Allegory of the cave according to Plato is "our nature in its education and want of education". Or in short allegory of the cave tells about a certain issue that can only be proven through observation and experimentation as well scientific basis. Besides to Plato each one of us has its own allegories which have been answered by science. Also I experience allegory since my younger years of age until now. Some of my allegories have been answered already by science and some are still unexplainable in the field of science. My allegories that I have been remembered are when I’m still young, When I’m 10 years of age my mom letting me to play outside when raining so that my rashes on my back will be healed. And for this reason I already adopt that practice that if I have rashes I will just stay outside while raining for recovery. But when I reach 2nd year high school in Biology class, I learned that skin irritation like rashes only become an active vulgarize when it was expose to extreme heat where in the epidermis become inflammatory which causes rashes. For them rain is not to effective to become a treatment to this skin rashes. If may possible help you to treat your rushes it’s only because of the cold breeze bringing on it. Also there are other effects on our body that can we acquired on staying outside while raining. These are cold and cough. For that reason studies formulated to have a safe and effective treatment to these skin rashes. Based on the studies that we must maintain the body temperature to its normal and also we must not expose our body on extreme heat to avoid skin inflammation that causes skin rashes. So specialist recommended us to take a bath at least 3 times a day for your body to excrete heat and also drink plenty of water to maintain the normal body temperature. So for that instance I learned that not the rain will help you from this skin disease, the safe and effective way to treat my skin rashes is to maintain the normal temperature needed by my body and if I experience extreme heat the only thing to do is to take a bath and drink plenty of water. But until now when I’m already a college student when I have this kind of skin problem my mom still recommending me to went outside when raining because it can help me to recover immediately. This allegory of mine serve as a lesson for me, I must not follow the provincial treatment or the advice of a doctor kwak kwak because all of it doesn’t have any scientific basis and studies to prove that their treatment processes are effective and safe. So I prefer to do what the specialist recommends because it derives from a studies and it has a scientific explanations that can be proof that is safe and effective to the patients.
This is my Allegory of the Cave it start when I am was 9 years old when me and my family were living in the house of my Lola because our house in that time is on going on construction. So there is some adjustment living in the house of our Lola because it is kind of different in our old house and in the back of the house of my Lola they have different trees and plant s there and it is really scary there when its night. So one time I ask my Lola if there is ghost there when night then she said to me that there is no ghost their after my Lola said it to me that makes me feel happy that there is no ghost because I am really afraid in the ghost when I’m was young. But one time in the day of Saturday my friends and I are looking for spider because in that time we are making spider as our toys and make the spider fight. So in the night of Saturday we are hunting for spider then we go in the back of the house of my Lola, we go their because there are many spider in the plants and trees but when we are there, there is something wrong I see in banana and not only me see that thing one of my friends also see it and the thing that we see is white lady and its really scare us so we run faster to go out in that place. After that was happen i tell it to my Lola and parents and they don’t believe that we see a white lady and they say that the one that we see is NPA because in our is a Barrio and NPA are going sometimes in our Barrio it’s and I explain to my Lola that is not NPA it is really a white lady but I think they don’t believe in me.
Life is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. Recalling what happened in the past is reading a book from first page down to the last. Remembering where it started and when it ended.
When I was a child, I live in a box where I can’t l freely live and move according to what I want. Limited space, source of necessity and limited view towards my dreams. In this box, I found scarcity. I told myself that once I got the chance to escape from this box, I will live and slither forward to a large green landscape where I can feel deficiency no more. On my way to manhood, rough roads, zigzag roads and dead ends welcomed me and yet I still managed to walk barefooted for I know this is the only road I have in my book. I was hurt by thorns and sharp rocks in my directions but as much as I wanted to heal my wounds and turn back, I still don’t want to live in that box anymore; no matter how far these roads will take me, no matter how hard it takes to walk with thorns and sharp rocks I will still continue walking.
Heading to the direction of the green landscape that I’m dreaming of, I met the Crabs. Crabs who want to pull me back so they can go ahead of me. They told me to pull backward so they can go off and leave easily. I never let them because if I do I will turn back to the box where I used to live. My journey in the book is worse than burying myself alive six feet under the ground but every story that I made makes my book simply amazing.
As I read the book from the time that I live in the box to the roads I walked barefooted down to the green landscape where I am right now, I can definitely say that the wounds I got from the roads were already heeled, the crabs that I met were already my inspirations and the thorns and sharp rocks that hit my feet were now a part of the history by which creating the book of my life will not be possible without them.
Philosopher Plato said, We all may acquire and comprehend the world around us as our experience of physical objects, but it would be a mistake to limit ourselves to the conventional thoughts indentured by our stubbornness towards change.
My interpretation with the Allegory of the Cave is this, "we were taught and we learned things which we first believed in and when a new idea came out, you refuse to switch and still believe that what you know is what is true."
If I were to reflect myself to the "Allegory of the Cave" of my life, it would be the moment that I learned that I am "A Champion", nothing will stop me from what I want to achieve, do or believe in, but of course good and bad things have had happened. Upon realizing further, I am still living with what I first believed in, that I am a Champion.
During my primary school life, I was a student athlete from Grade 3 to 7. I played basketball, baseball and track and field,so my experience that time was amazing. I won a bunch of championship medals and trofees in different divisions and even became a National Champion for SBP Basketball League year 2004.Then my Baseball experience was also great. Playing as a catcher was a tough part,and being on that position gave me a big responsiblity to take care of the home base. I also got a lot of championship medals in baseball and track and field. The buttom line here is, i was used to be a winner.
