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Mind Wanderings

A Presentation by Shannon, Christina, Kristin, and Katie

 

1) “I WANT TRUTH BACK” - Shannon

 

It’s all I ever wanted

It’s all I ever needed, Yeah…

So Tell me what to do now

Cause (I,I,I,I,I) I want Truth Back

Beginning of this semester

Trying to figure out just what to do

Science & Arts combined OH NOOO!

So Anne and Paul explain it,

‘Cause Lord knows I HATE ambiguity…

I go crazy without truth.

 

CHORUS

It’s all I ever wanted

It’s all I ever needed, Yeah…

So Tell me what to do now

When I want Truth Back

 

In regards to evolution

I’ve accepted facts as “Truth” without regret

Cuz I’m a “black & white” kinda girl…

But science as a process?

Of getting things “less wrong”, I suppose.

An ongoing story & its revisions…

 

Learn that truth’s a work of fiction.

And that Science & art continue to evolve

New, useful stories are waiting to emerge.

CHORUS

 

I won’t be intimidated

I’ll relate books & science in my sleep

And summarize observations like a pro

Obscurity isn’t scary

…so you know what that means…

The Truth goes BYE, BYE, BYE!

 

 

 

 

2) “A Day in Paul Grobstein’s Past”

A Video By Christina the “AV Girl”

 

Paul: What’s a pretty girl like you doing here?

Kelly: Just chillin. Getting a tan.

Paul: Well, you better be careful. The sun gets really hot. I’ve got extra lotion if you need it. Wink.

Kelly: Whatever.

Paul: So………………. I’m Paul by the way.

Kelly: Ok.

Paul: And you are?

Kelly: I’m Kelly.

Paul: And what is it you do, Kelly? You know, like for work?

Kelly: I’m a model, if you must know.

Paul: That’s cool. I…uh….I….like models……………..um….I’m a scientist.

Kelly: Oh, that’s nice.

Paul: You know, us scientists, we make important discoveries.

Kelly: Ok.

Paul: Like we discovered that the Earth was round! People had gone for like thousands of years thinking the Earth was flat, and then scientists like me came along, and told them it was round. It was the best discovery ever. Really, we wouldn’t be sittin here like this, if we hadn’t told Columbus the world was round. Cause then he wouldn’t have discovered America.

Kelly: The earth could be flat.

Paul: Absolutely not. It is round, I tell you.

Kelly: How do you know? Let me guess, when you walk outside, you slope downward.

Paul: Uh, not really, but I still know.

Kelly: Then you’ve been in outerspace and saw that the Earth was a sphere?

Paul: Well, not exactly.

Kelly: So then you say it’s round cause someone told you it was round? It could be flat. You don’t know that it’s not flat. It feels flat to me.

Paul: Ahhhhhh….I don’t know what the truth is anymore!

Kelly: The truth is there is no truth. Truth doesn’t exist. What people must do is to get things less wrong. If you do that, you’ll become a great scientist.

Paul: That’s it! Thank you for your wisdom. I leave here forever a changed man. I’ve learned so much. Maybe I should teach a course about it…

 

3) “Dear Diary” – Kristin

Dear Diary,

 

This class is making my brain hurt like WOAH! At least I’m having a good hair day… but REALLY, Grobstein is completely off his rocker! I mean, reality?? Sooo simple! In reality, that bag is SO last season, and those shoes – SUPER CUTE! No, but seriously, what if he’s right? What if reality really doesn’t exist? What if everyone’s reality is totally different? Maybe in her reality, stripes and plaids match – because in mine they DEF don’t! What if the world doesn’t actually revolve around me??... NAH, Obvi not true… And truth? What if there ISN”T such a thing as truth? What if everything we’ve ever been taught is just a story—not fact, not fiction, just a good story. Is there even a section in Barnes and Noble for that? OMG the world could be flat! The South Beach Diet could be a total HOAX! Wait – does this mean that all those question I got wrong on the chemistry test are actually right?? Somehow I feel like that won’t really fly…

 

Anyways, Diary… class is over so I GTG

LYLAS,

 

Kristin

 

 

 

 

4) You Killed Truth

A Photo Journal by: Persephone, Princess of Darkness

 

What is truth?

Absolute?

Relative?

Knowledge?

Light?

Darkness?

Love?

Beauty?

Sex?

A Childhood Fantasy?

Life?

Death?

Truth was a flower.

It grew in nature.

It was always in bloom…

…but just out of reach.

I loved truth.

It made me happy.

Then Paul took truth…

…and destroyed it.

Now truth is dead
& I am sad.