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Choices

Mum : Jae, do you want to play table tennis with your cousin today? He's bored and he has nothing to do except watch youtube on his phone.

Me : ..... I'm tired... Conducting and keeping ten leapies in order isn't easy mum...

Mum : But he's so bored! And he plays with you often...

Me : I'm too tired today mum... I'll play with him tomorrow

Mum : No! You're playing table tennis with him today!

Me *Ugh, what is the point of giving me a choice if I can't make the choice myself...*

Variables, Variavles, Bariavles, and Bariables

A few, days previously....

Father : Now, jae, these numbers are called Variables! *Spells it out* V-a-r-i-a-b-l-e-s

Me: ..... -_-; Yup.

Father :Now, Jae, do you know what theses VARIAVLES are used for?

Me: O.o ..... *Thinks Whatwhatwhat, wait... What did you just say?*

Father : Jae... JAE! *Snaps fingers* What formula are these BARIAVLES used for???

Me: =.=" *What the fuck is he trying to say?*

Father: JAE! TELL ME WHAT THESE BARIABLES ARE USED FOR!!!

Me: *Wait.. WTF was he trying to say VARIABLES?* *Facepalm* *How the FUCK do you spell it out perfectly, say it the first time CORRECTLY and then repeat the word with three different sounds???*

Introduction

Hello!

Rationale - The Life of Pi was chosen as the subject matter for this creative response. A blog was chosen as the method through which to represent the philosphical ideas of the movie/book.

Reason for choosing a blog
The reason a blog was chosen was because of the challenge of conveying difficult information to the audience that a blog presented. Difficult ideas are often rejected by some readers on the basis that they require too much thought. The use of a blog therefore allowed the challenge of trying to create a work that could reverse this trend. Through the use of an informal style and an informal style of media the aim is to bring philosophical ideas to normal people, idead that they would not usually be interested in trying to understand.
Another reason for using a blog was to show people who use the internet that instead of dismissing a film without thought, it is possible to understand and analyse movies/books. On the interent people tend to dismiss or praise a film without any evidence. We hope to present an example that other people can follow of critically assessing films based on detailed explorations of their content and ideas.

Structure
In this chain of blogs, there will be a total of 3/4 blog posts, excluding the rationale. In each blog post one philosophical idea from the film and book, Life of Pi, will be discussed. The reason for choosing one blog post per idea is to not confuse the audience. Each blog will follow the same basic structure. In each blog there will be, an introduction to which idea from the film/book is being presented, the philosophical idea will then be explained, how the film explains this idea will then be explored, then we will evaluate how well the film explains the idea through content and presentation and I will give my opinion and discuss the idea. To present the philosphical ideas in a way that can appeal to ordinary people simple example, diagrams, and simple language will be used to present the ideas in an accessible way, free from the normal academic sytle which turns off most people from philosophical subjects.

The blogs will be presented in the following order:

blog 1: To what extent are we capable of creating our own reality?

blog 2: Religion and science- do religion and science share the same truth in that they are both belief systems created by humans which become true because people believe they are true?

blog 3: Do we live in our own reality or do we change our reality to meet others expectations of other people?


The ideas behind the film-

1. To what extent is reality forced upon us by other people? (start with an explanation of how the argument is represented in the film. Then explain the philosophy)

2. Religion and science- do they share the same truth in that they are both belief systems created by humans which become true because people believe they are true? (start with an explanation of how the argument is represented in the film. Then explain the philosophy)
eg if I believe an ant always climbs up a tree and I find water at the top of the tree most of the time then it becomes my scientific belief that ants going up trees means water. However the truth may be that ants climb trees to get to sap and have no interest in the water at all. I am wrong but my belief in association becomes a scientiific truth. Religion is the same truth- I believe in God and so I look for evidence to justify this belief eg saying the world works so wonderfully. Actually there are so many problems but I explain them as God's will etc. I act as if the religion is real and so religion becomes real for me. Explain how this concept is related to the film/book.

