Jonathan Yeung's reaction to the reading

T1) The types of time that influences me and others on twitter cannot be surmised with just one theory of time. I believe both the teleological and stellar theories of time are equally admissible to our lives.

We are affected by the teleological theory of time, because events happen in a linear order. I wrote my first tweet on Oct 13^th, my second tweet was on Oct 14^th and so forth. I cannot possibly post a tweet in the present that would have a date of posting in the past, nor in the future.

We experience time in chronological order, as the teleological theory of time commits to us, but we also experience forms of stellar time. No one man is an island; therefore we are all affected by other people and environmental factors. Nothing that was on twitter directly impacted me, but a lot of the topics being discussed did pique my interest: such as a tweet on the book Flowers for Algernion, suishi.

2) The tale of the Husband and the Parrot is supposed to be a comical story told in a linear fashion. The husband goes away on a trip, and buys a parrot to keep track of his wife while he is away. When the huband returns from his trip the Parrot tells him his wife was having sex with a Young Turk. The husband understandably gets mad from his wife infidelity and enacts vengeance on his wife. The wife finds out the parrot squealed on her, so tricks the parrot into thinking its raining. The wife had a slave girl sprinkle water on the parrots cage to make him think it was raining. The parrot would have to believe he was in a stellar time, as it does not rain in mid Tammuz. The world was unfolding in linear time but the parrort was tricked into a stellar time frame by the wife.

3) The treatment of woman in most Islamic states is deplorable. Women are still being stoned to death, and murdered in what are claimed to be honor killing. In this modern age these acts are a disgrace to the human race. With that being said, I think the stories within the 1001 Nights would be not be discredited in modern Islamic cultures. The 1001 Night Tales contains tales of misogyny; the beginning of the 1001 Night Tales has the king declaring all women evil. The king proceeds to kill the virgins he deflowers; the women are treated as expendable. The death of a parrot in “The tale of the Husband and the Parrot” is considered worse than when the husband murders his wife. How woman are treated in Muslim society can be seen here,

http://debate.org.uk/topics/coolcalm/women.html

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0426-10.htm

http://www.islam-watch.org/SyedKamranMirza/honor_killing.htm