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Post by Maegan H on Feb 4, 2014 16:14:42 GMT
What it means to be knowing: To be knowing is to know certain things and know in your heart it's true. Like to know a plan, you have to know why, how, what, when, and where. As and example the young German girl was knowing when she thought of her plan to not be caught. "At the depot,nobody knew that I spoke German; it would arouse suspicion[she faked Aryan]." said the young french girl. The young girl knew that she needed to do something to live and that she needed to follow through with her plan to not get caught so it's logical and strategic. So in my opinion knowing is like how I know my name or how I know something factual or understanding. What it means to be believing: To believe in something I think it's like having faith in something. You feel something very strongly, but you cannot know for sure. My quote is my the young french girl, "but I knew that you would not betray me." I know she said knew but she can't see the future so she really didn't know she just had faith in Elie that he wouldn't spill about it. My example would be that I believe that I go to heaven when I die, but I can't prove it, I've never been, but I have faith that I will. What it means to be mad: To be mad is to be absolutely insane and have no reason. Like the actions you take are not even in range of what caused it. My quote from the book, "children thrown into the flames." This is such an extreme action, throwing poor innocent children into the flames to their slow, merciless, fiery death for no apparent reason. I think that is true madness. They were innocent! What had they done? Going mad must be hard because you don't have control but at least they believe it but for the scene when the little boy is comforting his claimed "mad" mother the boy is who I feel bad for because he sees his mother being beat over something that she can't even help. My real world example is when people have schizophrenia and have no control of themselves and even have voices inside of their heads and it seems like they aren't them anymore. |
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Post by Slade W. on Feb 4, 2014 16:14:59 GMT
Knowing is to believe something is happening, but you do not have to accept that it is happening, (as Noah said). You know something is going to happen like in night when they were on the train they knew something was going to happen but they did not want to accept that it was really going to happen. Sort of like being in denial.
A real world example would be if you are having to move somewhere that you really do not want to go, and you just convince yourself that you really aren't going, to make yourself feel better.
"The deportees were quickly forgotten. A few days after they left, it was rumored that they were in Galicia, working, and even that they were content with their fate."
To believe means that you think something is going to happen but you really are not sure, there is no real way real prove that it is going to happen. You also accept that it is going to happen, and most of the time you want it to happen. \
Real world example: The Superbowl is coming up and you want a single team to win so you make yourself believe that they are going to win.
"My forehead was covered with cold sweat. Still I told him that i could not believe that human beings were being burned in our times."
To be a madman people think that you are crazy, and hardly ever believe you because you sound so crazy. Often times you see things that are going to happen in the near future, and people don't believe you. Often times you say things or believe things that you know are not true, but you still say them and try to get other people to think they are true.
Example: These are like fortune cookies, they "predict your future" even thought they have nothing to do with you and you know they are not true but you always hope they are. (same with fortune tellers)
"in front of us, those flames" These are the flames the the Madwomen had seen before they even happened.
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Post by Matthew S on Feb 4, 2014 16:17:28 GMT
To "know" means that you are certain about something. You also need to have something that proves what you say you can't just say something like "there's going to be a zombie apocalypse tomorrow", well you can but it's not likely anyone will believe you unless you have some kind of evidence. It's like what happened to Moshie the Beadle when he told his story to a lot of people and nobody believed him because he had no proof. If he had some kind of proof than he might have gotten some people to believe him but he didn't so that's why nobody believed him. It's like whenever the meteorologists call for snow they don't know it for sure but they say it's a pretty good chance and then if there's snow in areas around where they are they are certain that it will snow because they have proof because of the winter storm.
To "believe" means something that you are confident about and that you agree with their opinion. If you tell people about it, though you think it's true others might not think it's true and think that you're weird or crazy. You might feel betrayed a little because they don't believe you. This is like when Madame Schacter was screaming and said that she saw fire and nobody believed and thought she was mad. One of the reasons nobody believed her is because nobody else saw the fire. It's weird because they ended up seeing fire at the concentration camp and the fire wasn't for a good thing. A real-world example of this is Bigfoot. Some people believe in it but there's still no proof that it exists.
To be "mad" means that you believe something that is beyond crazy that seems very unlikely. You being mad kind of makes other people scared. My quote for this one is the same as the last one because Madame Schacter's son was crying and was scared. My real-world example is Schizophrenia because people can't tell the difference between what's real and not real and it freaks people out who hear stories about people with this.
