hmmmm momas boy?

        Relationships between two individual vary. But in this case all these relationships are blood ones.  A mother to daughter relationship tends to be really strong. The typical father-son bond is there where they run and play catch. The usual stereotypes involve the boy learning how to be a man from his dad. And the little girl learning how to be a woman from her moms. Where they can share anything and go shopping together. 

        But this is not necessarily true in all cases. In some cases children grow up with one parent. Limiting the relationship with the guardian they don’t stay with. In these cases the kids from divorced or widowed parents grow more attached to the parents they are currently with.  I was raised with one parent. So I grew attached to that guardian. This would be my mom and that is the person I admire the most in this whole world. My mother has struggled to raise three children and every day I try to show that her struggle is for nothing. All she wants is for us to have a better life that she did. So personally I love my mother.

        Go ahead call me a mommas boy but that won’t change my perspective of my mother. That’s another stereotype that people look upon. If a boy loves his mother and spends time with her it doesn’t mean he is a mommas boy? It means he has strong admiration for her. Overall relationships between family members vary on their experience and situations.  And the stereotypes are never true for some cases.

How i do know what i know???

How do i know what i know?
        According to the famous philosopher Locke we all start with a blank tablet and as we go on it is written by our experience. I accordingly agree with this because how can you actually know something without you experiencing it? This way if you experience something you can actually have evidence to back it up? Are you willing to depend on someone else?
         But what if we never experience certain things. Are we never going to know what that experience is? Well in this case Kant describes we can use the past to relate to things we have not experienced. Once again i strongly agree. However not only experience determines what we know but how one is raised is a strong influencing factor. If you are raised with manners then you will have more humanity and compassion then compared to those who were not.
          Your surrondings also is a major influencing. People raised in cities wouldnt know how to live out in the country. They wouldnt possibly know how to maintain a farm or not being accessible to technology. And if you are raised with luxuries how will you know the actual value of something? Different surrondings run on different actions so all our knowledge varies.
       Overall the major influencin factor on our knowledge is experience.

Our meaning.....

        We live in a greatly inhabited world. Many people come and go. Overall compared yourself to the world its pretty obvious that our meaning to the world isn't that important. But what you think of your meaning is extremely important

         One's meaning of one self basically one's self esteem. What you think of yourself is how you view yourself. An example might be someone big and famous describing themselves as important to life. This says he is basically arrogant and has a high self esteem. In other cases some people not even care of what their meaning is. They live on with not caring what they are and just live the way they are. Then there are other people who actually try having a meaning. They set goals for themselves and strive for it.

        I like to think of meaning as in a first generation child. Not only do I have to look out for my brothers but I have to set an example. I always have to be taking care of my younger siblings and I guide them in decisions while I guide myself. I try to strive for good grades so I can show good grades are tangible. My other meaning is to actually make something of my life. Accomplish something successful or something that will make me happy. I want to prove to my mom that all the hardships she endured for us were worth it. I want to show her that I appreciate everything she did for us.

Present day "God"

    God..... what comes to mind when one hears the word God?? is it simply a higher being with many “powers”? Or when you hear god you think of more than one? I think that the word God has many different meanings today.
       One big contributing factor to describe god comes from your culture. Like today for example the Christians all believe in just one god who shall come and save us blah blah blah.. In other cultures people believe in multiple gods. Such as the Indians believe in Allah and many multiple gods. So many people don't see him as all powerful now. Or they probably never did to begin with
         God to this day really presents no “power”anymore. Back then the puritans used to go according to the bible and avoided all malicious behavior. They shunned everyone who sinned and just tried to live according to “god's” word. Present day today it has no power. If you tell someone its wrongful in the eyes of gods the answer most likely will be a simple I don't care. They can say they are not religious or just simply not care enough because they god wont punish them(or so they think) so many skeptics are alive just as they were back then.
         Many people don't believe in a god anymore. The take the path that Candide has taken. They see if there is an actual god why would he let such wrongful actions be done? Why would he let honest people get mistreated and everything taken away? So as Candide is starting to do they doubt. They doubt that its true, but their doubt is based on experience.

Candide's Punishment....

          So let’s begin with stating what happened. Candide was thrown out of the castle for kissing Miss Cunegund. He received notable kicks and was driven out of the kingdom

         So as Candide was kicked out no one else was punished for what happened.  The most someone got punished for was Cunegund got a slap on the wrist but that’s all. Initially to begin with it was not Candide’s fault. So I don’t think his punishment was fair for his “crime”

          Cunegund was the one that started kissing Candide and all Candide do was follow. So if anyone has a fault in this in would be Cunegund. But Cunegund was influenced by what she observed earlier on that day. It was Doctor Pangloss from whom she was influenced by. Pangloss was “experimenting” with the castles maid. So his little “experimenting” got Cunegund curious and influenced her to do what she did. So if it’s anyone’s fault it would be all Pangloss fault.

          Pangloss to begin should be messing around with the maids. So he was the one going behind the kings back and messing around with his maids. Cunegund just so happened to see him and decided to participate in it herself. So candied had no fault.

          Maybe Candide had some fault in it. His mistake was kissing the kings daughter but that doesn’t justify his punishment. All young people are open to experimenting and that’s the reason why Cunegund kissed him. Candide’s punishment was cruel and unfair. He is a kid that gets kicked for simply kissing the king’s daughter. Kicking him out leaves out with nothing to take care of him. Nothing to eat and left for dead. So this punishment was not fair. But hey everything happens for the better right?