It’s kind
of weird to me that only one emotion is on a positive side. But I could
understand people disagreeing with me. I mean, some of us like to fear
something so they watch horror movies or maybe another person would like to be
angry. I don’t judge but basically it is commonly stated that only feeling joy
make us feel positive. Anyway, that wasn’t the point of the lesson. We watched
short Disney move about emotions and how Hitler used fear, sadness and anger to
manipulate others. And about how we should use reason and emotion at the same
time. I think that even though some people say it is impossible to say “emotions
over reason” or “reason over emotions” If I had to stick with only one to the
rest of my life I would probably chose reason. I never came across any mention
in a pop culture of a case where protagonist lived without reason so I think
I’m not the only one who is on “team reason”.
Another post without a date. We talked about how the language we are using affects our thoughts. For
example Japanese women answered differently on similar questions if they were
asked in English than when asked in their mother tongue. Also when reading article
I got to know that apparently women speak differently than men. Were told to
express our thoughts in more childish and unprofessional way but I don't really
agree with it. I also had a hard time thinking about the example when while
making a presentation or speaking in class my female friends were more childish
than male ones. Anyway. maybe it depend on the continent but I also can't
really believe in that.
So since it has been a long time without even visiting this blog ( I have no idea why I did not post anything) I can't really remember what day was it but on Lesson no.7 we talked about well...talking? Speaking? Expressing your thoughts verbally? What exactly is talking? And what are the words. After reading the text about Traxoline I had a lot of questions. I was able to read the whole text and answer basic questions as for example "What is Traxoline?" but the whole text was made by mainly non existing words. I could answer those questions because my brain followed pattern and somehow knew which words were nouns, verbs etc. Interesting. Then we discussed the idea of freedom in "1984" by George Orwell where in the world presented certain expressions were banned or had different meaning than in our world (free meant not freedom but being free from insects).
Last time was the continuation of previous movie
assignments. I had my presentation about the movie "Truman Show". The
comedy was amazing I loved how it had a deeper meaning rather than just being
another pointless comedy. I also was glad that I wasn't the only one who choose
that movie. Even though we seen the same movie we understood some parts
differently. It was fascinating how the same thing as simple as a movie could
be experienced in different way. We seen the same exact thing yet our brain
processed it in its own unique way.
"Truman
Show" made me over think and question a lot of things. Sometimes I feel
like everything is going exactly as I wanted and after seeing the movie I had a
moment when if someone came up to me and said "your life is a TV show"
I would easily believed in it. Thankfully as time flew by my emotions caused by
the movie cooled down.
On these two hours of ToK classes
we had presentations from our movie assignments. Only three movies were
presented due to the lack of time but they were interesting. I enjoyed the most
presentation about the movie "Memento" directed by Christopher Nolan.
It is about man who lost short term memory, do not remember things that
happened recently and he is trying to find the killer of his wife. The trailer
looks good so I probably will watch that movie if I find some free time.
I wasn't present on the half of that lesson so I can
only write about first 45 minutes. The first thing we did that lesson was
simple exercise: our teacher asked us what in our opinion is:
1.the most important sense
2.the one we could live without
3.the one that we like for some reason but is not the
most important
Most of the people agreed that the most important is
either touch or sight, but there was one person to whom the most important
sense was/is hear. At the first glance the idea of not feeling pain is
pretty cool; you wouldn’t have to suffer while wearing braces, smashing your
smallest toe on the corner of your desk, getting waxing done etc. When you
think about it and all the possible dangers you wouldn't feel it's getting
scarier. Simple example; first you wouldn't feel the pain of burning your
throat and tongue while drinking hot liquids and it might seem okay for 2 or 3
times but when you constantly burn your throat it may lead to the cancer and
cancer usually lead to death.
For the one we could live without everyone said either
smell or taste and it's simple. When the fall/ winter season come every year
majority of people catch a cold and end up with stuffed nose so they are not
able to enjoy much smells or tastes for about one month in the year.
I don't know how to write it in the way which will not
make it sound awkward or strange but i enjoy smelling. I really love the smell
of the air in the morning, the smell of the night, air smells differently in
every season which I find fascinating. I love the smell of freshly baked cake,
smell of the lavender. Every time I smell old perfume or the shampoo I used on vacations
4 years ago it brings back the memories.
It's really interesting that all of us have these 5
senses but we perceive the world in different way. I might love the deep red
color and the person next to me can say that this is the ugliest color they've
seen. Why? Both of us look at the same color, so why do we perceive it
differently?
We also seen some optical illusions and the video
which showed us that most of us are not able to identify the same color if it
is on a different background. So we start to think: Can we rely on our
senses?
Last lesson was dedicated to knowledge questions. What I learned is that they ask about knowledge ("how can mathematic formula help us in..." rather "that can we calculate that using this") and they must be open, meaning that answer is not "yes" or "no". We tried to understand it watching short documentary about alien abduction and trying to construct knowledge question relevant to the film. Later on we did this excercise where we got a handout with descriptiopn of 4 situations and then we had to think out a knowledge question to each situation.
