Prayer

Ben Moore-Prayer-
Prayer is seen as the time that one devotes to their higher being. During this time the higher being is presented pains, upliftings, concerns, and etc. by a follower. In Christianity there is a strong belief in prayer as the one way line to God, but how much one prays is up for change depending on each person. Lately I have found myself only praying for help through certain situations in my life, and not really uplifting God for what he has done for me. In the Muslim belief they pray five times a day. I believe that is awesome that they believe so strongly in their higher being that they pray five times a day. I believe that if I and other Christians would pray that much our lives and the church would not be in the situations they are in day to day. I feel if we were to pray more often we would see a astronomical difference in our church and in my life espically.

Faith

Ben Moore-Faith-
Faith is decribed as the trust in God and his promise as made through Christ snd the scriptures by which humans are justified or saved. Can Faith alone though save oneself? I believe that we can have faith in our God Almighty, but it alone cannot save you. As decribed in the defintion above I feel we have to teach and sahre these scriptures and promise to those around us to be saved. I feel we cannot be saved alone by having faith and going to church, but by teaching and spreading his word through decipleship. Then and only then can we be saved by the Lord our God.

Supremacy

Ben Moore-Who is Supreme?-
Today I went a nd listened to my Father's sermon. It was on who is supreme in your life? He preached on how we live our lives day to day following our on decisions. That we don't intially look to our higher being for the judgement on our decisions. It made me wonder in my life, espically as a college student, how I tend not to pay attention to my higher being while I make decisions in my day to day life. I never really realized how much I don't pay attention to my supreme being till today. Throughout my college career I can say that I have really acted as the supreme being in my life, but today that all changed. So I now I wonder how many of you have based your life's decisions on your own personal benefit and how many of you actually put God or your higher being as supreme in your life?

Lost

Ben Moore-Lost-
The disscussion we had on "Lost" in class this semester really intrigued me. Lost as Dr. Redick described it to us was the state of unknowingness of the surroundings around one self. It sparked my interest on what i viewed as what lost really meant to me. When he asked us to write on the piece of paper what we felt lost meant symbolicilly, all I came up with was without the knowing of God. There has been multiple times in my life when I felt "lost". At times of losing family members and other instrumental to my life I felt that I didn't know God or why he was doing what he was doing in my life. I think we become lost at many times in our lives, but the only way for us to get out of that state is to search for that light and in my case is God, but for others it is whatever higher being they believe. Being lost can be the most scarey experience of your life because being found is determined by yourself.

Conflict-Matthew Winkler12

In one of my other classes we learned about conflict and the different styles of conflict. It got me to thinking about how oral cultures might try to resolve different types of conflicts. The first type of conflict style I learned about was Compete. In this style individuals use power to try and over come an opposing force. This is present when there are multiple suiters for a mate and they must give a better presentation to win a females hand. It is also present when there is a fight between individuals or tribes against other people. The next style was Accommodate. In this style diplomacy and patience is used to smooth over differences and attempt to be fair. An example of this would be when white settlers first came to America and the natives helped them survive to be fair and show respect. the next is avoid and this is when hiding, and denial occur and problems tend to grow. This would be when someone has a problem but is unwilling to confront the issue. This could be when a fraction of a tribe has different views and instead of confronting issue, leave and start their own tribe. Most time when avoidance occurs it signals the end of a relationship. The next style is compromise and it happens when people try to reach together an acceptable solution. this happens when different tribes or literate people reach an agreement using logic to keep the balance. It can also occur when there are limited resources and they might have to figure out how to share but still be able to keep their way of life. The last type of conflict style is to collaborate. This happens when a common ground is established, relationships are improved and the range of possibilities are expanded. this is how i believe tribes survive by learning to adapt to their land learn how to use their land but also give back to it. It also happens when oral and literate cultures make treaties with one another that are honored because both groups came together to find a solution to an issue.
Each one of these styles to resolve conflict is useful in its own way one should be looked at as being less useful then another.

Conflict-Matthew Winkler12

In one of my other classes we learned about conflict and the different styles of conflict. It got me to thinking about how oral cultures might try to resolve different types of conflicts. The first type of conflict style I learned about was Compete. In this style individuals use power to try and over come an opposing force. This is present when there are multiple suiters for a mate and they must give a better presentation to win a females hand. It is also present when there is a fight between individuals or tribes against other people. The next style was Accommodate. In this style diplomacy and patience is used to smooth over differences and attempt to be fair. An example of this would be when white settlers first came to America and the natives helped them survive to be fair and show respect. the next is avoid and this is when hiding, and denial occur and problems tend to grow. This would be when someone has a problem but is unwilling to confront the issue. This could be when a fraction of a tribe has different views and instead of confronting issue, leave and start their own tribe. Most time when avoidance occurs it signals the end of a relationship. The next style is compromise and it happens when people try to reach together an acceptable solution. this happens when different tribes or literate people reach an agreement using logic to keep the balance. It can also occur when there are limited resources and they might have to figure out how to share but still be able to keep their way of life. The last type of conflict style is to collaborate. This happens when a common ground is established, relationships are improved and the range of possibilities are expanded. this is how i believe tribes survive by learning to adapt to their land learn how to use their land but also give back to it. It also happens when oral and literate cultures make treaties with one another that are honored because both groups came together to find a solution to an issue.
Each one of these styles to resolve conflict is useful in its own way one should be looked at as being less useful then another.

Lindsey Pritchett - The Inca Rap

In writing my rough draft of my paper, I experience writer's block and frustration at having to cite sources. Thus, I let loose and wrote a little rap that I could, for obvious reasons, not include in my scholarly, academic paper. Here it is:

Machhhhhuuuu PICCHU!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, now gimme a beat homie!

A’ight layin’ it out for you,

it was a city in the mountains, that story never gets old,

and those royal incan homies inlaid all that stone with some GOLD!

they had a temple dedicated to the sun,

and when the rainclouds came, somebody didn’t have fun,

they would sacrifice the innocent in hopes of cloudfree days,

then they would chew some coca and dance through the haze.

They would look at intiwatana, in search for Pleiades,

but when winter came Pachacuti was like OMG CONQUISTADORS PLEASE.

They grew a lot of corn and had a thatched roof, but when the Spaniards came the empire went POOF!