Our Stranger Meaning

Our stranger meaning... I don't know how to go about writing about this so I will simply explain what I think my life means. I think that my life has become pretty meaningless and robotic in a way. I go through the same rituals every day; I wake up at 5am, get ready for school and leave home at 6:45 the I make my way to Whitney young where I go to my locker in red house then to the tech center to work on college scholarships then I head off to my first class: guitar. Everything is routine and ultimately going to get me to my greater purpose in life but right now it everything done on my day-to-day basis seems mundane and unimportant. I would have to motivate myself to believe that I have a greater purpose in life and that is what will get me to complete my goals.

Candide's Punishments, Do They Fit the Crime?

No I do not think that Candide’s punishments fit the crime. He was thrown out of the castle he lived in because his family is not as noble as the baron’s family and therefore he shouldn’t be allowed to marry Cunegonde. I think that exiling Candide from the castle was meant to prove to everyone that the baron would not accept anyone else getting involved in his family. I think that most of the crimes given in this book were meant to teach a lesson to others that those crimes and anything of the sorts are not allowed in the society that they lived in at the time. Candide was unfortunate enough to be the example, so to speak, in order to show everyone that any act of disobedience can and will be punished to the extreme. So far in the novel Candide has constantly been punished extremely over little things that happened. Another punishment was the hanging of Pangloss in order to stop natural evil which was unnecessary and useless.

How do I know what I know?

Most people base their knowledge over how many years of schooling they have or what classes they have taken. While a good part of our knowledge is school based, what is the other part? Until now I never had to question how I know what I know. I never gave much thought to it because who questions what they already know. Now, since I’ve already had to take a hard look at my life so far then I might as well begin to wonder how I’ve gained the vast knowledge that I possess. Unfortunately explaining everything would take approximately 1.2 million days so I’m going to narrow it down. Religion. I am now a believer in blind faith and therefore I find it hard to believe that God is present. I consider myself a logical thinker in the fact that this world was not created by one man. One man did not give the world such great diversity and problems only to spend his days consoling lost souls, solving others problems and watching every person. As a child you are told what your religion is, there is no choice. The same happened with your parents most likely. You grow up reading the bible and going to worships your god and you learn not to question it because as a child God is seen as the almighty that no one dares to question. So who can really explain how they know what they know. To me “religion” is a word. The same as “death” and “life.” Why base our lives off of words.