comments on parts 3 and 4

Arisa,

I too disagree with most of what he is saying due to his contradictory statements. A part that made me a little irritated was when he pretty much says to be free we have to set an example for others. Well wait a minute... wasn't what he was saying before that was that we have to be true to ourselves to be absolutely free. It seems to me that he is either confused about his OWN ideas or he is just trying to be annoying.

I like your ideas a lot and I also get a sarcastic tone in your writing and that makes it much more enjoyable to read. Throughout your post you take an idea stated by Banach and go on to basically rip it to shreds. I wonder what his motives were when he was writing this. Maybe he was trying to get a rise out of us and we fell for it.

I enjoyed reading your post and keep up the interesting writing!


Henry,
I too stated in my own post that it is pointless to live life knowing you are going to die and ultimately refusing to fight the good fight. I think that if that was truly the case then mankind would not last that long and life expectancies would also shorten due to the lack of simply wanting to live. I am willing to admit that there is one main thing about this lecture that I can agree to which you touch upon briefly, being "that happiness comes from struggle". If you don't know what it is like to suffer than how can you truly appreciate the happiness you have? I think happiness would be more plentiful if you do not take it for granted and realize that not everyone is “happy”.

Throughout your post you pretty much take the main ideas from the lecture, clarify it and draw your own conclusions from there. Most of them are not in agreement to Banach's but you state how it could possibly make sense and I liked that. You made your post very direct so fishing for the main idea of your post was not needed which is always nice from a reader’s standpoint. I enjoyed reading your post and keep up the good writing!