3. The creation of a false reality to meet the expectations of other people- do we change our reality to meet others expectations of reality. If we do we are hiding from ourselves in order to fit in to other people's reality. (start with an explanation of how the argument is represented in the film. Then explain the philosophy)

SUPERQUICKIERUSHDERPHERPENSLURPASSIGNMENT POST

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Welcome everyone this is LEAPIE JJ Lee Coming right back at you with some more English Creative Response Assignment Blog Post Action coming to you live... (Or whenever you're reading this) from my House. Yup...

Today! We will be discussing whether we live in our own reality or whether we change our reality to meet others expectations of us? This is a simple question... kind of, in a sense that it is easy to answer, but hard to come up with a reason for, e.g Yes or No, but Why??????
This blog post will be in a different format to the other ones, partly because I feel that the other two blogs were MUCH MUCH more informative than what I would usually write. Although that is the right thing to do, it just doesn't really fit with my style of blogging. This one will be... much more spread and informal than the ones before, even though they both were pretty informal as well... So without any more waiting, lets dive STRAIGHT into it.

First of all, I asked the question of whether we create our own reality to my friends and they came up with VERY interesting answers... And we had very interesting conversations.

First of all I asked my friend Beth. The conversation went something like this:

? Beth:  Another question attached to that one is 'does everyone else exist or are we alone', did we create everyone else, did someone else create it, is this all even real?
 

Waait wait wait. Pause right here for a second. So, we see in the above statement, that Beth, has taken the question to the extremities. On this side of the scale, the 'question' virtually becomes impossible to answer. This is because there is no way to prove whether I created this world or whether I am in a world that is created by other people in which I am only ONE of many creators. If I created this world then why isn't everything the way I want it to be? However how do we know that I didn't create a world in which I deliberatey made things not the way I wanted them to be. There is no way to know the answer to this question.
 
Then I went to see my friend Lushimi:

 Lushimi:  I think if we change our reality to meet expectations of others... it's still our own reality

if that makes sense :L

Lushimi's point here makes the question about whether we create our own reality more about how we fit into society than about whether we actually create our own universe. When the question is asked at this level it is assumed that we exist in a world that is created by others, with ourselves as one player.

Then I consulted my bestie.

  Nicholas:  I can only tell you about this amazing and strange girl I met in Melbourne.

 me:  snort

 Nicholas:  Not that way.

 me:  hue hue hue hue hue

 Nicholas:  I was at Wilson's Promontory.

I saw her sitting on the beach and I went over there and sat down in the sand with her.

I don't know why, it was so inexplicable.

I just felt compelled to do so, and I don't feel the same since then.

 me:  ummmmm.......

 Nicholas:  Time seemed to stop. The world kept going, but we were going to sit together at the beach forever, watching the waves

 me:  Okay

this is going off topic

 Nicholas:  and talking.

 me: What if I gave it to you this way

 Nicholas:  It wasn't romantic or anything

just saying

 me:  'does everyone else exist or are we alone?'

 Nicholas:  That's what I'm trying to say.

Before she talked to me, I felt as if everyone was real. Afterwards, after we talked about experiencing things for ourselves, I started to feel alone.

Everyone feels like people I created.

I created people for different reasons in my mind so I wouldn't be so alone.

I don't feel things about people as much.

I don't care about the people I like as much, and it scares me.

But I find solace in other things now. I like listening to music more, and I like looking at beautiful things more, and I like challenging my mind. I don't like people as much. It's weird.

From the above, I do not know whether Nick wrote it for these exact reasons or not but I interpreted it in this way. Nick is saying that, when you depend on other people, you also depend on them to create your reality FOR you. As soon as you stop depending on other people, and use your strengths for yourself, you create your OWN reality.
So the extent to which we create our OWN reality depends on HOW MUCH we depend on OTHER people.

Hee hee hee... Nick, with your ridiculous answer... :P  Ahem... anyways, now what I find interesting is that, even though, as stated above, in my opinion, this is a very simple question to answer, a yes or no question. HOWEVER, it can be seen that NONE of the people who were asked this question answered yes or no. And all three of the people had very differing answers because they interpreted the question in three different ways: one at the extremes of what is sensical, one at a very practical level (bland!!) and one from a point of view that focuses on the individual.

