It is usual to use to word love almost in everything you like, for example, -I love chocolates!, or I love ice cream!.However, what is meant by ‘love’ differs from case to case. The Greeks philosophers came up with three different view of love: eros, agape, and philia.
Eros is originally meant love in the sense of a kind of passionate desire for an object, typically sexual passion. Agape the sort of love God has for us persons, as well as our love for God and, by extension, of our love for each other,a kind of brotherly love. Philia means a kind of affectionate regard or friendly feeling towards not just one's friends but also possibly towards family members, business partners, and one's country at large. The question is even though there are different ways of defining love, how can we measure it? If love is something that we can't see does that means that it does not exist? And also What feeling do you think is stronger, Love or hate?
Friday, December 4, 2009
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Does God Exist?
Among all the sufferin that exist among humanity, is it possible to still believe in a Omnipotent and Holy God? If it so, then, whats the origin of God? who created him? There are many questions with no logical answers, but When asked “Who or what created God?” we are making the assumption that God was created. If God exists independently of time and space, and if He is the Creator of time and space, He migth not be creation, God began the beginning. What do you think is the answer? Do you think that this hypothesis make sense?
Saturday, November 14, 2009
How is it possible to understand the evil and the good in the world? How can you know the difference between evil and good? On what do you base your answer? I found myself thinking about the difference between good and evil, and I was trying to comparea the two different terms and I could not find a definition of what good is or evil is, is like morals, you cannot based them on feelings or in a universal code for all. Plato defines evil as the lack of goodness. The duality theory states that evil cannot exist withouth good, and good cannot exist without evil. The way I can understand these two terms is by understanding that something evil cause harm, while a good action cause or brings a satisfactory feeling. If Humanity is more attracted to a desire of good, what are the reasons that lead to one's choice in performing evil acts?
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Values!
I was entering to a restaurant and I noticed that hardly no one opens the door to the person who is coming behind them, I observed there while I was waiting to be seated and several guys didn't even open the the door for girls. What is happening with the gentleman's now days? No more opening the car door, no flowers, or chocolates. I think that many young people might say that those things are old school and girls don't appreciate them anymore, but who does not like a guy to send her flowers or chocolates? Who doesn't like a gentlement? The values have changed with time, now it seems that the girls needs to treat the boys, and maybe it is because of the idea of feminism that we are all the same, but i think it is also education and values that parents provide to their children since little. Kindness with others is a value that we as society are losing, if you are walking on the street hardly anyone says hi! or good morning! Everyone is becoming so self-centered that we don't look around to see that there are others that also exist and that by providing a simple smile or a Hi! to a stranger can make the other person feel better. Cell phones and texting have also stop us from communicate one to one, sometimes there is a group of more than two people together, and instead of talking with themselves each of them is with their cellphone texting! Whats the point? I mean if you have something to share, share it with the person you have infront not by texting. What do you think is the main reason why now days we are less kind and humble with others?
Friday, October 30, 2009
Kids
I work at a elementary school as a Recreational leader, I have third grade and they are an amazing group. I have noticed that that kids are less innocent, at least they do not think they way I used to think when I was a third grader. The other day I heard a kid saying that he had a girlfriend and that they had s.e.x., I was like in shock, obviously they are not, I hope, but it seems like their minds are more aware of whats going on around them. Maybe society is taking that innocence from the kids, by not acknowledge them, I mean, is not their fault, tv is full of sex, violence and drugs, also adults do not mind cursing in front of kids, I think we should all do something about it because kids are the future, and even though that phrase is overrated it is true. Kids should be kids, and I think society have not acknowledge the fact that we are examples of the kids, therefore we should always be careful for what we say infront of them, mostly partens. Also I think the problem is that many parents are having babies by accident, and they are not prepare to raise a child, so this children grow up without a good example.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Growing up!