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Post by Brenna R. on Feb 4, 2014 16:18:24 GMT
To know is to be absolutely certain of something. It entails that you have accurate proof to your reasoning and that you know that it cannot be wrong. A quote from Night that exemplifies this is, "Without passion or haste, they shot their prisoners, who were forced to approach the trench one by one and offer their necks. Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for their machine guns. This took place in the Galician forest, near Kolomay." (Pg. 6) This is an example of knowing because Moishe the Beadle actually witnessed these events. There is an exact location where these events took place and although Moishe didn't have any physical evidence to represent the horrible actions, he knew for certain that these things happened. A real world example of knowing is that I know I woke up at 7:30 this morning. This represents my definition because I was there to actually witness myself waking up and looking at the time. To believe means to trust or have some type of faith in someone or something. It means that you think that something is real or right without having any hard evidence. An example from Night is, "Confidence soared. Suddenly we felt free of the previous nights' terror. We gave thanks to God." This is an accurate example because it shows belief in something other than themselves. They solely believe in a higher power that dictates what happens to them. Elie and the others give thanks to a power that they have a strong faith in. A real life example would be any religion because it is a strong belief in something bigger than themselves that makes that belief true to them. To be "mad" or crazy means to have no reason or deep thought to something. It means that you and others cannot even comprehend the words that are being heard. There is no actual process to the thought or crazed belief that cannot be proven true. An example of this from Night is, "Look! Look at this fire! This terrible fire! Have mercy on me! Some pressed against the bars to see. There was nothing. Only the darkness of night." This means to be "mad" because Mrs. Schachter was howling and screaming her thoughts out loud. When the people looked outside, her thoughts were proven untrue. There was no fire to be seen. Everyone thought she was mad or crazy. A real life example is a person that resides in a mental facility such as a paranoid schizophrenic. The things that these people say have no rhyme or reasons to their words and although the words might have an underlying meaning, it still is heard as nonsense. I think that you're examples are really good. They explain each of the topics very well. I agree with you for each topic. For knowing I agree because you have to evidence to know something. For believe you trust of have faith in a person or thing. For madness you don't have a reason to believe in something. |
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Post by Lauren M. on Feb 4, 2014 16:19:09 GMT
What does it mean to know?
Define and support with a quote from Night AND a real world example.
Knowing is when you know it as a fact and you have heard it from people that you trust. This is when not only you believe in it but other people see your side or the side you are on and agree with what has happened and know that it can not be unreal or fake and that it is the truth. This is almost like when large groups of people want to do something in their minds they know that it is the truth whether everyone believes it but not just one. This also involves like having evidence of what you believe. "True. We didn't know. Nobody had told us." Back in their home the Jews did not learn about what was going on or the how the Jews were being treated. Moishe the Beadle tried to warn them but they did not believe and so when these things began to happen nobody truly knew what was going to be happening in the future. This is like an example that to know something you need evidence and other people because without it you will just be considered insane. A real world example of this is having two groups of people and one believes that alcohol is not bad and one does. The group that believes alcohol is bad knows that it isn't safe among certain people because of statistics and drunk drivers. Therefore because they have evidence they know it is true.
What does it mean to believe?
Define and support with a quote from Night AND a real world example.
To believe is to know inside of you. You have the feeling that you are right and you don't need evidence because you believe it by just hearing about it. A belief is not always true but it is a decision that somebody agrees with. "No. All this could not be real. A nightmare perhaps..." When Elie saw the children being thrown into the flames he had to force himself to try and believe that he was seeing things so unreal because they were so horrible that he did not want to know that it was true. He wanted imagine that it was too much to be real. When family members are hurt and may not survive they want to believe it's not true and they want to believe that everything is alright and that it will all go back to normal. People do this because they are so hurt that their bodies want to react as if it isn't true. Therefore they believe that life will return to normal.
What does it mean to be "mad" (crazy)?
Define and support with a quote from Night AND a real world example.
Madness to me is basically when someone tries to force their beliefs on someone whether they want to believe it or not. You try to make them believe what only you think is true and shove all your ideas onto them whether they have different thoughts or not. "Day after day, night after night, he went from one Jewish house to the next telling his story and that of Malka the young girl who lay dying for three days and that of Tobie, the tailor who begged to die before his sons were killed." Moishe the beadle was trying to force his experience on to other people and that is why people thought he was mad and was losing his mind. A real world example would be when you are homophobic and think ll gays are bad and try to make everyone believe you even when what you think is not necessarily the truth or the right way of thinking in the present time.
