Blog 2

In Plato's Allergory of the cave he protades people as prisoners. These people are in chains from head to toe. They are down in a cave where they don't receive any light from the outside. The only images that they see, is the shadows that are being provide to them from thhe people that keeping them inslaved.There's a fire place behind them to help the shadows to be seen. These prisoners are not aware of their bondoge ,to them this is the reality.Prisoners who have been in this predictment sent birth, so this is what they know. One day a prisoner's is let free. At first he doesn't know what's going on, and his scaried as hell and don't know what to do. Now his outside, first the sun light begans to blind him . Right at that moment he gets the reveration that he was enslave all of his life. Then he desides to go back and tell the other prisoners. When he goes and tells them,they dont believe him. They think that his out of his mind, and even he begins to appear creepy to them.This allegory to me is the story behind the Christian religion. For instance how christan believe that we are in darkness here on earth and our light is God. When Christians find themselves within Christ they want to go back and tell the others about their experience, for they can began to break free from the chains. However they have to want to break free themselves.You can bring a person to the water, but you can't drink it for them.
Another metaphor for this story is education. By gaining knowledge,we evenually escape from the chains. Our educators were imprisoners, they broke free and then they felt the desire to come back and give us the messages.And it is still our choice to listen. Do we want to be igonant? Can we just seattlle for the images that are shown on television,or do we actually want to know the truth.