Personal Manifesto

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ARTIST STATEMENT:
This song wasn't easy for me to do. It took at least 2 weeks with non stop thinking to make and flow it out right. I didn't want to rush because my music is delicate to me. For this song i wanted to make people feel what i'm saying. Everything said is 100 percent real and not just trying to sound hot cause it rhymes. I talk about Banach at times during the song because his idea of how everyone is lonely and we can't connect to people, influenced my idea of the thoughts presented with my lyrics. At first i didn't agree with Banach when he said we are alone. I thought he was just trying to sound smart because i didn't feel alone; Physically. Mentally i do because when i try to explain myself to people, the way my thoughts are said in my brain, is not how it comes out through my words. If anyone realized when it come to my feelings i dead ass can not talk. I just say im good, i Don't know how to explain it. Not because i don't feel like talking because i really do. I have all these emotions colliding within trying to be expressed and after this song i realized writing music is my mouth piece. Like i said at the end,, "They say music is to entertain, Music to me is like a diary where i write my entries, so once it's taken from me, im a useless soul in the world with thoughts that are pleading to flea." That's real talk. I feel that if people have a hard time talking, they express how they feel in ways they don't even know. Writing in a journal, drawing, playing ball, etc. So am i really alone Banach? Nah i got myself and i will always be there for me.

Personal Manifesto Reflection

I enjoyed this unit very much. At first when I heard we was reading a lecture, i thought this unit would be boring, complicated and useless to me at the end of the day but it turned out to be exciting, deep thinking and very adventurous for me. Banach had ideas that i did not and did agree with. I liked this idea because i usually agree with mostly the readings i read but for the first i time i actually took in his thoughts, analyzed it and agreed with part of it and put in my own thoughts. I really liked that. There was nothing that i did not like about this unit and i just hope we can do more like this, even better. The most thing i loved the most was being able to put our thoughts into our responses and not being so strict about putting it in there, We had a chance to be creative.

In ten years what i want to remember is that life is what we make it. I want to remember how everyone was so engaged and put their own believe in it. I just feel that this unit many people were involved, i didn't hear anyone complain about it which is something i will remember. The most interesting thing i did was write my own song dealing with Banachs ideas and my life together. I moslty talk about how im feeling. One of his ideas was how we are really alone. So i just thought about writing off that and turning it into something deep. That was real fun and emotion. I really loved this unit.

Banach Response 3

Yesterday i had got into an argument with my mom. She just kept going on and on and just wouldn't stop repeating the same old thing just with different words, you know how some parents can be. So basically there was a time where she kept TELLING me that i had an attitude. How the hell is someone going to tell me what i'm feeling. That get's me upset but anyway i really wanted to tell her she sounds stupid but i have respect for her, the reason i didn't say anything back. It is a free country and i was free to say what i wanted but i knew if i did there would of been some consequences. I didn't want my ass whipped. so when people talk about yeah we are free to do with we want. I'll just reply with "WE ARE FREE TO AN EXTENT."

After reading the last section of Banach's lecture, nothing was really new to me. I had thoughts about freedom and always asked questions. In Reality we are free to do anything we want but "Our actions, though free, are constrained by our society." we have rules in society causing many to obey, making them have the feeling they are not technically free. I wonder if we had no rules, how will our society really be.

Banach Response 2

Right now i'm on the train thinking about a birthday gift to get for my
bff's birthday. Now i just can't buy something, anything with out
thinking of it first. Now while thinking of this, i'm thinking to myself
is what i'm going to make her or get her and existence before it's
essence. Well I'm thinking of it, which means the thought of it is
causing it to exist. (Now i know what i'm going to make her, i can't say
it on here because she might be reading it =).) Anyway when i make her
gift, then it will grow it's essence. So therefore when Banach states
how Sarte believes "Existence proceeds Essence", it's a true statement.
How would it be possible for the gift to get it's nature, traits and
colors if it was just a thought.

Furthermore, the statement to me seems to make logical sense because as we grow as individuals, we still learn more about ourself. Everyday we take in something new and either change it, or expand from it. As for myself, i'm still finding out who i am. I was always the type of person to never take criticism well because i felt others were going against me or i thought they were wrong. Now will someone say that's my essence? I believe not because as of now, i adore criticism because instead of thinking negative about it, i take it in and learn. How else will i develop if you keep telling me something is good? I will never have a challenge. So can you say that's my new essence? I'm a human being (existing) still, developing things about myself (Essence) which proves Sartre's perspective.

