Saturday, February 5, 2011

In response to Shannon's question..

"What are other opinions?...Is it human nature that changes, society or a combination of both?....Do they depend on each other?" 

 I personally feel that the changing in society and changing in human nature coincide with each other.  It can be seen from many different ways, and I don't even think that there is an answer myself!!

Someone brought up in our class, that it seems as if we as humans change to deal with the society around us, but don't we also make society change?  

I feel that we as humans try to change everything around us to make it easier for our living; look around, it's totally true.  I'm sitting at a table, on a chair, with my laptop, in the laundry room of BT, listening to my MP3 player.  All of these things were introduced to our lives to make things easier for us, and we have changed our whole lives around these things, and even CENTER our lives around some items.

Though we as people changed the society around us and introduced ourselves to such items, it inevitably changes how our nature is.  Look back fifty years ago or so, and how technology has changed since then.  Compare it to how we live our lives today... it's totally different.  We seem to center ourselves upon new technology.  Cell phones are everywhere now, and they do more than just call people.  We can do anything a computer and/or iPod can do, just with the simple push of a few buttons.  But we can't blame our changing on technology, because we as humans thrive for new things like such, so we create them.

Humans are forced to change society with our wanting nature, but society is gladly mailable and changes for our favor.

How has human nature changed the idea of complete dominance in our nature (AKA alpha male and such)?

Monday, January 31, 2011

Is there such thing as killing for good?

I was watching the movie The Boondock Saints the other night (if you haven't seen the movie, it's centered around these two brothers who kill the "bad" people of Boston so that good can prosper)and it made me think.  Though the brothers are very into their Catholic religion, they kill.  It is written in the Bible that "Thou shall not kill" (Deuteronomy 5:17) so wouldn't that be going against their religion?  Yes, they are ridding the world of some evil so good can prosper, but aren't they damning themselves to hell?  Even though the Bible talks about killing in many different ways, it is still bad and a sin.




 Also, a song comes to mind (Walk Tall by John Mellencamp; I would link to a video but I cannot find the version with the line that I want).  "The simple minded and the uninformed can be easily led astray and those that cannot connect the dots, hey look the other way.  People believe what they want to believe, when it makes no sense at all, so be careful of those killing in Jesus's name, He don't believe in killing at all"
Why do people kill and say it's in the name of Jesus?  Yes, there was instances in the Bible in which people killed because He told them to, but now in this age I don't foresee people being spoken to like that by God. 

Why do you think people try to twist fate and play "Jesus's role"?  What is your view on people killing to rid the world of evil so good can prosper?