https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18 Ramblings about course readings en-us 2017-09-05 21:53:18 UTC 2025-09-24 20:43:28 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Clouds.png sam_affonso18 https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/184947036 While many may not support his teaching style, I believe the socratic method of teaching is one of the best ways of teaching. This method creates a platform allowing allowing all participants to become involved. I also believe that not everyone is the same, and hence not everyone learns in the same manner. As a result, the Socratic Method also allows everyone to understand the information on discussion in their own comfortable way. Unfortunately, in my high school in Trinidad, this method was not generally adopted and lecture based classes were the norm; where students are required to sit and absorb information. ]]> 2017-09-05 22:00:49 UTC https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/184947036 sam_affonso18 https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/186983111 Given that God is does exist, must he be good?

I believe God is good all the time. During life we may encounter bad situations but I there is a reason behind everything. I also believe it is wrong for us to think God is evil when we face these situations. I think that God allows us to find ourselves in bad situations, giving us the choice to turn to Him, essentially testing man's strength and faithfulness. ]]> 2017-09-12 21:48:23 UTC https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/186983111 sam_affonso18 https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/194932720 To me, the allegory of the cave, illustrates challenges of the modern world. The story endeavours through a man's escape from the darkness of a cave, for the first time and is opened to a new life. Using this analogy, the cave is seen as man's comfort zone; a superficial and perspective world, ridden with false truths and the world outside the cave as the truth of life and existence. I also, believe this analogy has perfectly depicts the ignorance of man, but Plato couples this ignorance by showing that man possesses the ability to ascend from his stubborn way of thinking and learn to experience the meaningful reality. 
It's interesting the manner in which Plato proffers the setting. He does it in such a way that any one's truth can be simply one's perception and opinion. 
 ]]> 2017-10-07 18:27:55 UTC https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/194932720 sam_affonso18 https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/194935095 Its ironic because when one thinks of an apology, the word "sorry" normally comes to mind, but Socrates does not apologise for anything but rather I believe that he is sympathetic towards his community and feels pity for the ones who sentence him to death. It is also comical in the sense that Socrates knew he would be found guilty but at the same time he was surprised that a vast amount of people found him innocent. ]]> 2017-10-07 18:59:43 UTC https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/194935095 sam_affonso18 https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/194936138 Ruth highlights God's love and concern for people of all races. It also highlights God's faithfulness to anyone who obeys Him. 
Through Ruth, we can see how God can take anyone to places they never though possible. ]]> 2017-10-07 19:16:02 UTC https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/194936138 sam_affonso18 https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/194940760 Matthew starts off The New Testament. Although it is the first book in The New Testament, of the four gospels, it was not the first book to be written. ]]> 2017-10-07 20:28:51 UTC https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/194940760 sam_affonso18 https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/194952896 Matthew speaks about the lineage of Jesus. It begins by outlining Jesus' ancestors, highlighting that he is of descendent of Abraham and essentially King David. 

