Read the information below and respond in a comment to ONE of the questions. Be sure to restate the question.
Chapter 16
Pi’s first visit to a Hindu temple as a child is full of wonderment and worship rituals. He describes the details of the rituals and what they stand for in the religion. He is a very religious man and enjoys it, but explains that fundamentalism is flawed with a story about Krishna disappearing before possessive milkmaids. He mentions both Christians 13 for their trust in love and Muslims for their awareness of God in everything. He makes a very circuitous description of how different the religions are and yet how with a different hat they are completely interchangeable.
Pi’s first visit to a Hindu temple as a child is full of wonderment and worship rituals. He describes the details of the rituals and what they stand for in the religion. He is a very religious man and enjoys it, but explains that fundamentalism is flawed with a story about Krishna disappearing before possessive milkmaids. He mentions both Christians 13 for their trust in love and Muslims for their awareness of God in everything. He makes a very circuitous description of how different the religions are and yet how with a different hat they are completely interchangeable.
1. Pi suggests that “many people seem to lose God along life’s
way.” Why is this the case? Is this true of our community/ society?
2. Describe the significant rituals of each of the religious traditions that Pi
embraces.
3. Pi says “the universe makes sense to me through Hindu eyes.” What eyes do we
use to make sense of the universe? Why is/ isn’t that through the eyes of faith?
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ReplyDeletePeople lose god because adults always are worrying about themselves. this is because ?.
ReplyDeleteThis is because adults and kids can get so caught up in what they are wanting to do and what they are doing they will forget about god and what he did for us.
DeletePeople lose sight of god because when you start to get older you get caught up in other things. Sometimes this happens to little kids when they know Santa is not real they think that god is not as well so they stop believing.
ReplyDeleteI agree, but I also think people lose god along the way of life because of things that they rely on him for. Like healing the sick, if that person is still sick and dies, they blame it on God.
DeleteI like your answer a lot. As people get older, they tend to think more on logic and that draws them away from things that don't have logical explanations.
DeleteAlthough many kids would think this way, some would react differently, but I strongly agree with your statement on adults.
DeleteI agree with your statement but Santa is real.
DeleteI agree with the comment. The example you gave with Santa is perfect.
Delete1. Pi's suggestion is the case because many people find things they think are more important. That is kind of true of our community/ society because people suddenly think that if there is no scientific proof, that there's no reason to keep believing in their religion so they leave so no one can question them about their beliefs.
ReplyDeletePeople don't trust and God and rely on him as they grow up because they begin to see all the worlds problems. They think that God isn't big enough for all those problems, this is very true of the society today. -Maya
ReplyDeleteI agree, People are beginning to not trust God as they would start to grow up, he might be an angel but he can still answer prayers from the people down below. That is just the life we live with now.
Delete“Many people seem to lose God along life’s way.” Why is this the case? Is this true of our community/ society? Since we are military kids, we are very lucky to be safe on post, so there is a lot of God in our society on Fort Bragg.
ReplyDelete1. People do seem to lose god along the way of life because of the things that happen. Deaths in life that they may rely on God to save. They still die sometimes, and they blame it on God.
ReplyDeleteThat is so very true, but even after all of the hardships we should all still have faith in Him.
DeleteThe eyes we use to make sense of the universe can also be known as doctrine or your consence. That is through your faith or what you believe in because depending on what you believe in, you see the world diffrently.
ReplyDeleteI competently agree and I think that this is something most people live by.
DeleteAs it states in the question many people seem to lose god along life's way, is because people can get all wrapped up in themselves and what they are doing. This is true in our community because when people do all these things they forget to remember who and what god is and what he does.
ReplyDeleteI agree, people lose god along the way of life and forget about him and the things he does for us because people get caught up in life and the reason for it.
DeleteThey forget that God CAN solve big problems and take care of them. -Maya
DeleteI agree, people do tend to get caught up in themselves but their are some people who do not forget and are not "selfish" and worship god like Pi.
DeleteAs we become adults, we start to think that nothing too tragic has happened to us, and we have all done bad things, so maybe there are no gods or no God because we haven't seen any "signs" from him. So then we stop believeing. -Riley
DeletePeople lose sight of god because our community today is not how god planned it to be. There are many bad things in the world and people do bad stuff, even the small things build up.
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Deletei disagree. even in the apocalypse there will be people still worshiping. people lose sight in god because they get so caught up in their greed and pettiness they forget all about god and sever all their connections with him.
Delete1 - People today aren't really in that much trust in God because some people would pray to God if they could have a child but most of the time them praying doesn't help. So now people aren't really putting ALL of there trust into him. :)
ReplyDeleteUmm, ok. That's a very strange example. However, I will give you the credit of people not trusting God anymore
Delete1.Pi thinks this because when people grow older they find there selves more mature and able to solve problems. They think that they don't need anyone to help them solve some problems and that they can solve the tough problems on their own.
ReplyDeleteThis seems like a really good statement, this almost summarizes people today.
DeleteWe do lose god sometimes. We start do think he is not real. As little kids our parents always tell us lies. Did they lie about god. Maybe, maybe not. But we will lose him if we don't belive in him.
ReplyDelete1. Pi's note suggests that people lose faith in god along the way. I think this is on point for most because as we mature we start to see the worlds problems, their are other religions, and if you really were to think about it, you would think that god would have gotten rid of all of our problems by now. We, Humans are very selfish and spoiled. We expect everything to go our way and when it doesn't, we don't believe it's right. So when god doesn't "solve" everything, we force ourselves to believe he's not real. So, little by little our faith perishes
ReplyDeleteI agree with you because if things don't go as planned they blame it on other people and not on there selves when they do things.
Deletethe reason #1 is true is because when life is full of things to do its hard to take time away from your life and spend it with god.
ReplyDeleteEach religion Pi believes in is significant because he find refuge in each religion.
ReplyDelete1. Pi means that when people grow there mind changes so now they are thinking religion is a cursed instead of what he use to think religion is hope. Yes our community seems to lost religion by not any of the handful of people they seem to lost their belief in religion.
ReplyDelete1. People seem to lose faith in god because they start to think that because when someone gets Cancer or one of their family members dies they start to blame all of the struggles they are going through on him. But they should just rely on God to help them through the hard times.
ReplyDeleteI agree people will start to do that.
DeleteEven though Pi believes in faith he can find more comfort that there is a heavenly force watching over him.
ReplyDelete1. people lose god because they get caught up in material objects and decide that they don't need god. this especially common nowadays because people get caught up in popularity and greed and lose god.
ReplyDelete3. most people look at the world with the eyes of faith or religion. Looking out on the world with the eyes of a religious person helps people explain the world and gives them a way to make sense of what you do and why you do it.
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