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Thursday, January 30, 2014

Alexa Ferrer Thursday Post


Today’s discussion was much more controversial dealing with religion and science. Coming from a catholic school my whole life I’ve been instilled with the same religious ideologies. As soon as I got to Gulliver I really expanded my thinking simply because I was allowed to and I had to resources to. After listening to the lecture today in class I understand and empathize with both sides. However, even both sides have two sides so we’re left with a constant struggle of a million sides.

I think the more intelligent you get the harder it is to have a valid opinion which I think Dostoyevsky tries to get at when he mentions how people that do something with their lives are stupid. What I really think he means is that it is almost impossible to have a view on something and remain intelligent without understanding the opposing views. I think the stupid people are ignorant and it’s hard to be intelligent without…going insane.

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