Finally, I will give my humble opinion on this question. Do we live in our own reality or do we change our reality to meet others expectations of other people? Well... simply said, I think yes, we do. Let's look at this simply. We've all had those moments, standing before somebody you 'like' and then when they say they like/dislike something, you make a small, maybe even unconscious mental note to yourself, 'Okay, avoid/look into the thing she/he just mentioned. Or maybe straightened your hair in front of them. Maybe show off? We currently live in a SOCIETY. This means we are not alone. Although we sometimes feel secluded or alone, we most definitely aren't. You may say and think that you are actually Harry Potter's Third Cousin's Friends Uncle and Batman's Successor's Twelfth Cousin's Friend, or Pi may have created Richard Parker but WE, WE the rest of SOCIETY, tell you and him EXPLICITLY, that you AREN'T and that he didn't. Well, then there goes your little reality. We all can admit that, yes we change our reality, to make it more believable and understandable for others. Trust me, no matter how hard you deny it, it's right there, and you know it. You've all done it before.
Well, I hope you had fun reading this post.

So.... as we conclude this blog post, we will sign off with our usual way

Peace out Girl Scouts

Assignment Blog Post 2

Hello and welcome back to Blog-and-Tell (I love that name, I'm such a genius ^^;) the blog where we discuss the ideas behind the very sucessful film/book Life of Pi. Today, we will be discussing the idea of Religion and Science. Is religion and science linked in the fact that they are both belief systems created by humans which become true because people believe they are true?
This is going to be a ridiculously annoying idea to explain so please, bear with me as we DELVE into the world of Philosophy. (Ugh, honestly I don't really like it)

Okay. So you might be asking, 'Well, what does he mean when he says that religion and science are both belief systems?'. Everyone knows that a religion is a belief system. Why? Let's look at Buddhism  In this religion, people believe that you get resurrected after you die. They argue that evidence for this belief comes from the way in which some people have natural abilities that are not shared by other people. However, there is no proof of reincarnation exists because our memories are erased when we die so that the majority of people can't remember their past lives. The fact that some people have natural abilities could be explained by any number of other completely unrelated theories. Observations about how the world appears to be have been made and then a theory has been made to explain these observations. 
Now what about science? To give an example of how science is a belief system, let's say we have two magnets. We know that the positively charged side of a magnet will attract the negative side of another magnet. We know that the reason for this is that opposite charges attract. However we can't see these charges. There is no little charge guy that says look at me. We can only infer that these charges exist through observing how objects react to other things. There may in fact be no charges at all. The reason opposites attract may be related to something entirely different, to something we have never even contemplated. We just observe how things are and then impose a theory onto our observations.

The idea of science and religion both being belief systems is expressed in the movie/book by Pi believing in both religion and science at the same time without finding any conflict in his beliefs. In his childhood Pi has two teachers, one for Religion and Science. Later at university, Pi studied animals and the science behind their behavior, bu at the same time, he also believed in three different religions. 

Although the book explains this idea through delving into the teachings of Pi's two different teachers while at the same time presenting no kind of conflict between science and religion, the film bypasses the whole idea entirely. Instead, the film replaced this section with a more extended version of Pi's early life. However, the film does not really lack anything through this decision as throughout the first part of the film, from Pi's childhood to just before the boat crash, it is explained that he had the choice of Religion and Science presented to him and that he took both choices. People who see the film can still figure out that science and religion being belief systems is a point that is made.

I think that science is a belief system. So many people say that science is the 'Truth'. However, if that was TRUE, then everyone would know everything. If we knew everything about the world, there would be no further development. For example, Einstein came up with the very famous formula E=mc2. People believed this was true for a long time. However, scientists have now partly disproved the formula. If Einstein had known the 'Truth' of the formula back then, he would have been eternally right. If we look back at the science of a few hundred years we would say, 'Wow, we were really stupid back then to believe the world was flat.'. However this was true science to those people. In a few hundred years from now, people will look back on us and say the exact same thing. '

Well, without any more delay, I hope you enjoyed reading this blog post about things that, in my very honest opinion, does not matter to me at all. I find philosophy confusing and for more of those intelligent people. Aaaaanyways, NOW without further ado.... dun dun dun dun..... Goodbye... :D

Peace out Girl Scouts.