Samantha Wardell

Journal 2 (May 26)

Introduction into Sacredness
Questions: What questions do you consider about man kind? Should you take into account
other peoples views on mankind?
Do you ever wonder where we came from? Why were we put on this Earth and what our
purpose is? How the Earth was even made and where did IT come from? What happens when we
die? I personally dont like to think about any of these questions because there are so many
different hypothesiss about is, so many stories, so many tales, and at the end of the day, I dont
know what to believe. I wish I had the answers to these questions, or I wish there werent so
many different stories to go off of, but I guess that is what makes all these stories so important to
learn and understand. No one can ever really know the answer to all these questions so the more
stories I hear, means there are more possibilities, and even though it drives me nuts not knowing
what to believe, it gives me hope.
It gives me hope to hear all these different stories on how this Earth was created, how we
were created, and where we will be when we die. The best part of all the stories I hear, is that we
do go somewhere when we die, and we arent just gone. I am not part of any religion, so I am
really open to ideas from all religions, and that is really cool because I can pick pieces from
different stories from different religions and believe some parts of each story and put them
together in my own story and disregard the stuff that I dont seem to believe all the way. I really
liked the story, Theogony & Cosmogony (Allen, 2013, p. 808) about mother earth and father sky
creating the ocean, sky, rain, mountains, plants, etc., but I choose to disregard the gods that they
say were made by these two things. I also like the Genesis Story (Allen, 2013, p.810) and how it

describes God creating Adam and how Eve was made from Adam, and the twos task is to bear
fruit and be many (Allen, 2013, p.812), but I dont really care for the part about them eating
from the the Tree of Knowing of Good and Evil (Allen, 2013, p.812). Its nice to know a little
from all the stories and put them into my own. And I think that is okay, because honestly, no one
really knows the answers to these questions. These kind of stories are interesting, but it frustrates
me when I thinking about it, because I just want the for sure facts and the answers to these
questions, but hopefully I will have the answers one day.

Sources
Allen, Paul, Jennifer Bauman. It Begins With Our Questions: A Thematic Introduction to
the Humanities. SLCC Edition ed. Plymouth: Hayden-McNeil, 2013. 1160. Print.