Now i changed my view of criticism after realizing how great of an impact it can be rather then a negative view. The way i am is by observing what i see and determining if i like or dislike it, or if i should value it more or less then something else. Therefore i do learn from others but i wouldn't say they make me who i am. At the end of the day i'm the one making the decision, so i do agree when he states sarte says, "Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself." This reminds me of people who are always blaming something on someone else. No one told them to make the decisions they made. Your life is how you make it. There are people who have had bad child hoods but that doesn't mean you need to do the same the same to your child. Your life is how you make it! Simple.

Comments to h.w #1

Christina,

You got a good post. A lot of punchlines emphasizing the fact that we all really don't know how one another feels. I sometimes hate that line to, :i know how you feel" and you are right. People do say it so the other person doesn't feel lonely. Your idea i feel is similar to mines, how we don't know how they feel but we have been through the experience. Some people may hurt more then others or be more happy then some one else. You bring up a good idea about categorizing our feelings. I have never thought about that. I feel people do that so they can feel different in their own way. Maybe you should look deeper into that. Look at the situation in both a positive and negative aspect. You have great ideas and i cant wait to see how your thoughts start developing through out the year.

Henry,

I love your post, especially when you say, "I would think about how I had no idea if the world I saw was the same as the world everybody else saw." When i was i always had them same thoughts. I guess all kids do at the age which is something people don't realize. Basically our life is an imagination. We really won't know if we see what others see. I like how you brought in in that fact because it made me more observant. When i look at things now, i might just change the color of it. That thought really has we wondering right now. I think you should really go more in depth about the images we portray .I would love to see how your thoughts start developing on that aspect. Great post!

(Response to Part 1) Ethics Of Absolute Freedom

Last night I had an argument with a friend of mine. I tried to explain how I felt about the situation that caused me to get upset. It just seemed as she or anyone couldn't understand my view but me. It didn't matter how clear I explained my thought process and the reason for them, I realized at that moment no one would really understand the feelings i have, neither would I fully understand theirs.

After reading the first section, first paragraph i thought this passage would be extremely non-sense, saying something totally different from what i read. This statement:

"When you think of it, each of us is alone in the world. Only we feel our pains, our pleasures, our hopes, and our fears immediately, subjectively, from the inside,"

Made me change my interpretation of his lecture. At first my reaction was, whoa I don't think we're alone at all. We have our friends, family, significant others and everyday people we say hi and bye to. We have people we go to when things get tough because if we didn't, many people will be depressed and might explode with anger. So how can I be alone? I thought about that statement again instead of me being so defensive. We really are alone in this world because he is right; we are the ones who feel a feeling. No one will be able to feel the EXACT same way as you. All you can do is try to explain it well and hope they are on the same level as you.

But Then again I disagree with Banach because there was a time where I had lost my mother's trust and my best friend had the same situation. I knew how she felt because i experienced the same thing so therefore i think people are able to know the feeling of how one's feel. Maybe not exactly but they are very familiar with it. So the thought of being alone in the world is something i disagree and agree with. It's something i will consider through out my life though. Something that did run across my mind more then usual is the idea of what people see.

When Banach stated the following:

"When you look at the person next to you (contemplating how their rear-end feels), do you really see them as they are on the inside or feel what they feel? You see only the image of them that is presented to your mind through your senses,"

I was glad he spoke up on it because now i know there are people who have the same thoughts as me. (This relates to "being alone". This just proved everyone is not alone because i had the same thoughts as him meaning we are both together mentally). The only way to know for a fact that what we see is the same presented in another mind is by taking a picture with our eyes, which is impossible to do unless we are robots. There is no way to know for sure. When Marco said we are able to describe what we see verbally but not our imagery, i automatically thought about physics. When describing motion you need to compare the object in relative to another. So according to the law of physics, when one does an experiment, they will get the same results. So with the images being portrayed with our senses, if we compare it to another, it will always be a fact, therefore we know that person is seeing what we see. It may not be exactly but i think it's a better way to identify what we see and know someone see's it too, instead of just saying "oh that's green." Like Mr. Manley said, that green might be blue to someone else but with it described with facts, it will ALWAYS be presented the same to others.

QUESTIONS:
Is he being biased? How do we know he is correct and not just stating
his opinions like we are?