Death

Talking about death is hard for everyone, it’s never easy to let go someone we love or something we love such as living. When we talk about life, we always picture something happy, colorful and simply alive but, when we talk about death we always get this image of sad and darkness, why? If we don’t even know what being death really is!

Being death means that your organs stop working! But the worst of all is that you never get to know how and when it is going to happen! Is not like going to a party that you can get ready and prepared for any “emergencies” is like… SURPRISE! Your death… there’s nothing you can do! I think that, that’s what scares me the most, the term of “absence of life” makes me think about all the things I did and all the plans I wanted to do… their just gone, there’s nothing left to do.
Am going to be honest by facing that I am really scared of dying, probably because I have too many plans to “enlarge” my life that I haven’t done yet, maybe that’s why we always relate old with “about to die” Because old people all ready did what they wanted to do!

That’s what makes me think of what I am doing right now… I mean… am standing in front of my computer instead of doing what I really want though I’m conscious I can die in this very moment!
I think that no matter what last name we have, what our chances with a guy/girl are, what my crush is going to think about me…. We should all be grateful that we are here to witness life with its lows and highs and most important of all to.. actually live it.

let us begin with death

Death is a very important subject to think about and to realize that all of us at some time in our life will die and realize that it is inevitable and irreplaceable you cannot take the place of other people, they will die anyway.
Fernando Sabatier tell us that thinking and realizing the existence of death can make us take life more seriously because we should live and do our best because we know that any time we can die and you could never come back and do stuff that you would like to do. If death wouldn’t exist life wouldn’t be exiting and interesting because we could have all the time we want to do things.
The thing that realizing that we are going to die differ us from animals is very interesting because many people say that humans are like animals but here we found one of the important differences, because we are humans because we know we are going to die and animals does not know that. Death humanizes us and makes us unique because the thing is that no one can take our place to die for us it is a different experience for every person. Realizing that we are dyeing make us think in life as a more serious thing.

Let us begin with death..

Death, what should we say about it? Shall I say how some are afraid of it? Or do I dare to say the forbidden, that maybe there’s no heaven? So, what’s the deal with death?

Well for this post I thought I’ll just give my opinion about death, not getting too involved in religious themes or in the facts we know but simply what I think about it. Death as many perceive it, is talking about the unknown, that “thing” we don’t know and many of us are afraid of, but for me death is the conclusion of ourselves.

As I see death, I do not categorize it in a bad, good, scary, etc thing; I simply put it as the conclusion of a human being. One doesn’t know when it will come or how it will come but one thing is for certain, death will come to us. I’m not trying to say that once it comes there will be nothing afterwards but just talking about death, the term is talking about the conclusion of something.

Death for me is not something I think about as much and I think that if one thinks of it too much you’ll miss the important part, which is life. Life is what comes before death that’s for certain, that’s a fact, but what comes after death we are not sure, no one knows for a fact what will happen after it, and that’s why I profoundly believe we should focus on life.

Life is a fact, life is a certain thing, life is real, so why waste our time thinking about death? I don’t mean to say that we should never think of it because it’s necessary for us to know about it. What I’m trying to say is that we should focus on death as a “sub term” in our life, we must know the basics of it but we must also remain neutral about it. Death is the end of the pathway of life, and for me it only remarks that we live only for a certain period and that’s why we must accomplish our goals and our desires.

It may sound a little confusing but as a final point, what I’m trying to say is that one shouldn’t worry about death because we don’t know what will come after it so we must focus on what comes before, life. And life is the important part in this theme, why do I choose the opposite of death as the main point? Well because I firmly believe life is the only way we can prepare ourselves for death because one who lives plentifully may rest happily. So I say, let us begin with life…

Let us begin with death

I am going to die, even though I am able to say it I don’t think I am able to understand it because the idea of death seems so far away from me right know that I am not capable to process the fact. I know everyone has to die, I know it can happen anytime; and it is not like I want to live forever, because I don’t, but it is so difficult, and kind of depressing, especially right now, in the earliest times of my life, to imagine a moment in which I am not going to exist.

It might be some kind of denial, but that denial, I think, is the thing that keeps me focus on life, on taking advantage of it instead on living worried about the future, about the time everything is going to end. I don’t want to think about death because I am too busy thinking about life. Epicurus said we can’t experience death so we shouldn’t be afraid of it, I think this is THE thought, we can’t live fearing death, we can’t let it control our lives, we are all going to die but as long as it doesn’t happen we are ALIVE.

why philosophy?

Philosophy can't be just another subject to teach or to learn, it's way much more than just that!
Now, why philosophy? Why do I need to learn anything at all about philosophy if just like this am doing good?

