Connection 7

I will connect the end of the book Sophie's World to South Park Imaginationland.

The End of the book and leading up to it was full of imaginary characters and romantic irony. It talks about how once something is imagined then it lives on its own, or if an idea is created, it grows on its own. The south park episode is about another world that is filled with all the good and bad thing that anyone anywhere is imagined. People find a way in and they start to try and draw conclusions over what is real and what is imaginary, talking about how you can qualify if something is real or not, just like Sophie. The government decides they have to nuke our imagination because terrorists are taking it over and since its not real, they don't need permission from congress. I feel like this would be like Albert ending the book. Like he is ending the creation but it lives on no matter what since someone imagined it. By the end of the south park they accidentily nuke the imaginationland but someone (butters) imagines everything all back since it never disappeared, like sophie moving into the spirit world.

reflection 7

What i thought about the ending

Well the ending to Sophie's world kind of split me. I liked it because it was unique, there was a twist, and it was original. I didn't like it because it made the entire book pointless and none of it happened. It was like there was no story and the book was written so that the author could write a philosophy text book without it being a textbook. You have to admire the author though for trying to write an informational book while trying to make it interesting with our generation of digital zombies, but a well crafted ending goes a long way. The ending kind of made me angry like wow the characters don't exist and this is not possible. Even with the philosophy its hard to believe in a spirit world where all the fictional novel characters go to live. Its like Imaginationland (read connection). Anyways the ending was good and bad, it left a bad taste in your mouth but was good while you ate it, if that makes any sense

6 looks like b, b is for band which CONNECTS THINGS

Romanticism, strong ties to folklore, traditional language, nature, and customs. The movie Gangs of New York reminds of some of these things with its strong social differences and nativism. the irish in the movie were more or less the romantics. though nature was never a big thing, they stuck together based on language, customs, and tradition. The irish fought the "native" americans whose customs were, we were born in America, hate everybody who wasn't. Not very romantic. A "natury" love like romanticism can be seen in AVATAR. Though it is a repoff and special effects remake of another bad movie, dances with wolves (goodfellas was better), it is a VERY romantic movie. Screw industry, screw development, and no expansion and hostile takeover. The movie's soul is about nature's soul. Its basically propaganda about how nature is more important than anything else because it provides for us so we should provide back. The movie also has ties to traditional customs with the Na'vi (native americans) trying to keep their land and customs while the white man tries to steel the UNOBTAINium. Possibly the most romantic movie ever.

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Im crazy yay. The definition of romantic irony is staring me in the face and my forehead cool with a chilling sweat. Why is aladdin in my life with his Jeenie buddy telling me that its a new paragraph. My childhood winnie the pooh came to say hello and deliver a package. I can't be in a book because i have physical realities, or do i. i am not controlling anything that is happening to me, everything seems to be planned out and created for me. Maybe this is god watching over me, or a vivid dream that only seems like days because its a dream. When i wake up, i will have forgotten the first "months" of the dream and hopefully ill see a philosophy book on my chest which explains the dream. but no, im in a book. Damn. Please don't stop writing, i can't do anything to reach you and i can't really accept the fact that im being written into existence. This philosophy is controlling my life and every new philosopher and his views changes my life. Im not just in a book, im in a damn informational novel that tells facts, this sucks. Why do i read the letters about philosophers in clear detail and why im a so interested in these biographies of old thinking geezerz. BECAUSE IM IN A PBS SPECIAL BOOK NOOOO. hopefully you'll end the book with a "and sophie went on living happily with friends and family for another 100 years". that would be great

V for V(c)onnections

The current chapters are showing Sophie that her world is not real, but i tlies in the pages of a book, and if the pages stop turning, her world ceases to exist. This is a lot like the Man watching the shadows on the wall of a cave scenario, which is represented well in Source Code and Fight Club. In source code, the main character, like sophie, constantly receives clues that his real is some sort of altered state. When he finds clues, his world bends into a wider area, opening his mind. Sophie just sees things like characters from other fictional writings appear and characters exclaiming a change in page, paragraph, or chapter. In Fight Club, the main character has created a 2nd personality in order to live a life he wishes he could, a free life of mayhem and destruction. But he does not know that another world inside his mind exists, like that of Hilde or Sophie. Hilde is like "the narrator" in Fight Club. He sees his 2nd persona who does not exist and they live very similar lives. Sophie is Tyler Durden. The mode up person, living a life without rules, one lives without law and the other without any restrictions at all. Pretty similar since you could attach characteristics of their lives to both.

