Monday, January 26, 2009

One of the topics I looked into for my research paper was religion. At first I focused on the broad spectrum of theology, all different kinds of religion modern, ancient, even cults. I then I began to single out specific research topics. I could focus on the evolution of beliefs and research where most religions have their origins. If I focus on evolution of religion, or faith I would have to boil it down and try to focus on a single religion’s historic timeline rather than a broad overview of theology. Another religious Interest of mine is the modern religions like Wicca and Satanism, and of course Scientology do they have roots in old forgotten religions and mythology? Or are they made up all together?



Why exactly do we feel the way we do? This is how I began when thinking about my next topic of interest. How people think or feel while they’re listening to, or creating music? This has always been an enigma to me. In fact, how or why we as human beings feel, or react to any situation in general intrigues me but this being much too broad a topic I decided to take a more focused approach. Being a music lover, of all sorts, from hard rock, to avant-garde, to classical I figured this would be a perfect topic. Also I realized throughout my life that certain songs help me focus better, while others fill me with anger, sadness, joy etc. So how exactly does music influence our human emotions? Furthermore what about other animals emotions?



And finally the last topic I actually branched for m the broad focus of my last topic. Why exactly do we feel the way we do? This time I was curious as to how someone’s mood affects creativity, be it a strong viscous emotion, or a subtle one such as being bored. Sometimes I feel like destroying something so I take it out on pencil and paper. Sometimes I want someone to feel how I feel so I spell out a real nice message for them, on a canvas. It all depends on how I feel and It must be the same for everyone be it a sculptor, a painter, a dancer, a musician, or even a janitor… hey maintenance can be an art form, I mean can’t anything these days?

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