After all the good things that had happened, my parent's business lost and suddenly closed down, then temtation started to arise against me from the very start of my High School. Since my parents business closed down, I tried to try-out in all those four schools I attended to become a scholar student athlete, and God is good I became a scholar in all schools by just playing basketball.Sad but true, I got hooked into ciggarettes, drugs, alchohol,got involved in a gang, gave special attention to women, and doing bad things. Thinking "nothing can stop me", as a result I got kicked out in those schools, I took 1st year three times and got kicked out again on 2nd year. I was not really doing what I should be doing and repeatedly doing the same mistakes every year, so my Dad told me to stop going to school fisrt.
When I realized all the foolish things I did,out of shame, without my parents knowledge I took an accelaration exam to skip highschool, then while waiting for the results I applied for a job as a Call center agent at the age of 17, I lied during the interview and luckily they didn't notice my credentials so I got my first job. After 7 months I realized that I can earn more so I resigned and applied on a known company when I turned 18. I became a Debt Collector in a bank for about a year and a half so I earned more. At that time what I did with my salary is I lend to those who ask a loan with interest, few months later I was able to come up with some money and I was able to purchase an old pick-up truck. I resigned again and started to be an Entrepreneur.
This is a portion of my life where I have observed that what I first believed in, still manifests in my life with or with out my awareness,regardless how bad the situation is, I don't easily lose heart.
My version of "allegory of the cave" in my life was when i was still young.When my grandparents says that when you have a mole at the left side of your back,you will experience so many obstacle in life and you must not give up or else it will cause your death.I dont believe in them,but when i was 8 years old my obstacles have begin.My parents got separated and left me alone because im just the only child.I have no one to lean on,so i found myself as a bully to childhood friends because im starting to beat them out.But one day i realized and remembered what my grandparents said to me,so i ask to god to help me and make him the one the i can lean on. Another "allegory of the cave" in my life was i dont believe in ghost and paranormal activities.Most of the people i know dont believe in ghost also but i found my self one of the special kind of person.When i was 7 years old i saw a ghost and another then another.I found myself that my third eye was open.When i said that to my friends,they start to believe in ghost.But i lost my gift when i start to go to church every sunday when i was 3rd year high school.
This are just 2 part of my life that can specified Plato's "allegory of the cave".
Plato's Allegory of the Cave is used to show how one would rise from simple illusion to being philosophically illuminated. Plato's allegory also gives some examples of the difficulties that the are incurred. I fully agree with Plato's allegory and will be explaining why I feel this way towards his allegory. I will also use an experience from my own life to help show how the allegory of the cave can be directly represented in everyday life. When I was 12 years old, it was rainy afternoon Me and my friends playing computer games at my bedroom. And my sister who is 1 year older than me left us at home because she will buy something. 30 minutes while we still playing I saw something that look like my sister past through my door and went to out comfort room, and I thought my sister was backed at home, and I waited her to finished but there no inside the comfort room. Then I realized that my sister still not at home. At that moment I fell goosebump it was like that I saw before was my sister’s doppelganger. And I told my parents what happened last day but they don’t believe me. I explain everything that was true but they still don’t believe me even my friend that also see it they don’t believe him. That was my experience of allegory of the cave
My personal experience of the Allegory of the Cave was during my first year of college. Since I am still in the “first year”, I still didn’t take my studies seriously. I cram and procrastinate a lot back then. I even don’t know what projects and homework to pass on a specific date and stuff like that. Until it came a time that my friends told me that there will be a major exam on a specific subject. I didn’t believe them at first, because as far as I can remember, our professor hasn’t told us anything about having a quiz. And during the first meeting, he told us all his quizzes will be ANNOUNCED.
The day has come and I haven’t reviewed anything. When I walked in our designated room, my blockmates were reviewing. I laughingly told them that their readings will be put to waste and there will be no quiz that’ll be happening on that day. Some continued on reading their notes while I was munching on my food that time and not minding what they’re doing. I was chatting with my friend until our professor walked in our room.
Surprisingly, I saw a plastic of bond paper (stapled bond papers, specifically photocopied, stapled bond papers). I was literally in the state of shock when suddenly he told us to scatter the chairs and stuff. Obviously, there will be a major exam that’ll happen. During the exam, I was totally clueless on the questions on the test paper. Imagine having an enumeration type of exam in Psychology (there are so many terms in Psychology, FYI). I only knew ‘some’ of the questions, maybe 20 to 25 percent of the questions. Almost all of my answers are guesses. And the sad part is the exam was good for a hundred points.
After the exam, I was still shocked. I can’t imagine that I didn’t believe what my friends told me. I should’ve listened to them and reviewed instead of wasting my time on nonsense stuff. Only then did I realize that there’s no harm in listening to others, especially on academic-related. I should’ve reviewed. I should’ve read. I should’ve listened. That’s one of my regrets.
As for the result of my exam? I don’t want to talk about it.
Plato realizes that the general run of humankind can think, and speak without (so far as they acknowledge) any awareness of his realm of Forms. Greek philosopher Plato uses the allegory of the cave in his work to illustrate "our nature in its education and wants education".
I experience allegory of the cave when I was young, maybe I was only 8 years old back then, my mom and I were eating while watching television and then I ask for water so she gets water in the refrigerator. While she was away, I felt something cold in my shoulder but I thought it was my mom so I looked at my shoulder but I don't saw anything and my mom is still in the kitchen. I was really scared back then and I ran to the kitchen and told my mom what happened to me but she didn't believe me. She just laughed and told that I was only imagining things like that. I told her everything but still she refuses to believe me. So I moved on and thought that it was only my imagination.
That was my personal experience of the allegory of the cave.
