ch. 3,4 and 5

When reading ch. 3 I was reminded how for centuries it seems countries or cultures who do things with a certain flair or style and have success with the invention or tool have "biters" meaning followers. Like when the book talked about how the Classical Greeks took what ancient Greeks and Persia did but because the classical Greeks had more class or status to them it was deemed better.  Kinda like how the book talks about modern day philosiphers believe that Western civilization closely replicates Classical Greece Era with the way politics are ran and how social class is structured. Especially with how there are similar inequalities within the people with status.


When looking back at chapter 4 about the different religions I was given a more wholistic approach/view of how Confucinism came into play. I took World religions two sememsters ago and we studied a lot of religions from Zoraster religion, confucianism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Muslim and Daoism. And from what I gather Confucianism was supposed to restore the inequalities of china since it focused on respecting and valuing the the old people. I learned so much about them all, but still found it hard to believe some of their creation stories because they all seemed to tie back into Christianity.   Their was the story of how a man and a woman never entered each other to create all of man kind, but the man had a large Penis and it drug the grown and the female had a large clitoris and it drug the grown and these long  grooves or ditches in the grown exist and the people of that religion/culture truly believe that is how life was created.


Sometimes I think religion is just supposed to supply a level of hope or relief from all of life's stressors and inequalities. Like Daoism which according to the book, "invited people to withdraw from the world of political and social activism, to disengage from the public life so important to confucius, and to align themselves with the way of nature.  It meant simplicity in living small self-sufficient communities, limited government, and the abandonement of education and active efforts at self- improvement. Give up learning." This differs from the Hinduism model of education and learning is what makes you closer to God.  Knowledge is everything.