A short story on "ceaseless spiral". please anyone tell me.
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I’ve been too busy to write. Ugh. Now I hope to get back to it. This entry was written by my student who wishes to be known only as Will. With his permission, I’m posting the story because I’m most proud of his writing for this assignment. The specifics of the assignment really don’t matter. Just read and enjoy.
All Things Determined
In this paper, I will tell a scattered story. It is the story of a boy and a girl, the boy’s heritage, upbringing, trials and tribulations, and ultimately, his redemption. The story will demonstrate the philosophical theory of hard determinism and how it wholly directs every outcome in human life- be it good or bad. The idea of one having free will is entrenched, enticing, but illusory. It is incompatible with what I’ve found to be the true nature of existence- that our actions and inactions are bound by a ceaseless spiral of causes, and that we are hostages to forces that aren’t always evident.
In the beginning, there was a couple. A man and a woman, both plagued and gifted by various effects stemming from innumerable causes stretching back generation to generation into the ether, are compelled to get married. The husband’s genetic baggage was depression and alcoholism, and to an extent, the wife’s was comparable. However, the magnitude of these blights wouldn’t fully be known to either party until further down the road of life. So, with youthful zeal and newlywed gusto, they birth a daughter. Four years pass, and a son is born- the boy of the story. To all, life seemed good until suddenly it wasn’t. Even at a young age, the boy notices that a kind of unease makes itself known- his father and mother tend to talk very loudly to each other. Mom smokes a lot, and dad sleeps a lot. Over time, the unease meanders into tension, then controlled chaos. Time out. A piercing whistle is blown- divorce.
Now there are two houses, two states of mind, and two newly separated parents for the two children to contend with. It was the typical child-of-divorce story from there on out, only with a not-as-typical tragic twist soon to follow- death. It was during a perfectly bizarre occasion, Christmas morning, that the mother chose to break the news to her two young babes. Sitting amongst the shredded mounds of wrapping paper, and now, childhood, the son and daughter learned of their father’s demise. The daughter cried, but the boy was numb- somehow, he had figured this to be an inevitability and only now realized it. The cause? ‘Drinking too much’ was declared by the mother. Many years would pass until the boy would come to learn that this was the highly-abridged, most child-friendly explanation that his mother could honestly confess that day.
Alright, now here’s the problem with compatibility. Compatibility, or soft determinism, is the idea that free will can co-exist with the binding, purely material, strictly causal concept of hard determinism. Individuals are surely predisposed to certain conditions that are out of their control, it is argued, but with that comes the ability to choose- to act or not to act (a person is the sole cause of their own actions, rather than the cause being any forces outside of their control). The only truth I can ascribe to the idea of free will is that it can very truly seem real- it seems that while I have chosen to do one action, I could’ve just as easily done any other. However, in a free will scenario, not all possible actions/choices are made equal. A married couple, when contemplating divorce, don’t ‘choose’ to separate- the ratio of positive to negative aspects of the relationship were always present, and needed only to be brought to the surface upon reflection. Upon weighing the ratio, with all kinds of factors present (compatibility, affection, money, staying together for the kids, the negative perception Catholics hold towards divorce, etc.), the greater of two forces will always prevail. The parents in my story didn’t choose to separate- they succumbed to the power of a greater force. Following the divorce, while continuing down the path of least resistance, the father’s ‘choices’ quickeningly became less equal. It was once believed that he chose to nurture his alcoholism, that he chose to expand his addiction to other, more nefarious substances, that he chose to isolate himself from others around him, and that he chose to not seek help in some way. But the boy knows that his father didn’t choose to lose his job, his house, and to die alone from a heart attack – why would anyone choose that?
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Story on Ceaseless spiral circle:
One day when I was sleeping at night, a saw a dream. In that dream, I saw ceaseless spiral circles. They have round shape. When I woke up, I didn’t the know the exact meaning of my dream. One of my friends told me that a spiral is a curve in the space or in the plane, which runs around a center in a special way. In other way, spiral circles are the sacred symbols that represents the journey and change of life and it also represents the consciousness of nature from beginning from its center and expanding outward.
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