Well, for sure there's no right answer but am getting a clue... this will actually be helpful!

Since class #1 I realized that I've lived for around 17 years with questions with no answers! Like... why em I here? Is there actually a real purpose for living? Why are we human beings different but at the same time so alike?!! JUST TOO MANY QUESTIONS THAT BRING BACK MORE QUESTIONS!

So... Since scientists, the pope, my teachers, mom and dad haven't come with an answer yet; we have a little something that may come with tons of possible answers and more deep questions with wake up calls… I better named it as philosophy!

Now, philosophy studies way too much and beyond! And either I like it or not, I live with it because I’m human! I can't go walking around my whole life pretending that nothing is going on in my mind because it actually is!

Philosophy makes me human, makes me realize that a body is just a simple wrap if we don't question anything at all ( if we live without philosophy) questions only makes us smarter and build us up as humans, and philosophy is based on questioning everything!

To make this short... Philosophy isn’t just a bunch of questions and weird-real statements, philosophy makes us think, makes us real and be actually living humans, it makes us keep our feet in the ground and value all that surrounds us and most important of all to LIVE in a real life.

What philosophy?

After reading the introduction to the book “The questions of life” I realize that philosophy is very interesting topic to study and to think about because is something that help us as humans beings that we are, it is not something that just put you to think a lot more in everything that we do, we are or we see, y think it’s a form to question yourself for things that you don’t know, but if we start questioning stuff we will have more knowledge of what we are and why things happen. We give philosophical perspective when we start questioning stuff and getting information, when we do this we can change the way we view things and have different interpretation of the world, us and everything that is around us. I think philosophy make us take life more seriously because by questioning things we become more interested in the things that are around us and that we don’t even know. Now in this times we are not really into questioning stuff that is around us, well at least I don’t question about many things that I just take as normal and that’s it, but we have to think and question everything to help us understand the world we live in.

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Why Philosophy?

Post made on TUESDAY

As we saw in class, many people have this question on their minds, why philosophy? As time has passed, society has evolved into a new “type of thinkers”, we don’t pay attention to the meaning of things anymore. People, including myself, loose the value of meaning and replace it with solid facts, facts who are visible and therefore are solid, facts that aren’t malleable and therefore reliable. So is no surprise one may wonder, why philosophy? Isn’t it the study of nothing?

After reading the introduction in Savater’s book, “The Questions of Life”, I reaffirmed my beliefs. All though I’ve always consider myself a logic person per se I also believe philosophy is an important teaching in our development as human beings. Philosophy is about the teaching of our inner-self, by philosophizing we learn about ourselves, matter that can’t be taught by anyone, therefore one must know the importance of it. If we understand philosophy we can understand or at least try to understand our world, starting from the very basics, ourselves.

We live in modern times, were ideas aren’t questioned as much as before, we believe in facts and what they represent but we don’t take a minute to deeply analyze them and understand what they represent to us as a person. This is why philosophy is so important, because it isn’t about learning 1+3, it is about finding the meaning of things and how this meaning relates to us and affect us. By philosophizing we learn about the things, ideas, facts, etc that mean the most to us and how we evolve according to them. We find meaning in our lives, in our actions and in our ways of thinking, this reinforces us as persons of true and self beliefs, persons with solid bases who are committed to make themselves better.

To conclude, philosophy is important because some may say is the study of nothing, but if you take a close look into it, you will find it’s the study of everything, of everything that MEANS something to us, that represent a major change in ourselves, so if we want to evolve as sons, daughters, moms, grandparents, we need to find the meaning of life and its derivatives, and philosophy gives us that gift. By thinking philosophically we learn the most valued type of learning, the one nobody can teach us but ourselves and will remain for the rest of our lives.

why philosophy?

One of the main arguments against philosophy is that it serves no purpose, and I believe philosophy serves no purpose, but it serves no purpose other than understanding; it serves no purpose other than give us a sense of who we are and how we relate to the world around us. Philosophy serves no purpose other than finding out what the information we are given really means to us as individuals, as part of a society, as part of the world.
Philosophy dares us to think, to go beyond the established solutions and find our own answers; it leaves it up to each person, I make the questions and I give the answers, there is no such thing as someone else’s knowledge. The thing about philosophy is you can't skip steps, too many questions and there are all for you to answer.
People may say now in the twenty first century philosophy is useless or obsolete, but I think that more than that it could be, along with science, a way to fix all the problems we are facing; a way of getting out of all the trouble we have put ourselves and the world we live in into; and also a way to prevent us from making the same mistakes all over again.