I don't get it.
How can you form a "fake" opinion? Today, I wanted Orestes to go free, but was told to fight with the Furies. I didn't have much passion for either side, but I had more for his than I did for the Furies.
This exam that we are having in a couple of days, is exactly the same thing. I'm having to form and opinion on something that I don't have an opinion on. I think that's the way I am, though. I don't like confrontation. I don't like arguments. I'm more of a lets-just-laugh-and-not-get-into-it kind of person. Getting to the core of things has never been my strong suit.
I don't get it.
I think I may fail.
And, I feel that I've run out of things to say on these blogs...I can only say so many things about a story. Which they are basically all the same anyways. (Someone kills someone, goes for the gold, a god interjects, that person is killed, etc.) I mean no matter the story, my point of view doesn't change.
Take today for instance, I think killing someone is wrong. Period. No matter how justified, no matter what god told you to do it, no matter if God Himself told you to do it. (By the way I don't believe that was God.) Now compare that with my post from a while back about "True Honor", I think killing a person is wrong. I think I said something like I don't like war or something. Well, my thoughts haven't changed from the battlefield to the home. (Or mansion, wherever all those people were killed in the tragedy stories.) I don't believe in murder to any extent. I feel like I just keep repeating myself.
Now, in all of that I said "I believe" and "I think" a lot. (Which I believe I was told not to do.) I'm not going to come right out and say that I am right, because I don't know that I am. I could get to heaven and be completely, absolutely, wrong. Who am I, little-ole Alana Mills, to say that the way everyone else believes is wrong and I am right? I can't bring myself to do it, sorry.
I seriously don't get it.
I think I may fail this course.
I commented on Samantha's post!
I feel the same way. I've been staring at the questions on the handouts for almost an hour, and honestly, I don't have an answer to any of them. Also, I'm on Orestes' side too. If Apollo told him to kill his mom, he didn't have much of a choice. Bad things were going to happen no matter what he chose.
ReplyDeleteTrue, i agree with this. And it does seem justice becomes something opinionated by the gods in the end. But the furies also were created to deal with those who did unjust things as Orestes did, although he was told to do by Apollo. It really goes both ways and is all on what your opinion is.
ReplyDeleteYou don't have to be passionate about either side. The purpose of the trial was to have all the points of both arguments placed neatly in front of you. All you have to do is pick one side and present the points.
ReplyDeleteOf course, I'm a fairly opinionated person, so I don't usually have this problem. However, I can understand why someone would. This course is just a course. It can't hurt you unless you allow it to.
Furthermore, passion can get in the way if you're trying to prove a point. Rule of Thumb, the more passionate you are about something, the less logical you are when debating about it. So, not having passion for either side can work in your favor, because you are mentally capable of arguing both sides.
Granted, passion is good to have as an incentive and for giving your argument some "umph", but when it comes to debating, logic is superior. And honey, you seem to have plenty of that. You'll do fine!
awww alana! Don't say you're going to fail the course. You don't know that you will. I believe that you will do just fine :). But i also agree with you on that I was more on the side of Orestes instead of the Furies. And I don't like taking a side either when I don't really believe in either side, but this time, it had to be done haha.
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