Truth And Moral Truth: The Fall Story

Indian casinos helped get tribes out of poverty and neglect. “ tribal members had to look too country government to access welfare programs, which were often far the remote Indian reservations.” (Kallen 18) When the benefit programs changed, the government continued to fund tribal welfare. “The Indian Nations sought out new revenue sources to help their people. They found it thru gaming.” (Kallen 12). The Indian nation went through many issues such as poverty and unemployment. On reservations, there are not that many opportunities. They did not have a voice when it came to choosing their reservation they were forced to be there. The land is not very useful for agriculture or mining, but gaming was their way of getting ahead in life.

In John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, Adam’s son Cal reflects the character of Cain in the Bible. Cain is born to Adam and Eve. When Cain and Abel present gifts to God, God favors Abel’s gift. Cain grows jealous and kills his brother out of jealousy. Though similar to Cain, John Steinbeck uses the choices Cal makes to contrast his character to Cain in the Bible and to demonstrate that, despite being evil, people can choose their course in life.

Many people cherish their reputation, what other people think and believe about someone is crucial in today’s society. Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is centered around the theme of reputation. One’s name is tremendously important in Salem, where someone’s social standing reflects their ability to follow religious rules and obligations. In Salem, reputation far surpasses the truth. Majority of the characters in The Crucible would rather die than risk damaging their “good” name. When witchcraft accusations start spreading through the town, one’s fate is determined by their reputation. John Proctor and Abigail Williams are both perfect examples of this, both risking everything in attempt to protect their tarnishing reputations.

Another biblical example of a moral or intrinsic evil is the result of Adam and Eves disobedience of God’s free will in the Garden of Eden and becomes even more clear to them with the birth of their two sons, Cain and Abel. The birth of these two sons brings the evil of lethal violence to society. It begins with rivalry amongst siblings of jealousy and family fighting. Cain’s jealousy finally ends with him making the decision to commit murder and kill his brother Abel. This decision of moral or intrinsic evil made by Cain is the first taking of human life and the deterioration of humanity’s condition. The act of murder is not an act of God, it is an act of man and because of man’s action, evil succeeds in society. Again, the problem of

His jealously drives him to harm Adam. Similarly, Adam represents Abel, the good brother. The reader sees him as more innocent

Recognition of a failure to follow God’s commands brings about new capabilities. In violating God’s commandments, Adam and Eve come to learn that they can choose to live

What is your definition of truth and fear? People have different views on truth and fear and have definitions. Truth is something that is true it's the state of being true. FEar is something that scares someone to do something. Like when someone is scared to go into a haunted house.

Each person is in control over what they take as truth based on their own perspective and reasoning. I don’t have to believe something is true if I feel that it is not. My emotions, memory, education, and faith factor greatly into my perception of truth. I think that when we are born we are blank canvases that are ready to be drawn on with knowledge, some in pencil and some in permanent marker. Knowledge and truth are related but not the same thing.

In Genesis the word of God leads humanity in the direction of self preservation, urging them to procreate, to ”Be fruitful and multiply” (Genesis 9:1), and to minimize hostility and violence among people. As Freud asserted, “Besides the instinct to preserve living substance and join it into ever larger units, there must exist another, contrary instinct seeking to dissolve those units and bring them back to their primeval, inorganic state” (Freud 77). Genesis exemplifies the struggle between the two opposing human instincts, with God acting as a moderator between them. Forms of justice are put into place in an attempt to control these drives, one example being the proclamation that “Whoever sheds the blood of a human, by a human shall that person’s blood be shed” (Genesis 9:6). The ethics and laws that develop throughout Genesis seek to “prevent the crudest excesses of brutal violence” but are unable to control “the more cautious and refined manifestations of human aggressiveness” (Freud 70). Since they cannot be completely eradicated, the scriptures instead play into the more negative aspects of human nature, especially narcissism, and manipulate them into a force for conservation rather than annihilation.

Friedrich Nietzsche essay “On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense” articulates his reason to seek truth. Nietzsche explores the individual's motivation for finding the truth by analyzing the reward for discovering the truth; before concluding that the search for truth translates the world for those who don't fully understand. Nietzsche finds that these reasons are flawed.

Cain is very much like each and every one of us and it seems that we are fascinated with him. This could be because there is good and evil in every one of us. Of Abel, we basically just hear that he was born and murdered by his brother. Without a lot of explanation we are left with the nagging mystery of the death of an innocent man. We deal with that continuing mystery each day as innocent people are killed. In some ways you find out that murderers are more like you than different from you. Most of them have snapped during a horrible time in their life and taken the life of a loved one. For them it was not a logical move because none of them really were thinking logically at the time. Typically it was an action coming out of being totally absorbed in the other person.

Eighteen is a frightening age. I feel as though I have already experienced a lot and come a long way in discovering who I am. As I enter adulthood, I finally feel in control of my own life. Along with this, I also understand that I am still very young and I have a lot of years ahead of me. I constantly find myself wondering what I want to do with the one life that I have been given.

Truth can be defined as conformity to reality or actuality and in order for something to be “true” it must be public, eternal, and independent. If the “truth” does not follow these guidelines then it cannot be “true.” Obviously in contrary anything that goes against the boundaries of “truth” is inevitably false. True and false, in many cases does not seem to be a simple black and white situation, there could sometimes be no grounds to decide what is true and what is false. All truths are a matter of opinion. Truth is relative to culture, historical era, language, and society. All the truths that we know are subjective truths (i.e. mind-dependent truths) and there is nothing more to truth than what we are willing to assert as true

Woody Allen once said, “I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” In “The Fall of the House of Usher”, an unnamed narrator is summoned to the House of Usher by his boyhood friend to bury his sister. Somehow she comes back from the grave and the home collapses, but the narrator escapes in time. In essence, Poe uses imagery to express the themes of fear, isolation, and family.

For the greater good within us, we would all like to live in a world without war, a world where competition is replaced by co-operation and individual freedom. However, this will never be; it was from the beginning of creation, that the internal violence or conflict within humankind was manifested. Genesis 4:8, stated that, “Cain killed his brother Abel