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1. Survival
This course is based on the concept of survival that all human behaviour and for that matter all
behaviour of living species is based on survival. If there was a species or any human for whom
survival is not at the core(fundamental), they are not here to tell us anymore.
Although survival is our priority there are many exceptions
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Story about lion in Africa
Culture, family, life experiences teach us how to survive
Difference between society and culture
Society (feeds our body)
teaches us how to survive
Culture/community (feeds our souls)- (teaches us how to be a human being)
Stories about the Students who disagreed
2. Intimacy:
For this course I your professor will be frequently use the term intimacy this means the type of
human connection mostly connected to soul/our humanity. When I use the word intimacy I am
not, not refer to sex. Yes, sex maybe an intermate act but it so what I am referring to when I say
the word intimacy in this course
3. Energy is all about energy
An important underpinning of this course is energy. Human behaviour will in the ling run and
often in the short run to save energy. We have a million examples
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
Use of our constructions in our speech
4. Entropy
Entropy is a measure of disorder, randomness, or uncertainty within a system, or as the amount
of a system's thermal energy that is unavailable for performing useful work.
As human being we attempt to maintain our energy by maintaining what we understand as a
stable system. However, all, all, all system loose energy and deposit into randomness.
5. Ask questions, questions, questions, questions
This is true for this course, for your professor, and when there is a conflict try not to make
statements instead ask a question: what, where, why, how etc.
6. I will repeat this terms throughout the course
7. We build our reality upon survival and experience: Dr. farmer Grandson
8. Inter-faith: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, Jewish
In this class we have many different religious orientations. I am going to be careful about
everyone has a right to their beliefs. For the purpose of this course, we are not trying to solve
any internation conflict “Henry Kissinger”
9. Every human being wants to fill included and respected -every group, religions
I believe that most of our conflicts (not all) are caused by us, for us a disagreement is not a
conflict, so conflict is more than a disagreement. An aggression is above conflict; like someone
insult you, psychological violence. When we are confronted by violence, we need to think on
how to deal with it and most of the time the best option is to walk away. Students do not have
to agree with what I say or teach but they do have to show that they understand i. Intelligent or
academic disagreement is perfectly acceptable at the university but only after individual has
demonstrates the understanding of the other thoughts
Disagreement is allowed but aggression is not allowed in this class
The average person creates problems, and intelligent person solves problems, and the
wise person avoids problems