Edwin Abbott's Flatland

However, the second teaching “Bhagavad Gita” talks about is the three Gunas. Their names are Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas. Sattva is known as pure happiness and knowledge. It helps us free from all sinful reactions that can later lead to happiness and knowledge. Rajas are known to be full of passion with intense desires. It helps us control our selfish desires. Tamas is known to be the darkness, and crudeness. They are the ones who are born with ignorance, and madness. Higher worlds are Sattva, middle worlds are rajas, and lower worlds are tamas. Each of the three Gunas tries to have higher power, and overpower one another. Our souls are known to be influenced by them. They are responsible for the behavior of all living things. The goal of the three Gunas is to create a bondage through desires. Understanding the three Gunas helps a devotee overcome their battles to accomplish perfection, and help us with complying with our duties. All three are responsible to get rid of desire actions in all beings. Instead of just putting these practices into use we should go beyond our own expectations. The one who is successful with all three Gunas is a qualified devotee. Therefore, we must begin our journey into this world.

Irving depicts the dim side of religion by demonstrating the fiend as a detestable character. Religion includes God and

The purpose of the story seems to be to heighten one's sense of reality about the world around him or her. It shows there may possibly be other dimensions and other worlds that are taking place at the same time. It makes one wonder about the world as we know it.

The books setting which is clearly the island is an indirect allusion to the Garden of Eden. The boys on the island start to sense or notice a haunting presence they so call "the Beast" which is an allusion to satan himself. In addition, Jack recognizes a "snake-thing" on the island which is another allusion to the snake in the Garden of Eden who disguised himself as a

The teachings of Buddha and his path are being promoted in different parts of the world by

The speaker in the parable says that when the other prisoners discussed of the enlightened man they “would laugh at him and say that he had gone up only to come back with his sight ruined.” The prisoners believe they are the ones filled with the accurate knowledge and refuse to accept others. Sometimes, because they are considered ‘geniuses,’ intelligent people may put themselves on a high pedestal and believe they are superior to everyone else. This is the problem in society; many people are socially incompetent because of their scholarly knowledge. They would only discuss issues logically, which could be perceived in a hurtful manner because of their lack of emotion. Additionally, pure ignorance is to believe that we are the ones who have the light, meaning everyone believes the light is in them. Thus, one cannot know for certain what is correct or incorrect. Like Plato says in the “Allegory of the Cave”: “A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways.” A truly knowledgeable person would accept other perspectives and understand that people will always have different views, instead of insisting that his own are the

Worldviews vary from person to person and faith to faith, resulting in everyone seeing the world through their own assumptions and beliefs. Out of the many worldviews discussed in the text, Integrative Approaches to Psychology and Christianity, and in class three stood out to me for comparison. These three worldviews consist of Naturalism, Pantheism and Polytheism. Worldviews, although not always correct, are how people see the world and reflect on our expectations about life. Differences can be seen in beliefs such as if they believe in a spiritual world, a material world, or both. Worldview’s purposes are to explain the purpose of man and the world. All three worldviews attribute the problems in the world to different aspects based on their beliefs and have diverse notions of how to resolve the world problems. Although a few similarities can be found among these world views, there are multiple differences found.

Religions utlizestories stories and play central role in the formulation of worldview and as a result

There are many things in this world, and in others, that I believe cannot be fully understood. For example, in the story of Flatland, A. Square explains his world and what he thinks of ours. To him, our world has space, thus calling it Spaceland, which is something they do not have in Flatland, hints the name Flat-land. In effort to explain the difference in the worlds, one would find it confusing and hard to comprehend Abbott's writing, especially for those of us who have only been told and informed about the world of three dimensions.

To begin, the Great Serpent Mound reflects the Hopewell’s belief system by depicting how they connected with the spiritual world. How a culture views the spiritual world affects their belief system because what they chose

There are many different religions with many different beliefs, traditions, practices, and rituals. These differences are a very important part of understanding and appreciating the culture and history behind the specific religion. However, the practices that certain religions have in common can aid even more in furthering the understanding of specific beliefs of other religions. Since most religions cultivate from the practices and beliefs of other religions, they use those core values and beliefs and transform them into what they believe is a better way practicing. Religions use similarities within each other and twist them into their own. There are certain beliefs within every religion that shape their practices such as their morals or their most essential or absolute value, their position on human beings’ problems and solutions, and their view on life and death within their religion. Pure Land Buddhism (a form of Mahayana Buddhism) and Vaishnavites (a group within Hinduism) are great examples of this very concept.

The cave allegory also proves that the role of education is not to teach in the sense of feeding people information they do not have, but rather to shed light on things they already know. Education "isn't the craft of putting sight into the soul. Education takes for granted that sight is there but that it isn't turned the right way or looking where it ought to look, and it tries to redirect it properly." (2)

general theory and also that he speaks of religion as an illusion; a fantasy structure from

An example of this is Herbert’s looking towards the Bible for stylistic inspiration rather than to alien imagery and ideas of Donne. Another very important and distinctive characteristic of the poetry is Herbert’s introduction of two quiet final lines, resolving the previously mentioned argument within the poem, without answering any specific points mentioned. The doubts in faith and religion are expressed in intellectual terms by Donne, and the argument is answered in this intellectual style too. Herbert, although occasionally exploring the doubts in an intellectual manner, answers his doubts with emotion. In this specific way, Herbert conveys an explicit insight that one is unable to argue or reason with God; one is aware of God’s presence or one lacks this awareness and guidance.

Religion these days have become the center of our attention as we contemplate whats right and what is wrong. Figuring out what religious views fit best with what you believe can be difficult to grasp as sometime we begin to wonder if what we read or believe actually is true. It is only human nature to question the beliefs that are set before us. Religious views all over the world have many spiritual beliefs and traditions that are all different in some way. It is important to have the knowledge of different religions as not everyone in this world believes the way you might. Having the sensitivity towards their belief is important and having the understanding that you can't change the way that they think. Two world religious views that are