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Growing up, I was used to being bombarded by stories from both my mother and father. My mother with her religious stories, and my father with his experiences from when he was a little boy living in Vietnam. What I noticed in all of my mother’s stories, was that she was trying to get a certain message across. Be good. If there is anything that my mother is more stern on then studies, it would be on being a “good” person that knows their morals and can perfectly execute and stand by it. My mother’s definition of “good”, is being selfless, caring, and honest, by being so you will be rewarded by having to the choice to go to Heaven, or to get reincarnated into a higher position in society. My mother made it her duty to raise me with the same morals as her since she believed that hers was “right”. She believed that the perfect human being was one that was always willing to give and one who was always honest. …show more content…

He does not know whether or not God or exists, or if there is a higher being, but what he does know is he saw a ghost, which lead him to believe in an afterlife. My father’s way of thinking is similar to that Aristotle’s. Aristotle believed that through our senses, we will find truth. That first, we use senses, and then use reason afterwards to categorize the things we experience. My father used his senses, sight, to establish that there is an afterlife.
My mother is like my father, in the sense that they both believe in an afterlife. However, unlike my father, my mother is a very religious woman who is very faithful to her Catholic beliefs, although with some altercations. My mother believes that when a person dies, they will get to have the choice of whether they want to go to Heaven, or get reincarnated into a person with a higher social standing in

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