In discussing perception, the dark is a good place to begin. As a society, we think that dark things are evil and light things are good. This concept originated from the Bible. There are many references in Genesis that allude to darkness being bad and light being good. The first verse in Genesis contains the first seeds of this idea. It states, “Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the spirit of God was hovering over the waters.” In this excerpt “the deep” is formless and empty, while the surface has God. The deep o

The concept of fate is similar to the idea of God’s Will. Sin and eternal damnation is replaced with the idea of karma (what goes around comes around). These people also believe that there is a reason for everything that happens. If someone dies young, that is their destiny. If a certain number appears several times during a day that could mean that number is important and must be remembered. Other people think, though, that occurrences such as that are merely coincidences. Some people believe in nature’s way.

f the ocean is a considerably darker place than the surface. The first thing God creates is the light. The passage states, “And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.” It does not say that the darkness is good–it says that the light is good–and that God makes a concerted effort to separate the dark from the light (obviously to not have the dark corrupt the good light). God separates light and dark again when he creates night and day as he says, “Let there be lights in the sky to separate the day from the night[...]and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth.” If that example is not obvious enough the verse states, “God made two great lights–the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night.” It says that night is lesser than the day!

To these people who choose to believe in natural selection, everything happens because that is the natural order and process of things. Over population can be used as an example. Nature tries to prevent overpopulation by making all living things mortal. In the case that overpopulation does occur, nature compensates by mass deaths due to natural disasters, disease, and war. People who are successful in life are so because of survival of the fittest; they fought their way to the top.

A society, however, cannot be perfect until people agree on one uniform way to view the world. But can that ever be done? Can every one person agree on a uniform concept of the world and of reality and mean it? How can one really make people think and see things the same way when people by nature are diverse? Sometimes, though, people’s ideas and concepts are inherently the same. Depending, though, on where one lives and how one was brought up (one’s personal experience), these ideas and concepts have disparate details.

Montaigne claims that people’s perception makes them react to different people as if those people are barbarians who are unworthy of inhabiting the earth because they are not as technologically advanced. He says, “no two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar[...]” (p 347). No two people see the world the same way, as no two things created in nature are the same. This provides for uniqueness, but also prevents from total unity, which is a good thing. How boring would the world be if everything, and everybody, were the same? People analyze classical and philosophical texts always with a different conclusion. Montaigne says, “[...]our mind finds just as wide a field for controverting other men’s meanings as for delivering its own” (p 344). Very rarely does anyone have the same interpretations of books, ideas, and experiences. In his allegory of the cave in The Republic Plato talks about enlightenment, but fails to acknowledge that a person can attain such enlightenment through their own personal experience.

The Bible is a major reason why people fear the dark, but why do verses in the Bible convey a fear the dark? What is it about the dark that makes us fear? Today’s world is a made up of many different cultures, most of which are not Judeo-Christian, and yet we still cannot shake this fear of the dark, even though evil can come at any time, any point, of the day. If people are raped and murdered eve

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