The Allegory of the Cave is, in my interpretation, a journey from a point of assurance of reality to a point where you realize that things may not be as you know them. This quote from Clarence Darrow sums up my personal experience, “I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.“
Everything started when I was in my 4th year of high school, up until that point I was probably what people would call an average Catholic student. I used to thank God every morning when I woke up and prayed before I went to bed. But one day I came across a discussion in an internet forum that I regularly frequent (it’s the forum for Mangafox if anyone is curious.), it was a discussion about the beginning of the universe itself. It was from there that I first discovered that people who didn’t believe a "God" or a supernatural force existed. At first I was antagonizing the views of those that didn’t believe the universe was created by a higher being, but slowly my mind was being opened to new possibilities. I started to think whether or not I or anyone else knows anything about God at all, which is when I became an Agnostic Catholic. I then started going to bed with mixed thoughts; I was even annoyed at myself for doubting the existence of God. Until came a time, a few months after that first seed was planted in my thoughts, when I accepted the notion that maybe there is no God. So I started living my life believing that there is no God, I effectively became an Atheist which is my first experience of the Allegory of the Cave.
But like all pursuit of knowledge, it is foolish to assume that what you think you know is the truth. And so begins my second Allegory of the Cave. I started browsing through many forums, reading numerous articles, and pondering long and hard about my beliefs. After a while I eventually started forming new opinions on the matter. I started realizing that although every theistic claim of a God is bound by what those who claim them can conceive and is ultimately insufficient to account for the existence of one; it does not necessarily mean that one does not exist. But in the same vein, since any attempt at proving such a being would, and has, proved fruitless then there is no real reason to believe in such. And with that though in mind, I stopped believing that a God doesn’t exist, instead I simply withheld any belief in a God. This is to say I make no positive claim that a God doesn’t exist, but instead chose to simply not believe in its existence for it is ultimately unknowable in our current state.
At that point I became Agnostic once more, but not on the thought that I know nothing about God but on the thought that I will never know anything about a God. And since I have no belief in a Deity I am effectively an Agnostic Atheist.
I am often asked the question “Aren’t you afraid that if you’re wrong you will go to hell?” And in my mind this quote from Marcus Aurelius sums my thoughts on the matter, "Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones."
In the end I believe that I will never stop questioning, and I am only walking a path that will lead me to another ‘Allegory of the Cave’.
My personal experience of the Allegory of the Cave when I was a child, I thought that the moon is following me. I wondered why so i asked my mom about it. She said it was God, serving as a light and guiding meat night. But now I realized that it was just a moon. It came to my senses that my mom just said that when I was young cause I wouldn't understand what the moon really is.
The Allegory of the Cave for me is simply "to see is to believe".
One of my personal experience of this was when one of our friend died. That day they told me that our friend is in the verge of death at the hospital but i didn't believe them cause he's very healthy the last time i saw him and i thought it's just a very bad joke. I didn't worry too much about that message.
Days after, they told me this time that he's already gone but i didn't also believe them until i came to see for myself.
Simile of the cave is somewhat knowing the truth yet the people around you doesn't believe in you.
I experience it when I was a kid, I told all my friend that I have a bother that is studying at Hope Christian High School, by the way I took my elementary at St. Stephen's high school. there was a bully that bullies us and I told him, that I will tell it to my brother so that he will avenge me. then I realized it is just a waste of time. If I tell it to my brother, so I never told him. that bully became a friend of mine and he visit my house he saw my brother and he realized that I was telling the truth the whole time.
The Allegory of the cave for me is the people didn't believe unless they see it.
When i was a child, me and my family went to our Cousin in south bay (Parañaque) we're we stay and eat for dinner. after we finish our dinner i went outside to buy some drinks then i encounter a man who crossed the street and asked me about her family, Im shocked because i didn't know him. i went home after i meet the weird guy, i asked my family if they know a guy roaming around the village but they say none/no. then after that my family ignored me, doesn't believe me.
days after, i asked the guard if they see the guy went out in the village they say no one went out in the village.
PAJARILLO JM RAINER V. BSITWMA My own allegory of the cave story
My allegory of the cave story is when I was age of 13 yrs old of age. In our barangay in Nueva Ecija there a story about the big snake living in mountain in our barangay. They said that this snake is big like a half of an electric post. And many said this snake is guarding a treasure in that mountain. I asked my brother if this snake is true and he said that this is only a “kwentong barbero”. After that I never thought it again. 1 year later and my age are 14 years old me and my friends go in that mountain and have a camping in two nights. When we got there we need to find a wood to use for our cooking. We go in the place where the big snake is living. When we gathered a wood my friend sat down in a big dry wood. I see him and I recognize that the wood he sat down is wet and I said it to him then he goes up. But after a second he shouted and said there a snake. He point the wood that he use to sat down and I see it was the snake that in the story to our barangay. But the snake is not moving and the eye of snake is color red because of aging. We ran faster than we can and tell our other friends that we see the big snake. We go back to the place we saw the snake and it still there. We decided to go home for our safety. When I got home I told my brother about we saw and he said I’m just freaking myself.
In my life I have also experienced the allegory of the cave. When both me and my cousin was little we watch a lot of movies like “Dragon Ball Z” “Mask Rider Black” etc. We always do whatever we’ve watched in the movies, thinking that we can also do what they can do, and that they do really exist because of seeing them in the television. I can say that the movies we watched are the shadows in allegory of the cave.
After for a while when we were growing we still believe that the movies we watched do really happened. But there was a time when I have been in an accident in a bike doing what I saw in the movie. My mom asked me that why did you try to do a stunt like that. I told her because I can also do it because in the movie and they can do it. Well I am still a child not knowing what reality and what is fiction. My mom told me that not all we watched in a movie is real. After hearing what my mom told me. That made me think and opened my mind that not all the things we watched in the television is real.
