Mythological Love vs. Biblical Love
The love that is portrayed in the Greek and Roman myths consists of someone getting hit by Cupid or Venus, they chase each other, may or may not fall in love and the grand finale is that one or more of them turn into a tree or, occasionally, a cow. It is sad that the only concrete part of the story is the part of someone turning into something unnatural. The “falling in love” part is sketchy and more than often it is just a fleeting affair. Making it even more depressing, this love is rarely from the heart. It is either created from an arrow shot by a naked baby from a pink bow or this “love” is from Venus, the goddess of love and sexuality, who can’t even remain loyal to her own husband. Love in the Greek and Roman myths does not match up to the self sacrificing, true love that is portrayed in the Bible.
Mythological love is often portrayed in stories, or myths, often involving Venus and her loyal sidekick son, Cupid. The terrible twosome reek havoc in the heart of a god or goddess and an innocent bystander. An example of this sham, mythological love is the story of Apollo and Daphne. In the story, Apollo is chasing after Daphne and not once did the story say anything but that Apollo wanted her for her looks. Never once did it mention him loving her for her character. Wanting someone like that is not love, that is lust. The dictionary definition of “lust” is “To have a sexual urge.” The dictionary definition of “love” is “to hold dear; cherish.” The “love” that is shown in Apollo and Daphne does not match up to the dictionary definition, much less Biblical love.
In the Bible, there are many examples of what true love should look like. In Ephesians 5 it says, “However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.” The love portrayed in the Bible demands all of you and it is never easy. That is how it is true love. If someone is willing to give all of that for one person, they must think that person is worth all the trouble. True love is loving someone as you would want to be loved; treating someone as you would like to be treated; putting someone and their concerns before you.True love is all about self-sacrifice and being willing to give all of you to love this person. In Song of Songs it says, “My lover is mine and I am his...” To truly love someone, you give yourself up for this person, you would be willing to do anything for your lover. The Biblical definition of love is similar to the dictionary definition. In both of them you must cherish the person you love and put their needs first. Biblical love is never easy but it is true love.
Both the myth and the Bible portray love in different ways, but only one can be the true love. In mythological love, the “love” shown is more like lust. In the story of Apollo and Daphne, it said that, “Apollo loved her and longed to obtain her...”(pg. 24) Not only did her “long to obtain her” but “ ... her saw her lips, and was not satisfied with only seeing them.” (pg.24) Apollo was not loving Daphne, he was lusting after her. The punishment for this kind of behavior in Biblical times would have been severe. In the story of David, he committed adultery with another man’s wife, and the child they had died. If you looked at a woman lustfully you had already committed adultery and the punishment for adultery was death, “...both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.” The Bible says that you are to love someone as you would like to be loved; self-sacrifice. The theme of self-sacrifice in love is very strong throughout the entire Bible. Some people may think that this does not apply as much to the romantic love being discussed, but it applies even more so to romantic love. The only way to have a good, strong, romantic relationship with someone is to care about what they think and to put their needs before your own. In Apollo and Daphne, Apollo thought “ ... whatever was hidden from view he imagined more beautiful still. (pg.24)” and even when she was running away from him, he still chased after her not caring that she did not love him and was running away in fear! He did not care about her feelings, only about his lustful longings toward her. In the Bible, God made the ultimate sacrifice by dying on the cross to save our sins and, once again, this principle of self-sacrificing comes up again. Even though that sacrifice is not romantic, it can, and needs, to be applied to a romantic relationship. The Bible does not have the false goddess of sexuality, which is basically lust, but has a real God who knows how to love and is love.
Mythological “love” is not love at all, but is nothing but a self-seeking lust.The Bible love is the actual, real, self-sacrificing love. As it is so gracefully put in the Bible “Love never fails.” 1 Corinthians: 13.
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Hot Wheels Lab Report
Hot Wheels Lab
Author: Shannon K. Smith
Team Members: D. Block ASPC Class
Date of Experiment: November 12, 2010
Date Report Submitted: December 13, 2010
Class: Accelerated Studies in Physics and Chemistry, D Block
Mr. Mays, Instructor
Purpose Statement
The purpose of this experiment was to predict the velocity of the car between the gates. A Hot Wheels car was used.
Background
The theory that was used for this experiment was the Law of Conservation of Energy. The Law of Conservation of Energy states that “Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, only changed in form.” The theory, the Law of Conservation of Energy, was Ekf = Egi - Egf, where Egi is the initial gravitational potential energy, Eki is the initial kinetic energy but is not shown because there was no initial kinetic energy, Egf is the final gravitational potential energy, and Ekf is the final kinetic energy. The gravitational potential energy equation is mgh, with m as the mass, g as the gravity on Earth, 9.80 m/s, and h as the height. The kinetic energy equation used was 1/2 mv², with m as the mass, and v as the velocity. To discover the predicted values the equation v = the square root of 2Ek/m was used with v being the velocity, Ek being the kinetic energy and m being the mass. To find the experimental values the equation v = d/t was used with v being the velocity, d being the distance between the gates and t being the time.
The instructor had set up the Hot Wheels track and the gates beforehand. The team members leveled the track and measured the height of the track at the top and the bottom. The team measured the length of the track, the distance between the gates and weighed the Hot Wheels car. The car was rolled down the track and the times were recorded.
The hypothesis of this experiment was that the Law of Conservation of Energy would be confirmed.