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Post by Noah B. on Feb 4, 2014 16:19:54 GMT
Knowing: having knowledge of something and knowing whether it's true or not, with evidence and other people who know, or believe, the same thing "The Hungarian police made us climb into cars, eighty persons in each one." pg. 22 There were large numbers of people sent to the camps at the same time, and even in the same car, who are all witnesses that saw the same things Elie saw. Belief: having faith in something that others may not, and you may have your own reasons as to why you believe it ""Jews, listen to me...I see flames, huge flames!" It was as though she were possessed by some evil spirit." pg. 25 She truly believed there were flames and she wouldn't give up on trying to get them to see what she saw, and no one saw it or believed her. Madness: when someone seems crazy and emotionally unstable, so everything they say or do seems unbelievable ""The fire, over there!" She was pointing somewhere in the distance, always the same place." pg. 26 She screamed every night saying she saw fire, always pointing to the same spot out of the window, and no one ever saw anything and they all thought she was crazy. I think that your definitions are good, especially your def for belief. I just think that your definition for madness could be improved a little. |
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Post by Nicole P. on Feb 4, 2014 16:20:49 GMT
What does it mean to know?To know means to be sure about an idea or thought and have something to support it to prove your understanding. Knowing something means you have to have evidence that proves these facts. In the book Eliezer says, "over there thats where they will take you. Over there will be your grave. You still dont understand? You sons of bitches. Dont you understand anything? You will be burned! Burned to a cinder! Turned into ashes!" (pg 31) Everyone knows that you will be burned because of past experiences with other people and actually being shown everyday the place where you will be burned. Another real world example is I know Christmas is on December 25th because thats the date we celebrate it every year and it is marked on every calender for December 25th. What does it mean to believe? To believe is to have and idea about something, but not have evidence to support it. Believing something is having a strong idea about certain things, but no way to support it completely that makes it a proven fact. On page 27 in the book Eliezer says,"When they came back, they told us that they had learned, in exchange for a gold watch, that this was the final destination. we were to leave the train here. There was a labor camp on site. the conditions were good. Families would not be separated. Only the young would work in the factories. The old and the sick would find work in the fields." They dont know this for a fact, but they believed it. They have no evidence to support this thought other than that someone else told them this, but they dont know if those people were just lying to get what they wanted. A real world example would be kids believing made up things such as Santa, the Easter Bunny, fairies, Bigfoot and other mythical creatures. They dont know these things exist only believe they do because they have not ever met or seen them ever. Also they have only heard of these things in stories, but there are no real pictures or anything like that to prove their existence. What does it mean to be "mad" (crazy)? Being mad means to make up your own beliefs with no evidence to support it and when it doesnt actually exist. For example in the book the whole thing about Mrs. Scaachter hallucinating and telling everyone there was a fire when there wasnt is and example of someone going mad. There was never actually a fire whenever she would scream that there was. She is going mad because she is making up something tat isnt true. Another example of going mad is hallucinating. When you are hallucinating you are go ing mad because you see things and make up things that arent actually true, but you believe it yourself. |
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Post by Lauren M. on Feb 4, 2014 16:21:06 GMT
Knowing is being aware of something, but not necessarily believing it. By this i mean that you can know deep within yourself that something is happening, but you still do not have to accept it. It's sort of like being in denial. You know that something is going of but you refuse to accept that it is. For example, if your parents are getting divorced, you can know that it is happening, but tell yourself that everything is OK. Another example from Night is where Elie says, "The Germans were already in our town, the fascists were already in power, the verdict was out, and the Jews of Sighet were still smiling." This shows that even though the Jews knew that all these bad things were going on, they refused to accept them. Believing is knowing and accepting something. I'm going to refer back to my last definition for knowing. It is basically the same thing. The only difference between knowing and believing is that when you know something, you can choose to either accept or reject that information. On the other hand, when you believe something, you accept that it is true and act on it. If you don't act on what you believe, then you really only know it , don't you? For example, you can know that a friendship of yours is falling apart, but act like everything is normal, and that would be knowing. Or, you can choose to act on what you know and try to mend your friendship, and only then does it become believing. In Night, Elie says that there were rumors that the fascists were coming to power, but they did not act. Then, later, people decided to try to move out of the country, and then the people who moved started believing the rumors. Being mad is believing things that you know are not true, after they are proven not true. Even after people have proven that what you know is not valid, you continue to act on invalid beliefs, and that is madness. For example, people falsely accused Madame Schachter of being mad, before they had any proof that she was. In the end, it turned out that she was telling truths, but before anyone knew it. In real life, some people still believe crazy government conspiracys even after they have been proven impossible or untrue. They are mad. When Noah said that when you know something you don't always have to believe it I agree with this because even though there might be proof you still may not choose to accept it. |
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Post by Kyrsten E. on Feb 4, 2014 16:22:04 GMT
What Does It Mean To Know?