Now I have realized that not all the things we watched in the television is real. I try to talk with my cousin who still believes in all we have watched. I told him that not all that is real and we do not do the things they do. He laugh at me and told me that “no your wrong couz”. He does not want to believe me no matter what I tell him. Nothing would change his mind. I can compare to the allegory of the cave because no matter what you say to him and if that’s what he see. That’s the only thing that he will be believing. Because of that’s what he seen.
My own experience of the allegory of the cave is when I was a child and I'm vacation to my cousins house in Cavite. I suddenly woke up in the middle of the night and I went to the wash room. When I'm going back to my cousins room the other room was open and no one is sleeping there and I saw a lady outside the window floating. I was shocked. I ran back to my cousins room and I close my eyes until I was able to sleep again. The next morning when I told that to my cousins they don't believe they said I was just imagining things.
Allegory of the cave to me is being in the chains and seeing only the shadows of the truth. The allegory of the cave is usually happening when we are young and when our mind is only focused in finishing our activities so we can play or anything else. When I was on grade school, and the subject is mathematics I only prefer to know the basic method in solving the problem. I don't want to explore anymore. I'm satisfied with what I know and don't care anymore in any other ways of solving one problem. But now I've changed. I tend to get all the possible methods that I can to solve one problem, for I know what help I can get whenever I encountered one and how it can help me to quickly understand how it goes.
My interpretation of the Allegory of the Cave is taking risks and going outside our comfort zones. Admitting that some of the things that we know and believe are not true.
During high school, I am certain to take fine arts major in advertising in UST once I go to college. I thought that it would suit my abilities and passion best. Even if my parents are against it because they want me to take science courses, I still pursue what I want. I believed that I would excel in that field. Way back in highschool, my batchmates and friends would always tell me that fine arts is the best course for me. I started my college life thinking that it would be easy, since all my life, arts and design for me is just a piece of cake. As time goes by, I realized that it is not what I expected. Everything was hard, I don't excel at all. In fact, all my works really sucked. The thought that I would excel and be better than the rest? There's no such thing. Their works are way way better than mine. That is one of the reason why I lost interest. When I decided to shift and transfer school, my parents didn't agree at first. They told me that it's what I wanted, that I should not waste time. But what can I do? My skills are not enough for me to pass fine arts. It's not as easy as I thought. I am not as good as I thought. Though it's such a waste of time, I still transferred here at FEU EAC. With the hope that this this time, this will be what I really want. I took risks and sacrificed some time. And thankfully, I'm enjoying digital arts better. I also discovered that there are other things I'm good at.
My so called Allegory of the Cave started when I was still grade 6. I was 11 years old then studying in Sacred heart school ateneo de cebu. My room was on the 8th floor of the science building. On that 8th floor, many of my clasmates told me that the room beside our Faculty room was haunted. The room was never used for over more than 24 years. It was said to be the home of the girl who killed her self. I never believed them till the day I was alone in the 8th floor around 7pm. I saw the girl with my two eyes, at first I never believe that ghosts are really true. I was so scared and amazed of what I saw. I ran towards the corridor and ran down to the stairs until I reach the guardhouse. Then the guard asked why I am so scared, then I told him what I saw. He didn't believed me, he just told me that ghosts are not real and they are just imagination on our minds. I also told my clasmates what happened, but they laughed at me. That was the part of my life that I observed what I never believed in were all true and that others also did not believe in what I said to them. For some people, to see is to believe.
Ancheta,Samuel G. H407 My personal experience of the Allegory of the Cave happened when I was on the grade school (grade 5). While waiting for my “sundo”, I decided to explore the whole grade 6 whole way (the grade6 hall way was separated from the other level hallway). While I passed a classroom I sighted a lone girl sitting. .. I pretended that I did not see her… While I was going down a guard see me and he asked me what are you doing here its already 6:30… then I said I just passed a project to my teacher… I told him that there is a girl in the in the 6-U (the room where I saw the girl)… I accompany the guard to the room where I saw the girl sitting and suddenly the girl loss so the Guard didn’t believe in me .. ^^
Plato taught that the real world is consisted of universal ideas. The world that people actually see is given form by these ideas and is thus less real because it is always changing, but the ideas are eternal and unchangeable. In the allegory of the cave they don’t believe that there is an existence of a real world. They believe that everything what they see are just illusion of their minds. Everything in this world may seem real for you but in others it may not, like what I’ve experienced when I was young. I always joined my cousins when they are watching cartoons or anime like superman, batman, dragon balls and etc. At that time I actually believe that someday there would be a superhero who will save the universe from the disaster and I believe that superhero would be me. A superhero that has the ability to fly, to be invisible, to be strong and especially to be idolizes by the people. I believe that someday when I will awake I have the ability to fly, to be invisible and to be strong and to do all the things that the superhero can do but when I start telling it to my cousins that someday I will have the power to become a superhero that I will save and protect the universe from the disaster, bring all of them to the moon with my own powers, to guide them and to protect them to those who will hurt them all of them have the same reaction after hearing it all of them are just laughing at me and say hey! stop dreaming. I was lose hope that time but I still continued to believe that someday I would become a superhero but not nowadays sir.:)
Bernardo V, Ernesto D.
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Allegory of the cave according to Plato is "our nature in its education and want of education". Or in short allegory of the cave tells about a certain issue that can only be proven through observation and experimentation as well scientific basis. Besides to Plato each one of us has its own allegories which have been answered by science.
Also I experience allegory since my younger years of age until now. Some of my allegories have been answered already by science and some are still unexplainable in the field of science.
