Post by Hernesto Villacorta on Sept 7, 2015 3:37:02 GMT
Philosophy 8
Professor: David Lane
September 6th 2015
Code: 11632
1. Drawings from the Star Trek metaphor, and using your own life as a template, describe three or more incidents from your life where you reacted as “Spock”, “Kirk”, and “Scotty”.
One incident that comes to mind that combines all three is when I was thirteen years old. It was a Saturday afternoon I was at playing outside with my friends tag. When I hear my mother yells at me to come inside and eat. So, I rush into the house and she begins to tell me that I need to go with older sister so she can take her senior pictures. I begin to nag and say I don’t feel like going and my sister to convince me to go with her tells me she will buy some new pants. After we established that I was getting pants, she tells me her friend was going to take us to the places we needed to go. It’s about 5pm in the evening now. I’m pretty excited that we are going. So, we get into my sisters friends car an old station wagon with the trunk connected with the back seat, and as always I call out “Shotgun” and my sister bursts into laughter and says go ahead sit in the front. We depart and we get to our first destination which is a small photo shop store. As we enter the store my sister pays the clerk for about 13 pictures each one different from the other. After ten minutes of waiting she finishes and is super excited about her pictures. Then we head home, but I tell her if we were going to get my pants and she says yes. We make it home and her friend tells her that he will wait for us outside in the streets instead of the parkway. So we enter our home and tell my mother we are going to get my pants and she says okay, but my older brother had told us beforehand that we should wait for him but we decide not to wait for him. It’s 8:15pm in the evening now we get into my sisters friends car. As we depart we sing along a few songs so we wouldn’t be bored. About a quarter of a mile, we get to a light as soon as it turns green we go up a small bridge. I remember getting hit on the head once and my “Spock” in me begins to rationalize the situation like how does one get hit on the head with the car not begin in motion, then not even a minute later I get hit again on the head this time I feel blood rushing down my face as if I was in a scary movie. As I turn around my sister is in the back screaming that someone had struck her as well, now all three characters come into play for. Spock was trying to see how we were going to get out of this situation knowing that my sister’s friend had an obsession with her and he would do anything to get her. I see him trying to pull her out and I scream and tell him to leave her in the car and that he would need to take us to my brother’s job, thinking about the safety of my sister and me. All I can think right now is to survive and not die because I’m bleeding heavily and my sister is in the back bleeding also. Kirk came into mind when I thought of what would my father tell us for not begin obedient and I start feeling anxious and worry about all that. We finally make it to my brother’s job and from there we get taken to the hospital. In the hospital I get shot with anesthesia, about an hour later I wake and I begin to freak out and the Scotty in me tries to figure out how I’m I going to get out from here, but I was in shock so I felt like everyone was out to hurt me and my sister. After a few days in the hospital I was fine and so was my sister. I thank the Lord for saving my sisters and my life that day.
2. Drawings from the film, Surfing Matrix, and using our own life as a template, describe two or more incidents from your own life where you experienced an unusual coincidence. How would Bertrand Russell or a skeptic explain it rationally?
Often times I always think to myself everything happens for a reason. There was an incident that happened to me about a year ago. I was in the library doing homework when suddenly this young lady very pretty if I do say so myself comes by and ask me for a pencil and I gladly give her my pencil. Now, logically thinking I say to myself wouldn’t it be nice if I saw her again. A week passes and nothing. So I tell myself if I happen to see her again I will ask her out on a date. So the following week comes and I walk into the student services center and from across the room I hear my name and I don’t believe my eyes it was that same young lady I meet at the library. I start laughing because I was not expecting to see her, so like I promised I ask her out and we hangout and talk. I was so stunned by the fact that I crossed her path twice. Most of the time when I see someone it’s just once. Bertrand Russell or any skeptic would say that it’s based on chance and how many people were there at the student services center. It wasn’t luck it was chance because you didn’t have to enter the building at that moment you could have waited another week to go fix your schedule but you didn’t. That day I came to realize that things don’t happen for a reason or by miracles, it’s based on the probability of the situation and its chances.
