Tuesday, September 22, 2009

And here is what I think about YOU... (HW #2: Blog Comments)

Bryam,

I thought your connections to Plato's allegory about the cave were outstanding. It shows that you have a deeper outstanding of the text by connecting to something we've learned in the past. Also, the connection to Plato is very valid by saying we must view the world through our own senses.

I also think for you to make such a vivid connection to another complicated text as you did, it further enhances Banach's ideas. It made me realize that there are a countless amount of ways to view this text just as there are countless amount of ways for us to view the world. It's simply mind boggling for me to see it first hand so quickly since we've been reading about it all week.

I think for you to develop your ideas more, you should make include an opinion in your post and try to make it clear. You had wonderful ideas but most of them were just begging for some personal input from you.

This post was as interesting as they come. It made me reflect and realize how we all view things differently on a smaller scale. Banach is absolutely right. Our minds are truly our own and Bryam, my good man, you made this apparent.

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Sandy Sandy Sandy,

Your last paragraph did it all for me. I completely agree that it's hard to identify one's TRUE self since we're always putting on these masks. Not to necessarily be "fake", but in order to hide insecurities or make others around you feel more comfortable. But since we are constantly doing this, you posed very good questions which all stood under the umbrella question of: How do we know who we really are? I thought your ability to pose such questions shows just how complex this reading is and also how thought-provoking it was.

I loved the connections to stories of your friends and how you thought there were enough humans in the world for emotions to overlap. I'll have to disagree (respectfully of course). While I agree on our core base feelings, I think it is impossible to tell whether two people feel the same way. Two people can go through identical situations and perhaps feel similar to one another and then that creates a connection. But to say they feel the same way, I think would be a little unfair.

I think to further develop your ideas, you can try adding more personal connections to your next post. The ones in here were so good and enjoyable that they left me wanting more so I think to add more personal connections would make the post feel a little more concrete and whole.

I absolutely adored this post. I thought it was nearly perfect. It not only addressed Banach's challenging concepts and your opinions on them but you also provoked the thoughts of the readers with your Banach-esque philosophies in the third paragraph. Very well done.

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