https://padlet.com/jenningsa4965/6rekbvvh6mw9csv2 -Aidan Jennings en-us 2023-03-10 19:59:35 UTC 2023-03-14 08:57:05 UTC hello@padlet.com jenningsa4965 https://padlet.com/jenningsa4965/6rekbvvh6mw9csv2/wish/2512292852 “It wasn’t God who saved me–it was medicine” (28).]]> 2023-03-10 20:04:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jenningsa4965/6rekbvvh6mw9csv2/wish/2512292852 jenningsa4965 https://padlet.com/jenningsa4965/6rekbvvh6mw9csv2/wish/2515662416 2023-03-14 07:22:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jenningsa4965/6rekbvvh6mw9csv2/wish/2515662416 jenningsa4965 https://padlet.com/jenningsa4965/6rekbvvh6mw9csv2/wish/2515663429 “Academic study and the steady, mindful practice of religion slowly brought me back to life” (3).]]> 2023-03-14 07:23:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jenningsa4965/6rekbvvh6mw9csv2/wish/2515663429 jenningsa4965 https://padlet.com/jenningsa4965/6rekbvvh6mw9csv2/wish/2515663786 “Sometimes I got my majors mixed up” (5).]]> 2023-03-14 07:23:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jenningsa4965/6rekbvvh6mw9csv2/wish/2515663786 jenningsa4965 https://padlet.com/jenningsa4965/6rekbvvh6mw9csv2/wish/2515664358 Pi's teacher is an atheist who spent his childhood in a hospital bed with polio. He looked for God to help him; however,
(; transition,)in the end, he said that medicine is what saved him. Pi, a strong believer in God (appositive), was in shock. As Pi looks back at this moment, he shares, “It was my first clue that atheists are my brothers and sisters of different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them–and then they leap” (28). Through binary opposition, Yann Martel compares the two topics to show their underlying similarities. Pi concludes that science and religion are not necessarily opposites, but different ways of explaining the question all religion aims to answer: what is our purpose? This question is why faith, having complete trust in something (participle), is necessary. Faith gives life purpose. Without it, one is just stuck with "dry, yeastless actuality".]]> 2023-03-14 07:24:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jenningsa4965/6rekbvvh6mw9csv2/wish/2515664358 jenningsa4965 https://padlet.com/jenningsa4965/6rekbvvh6mw9csv2/wish/2515664849 “To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation” (28).]]> 2023-03-14 07:24:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jenningsa4965/6rekbvvh6mw9csv2/wish/2515664849 jenningsa4965 https://padlet.com/jenningsa4965/6rekbvvh6mw9csv2/wish/2515665147 “I am a Hindu because of sculptured cones of red kumkum powder and baskets of yellow turmeric nuggets, because of garlands of flowers and pieces of broken coconut…because of foreheads carrying, variously signified, the same word-faith” (47).  ]]> 2023-03-14 07:25:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jenningsa4965/6rekbvvh6mw9csv2/wish/2515665147 jenningsa4965 https://padlet.com/jenningsa4965/6rekbvvh6mw9csv2/wish/2515667493 “I can well imagine an atheist's last words: "White, white! L-L-Love! My God!"-and the deathbed leap of faith. Whereas the agnostic, if he stays true to his reasonable self, if he stays beholden to dry, yeastless factuality, might try to explain the warm light bathing him by saying, "Possibly a f-f-failing oxygenation of the b-b-brain," and, to the very end, lack imagination and miss the better story” (64).]]> 2023-03-14 07:27:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jenningsa4965/6rekbvvh6mw9csv2/wish/2515667493 jenningsa4965 https://padlet.com/jenningsa4965/6rekbvvh6mw9csv2/wish/2515667756 “Mr Kumar said, “Equus burchelli boehmi.” Mr Kumar said, “Allahu akbar.” I said, It’s very pretty.” We looked on” (84).]]> 2023-03-14 07:27:48 UTC https://padlet.com/jenningsa4965/6rekbvvh6mw9csv2/wish/2515667756 jenningsa4965 https://padlet.com/jenningsa4965/6rekbvvh6mw9csv2/wish/2515668028 “I was giving up. I would have given up-if a voice hadn't made itself heard in my heart. The voice said, "I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare. I will beat the odds, as great as they are. I have survived so far, miraculously. Now I will turn miracle into routine. The amazing will be seen every day. I will put in all the hard work necessary. Yes, so long as God is with me, I will not die. Amen”’ (148).]]> 2023-03-14 07:28:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jenningsa4965/6rekbvvh6mw9csv2/wish/2515668028 jenningsa4965 https://padlet.com/jenningsa4965/6rekbvvh6mw9csv2/wish/2515668228 “Remember: the spirit, above all else, counts” (167).]]> 2023-03-14 07:28:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jenningsa4965/6rekbvvh6mw9csv2/wish/2515668228 jenningsa4965 https://padlet.com/jenningsa4965/6rekbvvh6mw9csv2/wish/2515668650 “A little bit of hope–hard earned, well deserved, reasonable–glowed in me. I fell asleep” (176).]]> 2023-03-14 07:28:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jenningsa4965/6rekbvvh6mw9csv2/wish/2515668650 jenningsa4965 https://padlet.com/jenningsa4965/6rekbvvh6mw9csv2/wish/2515668899 “I saw my suffering for what it was, finite and insignificant, and I was still. My suffering did not fit anywhere, I realized” (177).]]> 2023-03-14 07:28:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jenningsa4965/6rekbvvh6mw9csv2/wish/2515668899 jenningsa4965 https://padlet.com/jenningsa4965/6rekbvvh6mw9csv2/wish/2515669422 “The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving” (209).]]> 2023-03-14 07:29:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jenningsa4965/6rekbvvh6mw9csv2/wish/2515669422 jenningsa4965 https://padlet.com/jenningsa4965/6rekbvvh6mw9csv2/wish/2515669664 “Cradled in the palm of my hand was all that remained between me and death: the last of the orange whistles” (229).]]> 2023-03-14 07:29:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jenningsa4965/6rekbvvh6mw9csv2/wish/2515669664 jenningsa4965 https://padlet.com/jenningsa4965/6rekbvvh6mw9csv2/wish/2515669940 “I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island” (283).]]> 2023-03-14 07:29:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jenningsa4965/6rekbvvh6mw9csv2/wish/2515669940