Heroes and Mystics 2022

 I decided to make this weeks blog post an analysis of the Joe Pug song discussed in class because my interpretation seemed very different from other peoples. I have found with folk music like this, it is rare to have very cerebral and convoluted lyrics covered in difficult metaphors. Most folk music I have heard use metaphors in a more simple way, simply allowing them to speak from the heart without making the song 10 hours long. Therefor, I analyzed it with the understanding that the writer is not likely to me an English major in college and know all the fancy way to write something. for the same of simplicity i sectioned things out by stanza. I will not be doing the entire song as it is far too long for a blog entry, but perhaps there will be a second blog post on it if I continue to think about it. I personally do not see any allegory in this therefore it will not be mentioned And I’ve come to know the wishlist of my father I’ve come to know the shipwrecks where he wished I’ve ...

We were prompted with the question in class today about music's connection to our emotions and our identity. For example, I play James Taylor when im anxious and when I feel homesick I play House At Pooh Corner because my dad used to play it for me when I was a kid to get me to fall asleep. TAPS always makes me cry and Frank Sinatra reminds me of my mom and I dancing in the kitchen. There is no question that music has a connection to our souls (if you believe in a soul) and who we are/ how we relate to the world. Another student spoke about how the music played today made him feel and I think the word he was looking for is contentment. live music seems to do that to most people, hence why they have live music playing in some Irish pubs and restaurants. While American culture lacks the well-spread traditional music we were shown today, we have plenty of traditions surrounding music and plenty of traditions that involve music. it just seems our culture isn't very picky about what...

  I really enjoyed this poem because it rang very true for me. Sometimes what we are looking for is right in front of us but we do not realize this until we go down a different path to find it. This is what the main character of Rumi’s poem encountered. He was unsatisfied with his life so he sets off to find it in Cairo. However, at the end of the poem he realizes that “what I’m longing for lived in my house in Baghdad!...But I had to come this long way to know it!” (Rumi). This is a common pattern within human lives. People often go off searching for themselves or their future only to realize that where they were rooted is where they are meant to be. Yet they could have never come to this conclusion if they had not left their roots to look for a new home. This is of course representative of the hero’s journey—leaving home to follow a call for something more, encountering trials and tribulations along the way, only to return back home with the knowledge that the place they belong i...

 one of the most interesting debates occurred recently and I wanted to research the topic of the historical beginnings of love, sex, and intimacy. ive included a small extract from my source in the hopes it will clear things up. "Love, sex, and marriage in ancient  Greece  are portrayed in  Greek literature  as distinct, yet closely intertwined, elements of life. For many upper-class men, marriages did not take place for love, and other relationships, be it with men or other  women , took on this role. Due to this, a lot of the  literature  discussing love is about the relationships men had outside marriage, often pederastic relationships. For women, marriage was a social and financial decision made by their father and, particularly in classical  Athens , women were expected to stay indoors so as to avoid any accusations of infidelity."- https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1713/love-sex--marriage-in-ancient-greece/  the idea that sex an...

As we are talking about the text narcissus and Goldmund by Herman Hesse, I am going to consider this to be a good chance to discuss his writing. I was asked to read Siddhartha in the beginning of high school, I then learned about how Pietism works and his exploration into psychoanalysis. many int he psychological field no longer consider Freud's work to be viable as his data is based off case studies, were unethically collected, and therefore cannot be generalized to the population. his writing did win him a Nobel Prize, but I have never been able to enjoy his writing. I find his phrasing and sentence structure to be confusing and too overly complicated. while I love poetry writing styles and find some of his ideas wonderful, some of his religious beliefs in Siddhartha went beyond what I thought was necessary to discuss.  We also recently watched the film Cold Fever which was fascinating, and as I have spare space in this entry there are a few things I still do not understand from ...

I have been reading  Lewis, C.S. "Myth Became Fact."   God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics  in  pieces to make it more palatable. I find reading philsophy all in one go becomes overwhelming and leaves my brain spinning with more questions that I started with. The section I read today stuck out to me from a psychologist and sociologist point of view.  "Why, on his view, do all these educated and enlightened pseudo-Christians insist on expressing their deepest thoughts in terms of an archaic mythology which must hamper and embarrass them at every turn? Why do they refuse to cut the umbilical cord which binds the living and nourishing child to its moribund mother? For, if Corineus is right, it should be a great relief to them to do so. Yet the odd thing is that even those who seem most embarrassed by the sediment of 'barbaric' Christianity in their thought become suddenly obstinate when you ask them to get rid of i...

 In a recent blog post by Jacob Ham on the discussion of logos and mythos he stated  " knowledge about the natural world is only ever true or false, rather than existing on a scale of truthiness different to each individual. In order for logos knowledge to be true knowledge, one must accept narratives about the scientific method, the ability for logic to arrive at "truth", and others regarding a person's ability to have knowledge"  the argument that true knowledge is inherently flawed as truth is subjective. the "truth" as it is colloquially used is not grounded in much and therefore can be described with the perspective of the person saying that something is "true". a good example is the image of 2 people looking at a number on the floor. the people are standing opposite each other and one says 9 and thee other says 6. Neither are wrong because from their perspective the statement is true. the same idea can be used in religion, as all believ...