Deconstruction

I began this deconstruction assignment questioning my mom. She answered the first one and said, "Why are you aking me these questions?" I told her and decided not to ask her anymore. Today, my uncle came over and so i decided to ask him a few. I said "What is anger?" He replied saying, "when you get really mad." Then i said, "how do you know when your mad?" He said, "once your face turns red." I asked him, "how do you know when something is red?" He said, "I know my colors." I then asked him "what are colors?" He was stumped on this question and said, "different shades of things you see." I decided that was enough questioning and told him what all that was for. He said to me, "I feel like I've been deconstructed."

Superpositioning

Superpositioning, at first sounded like an interesting theory and i was curious to know what it meant. After further review of watching two youtube videos, i disagree with this position. Superposition Quanta mechanics was defined as "particles that can be in two or more positions at once." Also it was said that the "material worlds around us...are nothing but impossible movements of consciosness." And that we chose to bring our experience to manifestation. With the example of the basketball bouncing, the little boy said that, "charges build up, but it never touches the ground." The boy said, "nobody touches nothing." How can that be? If nobody touches nothing, then how do things get dirty? Shouldn't the charges build up enough, to compel the touch of everything then? This whole superpositioning idea is all about relativity. If i believe that nothing touches anything then that is what is true for me. Also, this theory says that we can create our own reality. If i think that a huge tub of candy is behind me, then it is. Up until the point when i turn around and find out there is only a wall there. I don't agree with this position and think that it is unbiblical. People are creating their own thoughts which are not true. The lady in the video says, "How can people sin with such a greatness of mind?" Everyone is a sinner and therefore, superpositioning i believe is a false theory.

storytelling

I think that there should be a slim amount of distance between a storyteller and the story told. In media today people are given a certain role to play as characters. They have the choice whether to accept or reject the role available. Many people would accept just because of the money that is involved, not their belief in what is right or wrong. An example of this could be used with the Simpsons. I personally don't watch this show much, but from the glimpses i have seen, it seems to be very disrespectful and blasphemous towards God. The voices of the characters I believe would not agree to play a certain part unless they have no problem and agree in what they are saying. I would not try out for a tv show character part if I didn't agree with the characters lines that they speak. I would never go on television cussing and drinking unless my personal values believed that there was nothing wrong with doing that. Also, if a parent reads a story to their child, usually they would not read a horrific book, unless they believe that it is fine to expose a child to evil. So therefore, I think that a person's values should be reflected in the character role or story they are portraying.

Adolescence II

As the girl is in the bathroom "waiting" it is at night time. She is sweating as she waits nervously on the bathroom floor. Coming in from her blinds are slices of light. It is completely dark in the bathroom except for that ounce of light. Next, the three seal men are another example of an encounter to darkness. Seals have dark black skin and these particular ones have large round eyes with sharp eyelashes. Overall this particular man seal represents a dark mysterious feeling not only to the reader, but to the girl who sits alone in the bathroom. The seals rise "like pools of ink under

moonlight and vanish." They are dark and yet the girl can see glimpses of them by the light of the moon shining in. She "clutched at the ragged holes they leave behind, here at the edge of darkness." The girl hates the

darkness that surrounds her as it "rests like a ball of fur" on her tongue. A fur ball is usually associated with cats as they cough them up and spit them out. This girl must have a huge dislike of the darkness, which seems to consume her in the bathroom.

Break Down of Words

I think the breakdown of words occurs in our inadequate system of language, rather than not understanding reality. Karl Albrecht said if you, "change your language, you change your thoughts." Since we as humans have thoughts that always are changing, our language is as well. A meaning of one thing to me, can be completely different to someone else. Also, communication can take place not only through speaking, but through body. An example of this is sign language. If i signed the word "hearing" to a deaf person, they could interpret that different ways, if i don't specify. I could be asking them if they were hearing or telling them i was hearing. Expressions and your body have a lot to do with communicating in a language. Oliver Wendell Holmes comments on language saying its the "blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow." Our language has given people the ability to express themselves and grow in the words which they speak. Each person gives different meanings to words. Today in class we read "Toast." The snowman says "toast is when you take a piece of bread-what is bread? Bread is when you take some flour-what is flour?" The cycle goes on and on only ending up to nothing. The snowman then said that he was toast. The more words are thought about, they are heavily questioned and sound very weird. We feel as though we can not express our language properly at times.

http://thinkexist.com/quotations/language/
http://www.worldofquotes.com/topic/Language/1/index.html
"Toast" Orynx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

a victim

Free Willy has been one of my favorite movies growing up as a kid and has once made me a victim of hyperreality. On November 23, 1996 I visited Newport Oregon and saw Keiko (Free Willy) in real life. It was amazing as i had only watched him on the movie. Later on that year I had a dream. E.V Lucas once said that "one of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams." That night I dreamt that Keiko was in my back yard swimming in my four by fifteen-foot pool. It was unbelievable as I first watched Keiko in the movies, then saw him at Newport and then he was in my backyard as my own pet. Furthermore, a person once said that "the best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened." Having a whale in my pool seemed very real, until the moment I woke up. Reality kicked in once I realized that I was lying in my bed and that no whale could possibly fit in that pool. Hyperreality can take over your mind, not knowing if something is real or just a dream, well it did for me.

http://www.quoteland.com/search.asp
http://thinkexist.com/quotations/reality/

hyperreality

One of many postmodern philosophies, hyperreality has affected Americans relationships and love. According to Baudrillard a famous theorist of hyperreality says "it is no longer possible, in a media-saturated world, to distinguish between what is real and what is not." Hyperreality is a mix up of what is actually real and what is fictional. An example of this is dealt with in pornography, as a person lives in a non-existent world, having sex become an unreal thing. Furthermore, in Baudrillard's dystopia he stated that "simulations have the power to displace the real." An illustration of this can be shown in relationships through the internet. Many American's search online for love, but may be deceived and fall in love with a picture saying they are a particular man or woman. Our culture today has been influenced by this philosophy which makes relationships difficult to perceive which is real and unreal.
http://www.sociology.org.uk/ws1k6.htm
http://www.mala.bc.ca/~soules/media112/vr.htm