If i was Sophie. CHAPTER V

It sure sucks to be Sophie. Probably because at this point she is beginning to realize that she is not real. Or maybe it is ok to be Sophie since if you stop reading, she does not exist so she has no feeling, which would mean i have no feeling since this is "if i was sophie". If i was her at this point, i would try and comprehend what is going on. There are fictional characters coming into my world and the laws of reality are being broken. There is something deeply wrong when a jeenie is telling me its a new paragraph. I would try and contact anyone who i believe is in the real world. Actually, if i had come to peace with the fact that i am in a book and if the reader stops reading then i stop existing, i would try as hard as i could, to make my life more interesting so that the reader would not stop reading. My only worry would be flashbacks and skipping ahead, or maybe the author wrote about my tragic death. I would have to buckle down and go HAM for a while to survive

connection Numba Fouuur

I will now relate the mediocre but cool looking movie Tron: legacy to Sophie's world. The new tron was a buit nerdy for me. Its about some old man's son going into a computer game and fighting it out, trying to find his father. I did not see the one in the 70s so every little kid who went to the PG action movie missed every plot point. But a connection is needed. Sophie is spending a lot of time learning about how scientific and natural rules and laws are not real and can be broken sense they don't really exist. This is from people like Descartes beliefs. The kid in Tron traveled through a little camera like thing into a computer, where all these "programs" had personalities and acted on basic free wil in their specific task. In other words, they fought eachother, and were not controlled when they fought. These breaks everything we know on science and Quantuem theory. It breaks our laws of Physics, you cna't just teleport somewhere, its like distroeying matter and creating it from nothering somewhere else. Descarets doubted evrything, he would have doubted those laws. Or its like Transformers 3, Dark of the Moon. In that movie, the final battle is abiout destroying pillars that are bring CYBERTON to earth, it came out of no where, and was destroyed into nothing. Desccartes would have been like, for sure, while everyone else is like, hey wait a sec- you can't just go ham and bring a planet thats impossible. HAM

If i was sophie, part 4 and its beyond weird being sophie

I like bananas. I enjoy them because they taste good and they have a lot of potassium. They get me ready for a heated lacrosse game against brother rice, or for an extreme hour of running. What i don't like is peeling on open to find a disgrunteld employee had scribbled a message with pen into it. I know that it was Albert or whatever, but how did he get that banana, how didhe know i like bananas, and why the banana. Write the message on paper, on a mirror, text me. Ink poisoning kills thousands every year (stat i made up). At this point i would have accepted that strange and supernatural things were happening beyond my control, but now Albert is interferring with the thing i love most in the world to leave a stupid message, food. I would not be thinking aout, wow i guess we really can't explain or crate natural laws, because a dog was talking to me (im crazy) and now my fresh un-peeled banana has writing inside the peel (fake banana- yellow dye #4 on processed fruit loaf). That would be my only explanation, the philosophers ideas are to much to comprehend and take in all at once for me to start considering all their laws right away. If i was sophie, im in a coma, or im crazy.

Connection Bro part 3

I would like to connect the curiosity of Sophie to all the supernatural tings that she witnesses to the adjustment bureau. In the AB, david is crazy about going ham and finding out why he can't be with elise. Sophie is all like woah, i saw myself in the mirrir wink, so i should probably grab it, just like when David saw elise walking on the street when he road on the bus. That bus is like the Major's cabin, just keep going to it. David has a knack for going after the supernatural like the doors, same as Sophie. They are basically the same exact person and the chairman in the movie is Alberto. He always knows what is going to happen and is like in the future with Hilde. Alberto is also going ham with predicting stuff, and David is all predicted with a path. HAM.

If i was Sophie. Part Tres

The book is becoming extremely weird and Sophie is acting even stranger. Even in the beginning i would start to wonder why someone kept calling me hilde. Earlier i would have stated that i would asked for a metal assessment and someone to help me, now i think Sophie is way past that point. Either she is completely insane, opr she is in a coma. The coma idea is very plausable because there are all these supernatural things happening that could never happen in the real world. Also, dont grab the mirror that you saw some yourself wink, and then take it home for fun. I would avoid that with every effort in my body. I would also check myself into a crazy person ward because Crucifixes don't appear out of no where anymore.

