1.Read and take notes on the following:
A.. Seeing with New Eyes by Paul A. Cox
B. Great Books Volume 8 pages 120-146: On Time by Loren Eiseley and The Sunless Sea by Rachel Carson*
*If you do not own the Gateway to the Greatbooks Volume 8, On Time is the chapter called "The Slit" in the book The Immense Journey. You can read the chapter here.
I cannot find the Sunless Sea online. It is chapter 4 of the Book by Rachel Carson called The Sea Around Us. It should be on the public domain, so if anyone finds it, let us know!
2.Write a discussion question on the comments below
Some ideas to get you thinking:
-These readings talk about perspective, consider what perspective has to do with the deep sea or with time and then what it has to do with how you see things.
-You might consider studying the word "Perspective"
-I enjoyed looking up the pictures of the animals that Carson mentions in her book.
-As this reading is old, it would be neat of some of you brought some links or pictures (or your own drawings!) of the latest deep sea discoveries.
-If anyone wants to bring and explain something about the study of "time" - we would love to hear it!
I've been listening to The Time Machine by HG Wells. I think it may be kind of fun to go along with this topic.
ReplyDeleteIn Seeing with new eyes it says "Our guest's perception of President Hinckley as a pleasant man was not false." Things may not be "false" but they may not have the full truth to them. Even though the statement was true, it was not absolutely true. What makes something "absolutely true?" How does one grow their perspective to see a more absolutely true world?
ReplyDeleteThis was one of my favorite quotes:
ReplyDeleteWhen Adam and Eve were cast out from the Garden of Eden, they could no longer see God (see Moses 5:4). So it is with us. Yet, like them, we sometimes vaguely sense the sweet smell of the unseen flowers of Eden. Have you ever sensed that fragrance—that closeness of heaven—where you can’t see clearly but feel that you are enveloped in a garden of love, a garden planted by our Lord? The longing for return to the unseen garden, and the tentative, halting steps we take toward it, are the beginnings of faith.
How do we gain the courage to take those halting steps of faith? How do we express that faith?
Here's another quote:
While we are in mortality we are clogged, and we see as through a glass darkly, we see only in part, and it is difficult for us to comprehend the smallest things with which we are associated. [JD 19:260; see 1 Corinthians 13:12
Here's another question: How can we make our perspective or reality more in-line with God's, especially in such a darkened world?
Why are people's perspective's so different sometimes? How can we learn to see from others' perspectives, to understand them?
ReplyDeleteMine is kind of like Gracious's: If something we see is dark and obscure to another would it be impossible to explain it to them?
ReplyDeleteAlso I have another: what could the deep sea represent? I couldn't seem to put a finger on it.
So I kinda have a few questions and we don't have to answer them all so here we go.
ReplyDeleteThese are from "Seeing with new eyes"
"Flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven."
?: Can what we call the "natural" man give truth?
"And because of their humility and meekness , they were visited by the Holy Ghost."
?: If we have (humility and meekness) would we be visited to? Have we already? How would we or would it be different for everybody?
In this world our vision is clouded, fogged by design to test and prove us.
?: Who are we trying to prove to? The world, Us, Heavenly Father?