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Confucianism is about the goodness of people. I had heard about Confucius before because my mom is interested in our cultural knowledge and usually takes us to museums. One time we were in Canada and they had an exposition on Confucius theories and about the Chinese. My mom bought the book about the theories but not the analects book we are reading right now so I had read about it before and I found it very interesting analyzing it in class.
“Those who are good feel at home in Goodness, whereas those who are clever follow Goodness because they feel that they will profit from it.” (p.10) this quotation I agree with, the world has become forced goodness. The school used to take us to the hogar forced us to there were some people who wanted to go but others just had to so they could benefit from it and avoid punishment. So we can see that celebrities some times donate money to foundations in order to clean their names or to look good which works but no necessarily is because they want to. Who is able to leave a room without going out through the door? How is it, then, that no one follows this Way? (p.17) this tells that people know that it is the only way but they try to find another when there isn’t one. This could also be people are sometimes not satisfied with what they have so they keep looking for something that is not there.
The things that I read seem to be something that you can use on daily bases. Because sometimes I am forced to do good but now, I can try to do it because I want to not because I have to. I felt bad reading Confucius because I realized I am not as good as a person I could be.

Obama Accpetance Speech

Obama
He uses many rhetorical devices in his speech. Mostly, he uses pathos explaining that the ways are not going to be how it used to be and that America is going to change. He uses ethos when what changes he would make as a president. He uses forensic rhetoric blaming the old government, and uses demonstrative and deliberate rhetoric to show what he would do as a president.

Mighty Word Oh Mighty Word

Is the mighty word worth more than your friends? Well apparently it does, job’s friends could not convince him that god is good however, god said one word to him and made him change his mind. Job changed his mind when ironically god spoke to him. In this case, whom would you believe someone like your friends who have been there for you a long time a go or a voice that calls him-self god who you cursed? It is complicated but since we are in the bilbe times it us to expect that people listen to god.
Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart? Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven, When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?” (Job.38.37-39) these are the words of wisdom god gave on to job to change his mind. However, if god appeared to my face and said this to me I would also believe him. The words god said are very true job only looked the bad side of god but who created us? Who gave us the things we enjoy for me god gave me chocolate.
Maybe jobs situation if you overlook it sounds ridiculous but after you take it in consideration you would probably act the same way as job did.

He Seems To Be A Child

Job’s thoughts toward God never changed even though his friends tried to help him and convince him that he was good. “He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.” (Job.12.23.) He believed that god gave you something takes it away. However, this situation were his friends Zophar, Bildad, and Eliphaz are trying to help him and he refuses, for me is somewhat immature. “Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?” (Job.20.4-5.) this is some of what Zophar explains to him about god that I agree with because any evil done uncovered it will be. Yes, maybe Job is the first rebel or revolutionary character of the bible he has some philosophical believes different form every one at the time, yet he knows what is best for him but still he does not follow. Job is also immature to God because God is trying to teach him something but job just does not understand god and gives up.

I think this is an example of how people grow and maybe god just gave job the personality to think like that so he can later grow but you never know what would happen. He and his friends think very differently so they see god but with different eyes.

How Do I Know?

In the story of job, we see how job develops in to what was a “good person” to what became a bad person clamming himself to be perfect. We could say that job’s behavior had to with the devil trying to make him unhappy and manipulating so he could get in to power so went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.” Job 2 , which it is true but no matter what he, was tested and yet the next thing you know job is cursing god. “Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, there is a man child conceived. Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.” (Job.3.3-4.)
This shows how can a situation make people change, at the begging job was a good person one that would never do anything wrong and later he just loose it. You never now what people will do unless something happen people change under situation and turn out to be someone you never expected, your best friend in any minute can become your worst enemy such as Satan did with god and angel turned to be dark. You just never know or do you?

He Is A Supernatural Being!

In the second book of Samuel, I noted allot of fear from Saul and everybody. “But the spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him.” It is a book filled with mischievous, fear, and war. As I clearly sated on my last entry I had no idea that the bible was this cruel I thought it was as they taught me nice and peaceful.

In addition, the doubts to God are because they know he is doing the wrong thing in my opinion, warlike God. However, my god is a being looked as the perfect, omniscient originator and ruler of the universe, the principal object of faith and worship in monotheistic religions. He is a supernatural being, an idol and an icon. Well you everyday get a different surprise and it looks that today mine is something not expected. I am starting to have doubts about the bible and of God, each book he is a different person, multiple personality God.

War-like God

Samuel 1
Samuel, makes god look like a warrior cold blooded one, his statements sound like if he wanted revenge and blood. It rather reminds me of the Spartans who are also great warriors. It sounds to me that the god I know is completely different from the god I know read. He is cruel, vicious and he looks forward for war. Our god or at least the one I have learned about is more caring and he is “against war”. This is weird for me. I now have a different point of view of what god is. I had never being Christian read the bible until now and I am enjoying it.
It could be that after the humans having so much wars we decided to stop if maybe god said that war is bad. God encouraged people to go to the crusades to kill in his name as Nicholas Machiavelli once said “the end justifies the means” that is what god practically said, what about world war two, killing because god said we needed a pure raze. Maybe God is our excuse
We use him, and blame him for so many things, even though as the Ten Commandments sate we shall not use his name in vane. Have you heard about the crimes committed now days because God spoke to them please! What world are we living in! Maybe god is different for all us and we can have different perceptions.