Knowing is when you know something for sure. Knowing is when you know something like a fact, or a fact that people all around the world know, not something like an opinion which is what only you believe and have nobody to back you up on it. When you know, most of the time you have a full understanding of what it is. Say if you wanted something really good to happen to you, like you wanted 100 times 0 to equal 100, it just can't and will never equal that. Whatever you multiply by 0, will always be 0, and that is a fact in math that you learn and will soon know at a young age. As much as you might want it to equal 100, it can't, because everyone knows that and that is just not how it works.
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"Just you wait kid...You will see what it costs to leave your work...You'll pay for this later...And now go back to your place."
Elie is in this with everybody else. Every Jew is equal, there is not one more important than the other one, they are all the same. Even though they may not be, that is how everyone views them since the leaders believe that they are not worth anything, even though they are more than they think. When Idek said this to him, Elie knows the consequence, and even when the one man went out to get the food. They both knew for a fact what would happen if they got caught, they would be killed and have to have been whipped. They took a risk, even though it doesn't seem real that they would actually die on the spot. I don't think Idek did something horrible to Elie because if anyone knew that Idek was with that girl, Idek knew what was going to happen, and he would definitely not want something to happen to himself, same fr Elie. So basically they are taking these dangerous risks, but they are all in thi together, and they all know for a fact what will happen and what the consequences are if they take such a dangerous risk, they could be risking their life and they know it.
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Post by Ian Faulkner on Feb 4, 2014 16:22:34 GMT
To know but not acknowledge is to have fear, within ones self or within ones community. This is true because when the lady on the cattle car was screaming "Fire, Fire, I see Fire!", the people in the cattle car were just ignoring her and then when they had enough, they then beat her because they were fed up with the way that she was acting. Never once did these people think that this lady might be trying to warn people that they would be arriving at something bad when the cattle cars stopped. Also, people know secrets and do not tell them to anyone because they might fear the way that people react to the secret (the secret could cause controversy, later leading to conflict). They also could fear the way that people would treat that person after that person had shared that secret.
To believe in something or someone, someone must forget all of the past mistakes about that person or thing and just focus on the goal that has to be accomplished. In Night, the belief that salvation would come was very strong in the beginning of the book, in fact there was no belief of salvation because the Jewish people did not feel trapped within a certain situation. This was because in the book the Jewish people were not worried because they had support from the other countries against Germany. "But people not only refused to believe his tales, they refused to listen to them." This shows that the people thought not of how Moishe was a good person, they just chose to believe selfishly in their own desires, and that they were safe from a threat that was coming right to their town.
To be mad, especially in this situation is almost normal for anyone that has gone through these traumatic events (which almost everyone has). To be mad is to not know the difference between reality and imagination, which can lead to people having their imagination get the best of them. The woman in the cattle car who was screaming "Fire, Fire,Fire!" was thought to be mad, and so was Moishe the Beetle, but what if these people weren't really mad. What if these people were actually seeing glimpses of what was going to happen in the camps (the cremating being the fire, and the death camps/firing squads being the story that Moishe told). These people who were claimed to have gone mad, may have been perfectly sane, they were just getting information about what was happening in the camps and that then drove them act in such ways that they did while they were trying to "spread the information" to the general public. A real world example of this could be either the incident on the cattle car, or the story of Moishe the Beetle.
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Post by Ruth Chan-Sui A2 on Feb 4, 2014 16:22:46 GMT
I think that knowing is when you truly belief in something to the point that you know that it is real. Knowing something can relate to facts or a large amount of people believing in the same thing, so you also know that it has to be true. Knowing can also relate to you seeing something and believing it because there is evidence. A quote from page 30- page 31 that supports this definition is "True. We didn't know. Nobody had told us. He couldn't believe his ears. His tone became even harsher: Over there. Do you see it? And the flames, do you see them?" (Yes, we saw the flames.) "Over there will be your grave. You still don't understand? You sons of bitches. Don't you understand anything? You will be burned! Burned to a cinder! Turned into ashes!" because this shows that even thought Elie and the other Jews really didn't know what was happening until they arrived at the camp. At the camp, they finally saw the crematorium and they saw evidence of other people dying. A real world example of knowing is when you attend a Life group at your church. Even though the religion may just seem like a belief, when you attend the life group, there are so many people who KNOW that their religion is not just a belief, so you get persuaded into following the religion because there are other people who know that it is true. Also, if the religion has a religious book, that could be evidence that the religion is more than a belief.
