Thursday, February 28, 2008

Mythology of Hinduism # 2

Okay, first of all I had a heck of a time trying to listen to this, I couldn’t get it to down load on any computers at first. But now that I have gotten to listen to it, I have decided that it was very boring. It was a boring lecture, where he just went on and on and on kind of like the song that never ends, and I found the guy’s voice very annoying, but loved his accent. At first, I was not sure where he was going with the black and white/bad and good thing, but eventually got it I think, it was kind of confusing. I thought he was talking about how everything could be compared to black and white, evil and good. When he talked about the, I think it was a black circle on white paper, or vise versa, I found it very interesting, because I agree with him totally, every one views things in different ways, you might see a circle on the paper, someone else may see like he said, a hole in the wall, or what ever else you mind might put to it, maybe a wheel, I don’t know. To tie this in with religion, I figured he was talking about how every religion views God in different way, and that even in the Hindu religion, they view God differently. They believe in reincarnation, and the way it was explained in class, they have a very good point, especially with the remembering things when they happen, I am not saying I believe in it, but it is an interesting point of view. Along with the reincarnation, is the karma was cool learning about. Then there is Kalpa, where Brahma becomes a human, every 4,320,000 years, who forgets who he is, and then rediscovers himself. And to close with, I think I like learning the stuff from class, not from a philosopher who annoys me to listen to.

1 comment:

Irish said...

Sorry you didn't enjoy it. Sometimes its good to hear from more than one teacher on a subject. Explaining Hinduism (well) can make rocket science seem easy.

It's too bad you had such a negative experience with this. Many teenagers have trouble listening to a lecture and find it boring, mainly because attention spans have changed (video games, et al) their perceptions.

Sometimes you have to listen to it more than once in order to get the ideas behind his lecture. I guess since you found this "so painful" that wasn't going to help in this case.

Mr. Farrell