Christ's love is revealed to us through His coming into the flesh and giving His life for the redemption of our sins so that we may be reconciled back to Him. ]]> 2017-10-08 02:00:26 UTC https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/194952896 sam_affonso18 https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/194952992 Completed by A.D. 100.]]> 2017-10-08 02:03:36 UTC https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/194952992 sam_affonso18 https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/195008798 Exodus is the second book of the old testament. It speaks about the life of Moses; the child of a Hebrew slave living in Egypt at the time of Pharaoh. The Book speaks about how God uses Moses to lead the Hebrew slaves out of Egypt and into the wilderness and towards Mount Sinai. 
While in the wilderness, God speaks to Moses and gives him the ten commandments. ]]> 2017-10-08 15:36:02 UTC https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/195008798 sam_affonso18 https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/196639634 The poem is centered around two main characters, Arjuna; a Pandeva Prince and an illustrious warrior and Krishna, whom takes on the appearance of Arjuna's charioteer. 
We eventually see that Krishna is in fact a deity. ]]> 2017-10-12 21:06:47 UTC https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/196639634 sam_affonso18 https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/196640560 1. Know the reality of the world in which you live.
2. Know the reality about yourself, who you are and what you are really.
3. Know that the senses are responsible for your desires.
4. Cultivate buddhi or your discriminating intelligence to discern true knowledge.
5. Know the true nature of action and inaction and how actions bind you to the world and cause you suffering. Know that it is not actions but the desires and the attachment behind your actions which are responsible for your karma. 
6. Know the Supreme-Self to be the all pervading and all knowing Creator of all.
7. Cultivate the quality of sattva or purity so that you can experience true love for God and know the true meaning of devotion, surrender and sacrifice. ]]> 2017-10-12 21:11:00 UTC https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/196640560 sam_affonso18 https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/201429573 Consists of essentially three books; Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise. ]]> 2017-10-28 17:38:27 UTC https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/201429573 sam_affonso18 https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/201430348 The first and most widely read of the three works, comprising The Divine Comedy. It describes Dante's journey through hell with his trusty companion Virgil (and Dante is referred to as Pilgrim). Virgil is sent by Dante's lover Beatrice, to help Dante escape this lowly place at the bottom of a mountain (Dante could not climb the mountain as his path was blocked by three beasts). Virgil then leads Plato through hell, which is illustrated as a funnel lined with concentric circles in which sins of ever increasing severity are punished (JoT, 2nd Edition). ]]> 2017-10-28 17:49:29 UTC https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/201430348 sam_affonso18 https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/201430841 1. Limbo -
2. Lust
3. Gluttony
4. greed
5. Anger
6. Hersy 
7. Violence
8. Fraud
9. Treachery]]> 2017-10-28 17:55:56 UTC https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/201430841 sam_affonso18 https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/201431338 The soles of pagans and the unbaptised wander the caves Limbo in loneliness with the desperation to meet God.

]]> 2017-10-28 18:03:39 UTC https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/201431338 sam_affonso18 https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/201431393 The souls lust are endlessly blown and spiralling in the winds of a violent storm. ]]> 2017-10-28 18:04:32 UTC https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/201431393 sam_affonso18 https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/201431577 Because of their cold nature, these souls suffer the coldness of a ceaseless icy rain. ]]> 2017-10-28 18:06:21 UTC https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/201431577 sam_affonso18 https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/201431669 These souls are consumed in a pit of smelting gold, desperately trying to escape only to be pulled back in when they approach the end. 

]]> 2017-10-28 18:07:44 UTC https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/201431669 sam_affonso18 https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/201431844 An endless battle of wailing souls takes place on a murky swamp. ]]> 2017-10-28 18:10:42 UTC https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/201431844 sam_affonso18 https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/201431889 Souls are trapped in a flaming pit, guarded by demons to capture those who try to escape. ]]> 2017-10-28 18:11:38 UTC https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/201431889 sam_affonso18 https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/201431972 These violent souls are condemned to drown in a lake of boiling blood. 

]]> 2017-10-28 18:12:28 UTC https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/201431972 sam_affonso18 https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/201432022 Souls are thrown into a pit of darkness, endlessly beaten and tormented by demons. ]]> 2017-10-28 18:13:08 UTC https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/201432022 sam_affonso18 https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/201432079 Here Satan himself is imprisoned in ice form from the waist down. This represents a reward for treachery. ]]> 2017-10-28 18:13:50 UTC https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/201432079 sam_affonso18 https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/201432633 Poet, Writer and Political thinker, similar to Socrates. Existed in medieval times. 
Lived in Florentine but was exiled and driven out by the opposing political faction in 1302. 
His true love was Beatrice, who died in 1290. 
After this he went on to create The Divine Comedy.]]> 2017-10-28 18:21:57 UTC https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/201432633 sam_affonso18 https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/201432812 1. Envy
2. Wrath
3. Greed
4. Sloth
5. Pride
6. Gluttony
7. Lust]]> 2017-10-28 18:24:50 UTC https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/201432812 sam_affonso18 https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/214345743 At the beginning of the story, Scrooge is depicted as a cheap and selfish man, uncaring about the people around and who try to help him. 
After being led through the past, present and future, he is transformed into a king and caring person. 
He begins to help those around him, sharing his fortune to those who are less fortunate. ]]> 2017-12-07 22:01:45 UTC https://padlet.com/sam_affonso18/b5rppx3top18/wish/214345743