My allegories that I have been remembered are when I’m still young, When I’m 10 years of age my mom letting me to play outside when raining so that my rashes on my back will be healed. And for this reason I already adopt that practice that if I have rashes I will just stay outside while raining for recovery. But when I reach 2nd year high school in Biology class, I learned that skin irritation like rashes only become an active vulgarize when it was expose to extreme heat where in the epidermis become inflammatory which causes rashes. For them rain is not to effective to become a treatment to this skin rashes. If may possible help you to treat your rushes it’s only because of the cold breeze bringing on it. Also there are other effects on our body that can we acquired on staying outside while raining. These are cold and cough. For that reason studies formulated to have a safe and effective treatment to these skin rashes. Based on the studies that we must maintain the body temperature to its normal and also we must not expose our body on extreme heat to avoid skin inflammation that causes skin rashes. So specialist recommended us to take a bath at least 3 times a day for your body to excrete heat and also drink plenty of water to maintain the normal body temperature.
So for that instance I learned that not the rain will help you from this skin disease, the safe and effective way to treat my skin rashes is to maintain the normal temperature needed by my body and if I experience extreme heat the only thing to do is to take a bath and drink plenty of water. But until now when I’m already a college student when I have this kind of skin problem my mom still recommending me to went outside when raining because it can help me to recover immediately.
This allegory of mine serve as a lesson for me, I must not follow the provincial treatment or the advice of a doctor kwak kwak because all of it doesn’t have any scientific basis and studies to prove that their treatment processes are effective and safe. So I prefer to do what the specialist recommends because it derives from a studies and it has a scientific explanations that can be proof that is safe and effective to the patients.
Daquiz Mark Aldrin M.
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This is my Allegory of the Cave it start when I am was 9 years old when me and my family were living in the house of my Lola because our house in that time is on going on construction. So there is some adjustment living in the house of our Lola because it is kind of different in our old house and in the back of the house of my Lola they have different trees and plant s there and it is really scary there when its night. So one time I ask my Lola if there is ghost there when night then she said to me that there is no ghost their after my Lola said it to me that makes me feel happy that there is no ghost because I am really afraid in the ghost when I’m was young. But one time in the day of Saturday my friends and I are looking for spider because in that time we are making spider as our toys and make the spider fight. So in the night of Saturday we are hunting for spider then we go in the back of the house of my Lola, we go their because there are many spider in the plants and trees but when we are there, there is something wrong I see in banana and not only me see that thing one of my friends also see it and the thing that we see is white lady and its really scare us so we run faster to go out in that place. After that was happen i tell it to my Lola and parents and they don’t believe that we see a white lady and they say that the one that we see is NPA because in our is a Barrio and NPA are going sometimes in our Barrio it’s and I explain to my Lola that is not NPA it is really a white lady but I think they don’t believe in me.
MENDROS, REGGIE B.
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Life is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. Recalling what happened in the past is reading a book from first page down to the last. Remembering where it started and when it ended.
When I was a child, I live in a box where I can’t l freely live and move according to what I want. Limited space, source of necessity and limited view towards my dreams. In this box, I found scarcity. I told myself that once I got the chance to escape from this box, I will live and slither forward to a large green landscape where I can feel deficiency no more. On my way to manhood, rough roads, zigzag roads and dead ends welcomed me and yet I still managed to walk barefooted for I know this is the only road I have in my book. I was hurt by thorns and sharp rocks in my directions but as much as I wanted to heal my wounds and turn back, I still don’t want to live in that box anymore; no matter how far these roads will take me, no matter how hard it takes to walk with thorns and sharp rocks I will still continue walking.
Heading to the direction of the green landscape that I’m dreaming of, I met the Crabs. Crabs who want to pull me back so they can go ahead of me. They told me to pull backward so they can go off and leave easily. I never let them because if I do I will turn back to the box where I used to live. My journey in the book is worse than burying myself alive six feet under the ground but every story that I made makes my book simply amazing.
As I read the book from the time that I live in the box to the roads I walked barefooted down to the green landscape where I am right now, I can definitely say that the wounds I got from the roads were already heeled, the crabs that I met were already my inspirations and the thorns and sharp rocks that hit my feet were now a part of the history by which creating the book of my life will not be possible without them.
VILLANUEVA, JEREMIAH JED A.
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Philosopher Plato said, We all may acquire and comprehend the world around us as our experience of physical objects, but it would be a mistake to limit ourselves to the conventional thoughts indentured by our stubbornness towards change.
My interpretation with the Allegory of the Cave is this, "we were taught and we learned things which we first believed in and when a new idea came out, you refuse to switch and still believe that what you know is what is true."
If I were to reflect myself to the "Allegory of the Cave" of my life, it would be the moment that I learned that I am "A Champion", nothing will stop me from what I want to achieve, do or believe in, but of course good and bad things have had happened. Upon realizing further, I am still living with what I first believed in, that I am a Champion.
During my primary school life, I was a student athlete from Grade 3 to 7. I played basketball, baseball and track and field,so my experience that time was amazing. I won a bunch of championship medals and trofees in different divisions and even became a National Champion for SBP Basketball League year 2004.Then my Baseball experience was also great. Playing as a catcher was a tough part,and being on that position gave me a big responsiblity to take care of the home base. I also got a lot of championship medals in baseball and track and field. The buttom line here is, i was used to be a winner.