If i was sophie 2

Im going to start when Sophie is at the cabin. The book was completely realistic up until now. Or it still is, i don't know. All i know is, if i looked in the mirror and watched myself blink, i would have told somebody about and bing bang boop, i would be at therapy or in a ward being prepared to get labotomized. If i was Sophie i would not have come to the conclusion so quickly that the girl in the mirror winked. As i type, im freaking myself out, its like a whole new dimension inside the mirror, maybe like an evil twin. Like in that movie, mirrors, what ever the person does in the mirror, you do, so it could try to kill her. but maybe the new dimension is like, where every decision is the opposite. Done rambling. So i would have convinced myself in the next 30 seconds that i forgot that i winked and thought i saw it. Your mind can play tricks on you all the time and Sophie has been reading philosophers talking about how your senses are not reliable all the time. But maybe since she had just finished her Aristotle bender, she was hyped up on everything is reality and we believe everything we perceive with our senses. I do see that the author is relating Sophie's unexplainable experiences with how the Philosophers must have felt when they tried to explain their ideas to the people of the time. But seeing myself wink would be pushing it for me.

connection 2

Recently i re-watched the first and 2nd matrix movies. i left out the 3rd because unlike the lord of the rings trilogy, these movies declined in creative quality as they progressed in the saga. The matrix has basically a similar view as Plato, but an opposite view of Aristotle. Aristotle believed that there was no reality beyond what we could perceive. The matrix is saying, that what if the reality that we are perceiving, is not reality at all. But the matrix leaves questions. Is the reality in the machine the real reality, or is the outside world reality. You could be dreaming the matrix though it is unlikely. So i will go on the basis that the Matrix is just a program, and reality is unplugged. Aristotle said that all things had their limitations based on their physical form. The matrix basically was written to challenge Aristotle's views. The Matrix challenges that are only limitations are our minds. In the fake reality, we think we can't do things because people have said we could not and based on previous experience, we can't. Or maybe, in the unplugged reality, since you have the limitations we know, your body incorporates those into the machine. So Aristotle's reality and world around him is actually the unplugged area. But the Matrix is the exact opposite. boom. connected. mind explosion. education outside of class.

Reflection 1

If i was sophie, i would probably call the postal service. I know that they are not responsible for the delivery of the letters, but i would try to get a hold of someone. First i would try to figure out who the messenger was. Send a letter back with the dog, or follow the dog back. or leave a letter in the mailbox in hopes of him or her getting it. Also, i would change what i did with the letters. I would start opening them originally because it was a letter to me but when i first saw the "who are you? or who am i?" i would have been a little freaked out. I would not have thought about it phylosophically, would have taken it as like something calling you and saying "who is this". If i was more open to receiving them, i would have shared it with someone. The difference with most philosophers and Sophie, is that she keeps it a secret and then acts condescending when people don't know what she is talking about. YOU DONT SPEAK TO YOUR MOTHER THAT WAY. if she wanted her mother to see that she was acting more numb to the world, she would have showed her some of the philosophies like the analogy with the rabbit and magician. Anyways, if i was her i would try harder to contact the anonymous mailer, tell some friends, and do my own research if i was that interested so i did not have to wait for the letters.

sophie's world connection 1

Recently i have been "borrowing" my friends Netflix account from him with permission. I have started the TV show Futurama from episode 1. Almost every episode has some sort of philosopy in it because they deal with alternate universes, change, and time travel. One episode that i realized was basically directly out of Sophie's World was titled "The Infosphere".

The Infoshpere was about an invention called the forward time machine. It played on the phylosphy of what would happen if the universe ended and do things actually change. The problem occuring in the episode is that 3 of the main characters can't get back to their time because whenever they travel forward to find a time machine, they always make a mistake and move too far. Eventually after 21 minutes, they have traveled through the end of the universe and seen another big bang, creating the exact same universe and they stop at their time, landing and killing themselves of this new Universe.

This is a lot like what Democritus thought in Sophie's world. He thought nothing changed and the atoms just separated. The universe was gone but still intact because it just had to have another big boom. The only problem was that the time travelers had themselves in the new universe so that was the only change. Or maybe it never happened because the new universe shouold have traveled forward if it was exactly the same.....