Finals

Well these finals have been eventful. Started with a physics final that was rather difficult. Argued with my art teacher. Did my biology final. Econ was a piece of cake. Calculus smacked .e across the face. Tomorrow we eat. Winter break is next and I got a lot to do... Woot woot go senior year. NOT

Literature Analysis numero tres ("The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot)

Instead of doing a literature analysis on a book I have yet to finish, I decided to use this as an opportunity to do it on a piece of literature I have read and fully enjoyed. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Elliot has intrigued me with its intricate yet mystifying detail. So here we go..

The poem begins with an allusion to Dante's "Inferno." This excerpt is in italian and is meant to show that Prufrock just wants to tell his story without fear of being infamous. Then the poem transitions into a section that looks like Prufrock is with a woman. He says that he is like a patient etherized upon a table meaning that he is unconscious about his surroundings. Prufrock proceeds to talk about a yellow fog. This is a fog with human-like attributes and movements. After this Prufrock comments on what women think about his aging. his hair is thinning and his style becomes more mature. "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons" this line can be viewed as a sign that Prufrock knows he is old and that he is bound to die soon. Then in a seemimgly non sequitur  manner Prufrock talks about how affected by women he is. Prufrock then explains his past indulgences and how he understands that he isunderserving of a good afterlife and is going to go to hell. Prufrock then alludes to Lazurus, and basically calls himself a messenger. Hamlet also makes and appearance, Prufrock explains that he is not even close to being a Prince Hamlet. At the end of this "love song" he talks again about his age and then personifies the beach and the poem just fades off into the ocean.

This poem is interesting because the ideas presented are puzzling and very educated. Eliot understands how to really stump a reader. Instead of this poem being about a lover like a typical love song, this song is much more morbid. It eulogizes Prufrock before he has even died, and states that he is going to hell for his lifestyle. Prufrock is the medium of this framed narrative (story within a story) because he speaks of his life but then also declares that his story is meant to basically be heard and used as a learning experience. So that the reader doesn't fall into the same situation as Prufrock the reader mustn't make the same mistakes of overindulgence and wastefulness, but to live a productive and proactive life.

Throughout this piece the author is constantly moving between styles of diction and tone. Initially the poem is predominantly about a feminine figure in Prufrock's life, then transitions into his age. Then goes back into women then back to age. Elliot starts it off as a sad song of love but turns into a sad song about life. I see the main element of procrastination in this poem and how in life many people wait until their deathbed to realize that they probably lived life in a wrong way.

The author directly describes Prufrock's character through his aging self and his weakness in women. Indirectly, the author shows Prufrock to be regretful and bitter about a failed life. Prufrock is a static  characterbecause their isn't a personal change within him, he beleives he is going to hell and does nothing about it and solely accepts who he is.

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" notes

"And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully!

Smoothed by long fingers,

Asleep ... tired ... or it malingers,

Stretched on the floor, here beside you and me.

Should I, after tea and cakes and ices,

Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?

But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed,

Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter,

I am no prophet — and here’s no great matter;

I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,

And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,

And in short, I was afraid."

 

*An excerpt from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Elliot

 

This excerpt stood out to me the most and between Henry, Michael, Taylor and I we broke down what it meant to us. "And the afternoon...cakes and ices" this portion talks about how Prufrock overindulged in himself. Sleep, women, food, you name it Prufrock did it. This excerpt proceeds to then say "Have the strength... to its crisis?" This line questions his ability to actually do something with himself, it is unclear what the crisis is exactly at this point. "But though...and prayed" means that Prufrock returns to a life of Christianity, he is born again, this is then inferred to be the crisis when the lines "Though I.. and snicker"

are presented. Prufrock is old and near his imminent death. Prufrock alludes to the Footman as he believes that he is going to end in hell. He also questions his deeds when he has seen his greatness flicker. This means that he may have done some comendable things in thepast but not enough to get him into heaven. "And in short I was afraid" he fears a hell made for him. This leads me to believe that this is a love song about his relationship with time and what he coulda shoulda woulda.

Alone by Edgar Allan Poe and Company

Link to the original poem
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/175776
This is an ironic representation of "Alone" by Edgar Allan Poe. Poe used this poem to express a dark and gloomy tone and how he feels alienated. This poems meaning connects with many of us. That is why we utilized multiple voices to symbolize that we all may feel alone but we are really together as a collective body.

