It’s nearly impossible for me to write this paper because I feel like I have nothing to say about the self. “Knowing thyself” isn’t prioritized on my “to-do” list and after weeks and weeks of procrastination and pacing back and forth between thoughts I can’t put my thumb on it. Instead of knowing thyself, I find myself becoming frustrated with the ( Read more... )

The big idea I got from phenomenology and language units is that now that we are in somewhat of an agreement about the self, phenomenology and language are tools in which the self can have perception and can communicate. Both perception and communications are extensions of the self in the sense that the perception something has is directly impacted ( Read more... )

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Linguistics is the verbal representations of every individual. It’s the core essence of who are in terms of how we communicate, almost like a birthright like our names. The way “I” is used in the English language proves that society has an influence over how we define individualism till the point where we have to acknowledge it in our speech. In a ( Read more... )

From our class is get the idea that if we don’t leave the class everyday with a complete understanding of who we are, we are less wise than those who know who they are. But the way I see it is that we are indeed wiser than those who say they know the self. Because I personally feel that the people who are truly wise do not whole heartily jump to ( Read more... )

This internship has changed my impression of the working world. First, its hard enough trying to find one you like. That I learned from my supervisor, who has been through a substantial career in school. He’s out of his teenage years and yet he is still searching for a better job everyday even thought he retains an important role in this Parson’s ( Read more... )

If i told you that life is what you make of it, i would just sound like another free-spirited hippie. I realized that life is just a tool. There is no right or wrong in terms of how to use it because the point is to use it to your advantage. I'm sure people on this earth wish that they were corporate conglomerates, gluttons, the kings and queens ( Read more... )

We fear what we have no idea about. Which is why so many people, when they were kids, were afraid of the dark. For me personally, the dark is manifests creatures and monsters like what horror movies suggest. In my imagination, darkness takes on many different forms. Darkness is spatial kind of like being in a enormous empty room with no lights. ( Read more... )

Maybe there is death perhaps. We always fear what we do not know. Some people fear death and some people embrace it as a part of life. I was taught to embrace death from a young age through my parent’s religion, Buddhism. Death is the next step after life and that if you live a kindhearted life; the transition between the two would be painless. So ( Read more... )