1. Since I started posting updates on twitter and reading people’s posts, I noticed that a lot of people live in Teleological time. According to what I’ve read, most people just write about the current events that are happening in their lives. Most of my twitter buddies write about what they did this morning or evening. They’re concentrating on the present and not really discussing what they might do in a year from now. I happen to also live in teleological time so I can relate to all these people. I was really affected by what everyone wrote because I felt like I had a connection with people that I barely knew. Everyday, I wonder if anyone is going through the same problems I am. Twitter, and other social networks like it, connects people in such a way that have never been done before since the beginning of civilization. A person can be affected by what another person has to share, half way around the world.
2. The stories of “1001 Nights” as stated “is also “interwoven” of different moments” In other words, although these are fictional stories, the tales are woven together consistently by the author. There are many lessons and small stories within the larger ones and many themes are woven together. Sometimes when events and themes are woven together, one can lose sense of the past, present, and future. In the story “King Sindibad and his Falcon” there is not really a mix of time settings intertwined, rather it seems to flow straight from the beginning of the story to the end. When this occurs, we call this “teleological time” This kind of time has a cause leading to an effect, or a beginning leading to an end, and there is a significant purpose. In this story, there is a beginning of the king raising a falcon, a middle of the story where the king and his men go hunting, where the king finally traps a gazelle with the aid of his falcon, and an ending where the king learns a lesson. He learns that he should not have assumed that his
falcon’s intentions were meant for harm, but rather the falcon’s intentions were for good as it tried to save the king from poison. This story is “teleological’ and has a direct beginning, middle, and end and a specificity of time rather than different phases being intertwined.
3. Most of these works from “1001 Nights” are derived from Arabic cultures and have many meanings that would be understood by the people of these countries. The story of ‘The Tale of the Husband and the Parrot” is a perfect example of a story that is relative to the Arabic culture. In this story, the wife cheats on her husband with a Turkish man while the husband is away. When the husband finds out about this from the parrot, he proceeds to beat her as it states “Thereupon the husband went to his wife in a violent rage and bashed her with a bashing severe enough to satisfy any body.” In many of the Arabic cultures, men are believed to be superior and they believe in beating their wives as is stated “Men are the managers of the affairs of women for that God has preferred in bounty one of them over another, and for that they have expended of their property. Righteous women are therefore obedient, guarding the secret for God's guarding. And those you fear may be rebellious admonish; banish them to their couches, and beat them. If they then obey you, look not for any way against them; God is All high, All great.” The practice of a husband beating his wife to therefore “punish” her to show power over her is common in many Arabic cultures, as “The Tale of the Husband and the Parrot” suggests.
http://www.answering-islam.org/Silas/wife-beating.htm#_Toc160373809
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i agree with most of the things you have said. i think people are tend to obsess by their present rather than past or future. it is because people forget about past and lot of people don't think about what might happen to them in the future. so people constantly think abut what is going on with them now.
Actually, I disagree with the people forgetting about the past. In fact people are completely affected by their past and sometimes that delays people in their life goals. There is always somthing in the past that will affect our present and future. It is up to us to rectify those issues so we can move on past those experiences that are hindering us from our fears that will keep us from improving ourselves or going forward with our lives.
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