My Long Overdue Literature Analysis #2

Brave New World 
by Aldous Huxley

This fiction novel starts out in a utopian society where people are conceived in birthing factory where everyone is predestined to the different social classes and jobs. The population is regulated and pregnancy is basically illegal. Sex is only used for pleasure and not reproduction and is encouraged with the use of fashionable contraceptives. Soma is a hallucinogen used in ceremonies, and so that the government can control people through conditioning. Bernard is a psychologist and is deemed different by his peers because he is shorter than average for a higher class individual. Bernard has a friend that is an outcast, Helmholtz. Helmholtz is different because he is all of the desirable traits of a perfect individual but he doesn’t like that.  Helmholtz talks to Bernard Marx extensively about his writing. Bernard then goes to a reservation and meets Linda. Linda was impregnated after being left behind on a trip and has a son, John the Savage, who is isolated by the local “Savages.” John finds joy in reading Shakespeare, and Linda finds sadness in staying at the reservation. Linda dreams of returning to London and having stoma. Bernard gets permission for John and Linda to go to London. Bernard returns to London with the group. Linda becomes addicted to Stoma and John reveals himself as Thomas’s son. John becomes famous but is bored by the dreariness of society. Bernard is once again alone and looks to Helmholtz for friendship, but he becomes John’s friend. John takes a turn for the worst. He gets violent after Lenina gets frisky and when his mother dies of a soma overdose. John goes into a heated rage and the police coma and use stoma to calm everyone down. John Henmholtz and Bernard are then basically on trial. Hemholtz and Bernard are exiled while John is forced to stay to continue the experiment. John causes mass chaos when he beats Lenina in front of a lot of people, stoma and sex return in this scene. John is then found dead, as he hung himself the following day.

This dystopian novel is used to show how a utopia of rigid class structure and condition eradicates free thought. It is extremely similar to Orwellian literature except it is on the fascist end of the political spectrum as it hails rigid class structure and capitalism. Ford is viewed as nearly holy and Freud is the stem of all of the sex drives within the plot. The title depicts the entirety of the book as John goes from reading Shakespeare and being an outcast to being the center of the capital of the world. Although both New Mexico and London are part of Earth both have huge distinctions. New Mexico is predominantly “savages” (natives) while London is only predestined artificial humans.

John is a static character until the end, he is stuck in old ways that he has conditioned himself to be. He doesn’t conform to the norms of society with all of the sex and soma. He is savage in the eyes of a commoner. He sees his mother’s soma induced behavior as grossly different. H hates it when Lenina is overly sexual. This all because he grew up differently than the preconditioned lab babies of London. At the end of the book he is the center of attention he beats Lenina and participates in the massive orgy and soma ingestions. He remembers that he participates in these events and decides to hang himself. After this John is a character that I would very much like to meet. He is similar to Frankenstein in many aspects as he is a self taught man in a world that was never design for him. His father abandoned him and he was left without a mother. John becomes the city’s center and eye. I would really enjoy hearing the first person account of a confused newcomer to a dogmatic utopia that is filled with overindulgence in sin.

Hamlet the Idol

There is a library of information that I could derive from Hamlet as it is rich in information that is important for everyone. The way Hamlet acts symbolizes each and every one of us. The way Hamlet speaks symbolizes what we want to say. What Hamlet does symbolizes what we wish we could have done. Hamlets tragedies and solutions symbolize our obstacles and goals.

Hamlets verbal interaction with other characters allows for there to be a story. Initially Hamlet is a spoiled brat succumbing to the wants of a mother and a step father. He then transitions into smart-aleck teen that knows everyone’s motive. Then into a pompous adult that is blood thirsty. Many of these changes that we see within Hamlet alone reflect the human being. As soon as a problem hits us across the face we sulk in misery waiting for it to go away. Then we find some information to lead us out of the darkness. Until, Eureka, we find the solution to all of our problems. Then we second-guess ourselves, but we just blow it off and do it anyway. Then we become all high and mighty and know that the outcome is ours. But wait a minute there is one last thing we didn't see coming…then we are dead (at least figuratively.) We didn't think the plan thoroughly enough and we've failed.

College apps are similar, we are stunned by the amount of work we need to do, so we wait. It is finally a week before they are due, that is when we start right? Wrong, we don’t get accepted because we didn't invest the time we had into these applications. Now we are stuck at the community college down the street as our friends are making huge strides for themselves because they thought it out.

Hamlet’s use of tone and diction allows him to manipulate many of the other characters. “Dost thou hear me, old friend; can you play the Murder of Gonzago?” Hamlet uses this instance with one of the players to get him to add a part to the play. The player doesn't question such royalty and does so. Hamlet uses the Player as a pawn to provoke King Claudius and the kingdom at the play so that Claudius’s secret becomes exposed. This is genius manipulation of not just an actor but the manipulation of an entire kingdom. Especially because he already has everyone thinking he is crazy over Hamlet Sr.’s death, nobody will even suspect that Hamlet planned this. This is the plan that was never hatched, by you and me. Hamlet is the envy of many; nobody has the guts or manipulative skills to control and entire town.

This leads me to conclude that Hamlet is an image for what many strive to be or not to be. In the eyes of some he is a monster and in the eyes of others he is a total genius.

The Performative Utterance

William Shakespeare  utilizes one of the basic human conditions as the underlying them in “Hamlet.” This idea is called the performative utterance; this concept outlines the instance when someone literally speaks their destiny. Hamlet is a great example of this when he speaks in his soliloquies not only do we get his inner feelings but we also get to see what his words end up causing. Hamlet is not the only to show such phenomenon, it has even happened in my life.

                Hamlet’s use of soliloquies allows the audience to see into his mind and thought process, and we see an intelligent master of words out for revenge. But because Hamlet expresses who he is basically we literally get him.  In act 3 Hamlet’s famous soliloquy exemplifies Hamlet’s use of murder to get revenge and how he is starting to question his motive but at the end he basically is sure that he is going to kill Claudius after Hamlet says, “With this regard their currents turn awry.” Hamlet means that after this everything is basically going downhill and will only get rougher. By this notion the reader can only infer that Hamlet is probably going murder Claudius indefinitely. This also shows that Hamlet uses the performative utterance by showing Hamlet’s internal feelings by speech and later putting his words into action.

                In my life I have encountered this almost as personal irony. The moment I bring up something that I verbally say and is not just a thought in my mind. It happens.  It can be positive or negative but it happens. Freshman year I talking to my friends and I told them that I was going to probably end up pulling an all-nighter on the Odyssey Project and fall asleep in a class. Well, that happened exactly. On another instance I was motivated to get an A in Mrs. Byrne’s class I even told her at the beginning of the semester, after this I had a drive to work hard in her class to raise my grade to an A. No matter the task it is important to acknowledge your course of action and to literally verbalize it and it increase the chances of it occurring, likewise don’t verbalize the negative.

                Whether it is Hamlet, you, or I; the performative utterance is around everywhere. The verbalization of a sentence directed at oneself is what can bring a huge positive or the demoralizing negative. Words are more important than the casual lingo, as they act with a sort of gravity that can attract such a variation of instances to oneself.

The Picture I never took

Georgia, the best dog ever. She was a brown ball of fur. Her breed of dog was a quirky combination of Pug and Yorkie; a Porkie. She was energetic, playful, and therapeutic. Throughout my childhood I felt down often, but Georgia was my escape, the hanging of her pink tongue and the constant wiggle of her brown curl of a tail helped me realize that I had a friend. She didn't speak English but she spoke my language. I remember the times when I would share my green apple lollipops with her and we would both run throughout our backyard with green tongues and doped off sucrose. When she had her puppies, the house would revert to chaos. My sister and I were in charge of taking care of the puppies, we had to bathe them and take them out into the sun to stay warm. Georgia gave me the same look  I would give her in my times of sadness. The stare. She was lost and didn't know how to take care of her cachorritos (Spanish for little puppies). I empathized, I didn't know how to take care of my life. Then we fast forward a couple of years. Georgia had bladder stones, it was the end. I never got a proper goodbye. My parents took her to the animal hospital in San Luis Obispo and she was then put down as the surgery to remove her mineral buildups was going top be too painful for her small body. Georgia was gone and I never got a picture of her for myself. This little Porkie, my little Porkie was gone...

As I grow older this memory still bugs me, here is a song that kind of relates my sentiments

Character Study III

A journey of a newly-made college student begins in North Carolina. A soon to be man at the age of 17 (doesn't look the part) by the name of Ephraim Rodriguez Jr was travelling from college to college up the Atlantic coast and viewing each and every prospective med school. Ephraim had already been accepted into Stanford University for a major in neuroscience, but he wanted to see his available options after his pre-med. He liked the Duke University Campus except the hot humid air of a stagnant southern state didn't please Ephraim. Many miles were driven toward the northeastern portion of the United States the next stop was the University of Pennsylvania, the lavish brick architecture was superb but it was basically the same thing as all of the other Ivy League Colleges and seemed no different. In Ephraim's last stop of his college exploration, he was down the street from Columbia University and began to enjoy a Chinese duck plate in Chinatown, until suddenly Ephraim's best friend appeared, Eric. Out of all of the people that could possibly appear in such a vast city Eric was one of those possibilities. Eric was in search for a Mr. Kelly and said something about some New Jersey Mafia. Like always Eric was uttering random nonsense like a drunk man, so they began talking about their futures. Ephraim described his plans for after Stanford and mentioned the trip that he was currently taking and how some of these east-coast seemed pretty cool. After some time of talking the two went their separate ways. Ephraim had to catch his plane back to Palo Alto to start his real journey, College. The plane ride was really turbulent and uncomfortable, kind of like the future issues this young man is soon going to face. Ephraim arrives at Palo Alto and his dorm, his parents brought his necessities for him to the city. Ephraim helps fill his new home with his belongings, like a brand new macbook, xbox, clothes, mini fridge, and a lifetime supply of Ramen noodles. Due to how expensive college is going to be over the next 4 years Ephraim is going to live like a poor, starving man. His classes are going to be as rigorous as it gets in an effort to get good enough grades to get accepted into a reputable med school

Masterpiece 1

The two parts to my piece of the mastery will be neurological research on Alzheimer’s disease* and how it has affected millions of individuals worldwide and what we as a group of humans can do to make a difference to help save millions of loved ones. This transitions into the second and more difficult and elaborate portion of my masterpiece; a petition to the United States Senate and House of Representatives to help promote medical insurance and care reform to insure medical assistance for even the poorest of the poor. As each person has the right to life, this includes the right to be free of terminal illness due to lack of financial resources.

                *Inspired by my Grandfather Samuel Mercado a great man with Alzheimer’s disease 

The Declaration of Learning independence

Learning an opportunity for all.

Shall not be infringed today tomorrow nor millennia from today.

Learning shall never be limited to just an educational institution.

Learning shall be open with information accessible to each and every individual.

Learning shall be individualized and not made into a bureaucracy, allowing for each individual to grow and learn at his or her pace.

An educator shall never consider themselves in any way superior to their pupils but their equals as the only superior being in learning is life.

Most importantly, learning shall be vivid and inclusive of all experiences of life. 

Vocabulary #4

obsequious - adj. attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner;attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
beatitude - noun one of the eight sayings of Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount; in Latin each saying begins with `beatus' (blessed); a state of supreme happiness
Bête noire - very disliked person
bode - verb indicate by signs
dank - adj. unpleasantly cool and humid
ecumenical - adj. of worldwide scope or applicability; concerned with promoting unity among churches or religions
fervid - adj. extremely hot; characterized by intense emotion
fetid - adj. offensively malodorous
gargantuan - adj. of great mass; huge and bulky
heyday - noun the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
incubus - noun a male demon believed to lie on sleeping persons and to have sexual intercourse with sleeping women; someone who depresses or worries others; a situation resembling a terrifying dream
infrastructure - noun the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area; the basic structure or features of a system or organization
inveigle - verb influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering
kudos - noun an expression of approval and commendation
lagniappe - noun a small gift (especially one given by a merchant to a customer who makes a purchase)
prolix - adj. tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length
protege - noun a person who receives support and protection from an influential patron who furthers the protege's career
prototype - noun a standard or typical example
sycophant - noun a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage
tautology - noun useless repetition; (logic) a statement that is necessarily true
truckle - noun a low bed to be slid under a higher bed; verb yield to out of weakness; try to gain favor by cringing or flattering

Literary Analysis #1 "1984" by George Orwell

1. Winston Smith a citizen of the totalitarian state of Ingsoc, the people of this socialist country speak new Newspeak the country's new form of English. Big Brother, the dictator of Ingsoc watches over each and every citizen to ensure that they don't break laws with free thought and sex. Winston writes a diary about his hate for the Party. Winston meets Julia a beautiful mechanic that works in his building. They both love each other and start an affair. Although illegal, they both confess their hatred toward Big Brother.  Winston then meets an inner Party member, O'Brien. Winston and O'Brien become friends at one point he invites Winston to his home. Winston believes O'Brien is part of the resistance and wants to help. Winston and Julia accept the invitation and go to O'Brien's home. They confess to O'Brien that they hate the Party.  Winston and Julia are given a book by Emmanuel Goldstein and are recruited into the "Brotherhood". While Winston is at home reading the book the Thought Police break down Winston's door and take him away. Winston and Julia are at the ministry of love and are tortured endlessly for there crimes. At one point O'Brien tortures Winston and straps a rat cage to Winston's face and threatens to let the rats eat his face. Winston begs for mercy and wants O'Brien to do it to Julia instead. At this point Winston is broken and figuratively killed. At the end Orwell finishes with "And He Loved Big Brother."
2. Any person can be broken down into nothingness. Winston a passionate man who wanted to make change had his mind condition and the real Winston was killed. The new Winston loved Big Brother and was forevermore changed. 
3. The author's tone toward the book is one of fear. The idea that a totalitarian government can control every aspect of your life and dehumanize each civilian is immensely frightening. 

1. Direct: Winston wrote down his feelings in a diary, and outright defied Big Brother with thought crimes. At the end of the book Winston was fully brainwashed into loving the Party. Indirect: O'Brien, a man of great intelligence, being able to manipulate Winston and Julia in such a subtle manner to get them turned in was indirect. Winston did not trust julia at first because she was too beautiful and it was almost too good to be true for her to be in his presence, this made Winston hesitant.
2. The diction changes often because there are two real points of view, there are the ones that are some what omniscient where the narrator knows all about the party but then there are parts where the readers zooms into Winston's lens. Learning about how the party specifically took control of people's lives was the omniscient point, and seeing Winston fall in love and him getting tortured was the first person account.
3. The Protagonist was dynamic, he started off with a point of view being his hate for Big Brother. Later on down the road his hate develops more and more until he is taken away by the thought police and is conditioned back to the optimal citizen.
4. I feel like I met a person. There are many people that have gone through similar struggles and Winston's struggles are completely realistic. The concept of "2+2=5" being engraved by force into the mind of each and every person is disheartening but interesting. Winston wasn't just a straightforward character that read and move on. We read him his way of doing things. In essence we get a first person account of what a totalitarian government would really be like.

El Vocabulario #3 (Vocabulary #3)

accolade - noun a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction
acerbity - noun a sharp sour taste; a sharp bitterness; a rough and bitter mannerattrition - noun the act of rubbing together; wearing something down by friction; a wearing down to weaken or destroy; sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation; the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice; erosion by frictionbromide - noun any of the salts of hydrobromic acid; formerly used as a sedative but now generally replaced by safer drugs; a trite or obvious remarkchauvinist - noun an extreme bellicose nationalist; a person with a prejudiced belief in the superiority of his or her own kindchronic - adj. being long-lasting and recurrent or characterized by long sufferingexpound - verb add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing; state

factionalism: the splitting into groups from a larger central group.
immaculate - adj. completely neat and clean; free from stain or blemish; without fault or error
imprecation - noun the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult); a slanderous accusation
ineluctable - adj. impossible to avoid or evade:"inescapable conclusion"
mercurial - adj. relating to or containing or caused by mercury;relating to or having characteristics (eloquence, shrewdness, swiftness, thievishness) attributed to the god Mercury; relating to or under the (astrological) influence of the planet Mercury; liable to sudden unpredictable change
palliate - verb provide physical relief, as from pain; lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
protocol - noun code of correct conduct; forms of ceremony and etiquette observed by diplomats and heads of state; (computer science) rules determining the format and transmission of data
resplendent - adj. having great beauty and splendor
stigmatize - verb mark with a stigma or stigmata; to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful
sub - noun a submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes; a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States; verb be a substitute
rosa - noun large genus of erect or climbing prickly shrubs including roses
vainglory - noun outspoken conceit
vestige - noun an indication that something has been present
volition - noun the act of making a choice; the capability of conscious choice and decision and intention

Gotham's Beowulf

The heroic journey, a story repeated from generation to generation, literary period to literary period. Although the zeitgeist may change the essence of a heroic tale doesn’t change all that much.  Beowulf an epic poem of Britain embodies the characteristics of a warrior that saves a town and its people from imminent destruction.  Bruce Wayne or Batman also is a warrior that also saves a city from villainous beings. Both stories and protagonists have unimpeachable similarities bit there are also massive differences that distinguish the two stories; also a feminist perspective from both Beowulf and Batman would be a noticeable difference.