I think that believing is when you know that something is real from your own experience. Believing does not require other people to believe you, because mentally, you know that its real. Believing can also relate to believing in something to keep you from going mad or insane. (Check Madness section) A quote from the preface is "The infants thrown into fiery ditches... I did not say that they were alive, but that was what I thought. But then I convinced myself: no, they were dead, otherwise I surely would have lost my mind." because this shows that the reason why Elie believed that they were dead was the cope with the possibility that they might be dead. A real world example would e when you follow a religion to deal with the fact that you are not perfect. For example, with Christianity, people believe that a man named Jesus died for their sins, therefore they do not have to be punished for their sins, but they must believe that Jesus died for their sins in order to get to heaven when they die (Not making fun of Christians, I myself am a Christian).
I think that madness is when you know that something is true (mentally), but you are driven to the point where you NEED to tell other people and they MUST believe you. However, you are the only one who believes this, so other people do not believe you since there is no actual evidence. Also, if you are mad, you express your believe in a way (I MUST PERSUADE) that makes people think that you are insane. Sometimes a mad person may be telling the truth, but people do not believe him/ her because the story they tell does not benefit the audience. A quote from the book that supports this definition is "Look at the fire! look at the flames! Flames everywhere..." Once again, the young men bound and gagged her. When they actually struck her, people shouted in their approval: "Keep her quiet! Make that mad woman shut up. She's not the only one here..." because this shows that no one believed her because she acted insane and the thought of the flames scared some people on the train. A real world example is when a rumor goes around school, but you don't believe it because the people spreading the rumor are desperate for people to believe them, they only want to hurt someone and no one else has evidence of the rumor being true.
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Post by Gavin P on Feb 4, 2014 16:23:08 GMT
To know means to have a concrete foundation about something. it means something that you can be sure of that it will happen or not happen. Most people know that hitler ran the nazi party. To not know means you have no solid ideathey were ss and they there to controll them and overpoewer them.on something that is not a fact because fact are correct and cant be proven wrong without. We have evidence about the 9/11 attacks on the usa through videos and confessions and riots supporting their leader. " Every few yards there stood an ss man," Elle knew that
Belief is the same as knowing to an extent but not as concrete. People believe in religion and have faith in it. Or people believe that some things didnt happen, they may believe it was a hoax but they have no proof. Some people attempt to prove the known wrong with believed facts, ideas that are unproven. " Fire i see a fire" The lady Mrs. Schater really believed she saw a fire. I think she saw a fire because of the dehydration along with a possible bad scarring expierence with fire in her past. Then the dehydration is causeing these hallucination and bring back these possible memories. Or possibly the fire is just making here mad and is hallucinating.
Madness means chaos and insanity. Madness is chaotic because no one knows what is going to happen. Same with insanity because it means to be crazy but to a greater extent. Such as 9/11 was chaotic and to many people al'qaeda was insane for attacking the united states. " Mrs Schater had lost her mind." Is an example of madness because being cray or insane means yo u have lost your mind an.
