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Humanity and Violence as One; Not A Good Idea

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             Violence, a force of humanity and creatures, is everywhere and not that anything can stop it. It is unavoidable in our everyday lives, from a scratch of a kitten to the world’s ruthless, most brutal bombs and explosives. We see it almost every day, especially on television and movies, and often in real life. But is it really necessary to be seen by every one?     Violence has brought many people to jails and prisons, and is often neglected as a natural phenomenon. In entertainment such as movies, violence has been one of the main ingredients in horror, thriller, and suspense films, which makes it, according to people, more interesting. But we always forget that it is still violence, which means it not good for others to see especially children, so we have to know how to be responsible for it.        We can’t eliminate violence, but we can lessen the presence of it if we know how to limit it. For ex...

Heraclitus: The Philosopher of Fire

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              I have a question, who are the philosophers that you know? Okay, so since you know who and what philosophers are, Does anyone know Heraclitus? It is normal that no one knows him; yet, because if you search the name “Heraclitus” and read the articles, websites, links whatsoever; he is not well-known, those philosophers you mentioned earlier are well-known philosophers. So I’m Greg and today I’ll be introducing you to one of the Western Philosophers of the past centuries, Heraclitus.             Heraclitus was a Greek philosopher of the late 6th century B.C.E.; he lived in Ephesus, which was not far from Miletus, the birthplace of philosophy. We know nothing about Heraclitus; the web says that Heraclitus’ biological information is based only on his statements, his sayings, ancient biographies; also some philosophers like Plato thought he was after Parmenides, which was more likely...