Trey's+talk

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 * __Guiding Question: __** How Can We Make Life Meaningful?


 * __PHILOSOPHY:__** A person is controlled by their own emotions, morals, and beliefs, and even if they try to hide these beliefs they will be revealed to the world in the end. Some people try to conform other people's beliefs/morals through fear. Since our beliefs are formed through experience and learning, our history controls us also. We should think on our own and only change our ideas if we truly believe they need to be changed, and only change them based on what we learn.Fear can only control us because it is an emotion and when we fear someone/ something we conform our ideas to escape our fear. Others can only control us through fear though. So our society need's to learn not to conform our ideas, but to build them up, because conformity is what has caused many massacres and sociatal mistakes in the past.

Spite only keeps me quiet, We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, Deep and comforting silence descends on everything we know in the end **
 * How may I live without my name,

The bitter lapse into everyday life is the dropping of a veil, Reason and free enquiry are the only effectual agents against error, The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.**
 * Still veiled, they lay some in their coffin,

But questions come to us again, as we walk in silence, Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, While reality is fabulous.
 * Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable,

There is another judgment waits us all.

I understand that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man, Nor the sense of truth within him**





The shackles, therefore, which shall not be knocked off at the conclusion of war, will remain on us long, will be made heavier and heavier, till our rights shall revive or expire in a convulsion, I send my salute across the centuries, and my pity.
 * Private vengeance works through a testimony,

We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. **



But also being unconformed is how you can find true meaning because conformity corrupts and its absence creates simplicity and bliss.
 * __ We find meaning through learning, happiness, fulfillment, and simplicity. __**

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 * __WORKS CITED__**:

Texts: //Miracle at St. Anna// by James McBride ​ //The Crucible// by Arthur Miller // The Minister's Black Veil // // A Good Man is Hard to Find // //Anthem// //Walden// by Thoreau // Nature // by Ralph Emerson //The Lottery The Village// Query 17 by Thomas Jefferson