Transcendentalism

I felt that "Nature" was a boring story, but did throw out some examples of Transcendentalism.
Even though the story was boring I felt that tese people really believed that God could communicate through them. This story talks about how men should feel. This story is trying to tell us that we see things through nature. He explains how nature works and what it does to us. Talks about how the stars awaken and how few adults can see nature. So meaning that only true people beliving in nature can see it right.
I felt like the part were it talks about how something transparent can be seen through a heavenly body. QUOTE..."The atmosphere was made transparent wit the desing, to give man, in the hevanly bodies, the perpetual presence of the subkime." That would have a relation to it because, those people believed that god could communicate through a person intuition, and that means he could communicate through them. And it can also stand another thing. The fact that only real men can communicate and see nature can cause nature to go right through them. So nature can tell them things and or they can sense it knowing it came from nature. "Most persons do not see the sun, at least they have a very superficial seeing."




The next story "Self Reliance" was short and explainable. It was an essay published a while ago. Pretty much it takls about his definition of self-reliance. What is self-reliance to you? To me it is personal independence. Well in this story it is sensibility and individualism, almost as my definition. Well it talks that whenever a man comes he sees everyhting different, how envy turns into ignorrance and how imitation into suicide. Sensible right. It talks about how God wants things done right and by independent men.
I thought that the part where it talks about how "God will not have his work made manifest by cowards," really explain how God didn't want his work to be done through them. He wanted good people to. And how it says "A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best." Again Self-reliance because he has done it alone and with passion, and is acceptable work in God's eyes. More likely to say perfect and if they would they get rewarded which would be having God communicate throught their bodies. Also to be great is to be misunderstood.



Last the story of "Resistance To Civil Government" it is a story being told. I read a part where it talks about how this man who was arrested because he refused to, he refused to pay tax and refuse a offer given to him that was the Conford police would pay his taxes, and was still being punished for. He had refused because he was opposed to the government's support of slavery. He spend his night in jail and later then his aunt more likely payed his tax. It makes me feel like that was harsh and cruel just because he wouldn't support the slavey. That was plain stupid and he felt like he was betrayed.
I feel this had to do with Transcendentalism because Transcendentalism didn't believe that everybody was born sinner, and the person that had arrested him punished him for not believeing in slavery. That made me feel like he was trying to explain how he felt about it and how he wasn't wrong for feeling that way. I quote I got from the text would be, "It is excellent, we must all allow; yet this government never of itself futhered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way." Tracedentalism did not believe that institutions like the governemnet or organized religion were effective.

Scenario #1-
This couple have been making plans for their wedding and they are very much exicted, The husband will get a full time management job after his schooling and continue to be happy. So there is one problem the future wife wants to go to a far away school, and she gets accepted and still makes wedding plans. What I would do in this situation is talk to my fiance and ask him what he thinks about me leaving to a far away school. If he would be okay wiht it I would leave as soon as we got married and most likely take him with me. If he would not agree I would leave the plans behind because me schooling would come first as in my perspective. This would have a trancedentalism point of view because I would be doing what I felt was the right thing and what God would want for me. For example Trancedentalism felt that God spoke through people's mind and hard work, and after my hard work of school and getting accepted into the school I wanted to go of course I would be going to the voice of God.

Video-
This video of course has to do with Transcedentalism. It is about a man who decides to become a nature man and interiact with nature and the wilderness. He plans to stay out there for thirty-five years, he will build his own cabin to survive and to sleep in. This Is a good example because Transcedentalism believe nature was always calming and not a threat to nobody. How there are river and trees and nothing to worry about. This was also believed because they say that god would communicate more with and through you while surrunded by nature. He built a canoe to go aroud to wilderness and to get home. He will sure have God's touch and communications out in the wilderness and nature.