Post #1

Aaron Boyd

11 August 2013

AP English 11

Mrs. Wilhelmus

            The beginning of time is an elegant, yet touchy subject. For my personal beliefs, the Garden of Eden is where it all started. When reading through Sophie’s World different questions and thoughts all ran through my mind. As I read, “Who am I” and “Where does the world come from” were the most common questions that arbitrarily came into mind.

            The more I think about who I am, I come to the realization, I don’t particularly know. “Who am I” is a very open ended question that can lead us to be either very humble or very self-absorbed. To me, this is not an uncommon question. As I believe we all struggle with discovering who we really are. Relating to the book, finding yourself is about your own philosophies, not the philosophies someone else comes up with. However, contrasting that statement; realizing who you are can come from other people’s philosophies and ideas throughout history.

            Throughout the book, there are some intriguing philosophies on where the world came from and how it began. Coming from a Christian background, I immediately put up a wall when being subjected to other creation theories. However, as they kept popping up I began to take on the thoughts of them. Curious as I was, I began to look more into the philosophies that the book presents. But as I looked more into the complex philosophies I always went back to my Christian roots. Even bringing God into the philosophies, such as the big bang theory; which in return debunked the theory in the first place because The Big Bang theory was counteracted something in The Holy Bible.

            The questions “Who am I” and “Where does the world come from” are questions that can’t, at least for me, have a defining answer. We all have doubts, we all have questions. Even though curiosity gets to me, I always find myself sticking to my roots by revealing other philosophies weaknesses. Which, I guess by definition is who I am.