So, as I was seating in my bedroom having a break from packing up my stuff, thinking about what could I write for my blog, I realized how fast does time pass, I mean I remember being a freshman coming to my first day of school in the university, getting homesick and missing my friends and family. Now, I am living on my own, working, going to school, and ready to move out to my new apartment with my best friend, Wow! Time passes and really fast, I mean it feels like yesterday when I graduate form highschool. It is scary, well, at least for me, I mean I am an adult know and sometimes I don't really feel like an adult, maybe I don't want to, maybe in the future I will be sitting down thinking about my college days, and I'll feel the same. Does it feels like that to you too? Is it just me, or Time is really passing by extremely fast? What do you think?
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Cause and Effect
What is cause and what is effect? What is first, is the effect that makes the cause, or the cause makes the effect? In order to know the cause you need to ask yourself why did it happen? And in order to know the effect you have to ask yourself what happened? There is always a cause and an effect for everything, but the question is how many times the effect happens right after the cause and how sometimes the effect never happnes. For example smoking, I know many people who smoke cigarrettes and they don't develop cancer, but others that don't even somke are dying because of cancer. It seems to me that not all the time the effect happens after a cause. What is it that control the cause and effect on things and events, is it luck? Why is it that for things like chemestry you had two chemicals and you have a reaction but in real life you do something good or bad and sometimes you dont have an effect right away?
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Is God Fair?
What is the concept that most people have from God? God is Love, God is Justice, God is Fair? I do believe in God, but sometimes I doubt about how fair is God? I went to Egypt last year, and I am from Mexico, and some of the conditions where people live are extremely unfair, people dying from poverty with no education at all. Many will argue that it is because they are lazy or they don't want to work. But some of the people were just born in those conditions, and they don't even have anything to star from because in those countries education and the jobs opportunities are so low. So who do we blame? Is it the government of those countries? Is it the ancestors of the people living in those conditions who made wrong choices for their people and thats why they live in those conditions? Or is it just that life is unfair? Why is it that there are some people that were just born in good conditions and they get to have a lot of things? When there is others that they don't even have food to eat? Is it God the responsible? It is hard to believe that God is the responsible for all this cruelty.It brakes my heart every time I see how we have a lot of things to be thankful for and how we still take everything we have for granted, I think maybe we will never understand why life is unfair, but maybe God just give more to certain people so they can be the change for others. So lets start thinking of others instead of just thinking on us and let's be the change!
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Reality Shows are not Real!

Reality is the state of things as they actually exist. Reality shows claim that they are acutally real and that the fact that a camara is recording 24/7 does not affect the behaviors of the people "participating" in the reality show. Over the past few years reality shows have become more populular, having audience even higher than the news. The question is how real are reality shows? A reality TV show claim to have real and ordinary people instead of actors and actresses. People participating in reality shows supposed to present real life situations, but most of the time most people don't act the same when they have a camara in front of them. How did producers of reality shows chose who is in or not? Also most of the time they look for different personalities so their ideas and behaviors can crash adding drama to the show. Putting several strangers in a house, spending all day and night togheter is not real, in real life that does not happen. So the question is how real are reality shows? What makes something real or not real?
Monday, September 28, 2009
Knowledge
How do we obtain knowledge? Is it through experience, education or simply it is something that we believe we obtain but in reality we don't know what it is? How do people measure knowledge? Having knowledge in life does not necessary means being intelligent or smart, there are many people that have the knowledge but they don't use it and therefore they are not succesfull in life. We as humans have the knowledge at some degree of what is right and wrong wich we called morals, we know the consequences of what studying for a test brings, or drinkng and driving, so if we have the knowledge, why are there so many students who don't do good in tests or people having terrible accidents because of drinking and driving? We may have the knowledge but sometimes we don't fallow that knolwedge and we fallow our instincts wich are not always right. I aslo apply knowledge with God, many times people hear the word of God, meaning that they have the knowledge but either ignorance or the incapacity of believing in something other that humanity retains their hearts to accept Gods love toward them. Knowledge many can have it but can we really use it?
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