A Father-Daughter Relationship

so what was the question?
uhmmm......oh how did Galileo's daughter help him out with his book etc?


well she always wrote to him, prepared medicine for him, edited his book [did the manuscripts], and when he was tooken into jail she also took partial credit for it.

St.Thomas Aquinas' Five Ways YO!

ughhhh okkk so St.Thomas Aquinas has Five Ways on something [i forgot]

• First Way: The Argument from Motion
• Second Way: Causation of Existence
• Third Way: Contingent and Necessary Objects
• Fourth Way: The Argument from Degrees and Perfection
• Fifth Way: The Argument from Intelligent Design

so i only agree with ONE of them, which is the Second Way: Causation of Existence.
so some of us believe that we are ALL created by the celestial being, G-d. well what created G-d?
such a good question, but alas we have no answer! who created the creator who began the chain of existence for all things???
this is scary.....




anyways!
the others are just confusing....they make no sense to me...
well actually they DO make sense...its just that the Second Way made waaaay more sense than any of the others!
but i think that the Fourth Way: The Argument from Degrees and Perfection is just stupid.
it makes no sense to me. its hard to explain.

St.Augustine & Gothic Architecture

i hate how we have to connect this with art history.
and i hate the fact that we MIGHT have a mini midterm on art history and philosophy.
blahhhh.



anyways so im suppose to connect st.auguatine with gothic architecture.
its somewhat pretty easy since we went over it during class on friday.
well yeah.....




St.Augustine's Philosophy
We must remove the faulty impressions of sensory knowledgeto attain divine wisdom.
G-d's grace allows us to access his good. By looking inward (introspection) and then upward (for grace), one can achieve salvationand happiness.
Only "Inner Experience," studied through introspection, was valid(later called Beatific Vision).
He believed that science and philosophy not conducted in the service of theology were suspect.


Gothic Architecture
The whole point of moving to Gothic Architecture was to move AWAY from darkness and move into light.
Abbot Suger was confused with a Syrian Saint, Dionysius.
Because Dionysius was a Neoplatonist, and in his books he constantly compares G-d to light, Abbot Suger wanted to to bring light into the churches.

GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE - LIGHT = G-D



In St.Augustine's philosophy he believed that G-d is also seen through light.
there you go. that's how it connects. ha!

Personal Reasons....

i really didnt like how today in mr.batman's class we had to read all tortures of the jews...
it really made me uncomfortable for personal reasons....
i also had a hard time just reading it outloud onto the podcast.
yeeeaaaaa..... :/

Mein Kampf [Hitler] & Common Facallies

today during class we went over some new information such as common fallacies.
well there are many common fallacies like:
-Hast Generalization
-Faulty Use of Authority
-Post Hoc or Doubtful Cause
-False Analogy
-Ad Hominem
-False Dilemma
-Slippery Slope
-Begging the Question
-Straw Man


so yeah in Adolf Hitler's On Nation And Race [Chapter 11of Mein Kampf]
i spotted a few of these Comman Fallacies.



"THERE are some truths, which are so obvious that for this very reason they are not seen or at least not recognized by ordinary people."
That quote would probably fall under the category of Ad Hominem.
Ad Hominem an attack on the person making the argument instead of the argument itself.
Basically Hitler was attacking humans [some humans in particular] for the reason being blinded and not seeing the truth.




"Every animal mates only with a member of the same species"
This would go under the category of a False Analogy.
A False Analogy is an analogy that is descriptive, but does not offer proof of a connection between the two things being compared. So the quote above is applying to the animal kingdom, but not with humans.

Pokemon&Dinosaurs

So today Emily Yang pointed out something very true.


Uhmm.......


POKEMON BATTLING IS ANIMAL ABUSE!!!!!

[thank you Emily]


oh yess and i noticed that dinosaurs are NOT extinct.
theyre just hiding...


:)thank you for your time.

umm something design, evolution, and valentines day

ok so just to start this off HAPPY VALENTINES DAY! :D
hahaha yeeaaa you guys won't believe how many text messages i got saying that(:
anyyyyywaaaaaays......our little discussion in class on friday about evolution & intelligent design
was somewhat boring. i really didn't enjoy it. i mean my opinion on it was that they should allow them to teach evolution in school.



actually maybe they should allow them to teach it in highschool......
do we really wanna have little 6 year olds already thinking that we came from monkeys?
i wouldn't, especially since my religion doesn't exactly allow us to think that way. so ya i dont want my little brothers to think like that.......at least not yet.




so really i dont mind them teaching evolution at school, unless its elementary. its really no big deal. but enough about that! hows everyone's valentines day so far? :)

Debate

Sooo today in class we had a little debate :D
it was pretty fun since we usually never debate [well in my class].


so the whole debate was about some people such as african-americans, latinos, and asians
and how they get money/financial aid to go to college.
the question that was asked was now that obama is our president should they still get money
to go to college?



In my opinion i think yes, they should.
just because obama won the election doesn't mean that we should stop giving them financial aid.
obama is just a symbol of motivation. its not like now that he's our president people are going
to suddenly get richer. there are students who dont have enough money to get into a good school
so they really need financial aid to help them! well that's just my opinion. i'm happy to hear yours(:

Modus Ponens, Modus Tollens, & Syllogisms Crap....

Oook so today in class we discussed deductive logic, syllogisms, modus ponens, modus tollens etc...


Deductive Logic is basically made up of a Syllogism, Modus Ponens, and Modus Tollens.
An example of a Syllogism would be:

All girls PMS.
Erika is a girl.
Erika PMS'.


In the Syllogism it would be in an order like
A = B
B = C
C = A


All girls PMS.
Erika is a girl.
Erika PMS'.


PMS = A
Girl = B
Erika = C


confusing much? yes.




Modus Ponens is somehow a little easier to understand (well for me).

Example:

If I shoot my mom, ill go to jail.
I shot my mom therefore, I will go to jail.

its kind of like a cause and effect thing....
It's like if something happens then something else will happen as a result.
This is very hard fore me to explain...ehhh.




Modus Tollens is just about the same as Modus Ponens except you're just making it negative.

Example:

If I'm pregnant, then I had sex.
I'm not pregnant therefore, i didn't have sex.




get me?




it was possible to click in my head fore me. eek.

2nd Semester

ok so today was the first day of the NEW semester....yaaaaay *sarcastic voice*
uhmm i wasn't satisfied with my schedule at first, but at the end of the day i was ble to change it :)

OLD SCHEDULE

• Per. 1- Spanish 2A
• Per. 2- Swim
• Per. 3- CORE
• Per. 4- CORE
• Per. 5- H.Geometry
• Per. 6- H.Bio

NEW SCHEDULE

• Per. 1- H.Bio
• Per. 2- PE
• Per. 3- CORE
• Per. 4- CORE
• Per. 5- H.Geometry
• Per. 6- Spanish 2A

soooo i guess it's been a pretty good day so far. that makes me happy(: