Post by cdelatorre17 on Sept 10, 2015 23:28:47 GMT
ESSAY 1
We are living in a world where there is good and evil all
around us and what we choose to do about it can be considered apophenia
to some as well as patternicity. Because so many things around us
happen all the time is why I believe the theory of patternicity is so
common among humans. I choose to look for patterns in my life when I am
down to stay uplifted and move forward. There shouldn't be a reason why
someone would not look for a specific license plate number when they are
going through a tough time like in Elliot
Benjamin's example. The fact that he found a specific word like "ACT",
made him change his course in life, and that is what I also do when
things just seem to be out of control and I feel lost. So instead of
being negative and running into coincidences that will not help me
advance to my future positively, I stick with using apophenia and the
intentionality fallacy. Growing up in church I often heard of miracles,
but did not know that they occurred "at least once a month."
(Littlewood's Law) I do believe in miracles but that it is such a
miraculous thing that it probably does happen so often that we don't
realize that they are actual miracles. For example, I once was told the
story of how my bother got named. She had a rough time conceiving him
and when she finally realized she was pregnant my father became very
abusive. So she started going to church and see if maybe God can help
her with her life, and to get her out of the mess she was in. One of the
first bible stories she heard was about Moses and how he got his people
out of Egypt freed from slavery. In a way my mother was like the
Israelites wanting to get away, make a better life of herself. In the
end my mom decided to go to church and devote her life to God knowing
that he would take care of her, she got baptized and the next day at her
doctors appointment they told her she was having a boy. Therefore, she
decided to name my brother Moses because Moses was carried away safely
in a river. To my mother her baptism was her miracle and her sign that
they were going to be okay. Another example of why we as humans are
prone to see significance and meaning in erstwhile random or chaotic
events, can be my whole life. I attend church and every single time that
I am going through something difficult whether it be death, a hard time
at school, a conflict at work, or as simply as me feeling depressed the
sermon preached always has the answer of finding my way out. It's hard
not to find that as being a pattern because I don't go looking
for an answer but it never fails. Also just recently my sister lost a
friend to lukima and a couple days after she began texting my siblings
and I telling us she loved us and that she misses us way more than
usual. Her mind's intention was to reach out to us because she feared
that if she didn't she would end up like her friend just seeing her
family and friends on her death bed. in conclusion I believe we adapt to
these patterns or ways of thinking to stay sane, and to justify that
there is something greater out there and it's not our minds playing
tricks on us or a mathematical equation.
/a/student.mtsac.edu/cdelatorre17/
We are living in a world where there is good and evil all
around us and what we choose to do about it can be considered apophenia
to some as well as patternicity. Because so many things around us
happen all the time is why I believe the theory of patternicity is so
common among humans. I choose to look for patterns in my life when I am
down to stay uplifted and move forward. There shouldn't be a reason why
someone would not look for a specific license plate number when they are
going through a tough time like in Elliot
Benjamin's example. The fact that he found a specific word like "ACT",
made him change his course in life, and that is what I also do when
things just seem to be out of control and I feel lost. So instead of
being negative and running into coincidences that will not help me
advance to my future positively, I stick with using apophenia and the
intentionality fallacy. Growing up in church I often heard of miracles,
but did not know that they occurred "at least once a month."
(Littlewood's Law) I do believe in miracles but that it is such a
miraculous thing that it probably does happen so often that we don't
realize that they are actual miracles. For example, I once was told the
story of how my bother got named. She had a rough time conceiving him
and when she finally realized she was pregnant my father became very
abusive. So she started going to church and see if maybe God can help
her with her life, and to get her out of the mess she was in. One of the
first bible stories she heard was about Moses and how he got his people
out of Egypt freed from slavery. In a way my mother was like the
Israelites wanting to get away, make a better life of herself. In the
end my mom decided to go to church and devote her life to God knowing
that he would take care of her, she got baptized and the next day at her
doctors appointment they told her she was having a boy. Therefore, she
decided to name my brother Moses because Moses was carried away safely
in a river. To my mother her baptism was her miracle and her sign that
they were going to be okay. Another example of why we as humans are
prone to see significance and meaning in erstwhile random or chaotic
events, can be my whole life. I attend church and every single time that
I am going through something difficult whether it be death, a hard time
at school, a conflict at work, or as simply as me feeling depressed the
sermon preached always has the answer of finding my way out. It's hard
not to find that as being a pattern because I don't go looking
for an answer but it never fails. Also just recently my sister lost a
friend to lukima and a couple days after she began texting my siblings
and I telling us she loved us and that she misses us way more than
usual. Her mind's intention was to reach out to us because she feared
that if she didn't she would end up like her friend just seeing her
family and friends on her death bed. in conclusion I believe we adapt to
these patterns or ways of thinking to stay sane, and to justify that
there is something greater out there and it's not our minds playing
tricks on us or a mathematical equation.
/a/student.mtsac.edu/cdelatorre17/