Professor: David Lane
September 6th 2015
Code: 11632
1. Drawings from the Star Trek metaphor, and using your own life as a template, describe three or more incidents from your life where you reacted as “Spock”, “Kirk”, and “Scotty”.
One incident that comes to mind that combines all three is when I was thirteen years old. It was a Saturday afternoon I was at playing outside with my friends tag. When I hear my mother yells at me to come inside and eat. So, I rush into the house and she begins to tell me that I need to go with older sister so she can take her senior pictures. I begin to nag and say I don’t feel like going and my sister to convince me to go with her tells me she will buy some new pants. After we established that I was getting pants, she tells me her friend was going to take us to the places we needed to go. It’s about 5pm in the evening now. I’m pretty excited that we are going. So, we get into my sisters friends car an old station wagon with the trunk connected with the back seat, and as always I call out “Shotgun” and my sister bursts into laughter and says go ahead sit in the front. We depart and we get to our first destination which is a small photo shop store. As we enter the store my sister pays the clerk for about 13 pictures each one different from the other. After ten minutes of waiting she finishes and is super excited about her pictures. Then we head home, but I tell her if we were going to get my pants and she says yes. We make it home and her friend tells her that he will wait for us outside in the streets instead of the parkway. So we enter our home and tell my mother we are going to get my pants and she says okay, but my older brother had told us beforehand that we should wait for him but we decide not to wait for him. It’s 8:15pm in the evening now we get into my sisters friends car. As we depart we sing along a few songs so we wouldn’t be bored. About a quarter of a mile, we get to a light as soon as it turns green we go up a small bridge. I remember getting hit on the head once and my “Spock” in me begins to rationalize the situation like how does one get hit on the head with the car not begin in motion, then not even a minute later I get hit again on the head this time I feel blood rushing down my face as if I was in a scary movie. As I turn around my sister is in the back screaming that someone had struck her as well, now all three characters come into play for. Spock was trying to see how we were going to get out of this situation knowing that my sister’s friend had an obsession with her and he would do anything to get her. I see him trying to pull her out and I scream and tell him to leave her in the car and that he would need to take us to my brother’s job, thinking about the safety of my sister and me. All I can think right now is to survive and not die because I’m bleeding heavily and my sister is in the back bleeding also. Kirk came into mind when I thought of what would my father tell us for not begin obedient and I start feeling anxious and worry about all that. We finally make it to my brother’s job and from there we get taken to the hospital. In the hospital I get shot with anesthesia, about an hour later I wake and I begin to freak out and the Scotty in me tries to figure out how I’m I going to get out from here, but I was in shock so I felt like everyone was out to hurt me and my sister. After a few days in the hospital I was fine and so was my sister. I thank the Lord for saving my sisters and my life that day.
2. Drawings from the film, Surfing Matrix, and using our own life as a template, describe two or more incidents from your own life where you experienced an unusual coincidence. How would Bertrand Russell or a skeptic explain it rationally?
Often times I always think to myself everything happens for a reason. There was an incident that happened to me about a year ago. I was in the library doing homework when suddenly this young lady very pretty if I do say so myself comes by and ask me for a pencil and I gladly give her my pencil. Now, logically thinking I say to myself wouldn’t it be nice if I saw her again. A week passes and nothing. So I tell myself if I happen to see her again I will ask her out on a date. So the following week comes and I walk into the student services center and from across the room I hear my name and I don’t believe my eyes it was that same young lady I meet at the library. I start laughing because I was not expecting to see her, so like I promised I ask her out and we hangout and talk. I was so stunned by the fact that I crossed her path twice. Most of the time when I see someone it’s just once. Bertrand Russell or any skeptic would say that it’s based on chance and how many people were there at the student services center. It wasn’t luck it was chance because you didn’t have to enter the building at that moment you could have waited another week to go fix your schedule but you didn’t. That day I came to realize that things don’t happen for a reason or by miracles, it’s based on the probability of the situation and its chances.