After all the good things that had happened, my parent's business lost and suddenly closed down, then temtation started to arise against me from the very start of my High School. Since my parents business closed down, I tried to try-out in all those four schools I attended to become a scholar student athlete, and God is good I became a scholar in all schools by just playing basketball.Sad but true, I got hooked into ciggarettes, drugs, alchohol,got involved in a gang, gave special attention to women, and doing bad things. Thinking "nothing can stop me", as a result I got kicked out in those schools, I took 1st year three times and got kicked out again on 2nd year. I was not really doing what I should be doing and repeatedly doing the same mistakes every year, so my Dad told me to stop going to school fisrt.
When I realized all the foolish things I did,out of shame, without my parents knowledge I took an accelaration exam to skip highschool, then while waiting for the results I applied for a job as a Call center agent at the age of 17, I lied during the interview and luckily they didn't notice my credentials so I got my first job. After 7 months I realized that I can earn more so I resigned and applied on a known company when I turned 18. I became a Debt Collector in a bank for about a year and a half so I earned more. At that time what I did with my salary is I lend to those who ask a loan with interest, few months later I was able to come up with some money and I was able to purchase an old pick-up truck. I resigned again and started to be an Entrepreneur.
This is a portion of my life where I have observed that what I first believed in, still manifests in my life with or with out my awareness,regardless how bad the situation is, I don't easily lose heart.
Lacastesantos,Kenniel R.
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My version of "allegory of the cave" in my life was when i was still young.When my grandparents says that when you have a mole at the left side of your back,you will experience so many obstacle in life and you must not give up or else it will cause your death.I dont believe in them,but when i was 8 years old my obstacles have begin.My parents got separated and left me alone because im just the only child.I have no one to lean on,so i found myself as a bully to childhood friends because im starting to beat them out.But one day i realized and remembered what my grandparents said to me,so i ask to god to help me and make him the one the i can lean on.
Another "allegory of the cave" in my life was i dont believe in ghost and paranormal activities.Most of the people i know dont believe in ghost also but i found my self one of the special kind of person.When i was 7 years old i saw a ghost and another then another.I found myself that my third eye was open.When i said that to my friends,they start to believe in ghost.But i lost my gift when i start to go to church every sunday when i was 3rd year high school.
This are just 2 part of my life that can specified Plato's "allegory of the cave".
Barrios,Mark Anthony
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Plato's Allegory of the Cave is used to show how one would rise from simple illusion to being philosophically illuminated. Plato's allegory also gives some examples of the difficulties that the are incurred. I fully agree with Plato's allegory and will be explaining why I feel this way towards his allegory. I will also use an experience from my own life to help show how the allegory of the cave can be directly represented in everyday life.
When I was 12 years old, it was rainy afternoon Me and my friends playing computer games at my bedroom. And my sister who is 1 year older than me left us at home because she will buy something. 30 minutes while we still playing I saw something that look like my sister past through my door and went to out comfort room, and I thought my sister was backed at home, and I waited her to finished but there no inside the comfort room. Then I realized that my sister still not at home. At that moment I fell goosebump it was like that I saw before was my sister’s doppelganger. And I told my parents what happened last day but they don’t believe me. I explain everything that was true but they still don’t believe me even my friend that also see it they don’t believe him. That was my experience of allegory of the cave
BUENA, MELISSA LARA T.
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My personal experience of the Allegory of the Cave was during my first year of college. Since I am still in the “first year”, I still didn’t take my studies seriously. I cram and procrastinate a lot back then. I even don’t know what projects and homework to pass on a specific date and stuff like that. Until it came a time that my friends told me that there will be a major exam on a specific subject. I didn’t believe them at first, because as far as I can remember, our professor hasn’t told us anything about having a quiz. And during the first meeting, he told us all his quizzes will be ANNOUNCED.
The day has come and I haven’t reviewed anything. When I walked in our designated room, my blockmates were reviewing. I laughingly told them that their readings will be put to waste and there will be no quiz that’ll be happening on that day. Some continued on reading their notes while I was munching on my food that time and not minding what they’re doing. I was chatting with my friend until our professor walked in our room.
Surprisingly, I saw a plastic of bond paper (stapled bond papers, specifically photocopied, stapled bond papers). I was literally in the state of shock when suddenly he told us to scatter the chairs and stuff. Obviously, there will be a major exam that’ll happen.
During the exam, I was totally clueless on the questions on the test paper. Imagine having an enumeration type of exam in Psychology (there are so many terms in Psychology, FYI). I only knew ‘some’ of the questions, maybe 20 to 25 percent of the questions. Almost all of my answers are guesses. And the sad part is the exam was good for a hundred points.
After the exam, I was still shocked. I can’t imagine that I didn’t believe what my friends told me. I should’ve listened to them and reviewed instead of wasting my time on nonsense stuff. Only then did I realize that there’s no harm in listening to others, especially on academic-related. I should’ve reviewed. I should’ve read. I should’ve listened. That’s one of my regrets.
As for the result of my exam? I don’t want to talk about it.
SARMIENTO, PHILIP ANGELO T.
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Plato realizes that the general run of humankind can think, and speak without (so far as they acknowledge) any awareness of his realm of Forms. Greek philosopher Plato uses the allegory of the cave in his work to illustrate "our nature in its education and wants education".
I experience allegory of the cave when I was young, maybe I was only 8 years old back then, my mom and I were eating while watching television and then I ask for water so she gets water in the refrigerator. While she was away, I felt something cold in my shoulder but I thought it was my mom so I looked at my shoulder but I don't saw anything and my mom is still in the kitchen. I was really scared back then and I ran to the kitchen and told my mom what happened to me but she didn't believe me. She just laughed and told that I was only imagining things like that. I told her everything but still she refuses to believe me. So I moved on and thought that it was only my imagination.
That was my personal experience of the allegory of the cave.
Villanueva, Rommel C. Jr.