Beowulf and Batman both were extravagant fighters. Beowulf was able to beat Grendel, Grendel’s Mother and a Dragon. Batman was able to beat the Joker, Harvey Dent and Bane. All of the enemies faced be Batman and Beowulf faced are monstrous in comparison to a normal person but to the heroes theses bouts are overcome with effort and skill. Beowulf starts off wanting to beat Grendel in parallel Batman wants to keep Gotham crime-free. Both characters do what they can to help their people and gain favor. Batman looks to be favored by Commissioner Gordon while Beowulf gets favored by Hrothgar.  In both stories the quality of strength is very important. Many people look up to Beowulf for destroying beasts when nobody else could. Batman was looked up too because through the difficult challenge of beating the villains he encountered Gotham was saved from the horrors of crime.

Now if both tales were told from the feminist perspective there would many contrasting aspects.  Beowulf was loved by women, Batman was not. Beowulf was haughty and arrogant but in the eyes of women it was fine because he could back it up. Batman was arrogant and could back up his arrogance, but in modern society women hate arrogance and the sense of entitlement. Bruce Wayne was rich but nobody knew he was the Batman. Rachel Bruce Wayne’s lover disliked Bruce’s arrogance entirely and went with Harvey Dent as her lover.

Both stories are told from similar perspectives but if seen from a feminist lens both stories would be noticeably different. Beowulf’s amazing strength and arrogance was valued in the old Celtic society, while modern American society looks up to Batman’s strength and skill but down at Bruce Wayne’s money and arrogance. 

Vocabulary Week 2

Thanks to Easy Define:

accouterments - noun clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing
apogee - noun apoapsis in Earth orbit; the point in its orbit where a satellite is at the greatest distance from the Earth; a final climactic stage
apropos - adj. of an appropriate or pertinent nature; adv. by the way; at an opportune time
bicker - noun a quarrel about petty points; verb argue over petty things
coalesce - verb fuse or cause to grow together; mix together different elements
contretemps - noun an awkward clash
convolution - noun the action of coiling or twisting or winding together; a convex fold or elevation in the surface of the brain; the shape of something rotating rapidly
cull - noun the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality; verb remove something that has been rejected; look for and gather
disparate - adj. including markedly dissimilar elements;fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind
dogmatic - adj. characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles; relating to or involving dogma; of or pertaining to or characteristic of a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative
licentious - adj. lacking moral discipline; especially sexually unrestrained
mete - noun a line that indicates a boundary
noxious - adj. injurious to physical or mental health
polemic - adj. of or involving dispute or controversy; noun a controversy (especially over a belief or dogma); a writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology)
populous - adj. densely populated
probity - noun complete and confirmed integrity; having strong moral principles
repartee - noun adroitness and cleverness in reply
supervene - verb take place as an additional or unexpected development
truncate - adj. terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off; verb make shorter as if by cutting off; approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one; replace a corner by a plane
unimpeachable - adj. beyond doubt or reproach; completely acceptable; not open to exception or reproach; free of guilt; not subject to blame


Although I may be religious and accept Jesus as my savior, I see many polemic inadequacies in the holy book that I read. To some I even see that the bible may have created noxious damage to people because when people utilize the bible for an argument, the points being made are either bigoted or irrational. I understand that religion involves a deep probity of morality, but religion is definitely not unimpeachable, it is not okay to be misogynistic or racist to other people because the bible said so. If many more people in the world followed the logic of many extreme Christians, the only humans that would survive this mass chaos would be the people in the apogee leaving earth. Christianity boldly states that it is the apropos of a believer to be a giver, yet many Christians don't want to even donate simple accouterments to the human-beings with absolutely nothing. Christians focus on the spiritual help but not the financial necessities that allow for people to survive to put moral principles into place. Instead Christians bicker about the cull (homosexuals and non-believers) and try to make "reason" of the convoluted bible. This doesn't show how rational this religion is but how disparate and how licentious Christianity can be.  Though this may make me feel like I am being blasphemous and anti-dogmatic toward my own God, but in this populous planet someone needs to speak up. Coalescing love and hate together is a mete I will not cross as it is hypocritical and will be the truncation of society if practiced worldwide. I hope to get a repartee in the comments of this post to hopefully debate my points civilly and not make a contretemps of myself.


*** I don't mean to offend anyone i am saying this out of pure thought and inner turmoil I feel toward the religion I believe in.