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Post by Julia J on Feb 4, 2014 16:23:28 GMT
What does it mean to know?To know means to have something that you could have heard or seen, something and you know its true. Some people need to see something to believe it.They need to have evidence. Knowing something means remembering something like a holiday for instance, everyone knows that it occurs every year because it is marked on your calendar, people look forward to these holidays, if you don't know what it is people around you, tell you. On page 22 in the book it states " if someone managed to escaped, that person would be shot." They know this because passed experiences and they have seem people being beaten and abused so they know what will happen. The Germans are using fear to control. What does it mean to believe? To believe means to think about something but not have evidence to support it. People may believe the same thing as you but have different ideas about it. People may totally disagree with you and have different 'evidence' of it but you still continue to believe in whatever you might be believing in. A huge example of belief is religion. People believe in different religions even though people all the time could say your wrong. An example of belief in the book would be about moshe the beetle. Moshe the beetle told everyone his story of when he went to the camp no one believed him because his stories seemed to be unreal, they seemed impossible. What does it mean to be "mad" (crazy)? To be mad means to go insane. An example of this would be people in wars, they become mad because they have expeirenced so many horriboe things. an example in the book would be the lad in the train that goes craxy about fire. Respond thoughtfully to at least two other posts from this forum. 7-8 Work includes: -Thorough understanding of the question shown in convincing post. -Evidence chosen reflectively supports answer. -2 meaningful interactions with other posts. 5-6 -Strong understanding of the questions shown in well thought out post. -Evidence from the book included correctly answers question. -1-2 interaction with other posts. 3-4 -Inaccurate understanding of the question shown in underdeveloped post. -Chosen evidence doesn't fully support answer. -1 interaction with other posts. 1-2 -Little understanding of the question shown in under-explained post. -No evidence suggested. -No interaction with other posts. |
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Post by Brenna R. on Feb 4, 2014 16:23:58 GMT
Knowing is to believe something is happening, but you do not have to accept that it is happening, (as Noah said). You know something is going to happen like in night when they were on the train they knew something was going to happen but they did not want to accept that it was really going to happen. Sort of like being in denial. A real world example would be if you are having to move somewhere that you really do not want to go, and you just convince yourself that you really aren't going, to make yourself feel better. "The deportees were quickly forgotten. A few days after they left, it was rumored that they were in Galicia, working, and even that they were content with their fate." To believe means that you think something is going to happen but you really are not sure, there is no real way real prove that it is going to happen. You also accept that it is going to happen, and most of the time you want it to happen. \
Real world example: The Superbowl is coming up and you want a single team to win so you make yourself believe that they are going to win. "My forehead was covered with cold sweat. Still I told him that i could not believe that human beings were being burned in our times." To be a madman people think that you are crazy, and hardly ever believe you because you sound so crazy. Often times you see things that are going to happen in the near future, and people don't believe you. Often times you say things or believe things that you know are not true, but you still say them and try to get other people to think they are true. Example: These are like fortune cookies, they "predict your future" even thought they have nothing to do with you and you know they are not true but you always hope they are. (same with fortune tellers) "in front of us, those flames" These are the flames the the Madwomen had seen before they even happened. I agree with you for the mad topic. I have a little bit different answer but to be mad you believe things that you think will happen in the future but other people don't believe you. |
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Post by Lauren M. on Feb 4, 2014 16:24:20 GMT
What does it mean to know?To know means to be sure about an idea or thought and have something to support it to prove your understanding. Knowing something means you have to have evidence that proves these facts. In the book Eliezer says, "over there thats where they will take you. Over there will be your grave. You still dont understand? You sons of bitches. Dont you understand anything? You will be burned! Burned to a cinder! Turned into ashes!" (pg 31) Everyone knows that you will be burned because of past experiences with other people and actually being shown everyday the place where you will be burned. Another real world example is I know Christmas is on December 25th because thats the date we celebrate it every year and it is marked on every calender for December 25th. What does it mean to believe? To believe is to have and idea about something, but not have evidence to support it. Believing something is having a strong idea about certain things, but no way to support it completely that makes it a proven fact. On page 27 in the book Eliezer says,"When they came back, they told us that they had learned, in exchange for a gold watch, that this was the final destination. we were to leave the train here. There was a labor camp on site. the conditions were good. Families would not be separated. Only the young would work in the factories. The old and the sick would find work in the fields." They dont know this for a fact, but they believed it. They have no evidence to support this thought other than that someone else told them this, but they dont know if those people were just lying to get what they wanted. A real world example would be kids believing made up things such as Santa, the Easter Bunny, fairies, Bigfoot and other mythical creatures. They dont know these things exist only believe they do because they have not ever met or seen them ever. Also they have only heard of these things in stories, but there are no real pictures or anything like that to prove their existence. What does it mean to be "mad" (crazy)? Being mad means to make up your own beliefs with no evidence to support it and when it doesnt actually exist. For example in the book the whole thing about Mrs. Scaachter hallucinating and telling everyone there was a fire when there wasnt is and example of someone going mad. There was never actually a fire whenever she would scream that there was. She is going mad because she is making up something tat isnt true. Another example of going mad is hallucinating. When you are hallucinating you are go ing mad because you see things and make up things that arent actually true, but you believe it yourself. When Nicole said that a belief about something is an idea without evidence and I agree with this because you may believe something about a person even if you are not sure if it is really true or not. |
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