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The Allegory of the Cave is, in my interpretation, a journey from a point of assurance of reality to a point where you realize that things may not be as you know them. This quote from Clarence Darrow sums up my personal experience, “I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.“
Everything started when I was in my 4th year of high school, up until that point I was probably what people would call an average Catholic student. I used to thank God every morning when I woke up and prayed before I went to bed. But one day I came across a discussion in an internet forum that I regularly frequent (it’s the forum for Mangafox if anyone is curious.), it was a discussion about the beginning of the universe itself. It was from there that I first discovered that people who didn’t believe a "God" or a supernatural force existed. At first I was antagonizing the views of those that didn’t believe the universe was created by a higher being, but slowly my mind was being opened to new possibilities. I started to think whether or not I or anyone else knows anything about God at all, which is when I became an Agnostic Catholic. I then started going to bed with mixed thoughts; I was even annoyed at myself for doubting the existence of God. Until came a time, a few months after that first seed was planted in my thoughts, when I accepted the notion that maybe there is no God. So I started living my life believing that there is no God, I effectively became an Atheist which is my first experience of the Allegory of the Cave.
But like all pursuit of knowledge, it is foolish to assume that what you think you know is the truth. And so begins my second Allegory of the Cave. I started browsing through many forums, reading numerous articles, and pondering long and hard about my beliefs. After a while I eventually started forming new opinions on the matter. I started realizing that although every theistic claim of a God is bound by what those who claim them can conceive and is ultimately insufficient to account for the existence of one; it does not necessarily mean that one does not exist. But in the same vein, since any attempt at proving such a being would, and has, proved fruitless then there is no real reason to believe in such. And with that though in mind, I stopped believing that a God doesn’t exist, instead I simply withheld any belief in a God. This is to say I make no positive claim that a God doesn’t exist, but instead chose to simply not believe in its existence for it is ultimately unknowable in our current state.
At that point I became Agnostic once more, but not on the thought that I know nothing about God but on the thought that I will never know anything about a God. And since I have no belief in a Deity I am effectively an Agnostic Atheist.
I am often asked the question “Aren’t you afraid that if you’re wrong you will go to hell?” And in my mind this quote from Marcus Aurelius sums my thoughts on the matter, "Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones."
In the end I believe that I will never stop questioning, and I am only walking a path that will lead me to another ‘Allegory of the Cave’.
PULIDO, ALJOEBELL C.
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My personal experience of the Allegory of the Cave when I was a child, I thought that the moon is following me. I wondered why so i asked my mom about it. She said it was God, serving as a light and guiding meat night. But now I realized that it was just a moon. It came to my senses that my mom just said that when I was young cause I wouldn't understand what the moon really is.
Dela Cruz, Jan Nikko D.
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The Allegory of the Cave for me is simply "to see is to believe".
One of my personal experience of this was when one of our friend died. That day they told me that our friend is in the verge of death at the hospital but i didn't believe them cause he's very healthy the last time i saw him and i thought it's just a very bad joke. I didn't worry too much about that message.
Days after, they told me this time that he's already gone but i didn't also believe them until i came to see for myself.
Cheng,Emil Ralph S.
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Simile of the cave is somewhat knowing the truth yet the people around you doesn't believe in you.
I experience it when I was a kid, I told all my friend that I have a bother that is studying at Hope Christian High School, by the way I took my elementary at St. Stephen's high school. there was a bully that bullies us and I told him, that I will tell it to my brother so that he will avenge me. then I realized it is just a waste of time. If I tell it to my brother, so I never told him. that bully became a friend of mine and he visit my house he saw my brother and he realized that I was telling the truth the whole time.
Cusi, Rendon M.
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The Allegory of the cave for me is the people didn't believe unless they see it.
When i was a child, me and my family went to our Cousin in south bay (Parañaque) we're we stay and eat for dinner. after we finish our dinner i went outside to buy some drinks then i encounter a man who crossed the street and asked me about her family, Im shocked because i didn't know him. i went home after i meet the weird guy, i asked my family if they know a guy roaming around the village but they say none/no. then after that my family ignored me, doesn't believe me.
days after, i asked the guard if they see the guy went out in the village they say no one went out in the village.
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My own allegory of the cave story
My allegory of the cave story is when I was age of 13 yrs old of age. In our barangay in Nueva Ecija there a story about the big snake living in mountain in our barangay. They said that this snake is big like a half of an electric post. And many said this snake is guarding a treasure in that mountain. I asked my brother if this snake is true and he said that this is only a “kwentong barbero”. After that I never thought it again. 1 year later and my age are 14 years old me and my friends go in that mountain and have a camping in two nights. When we got there we need to find a wood to use for our cooking. We go in the place where the big snake is living. When we gathered a wood my friend sat down in a big dry wood. I see him and I recognize that the wood he sat down is wet and I said it to him then he goes up. But after a second he shouted and said there a snake. He point the wood that he use to sat down and I see it was the snake that in the story to our barangay. But the snake is not moving and the eye of snake is color red because of aging. We ran faster than we can and tell our other friends that we see the big snake. We go back to the place we saw the snake and it still there. We decided to go home for our safety. When I got home I told my brother about we saw and he said I’m just freaking myself.
Labalan,Jose Carlo Luis B.
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In my life I have also experienced the allegory of the cave. When both me and my cousin was little we watch a lot of movies like “Dragon Ball Z” “Mask Rider Black” etc. We always do whatever we’ve watched in the movies, thinking that we can also do what they can do, and that they do really exist because of seeing them in the television. I can say that the movies we watched are the shadows in allegory of the cave.
