Assignment 2

According to Milton, why or how does truth become a "heresy" if a person only believes things because his pastor or his government tells him so? Why does Milton find that dangerous? Do you agree with Milton? Why?

According to Milton, the truth becomes an opinion and distorted if a person believes only what his pastor or his government recites to him because the person is not thinking for himself and does not gaining knowledge from his own thoughts and reasoning. As a human race, we have the free will to express our feelings and thoughts about the ideas around us and to challenge them. Milton finds this dangerous because we should not be controlled by the government and be brainwashed by their ideas. We are all different and some ideas may not work for others. I agree with Milton because we have natural rights, and the free will to come up with our own reasoning without people interfering with us. There would be less problems in the world if the government was less involved in our lives. Individuals should be allowed access to ideas so that they could make up their own minds.

Q&A

(1) What is the one book you'd want to have on a deserted island?
-Harry Potter 3rd book
(2) Name a movie that you have seen more than twice.
-Kill Bill Vol. 1
(3) Turn on your iPod or MP3 player and set it to RANDOM or SHUFFLE. What are the first 5 songs that play?
-Lots of Rock songs
(4) If you were an animal, what would you be?
-Horse
(5) What is your best personality trait? Your worst?
-I'm funny but could be more out going.
(6) What is the last thing you wrote?
-notes for class
(7) Name five possessions that you can't live without.
-car, computer, internet, tv, movies, the bf
(8) When in a group, do you lead or follow?
-both
(9) You received a gift of $500 in cash. What do you do with it?
-buy the wii
(10) What is the best advice you've ever gotten, and who gave it to you?
-the bf, start reading the Harry Potter series