Hey! Today I'm gonna switch it up a little bit. We've been reading "To Build a Fire" by ummm what's his name in language class. And we've been talking a lot about Mother Nature.
What do you think about Mother Nature? Does she exist? What about Father Time? Does he exist? If they do exist, why do you think so? If they don't, why do you think they don't?
I think that the way we've been talking about Mother Nature in class is wrong because it's like our teacher is teaching us to believe in Mother Nature. What do you think?
-Zoe
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9 comments:
I don't believe that Mother Nature and Father Time are literal, real people. They're like metaphorical representations or something. I don't think that your teacher means that they are real, just that they represent something that's real.
Miss Mac isn't trying to make us believe that they are real...I don't know why you got that impression...
And the story's by Jack London by the way! ☺
haha yeah jack london. that's it.
Tomorrow I am getting comfirmed! I am so nervous! I have to read my staitment of faith in front of the WHOLE church!
I think that mother nature, the greek gods and goddesses, father time, and god are all ways of just explaining things that we can not yet comprehend. The forces are still there just not in the literal ways we see them. If you think it's wrong to teach people to believe in Budda or God, then it's wrong to teach people to believe in mother nature. I personally believe that it's good to learn about different beliefs and religions in school, just so long as the teachers don't try to make them believe in it. A lot of the reason why hate crimes are committed is because of ignorance, but if people learned these things in school there would be less hate crimes and more compassion.
Okay first of all, i dont really believe in mother nature or father time. i think mother nature is a metaphor that helps people learn to respect nature. and that's what the story was about. ms mac wasn't teaching us that mother nature was real, just like she didnt teach us that the greek gods were real when we learned about them, and she didn't tell us grendel was real when we learned about him.
mother nature was real in the story. thats why she kept referring to her as an actual...thing. i just had to say that.
and i agree with kartik. it's important to learn about other religions and beliefs. she wasn't teaching us to believe these things. she was teaching us about them, which is essential.
Well, anonymous, congrats on getting confirmed tomorrow! You get what confirmation is right? It's bringing the holy spirit into you.
I'm fine with learning about other religions, it's just that they should at least teach us about the major religions. They definatly don't do that.
Yeah. The three "major religions" are Christianity, Islam, and non religious or agnostic people. The most common religion after athiesm/ agnostics is Hinduism. However, there are soooo many different religions, and if we only learned about these three, it wouldn't be fair. Even if they exist in minority, other religions still exist, which means we should be educated about them. It's not as if we have to know everything about them, but personally, i think learning about other belief systems is fascinating!
In high school, they teach you about Islam and a little about Christianity in Modern World History. They don't tell you that you have to believe in these, they just tell you about them. At least, in my high school system they did. :)
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