Francis Bacon's The Shining On The Ball

In high school I was in a class where we did a lesson on philosophy. My teacher ignited a spark in our minds by explaining to us a short story about what we perceive to be factual. The story she explained was about two different people seeing a ball. The ball was orange on one half and green on the other half, so if you asked one guy, he would say the ball was orange and the other guy would say the ball was green, and they would argue with each other because they both thought they were telling the full truth. In reality, they were both wrong, there was a light shining on the ball and the ball was actually red on one side and blue on the other and the light made the ball look like a different color. So many people get an idea in their head and …show more content…
The idols of the tribe are based on human nature and how we as humans like to make things fit into a pattern, therefore we get caught up in our daily routines because they are the same patterns we are used to. When we become so caught up in our own agendas we sometimes don 't have the time to really think about the things that are going on around us. Bacon explains that “the human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature” (Bacon 882). The idol of the theater describes how religion, government, philosophies, and traditions can alter our thoughts on believing a certain way. Many people are raised in a home where a certain religion is practiced. At a young age children are taught that if you aren 't that specific religion then you are wrong, again this is something that definitely hinders many people from finding out what is really true. There was a time in my life when my family did not believe in God. When my sister was in the fifth grade, she had a very serious staph infection that attacked her blood stream, the doctors thought that they had come to a diagnosis to late and that my sister would not live for much longer than a week. The only thing my family could do during those moments was pray. On the second day of being in the hospital, my sister 's infection had decreased by fifty percent, and by the fourth day, her infection was almost completely gone. To the doctors it was a medical mystery, they had no idea how something so serious could just disappear. They told us that her healing was a miracle and ever since then my family has had a profound belief in