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What Constitutes You

June 22, 2008

It has been a habit since we’ve been partners in school to go out and shop after we get our shy pays. We can actually used it all up in one mall visit. There’s food, clothes, “unnecessary” things and more food tripping.

Then we decided to use some of our money to buy books. More deserving of our pays, I think. Thank God there’s Book Sale. You can find books as low as Ph30.00, like I did. I bought two hard bound books, one is for Php70.00 - Little Doors by Paul Di Filippo and After Dachau by Daniel Quinn for only Php30.00. A hundred bucks for two hard bound-used books (they’re clearly looked unused to me) is such a good deal to pass up.

I’m a one sitting reader. If and only if, I find the book really really interesting. There are stories that I can’t stop reading, and would only leave the book open to go to the bathroom or eat. And After Dachau is one of those worthy books for my time. My hundred buck purchase didn’t disappoint me at all. After Dachau is sucha good read if you’re into Reincarnation and English History. It is fictional and at the same time very informative on historical matters that dated back during 1920’s.

Reincarnation is just another belief that anybody have the freedom to choose to believe or not. It’s not wrong to have an open mind and ears on that matter, as long as your principles aren’t bothered at all. Topics like this catches my attention time and time again. Strangers can share anecdotes and short stories about ghosts, past lives, fairies and supersticious things anytime with me, wide-eyed and attentive.

One thing is for sure, Reincarnation may look like it is the main theme of the book, but that’s just not the case. Political and historical points were given more emphasis on the storyline than that of reincarnation. According to Daniel Quinn, this book’s theme is…

“…the social constructedness of history and of what we take to be the foundations of social reality.”

He hopes that he will inspire people to realize the connections of the actions of our yesterday’s generations and the consequences of today’s rapid progress as humans. He wrote this book not to encourage the possibility of Reincarnation but to tell people the need to change course with human’s relationship to its environment.

With regards to reincarnation, here’s a fact: a person’s body does not constitute who they are. It’s what you do, what you make of yourself, your past, present and future.

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Written by hotchiqqa · Filed Under Art, Education, Literature, Opinion, Personal, Politics & Gov't, Review, Uncategorized 

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