This was Valerias cartoon strip used to demonstrate her TOK question today in an excellent presentation on understanding fate. As she pointed out " the man who will drown will never be hanged" a nice connection with Russian folklore. Can you see in the cartoon the two possible paths, look closely at the events that unfold depending upon choices made, or choices guided by fate?!
Also Max Dota attempted to question whether all lifes happiness ends up as zero? This was based on the following Vietnamese model by Huu hung:
The red horizontal line is a time line and the large sine waves above and below represent times of happiness (above the line) and times of sadness (below). In the end the theory is that it all balances out and happiness = 0. The clever question posed was, should you live your life close to the horizontal line or experience highs of sadness and happiness? The accompanying cartoon strip featured a monk in panel 3, this was demonstrated as a lifestyle along the line...zero happiness, zero sadness. Very smart. And thank you to all who presented today - there was lots of great thinking and everyone did very well. Thanks also for getting involved in all the questions and answers, debate and argument. Great TOK!
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