each man was originally born and predestined to have his own body, hands, head and so forth which can help him to create his own labor. When he knew how to use his personal mind and labor to appropriate bountiful subjects around him, taking them "out of the hands of...
...take away the freedom of thought. It will stay with us until the end of time. Viktor E. Frankl illustrated this in his essay “An Inner Freedom” from the book Man’s Search for Meaning. He stated, “The sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision and not the result of amp influences alone.”
When you think of nursery rhymes, do you think of innocent, silly games you played as a child? Think again. Most of the nursery rhymes that have become so popular with the children were never intended for them. Most began as folk songs or ballads sung in taverns. These songs (rhymes) all most always were written to make fun of religious leaders or to gossip about kings and queens (Brittanica pars. 1-5). Nursery rhymes are being studied the past few decades as a way to help children learn their alphabet and numbers. These rhymes have been proven affective in helping children's language skills improve. As I began to explore different nursery rhymes, I found that they opened up and disclosed some of the secrets, light and dark of the persons, animals, or familiar places they were written about. The Encyclopedia Britannica define nursery rhymes as verses that are customarily told or sung to small children. The oral tradition of these rhymes are ancient some dating back as early as the 1500's, but most date form the 16th, 17th and most frequently the 18th centuries. ( Brittanica pars. 1-5).
For individual property to exist, there must be a means for individuals to appropriate the things around them. Locke starts out with the idea of the property of person; each person owns his or her own body, and all the labor that they perform with the body. When an individual adds their own labor, their own property, to a foreign object or good, that object becomes their own because they have added their labor. This appropriation of goods does not demand the consent of humankind in general, each person has license to appropriate things in this way by individual initiative.
idea of “agency” (Gravett 61-71). This idea can most easily be described as a human’s ability to
To conclude, then, the central premises of Locke's philosophy in our duty to preserve the lives of ourselves and others as god's creations and property, as well as our moral equality through our inalienable rights as individuals shines through in his writings on revolution.
Memory is a marvelous aspect of who we are as human beings. It can produce delight, warning, affection, thought, sentimentality, and feelings of commitment. When memory is invoked, we are called to attention. The past becomes present and we become present to events in the past in a way that pushes us into the future. Memory is the way past events and commitments “live” for us and continue to touch us in a very real way.
Who are you? Do you ever wonder who you truly are and what your purpose is? Many might still be in the process of understanding and developing themselves, just like Esperanza. A person's identity highly depends on one’s influences throughout their lives. Just like Esperanza's identity is sculpted by her genial friends and notorious neighbors. A person's identity is also revealed by one’s desires or goals. Lastly, a person’s personality is constructed by the vicissitudes of life or incidents that take place throughout their lifetime, just like Esperanza who encounters vast multifarious incidents. Overall, a person's identity is assembled by influences, their goals and incidents that occur to them in their existence.
For ages, Philosophers have struggled with the dispute of whether human actions are performed “at liberty” or not. “It is “the most contentious question, of metaphysics, the most contentious science” (Hume 528). In Section VIII of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, David Hume turns his attention in regards to necessary connection towards the topics “Of Liberty and Necessity.” Although the two subjects may be one of the most arguable questions in philosophy, Hume suggests that the difficulties and controversies surrounding liberty (i.e. free will) and necessity (i.e. causal determinism) are simply a matter of the disputants not having properly defined their terms. He asserts that all people, “both learned and ignorant, have always been of the same opinion with regard to this subject and that a few intelligible definitions would immediately have put an end to the whole controversy” (Hume 522). Hume’s overall strategy in section VIII is to adhere by his own claim and carefully define “liberty” and ‘necessity” and challenge the contemporary associations of the terms by proving them to be compatible.
John Locke believes that A is identical with B, if and only if, A remembers the thoughts, feelings, and actions had or done by B from a first-person point of view. This shows that the important feature, memory, is linking a person from the beginning of their life to the end of their life. Locke’s memory theory would look something like this: The self changes over time, so it may seem like personal identity changes too. However, even if you are changing, you are still retaining past memories. Therefore, if you can retain memories, memories are the link between you and an earlier you, so personal identity persists over time. So, memory is the necessary and sufficient condition of personal
"I once asked myself, how history was written. I said, "I have to invent it." When I wish as now to tell of critical incidents, persons, and events that have influenced my life and work, the true answer is all of the incidents were critical, all of the people influenced me, everything that happened and that is still happening influences me."