Sunday, November 9, 2014
These two readings discuss free will in a sense and us as humans trying to understand the divine. in the Parables of the kingdom each story has to do with a decision to doing something in one a son leaves his father and the other staying after being gone for a while the son that leaves comes back with everything gone, the father welcomes him with open arms and gives him everything while the son that stayed got nothing the father then replied that he should be happy that his brother is back that he was dead but now alive, lost but now found. In Is Everything Determined? the author talks about the choices we make and whether or not its right or wrong he even goes to talk about natural selection the darwinism theory and that we developed our choices into what they are today. The authors talk about our decisions we make and that they are up to our will depending on how you look at it just we ae are either responsible according to one or not from one it is our responsibility to chose what we feel is right and whether or not its the right path we can never figure out our actions because when it comes to figuring out our behavioral actions we conniver get past just a few factors beyond a couple it becomes harder and harder to figure out it ends up becoming assumptions. we can look at it however we want but there is no determined outcome.
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ReplyDeleteI definitely agree with your statement, "we can look at it however we want but there is no determined outcome." We can see this in both "Is everything determined", and "The prodigal son" which is a short story in the "Parables of the kingdom" that you said yourself. I also found another similarity other than yours in, "The ten virgins" the 5 foolish men clearly they got mistaken by not taking the oil for there lamps but they don't know what they missed which means they didn't know if it was the right or wrong path; even though clearly it was the wrong one. The differences of both are the same as the other two were that one was based on three short stories and the other was as a informative article/essay, basically both gave us the same information.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on the similarities, on how both talk about free will. "Is Everything Determined?" talks about how people feel like we have the freedom to choose whether to do something. (free will) "Parables of the Kingdom", all the parables have examples of free will but then something goes wrong, because they chose to do what they wanted to do. I agree with your differnces as well, however, I find that there are other differences. Some being in "Is Everything Determined?" the author mentions that people really do believe that things are predestined, and that we can not do anything about it. The author used a good example that really got to me. He said that even people who do believe that, still look before crossing the road and for those that do not look. do not survive to tell the story. In the "Parables of the Kingdom", the author uses an example from "The Ten Talents" and how the first two servants did right, by trading and earning the same amount of what they had received. But then the third servant only received one talent but instead of using it, he hid it. So the Lord rewarded the first two and for the last servant to be in darkness. The third servant saw things differently because he had only received ont talent, so he did not think he should trade if what all he had.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your analyzing of the Parables of the Kingdom but not very much so with how you analyzed Is Everything Determined?. In the parables, choices and how well you follow the word of God is what determines the fate of those who chose wrong or right. In the Stephen Hawking’s essay, yes he also talk about right and wrong decision making but to him the choice you make does not matter because the outcome is already predetermined. I believe that yes the reading are similar because they speak about decisions but they have different views of decisions. The parables show how the decisions of people effect the outcome of situations, such as the son to come back to his father’s home and was then treated with luxury. Stephen Hawking on the other hand believes very differently. He believes that no matter the decision of a the person or the process of making the decision doesn’t matter because it is all predetermined and that there are laws, such as Darwinism as he describes, that allow us to understand scientifically the predetermination of the universe. He also believes that one day we will know all the laws that predetermine theses outcomes but knowing how they work will not allow us to change outcomes or sway outcomes to happen. In all both readings gives us an outlook of decision making whether it be right or wrong but each theory is very different and parallel.
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