After for a while when we were growing we still believe that the movies we watched do really happened. But there was a time when I have been in an accident in a bike doing what I saw in the movie. My mom asked me that why did you try to do a stunt like that. I told her because I can also do it because in the movie and they can do it. Well I am still a child not knowing what reality and what is fiction. My mom told me that not all we watched in a movie is real. After hearing what my mom told me. That made me think and opened my mind that not all the things we watched in the television is real.
Now I have realized that not all the things we watched in the television is real. I try to talk with my cousin who still believes in all we have watched. I told him that not all that is real and we do not do the things they do. He laugh at me and told me that “no your wrong couz”. He does not want to believe me no matter what I tell him. Nothing would change his mind. I can compare to the allegory of the cave because no matter what you say to him and if that’s what he see. That’s the only thing that he will be believing. Because of that’s what he seen.
Soriano, Kristian K.
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My own experience of the allegory of the cave is when I was a child and I'm vacation to my cousins house in Cavite. I suddenly woke up in the middle of the night and I went to the wash room. When I'm going back to my cousins room the other room was open and no one is sleeping there and I saw a lady outside the window floating. I was shocked. I ran back to my cousins room and I close my eyes until I was able to sleep again. The next morning when I told that to my cousins they don't believe they said I was just imagining things.
Bocala, Edmund D.
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Allegory of the cave to me is being in the chains and seeing only the shadows of the truth. The allegory of the cave is usually happening when we are young and when our mind is only focused in finishing our activities so we can play or anything else. When I was on grade school, and the subject is mathematics I only prefer to know the basic method in solving the problem. I don't want to explore anymore. I'm satisfied with what I know and don't care anymore in any other ways of solving one problem. But now I've changed. I tend to get all the possible methods that I can to solve one problem, for I know what help I can get whenever I encountered one and how it can help me to quickly understand how it goes.
Magnaye, Angelica Gaia C.
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My interpretation of the Allegory of the Cave is taking risks and going outside our comfort zones. Admitting that some of the things that we know and believe are not true.
During high school, I am certain to take fine arts major in advertising in UST once I go to college. I thought that it would suit my abilities and passion best. Even if my parents are against it because they want me to take science courses, I still pursue what I want. I believed that I would excel in that field. Way back in highschool, my batchmates and friends would always tell me that fine arts is the best course for me.
I started my college life thinking that it would be easy, since all my life, arts and design for me is just a piece of cake. As time goes by, I realized that it is not what I expected. Everything was hard, I don't excel at all. In fact, all my works really sucked. The thought that I would excel and be better than the rest? There's no such thing. Their works are way way better than mine. That is one of the reason why I lost interest. When I decided to shift and transfer school, my parents didn't agree at first. They told me that it's what I wanted, that I should not waste time. But what can I do? My skills are not enough for me to pass fine arts. It's not as easy as I thought. I am not as good as I thought. Though it's such a waste of time, I still transferred here at FEU EAC. With the hope that this this time, this will be what I really want. I took risks and sacrificed some time. And thankfully, I'm enjoying digital arts better. I also discovered that there are other things I'm good at.
My so called Allegory of the Cave started when I was still grade 6. I was 11 years old then studying in Sacred heart school ateneo de cebu. My room was on the 8th floor of the science building. On that 8th floor, many of my clasmates told me that the room beside our Faculty room was haunted. The room was never used for over more than 24 years. It was said to be the home of the girl who killed her self. I never believed them till the day I was alone in the 8th floor around 7pm. I saw the girl with my two eyes, at first I never believe that ghosts are really true. I was so scared and amazed of what I saw. I ran towards the corridor and ran down to the stairs until I reach the guardhouse. Then the guard asked why I am so scared, then I told him what I saw. He didn't believed me, he just told me that ghosts are not real and they are just imagination on our minds. I also told my clasmates what happened, but they laughed at me. That was the part of my life that I observed what I never believed in were all true and that others also did not believe in what I said to them. For some people, to see is to believe.
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My personal experience of the Allegory of the Cave happened when I was on the grade school (grade 5). While waiting for my “sundo”, I decided to explore the whole grade 6 whole way (the grade6 hall way was separated from the other level hallway). While I passed a classroom I sighted a lone girl sitting. .. I pretended that I did not see her… While I was going down a guard see me and he asked me what are you doing here its already 6:30… then I said I just passed a project to my teacher… I told him that there is a girl in the in the 6-U (the room where I saw the girl)… I accompany the guard to the room where I saw the girl sitting and suddenly the girl loss so the Guard didn’t believe in me .. ^^
>:))
Cabatin, Peter John B.
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Plato taught that the real world is consisted of universal ideas. The world that people actually see is given form by these ideas and is thus less real because it is always changing, but the ideas are eternal and unchangeable.
In the allegory of the cave they don’t believe that there is an existence of a real world. They believe that everything what they see are just illusion of their minds. Everything in this world may seem real for you but in others it may not, like what I’ve experienced when I was young. I always joined my cousins when they are watching cartoons or anime like superman, batman, dragon balls and etc. At that time I actually believe that someday there would be a superhero who will save the universe from the disaster and I believe that superhero would be me. A superhero that has the ability to fly, to be invisible, to be strong and especially to be idolizes by the people. I believe that someday when I will awake I have the ability to fly, to be invisible and to be strong and to do all the things that the superhero can do but when I start telling it to my cousins that someday I will have the power to become a superhero that I will save and protect the universe from the disaster, bring all of them to the moon with my own powers, to guide them and to protect them to those who will hurt them all of them have the same reaction after hearing it all of them are just laughing at me and say hey! stop dreaming. I was lose hope that time but I still continued to believe that someday I would become a superhero but not nowadays sir.:)