Belief

The timeless idea of star-crossed love Every year on New Year’s, Eve millions of people across the world set resolutions or goals for themselves. 38% of people say that they are going to diet. When you diet, it is ‘forbidden’ to eat junk food. Each year, only 8% of people that diet as their New Year’s resolution actually stick to it. The reason? When something is forbidden, it becomes much more desirable. The same goes for the idea of star-crossed lovers. Star-crossed lovers are defined as “Two…

Daniel J Boorstin claimed that there is a huge difference between Dissent and Disagreement. Claiming that one is bad and one is good, that one belongs to the minority of people while the other one belongs to the majority. However, I disagree. I believe that there is less distinction between the two then Boorstin believes. The argument Boorstin is making seems to rest on the idea that if someone’s idea, or opinion, rests on the MInority it will automatically be dissention. And dissention is…

Someone once said, ¨stand up for what u believe in, even if it means standing alone¨. For me it is very important to stand up for what we believe in, because if we don’t than how would we succeed in life. Standing up is a very powerful thing to do now a days. People don’t usually stand up on what they believe in because they always think it comes easy on them. However, I think standing up for what I believe in is very scary. What I think is that I will have to start doing things my own way. I…

a pastor who lives next door to me. After my mother’s passing I decided to talk to my sister about her faith. We grew up in the same house, but our religious beliefs are very different, she is a believer and has faith and belief in God. I decided to talk to my sister about her beliefs and why she thinks we are so different in our beliefs. I already miss my mother and can’t believe she is no longer with us. My mother and sister were best friends, they look alike and really do think alike.…

Where do we go after we die, up to heaven or just sleep till the end of eternity? There is so many theories and ideas of what goes on after life is done. Every culture in the world has a different belief in the afterlife. I am one of the few people that stand in the middle of this situation. I do believe in an afterlife because of being introduced to it as a kid through church. At the same time I think there is not one because there is no science proof behind this. I am open to all ideas and am…

Thomas Jefferson: Thomas Jefferson was elected to presidency in 1801 with a primarily Federalist cabinet. He held Republican views for the time, advocating westward expansion, supporting farmers. Jefferson thought a good government would promote the “encouragement of agriculture”, which was his main goal for a successful country. This made Jefferson believe in a more simple life focused more on his people’s standards of living rather than the nation’s money in the bank and how other worldly…

The motif of the feasibility theory appears in the movie, which is knowledge by indefeasible justified true beliefs tells us what knowledge is not. In the movie, Neo thought he was living in a real world and his justifications were that he could walk, talk, go to work, breathe, and do daily activities just like any human. But in fact, Neo finds out through Morpheus…

Gettier approaches knowledge as a personal view of knowledge a knowledge that through justified true beliefs one cannot have knowledge of something due to limitations of the self-obtained knowledge. Zagzebski says that these limitations are inescapable when talking about knowledge formed from justified true beliefs as most knowledge is obtained through luck that one 's justified true belief fell upon through chance. I will argue that both of these models don 't view knowledge in a way that…

There are several different situations today in where one’s religion or spiritual beliefs influence their daily lives. Being a college student, we encounter a variety of ways in which people’s beliefs are challenged and new living situations force new or changed beliefs/ways of living. More specifically, ones sexuality is often spoke about when talking about spiritual beliefs. Sexuality is also more often called into play during the transition from being in high school and heavily influenced by…

There are many Hindu beliefs and principles that make up the Hindu religion as a whole. I chose the Hindu beliefs that I believe are most important to Hinduism. One of the beliefs that I chose is Meditation. Meditation, in my opinion, is one of the most important aspects of hinduism because it is used to center yourself, and help you focus, which overall leads to a better life for Hindu people. Another Hindu belief that I chose was reincarnation, the reason I chose this is because Reincarnation…