Snowball Paper 2

I have been in Andys classes all last year and i tell you he has opened my eyes in many ways i see shit differently and sometimes i pull back and realize what i am doing and wonder to my self the 5 W's. so i looked at this year as to be even better you might say but i was deeply disappointed i really dont feel this RD. Laing guy. i am not a fan plan and simple. he doesnt rock my boat i dont feel that his ideas, theories, or arguements about dreaming, our childhoods, and our sensual awareness and embodiment are true and relate-able on my part. dont get me wrong this guy has some great ideas and i really understnad where hes coming from. i guess im taking a very hard pestimestic view on this essay but i really dont think any of this matters people will never change, they will be who there parents are and there parents are and there parents are until the sun implodes and we all die. thats just the way the cookie crumbles. i like the quote "his demostration that the ordainary person is a shrivelled, desiccated fragment of what a person can be". it is very visual and when i read the line in his essay i can see a person all wrinkled and lost all its innocence. RD Laing is a old man that talks about old man things that hold no meaning in my everyday life. i am not a ingonrant person so i have not completely shut him outx

Laing is a very insightful man with all the extras. He doesn’t have very many complex answers but his answers are to the point and do not beat around the bush. I do not agree with him completely though I feel that he is white and black with no gray area. Where I think there has to be a gray area and little to none black and white area. People do take things serious but maybe some one takes something very important to the but to someone else it is un important. Person A takes sneakers seriously cares about them and understands them in and out but the next guy Person B hates shoes and barely wears them and is more in to stamps or something. Both people have that hunger and passion for their loves but no in the same area but it is still the same intense feeling. no matter what your "love" might be its love and it means the same its all generic feeling everyone has it but for different things. i dont really belive in half the things Laing talks about, i dont feel that life is so cut and dry because if it was then people would all be the same and everyone would do everything this guy is talking about. even Laing himself doesnt follow his own ideas. its all a chaotic mess that no one should try to change, and if people try to change it people are going to have to die and no one likes people dying so no one is going to be able to change it. Laing wrote his paper and all his wonderful ideas just to make a buck to try and live his life to the fullest and he wasnt writing his essay thinging that hey one day i hope a history class will look at my work and dissect it. he was just looking to do what he loved to do and what he loved to do was to write passionately about his feeling and his feelings take it or leave it i dont agree with so im going to leave most of them, i will take some and use them in my own life but not completely change everything to look back to my childhood or think about why i am dreaming certin things i sleep because im tried and it feels good.

The sensory exercises were to get us connected back to our lives and not alienate ourselves from our bodies. We as people do not connect or even listen to our bodies we go through life missing everything that should be “normal”. The exercises we did were stupid I believe because no one really took them serious. But the best one we did was the blindfold going from the first floor back up to our classroom. People were trying to get back to the room and it sounded very funny but it was intense not to see anything at all. We were walking through the school while it was a normal day kids in class and in the halls and a group of kids with blindfold and tape around or across there eyes it was very humorous. there were alot of people trying to keep the exercise true and genuine but most of the students were dicking around and not really doing it. i was not one of thoses kids i was really trying to do the blind fold and experince it for what its worth. i really thought it was intersting that it wasnt as easy as i thoght i was going to be to walk up the stairs and get in the class room with out any vision. i would rather be born blind and then go blind, it would be so much easyer to cope with then seeing the grass is greener on the other side and then being told to go back to my own shitty place. but in the end all of this stuff is all useless no one will ever look at this like we as a class are looking at our senses no one gives a dam about anything until they have to deal with it. we all as a hole of people suck we dont do anything we take whats given to us and we live the life we think we want with the things given to us by the guys behind the desk, the people we call them. the real powerful people the guys that no one hears about and who some people call "god". thoses people tell us what to feel and how and when to feel it and we have to go with it no matter what so ---- it, im going to live my life the happiest way i can inside thoses boundries.

Summary

I have been in Andys classes all last year and i tell you he has opened my eyes in many ways i see shit differently and sometimes i pull back and realize what i am doing and wonder to my self the 5 W's. so i looked at this year as to be even better you might say but i was deeply disappointed i really dont feel this RD. Laing guy. i am not a fan plan and simple. he doesnt rock my boat i dont feel that his ideas, theories, or arguements about dreaming, our childhoods, and our sensual awareness and embodiment are true and relate-able on my part. dont get me wrong this guy has some great ideas and i really understnad where hes coming from. i guess im taking a very hard pestimestic view on this essay but i really dont think any of this matters people will never change, they will be who there parents are and there parents are and there parents are until the sun implodes and we all die. thats just the way the cookie crumbles. i like the quote "his demostration that the ordainary person is a shrivelled, desiccated fragment of what a person can be". it is very visual and when i read the line in his essay i can see a person all wrinkled and lost all its innocence.

Sensory awareness exercise

The sensory exercises were to get us connected back to our lives and not alienate ourselves from our bodies. We as people do not connect or even listen to our bodies we go through life missing everything that should be “normal”. The exercises we did were stupid I believe because no one really took them serious. But the best one we did was the blindfold going from the first floor back up to our classroom. People were trying to get back to the room and it sounded very funny but it was intense not to see anything at all. We were walking through the school while it was a normal day kids in class and in the halls and a group of kids with blindfold and tape around or across there eyes it was very humorous. there were alot of people trying to keep the exercise true and genuine but most of the students were dicking around and not really doing it. i was not one of thoses kids i was really trying to do the blind fold and experince it for what its worth. i really thought it was intersting that it wasnt as easy as i thoght i was going to be to walk up the stairs and get in the class room with out any vision. i would rather be born blind and then go blind, it would be so much easyer to cope with then seeing the grass is greener on the other side and then being told to go back to my own shitty place. but in the end all of this stuff is all useless no one will ever look at this like we as a class are looking at our senses no one gives a dam about anything until they have to deal with it. we all as a hole of people suck we dont do anything we take whats given to us and we live the life we think we want with the things given to us by the guys behind the desk, the people we call them. the real powerful people the guys that no one hears about and who some people call "god". thoses people tell us what to feel and how and when to feel it and we have to go with it no matter what so fuck it, im going to live my life the happiest way i can inside thoses boundries.

Personal Response

Laing is a very insightful man with all the extras. He doesn’t have very many complex answers but his answers are to the point and do not beat around the bush. I do not agree with him completely though I feel that he is white and black with no gray area. Where I think there has to be a gray area and little to none black and white area. People do take things serious but maybe some one takes something very important to the but to someone else it is un important. Person A takes sneakers seriously cares about them and understands them in and out but the next guy Person B hates shoes and barely wears them and is more in to stamps or something. Both people have that hunger and passion for their loves but no in the same area but it is still the same intense feeling. no matter what your "love" might be its love and it means the same its all generic feeling everyone has it but for different things. i dont really belive in half the things Laing talks about, i dont feel that life is so cut and dry because if it was then people would all be the same and everyone would do everything this guy is talking about. even Laing himself doesnt follow his own ideas. its all a chaotic mess that no one should try to change, and if people try to change it people are going to have to die and no one likes people dying so no one is going to be able to change it. Laing wrote his paper and all his wonderful ideas just to make a buck to try and live his life to the fullest and he wasnt writing his essay thinging that hey one day i hope a history class will look at my work and dissect it. he was just looking to do what he loved to do and what he loved to do was to write passionately about his feeling and his feelings take it or leave it i dont agree with so im going to leave most of them, i will take some and use them in my own life but not completely change everything to look back to my childhood or think about why i am dreaming certin things i sleep because im tried and it feels good.