Humes

I thought that Humes was the most interesting because I think that I believe in a lot of what he talks about such as open mindedness, miracles, and us not being born with a set of expectations. He is also an agnostic which I consider myself to be as well.

When he was talking about miracles he was saying that he didn't not believe in them or he did, he simply said that he has never experienced one there fore he couldn't say that they didn't exist. I can say the same because I have never experienced a miracle but I have heard of stories that are miracles. In Psychology of Living were learning about depression and suicide and we watched this video about people jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge. This one guy jumped and as he was falling he realized he didn't want to die. He fell to the water and came up, he should  have died either on impact or of a heart attack on the 220 foot drop. But a wave went over as he was falling which broke his fall somewhat and before his boots filled up with water two sea lions carried him to the surface. I consider this to be a miracle because he should be dead but he realized he didn't want to and something saved him. I can say that they can happen I have just never experieced it.

Hume believed that a set of expectations is not innate . The world is like it is and it is something we get to know. He talks about how a child wouldn't think that a man suspended in the air is as astonishing as a grown adult would because the adult knows that someone suspended in the air is supposed to be physically impossible. He goes into talking about cause and effect and how one thing is supposed to go after another, or if it simply exists with in itself. I found this to be very interesting because it shows that we can make of what we want out of the world, and it made me question if the laws of nature simply 'are' or if we make things to be impossible and possible.