Behaving badly you will end up in jail or in a coffin. So you have to pick your battles very carefully. Your perception comes in the end, because after all the good and bad that you have done; now people have their own perception of you. You maybe the best person there is until somebody crosses you, and you may have a blackout moment, now people already have this bad idea about you, even though they do not know who you really are. Words are sharper than a sword, your tongue will hurt the ones you love and do not know, words will cause you to have a bad attitude and your behavior will fall into place with all kinds of bad gestures.
There are several recurrent themes running through this collection such as, the lost father, the regained father, the lost love, brotherhood, betrayal and the one I found most striking was that of facelessness. Common belief would view facelessness related with invisibility, but in the book Drown, it is not. There is something within this facelessness, which makes the person all the more visible, real, pitied, hated, feared, and by some, treated with great kindness. Those who are “faced” want the “faceless” to be gone for good because they represent the fear that they will also one day suffer this fate where all that defines a person to the outside world is stripped away. They fear to be in a position where they are unloved and unlovable.
Oedipus suffers from a false sense of pride; this pride blinds him from the truth and leads to himself downfall. Oedipus’ fate has been foretold to him in a prophecy many times, but his ignorance and pride blinds
What Gene does not know is that this bad choice is the start of many more to come. Not only did he think he was making a bad choice by jumping, but he felt it too. He felt a sensation that he was throwing his life away. Instead of doing what he knew to be right, he wanted to fit in and go with the flow of what everyone
First, he explains that we will experience emotional pain when we recognize that the work we would love to do might just be unavailable enough to make us doubt that we can proceed. Maisel states, “This is an emotional suffering that researchers haven’t examined: the pain of wanting to do certain intellectual work but not being capable of it.” He then goes on to discuss ways to help your brain to be its best. This can range from silencing the self-talk that can rob you of your confidence, to making fewer excuses about why you don’t have the time, patience, or ability to think. Secondly he points out that choosing the intellectual work that matches your native intelligence, or in other words, staying in your comfort zone. He tells us to find an area of work that isn’t too difficult which enables you to do work that makes use of all your strengths.
After Oedipus accused Teiresias of being a liar, but then he accused Creon, his brother- in- law, of bribing Teiresias into lying to him and making him think that he was the murder. He believed Creon was after his position as king. Human beings are also quick to say something without thinking about it and end up saying something wrong or offensive to others. But Oedipus remain stubborn and didn’t believe Creon either when he trie to tell Oedipus that he doesn’t want to be king, just like humans would if they really wanted to believe that they were right. Our conscience is developed in a complicated way that can only know and hold certain knowledge.
I think this might be why some people communicate passively because they have had a negative experience with this, and maybe it made things negative for them or changed things into a horrible situation. This can easily happen. There is no way to be
Differences between Epicureans and Stoics During the Hellenistic period there were two popular religions called Stoicism and Epicureanism. These two religions were drastically different. Stoicism is centered around the belief that all things are materialistic and we can know what truth really is because it all based on your state of mind whether something it real or not and that your virtue will be judged. Epicureanism is all about, in easier terms, following your heart. Basically this life is all you have so do what you want.
In modern society, where human rights are highly protected, torture is considered as a hideous crime that makes us feel repugnant. In fact, in a few circumstances, as an interrogation technique, some people are of the opinion that the use of torture is justified. However, torture should still not be legalized because not only the information gathered from it is usually unreliable, but also its effects on both victims and perpetrators are unacceptable. There is no doubt that the confession extracted through torture is not always trusted. Humans, including detainees, mostly tend to avoid pain, which means they may deliver any information just to appease the tormentors instead of the accurate one.
‘I understand’ is another way to kill communication especially when this statement is made during a conversation surrounding a sensitive topic like death, illness, etc… The last noted trap is ‘Yes, but’ and this is more argumentative than anything. Others know that these words usually mean no and people tend to tune out everything that has been said up until the