Experimental Procedure
The following equipment was used in this experiment:
carpenters level (1)
Hot Wheels car (1)
electronic stop clock, Daedalon (1)
meter stick (1)
laser photo gates, Daedalon(2)
support stand (1)
Hot Wheels track (1)
data collector, Xplorer GLX (1)
force sensor, Pasco PS2104 (1)
Flinn digital balance (1)
The instructor had previously set up the Hot Wheels track. The team checked to make sure the track was level with a carpenters level. The team members measured the height of the top of the track and the bottom of the track with the meter stick. The length of the track was measured with a tape measure and the car was weighed on the Flinn digital balance. While measuring, all team members were careful to avoid parallax error. The Hot Wheels car we used was an Aston Martin. The car was placed at the top of the track and was carefully aligned so that it would not bump into the sides of the track. The car was released and the time it took to go from one gate to another was measured. This was repeated until the team had four runs where it did not bump into the track sides. In this experiment, friction was not taken into account.
Results
The measurements and the run times are shown in the tables below.
Table 1. Measurements.
initial height final height car mass distance between gates track length
24.4 cm. 1.6 cm. 35.33 g. 10.1 cm. 30 in.
24.4 cm. 1.6 cm. NA 10.15 cm. NA
24.4 cm. 1.6 cm. NA 10.25 cm. NA
Since the scale used to weigh the car was so accurate, it was not necessary to weigh it three times. For the purpose of this experiment, for the distance between the gates, 10.15 cm. was used.
The four car runs are presented in the table below.
Table 2. Car runs.
Times
Run 1 .0487 s.
Run 2 .0491 s.
Run 3 .053 s.
Run 4 .0486 s.
Discussion
For the predicted value the team got 2.10 m/s and for the experimental value the average of all four was taken and the team got 2.04 m/s. The team hypothesis was that the Law of Conservation of Energy would be confirmed. The hypothesis was confirmed because at the beginning at the top of the track the car had gravitational potential energy and at the end at the bottom of the track all of the gravitational potential energy had been transferred into kinetic energy. The car was not moving at the top but had gravitational potential energy because it was up in the air. It rolled down the track losing the gravitational potential energy but gaining kinetic energy because it was moving.
The equation to calculate the experimental error was |predicted value - experimental value| / predicted value × 100% The experimental error in this experiment was 2.86%. The possible sources of error were few. The team was careful to avoid parallax error. The team measured everything three times or the instrument used to measure was accurate enough to not need to measure multiple times. Human error was avoided by measuring everything three times. The main possible source of error was an equipment malfunction. The scale used to weigh the car could have been wrong or have had a broken part that caused it to read the weigh wrong. The timer could have not stopped at the right time or started at the right time.
Conclusion
The conclusion of this experiment is that the hypothesis of the Law of Conservation of Energy being confirmed, was confirmed. The Law of Conservation of Energy was confirmed in this experiment. There was very little room for error so the conclusion is definitive.
References
The Student Lab Report Handbook, 2nd ed. (Novare Science and Math: 2010)
Author: Shannon K. Smith
Team Members: D. Block ASPC Class
Date of Experiment: November 12, 2010
Date Report Submitted: December 13, 2010
Class: Accelerated Studies in Physics and Chemistry, D Block
Mr. Mays, Instructor
Purpose Statement
The purpose of this experiment was to predict the velocity of the car between the gates. A Hot Wheels car was used.
Background
The theory that was used for this experiment was the Law of Conservation of Energy. The Law of Conservation of Energy states that “Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, only changed in form.” The theory, the Law of Conservation of Energy, was Ekf = Egi - Egf, where Egi is the initial gravitational potential energy, Eki is the initial kinetic energy but is not shown because there was no initial kinetic energy, Egf is the final gravitational potential energy, and Ekf is the final kinetic energy. The gravitational potential energy equation is mgh, with m as the mass, g as the gravity on Earth, 9.80 m/s, and h as the height. The kinetic energy equation used was 1/2 mv², with m as the mass, and v as the velocity. To discover the predicted values the equation v = the square root of 2Ek/m was used with v being the velocity, Ek being the kinetic energy and m being the mass. To find the experimental values the equation v = d/t was used with v being the velocity, d being the distance between the gates and t being the time.
The instructor had set up the Hot Wheels track and the gates beforehand. The team members leveled the track and measured the height of the track at the top and the bottom. The team measured the length of the track, the distance between the gates and weighed the Hot Wheels car. The car was rolled down the track and the times were recorded.
The hypothesis of this experiment was that the Law of Conservation of Energy would be confirmed.
Experimental Procedure
The following equipment was used in this experiment:
carpenters level (1)
Hot Wheels car (1)
electronic stop clock, Daedalon (1)
meter stick (1)
laser photo gates, Daedalon(2)
support stand (1)
Hot Wheels track (1)
data collector, Xplorer GLX (1)
force sensor, Pasco PS2104 (1)
Flinn digital balance (1)
The instructor had previously set up the Hot Wheels track. The team checked to make sure the track was level with a carpenters level. The team members measured the height of the top of the track and the bottom of the track with the meter stick. The length of the track was measured with a tape measure and the car was weighed on the Flinn digital balance. While measuring, all team members were careful to avoid parallax error. The Hot Wheels car we used was an Aston Martin. The car was placed at the top of the track and was carefully aligned so that it would not bump into the sides of the track. The car was released and the time it took to go from one gate to another was measured. This was repeated until the team had four runs where it did not bump into the track sides. In this experiment, friction was not taken into account.
Results
The measurements and the run times are shown in the tables below.
Table 1. Measurements.
initial height final height car mass distance between gates track length
24.4 cm. 1.6 cm. 35.33 g. 10.1 cm. 30 in.
24.4 cm. 1.6 cm. NA 10.15 cm. NA
24.4 cm. 1.6 cm. NA 10.25 cm. NA
Since the scale used to weigh the car was so accurate, it was not necessary to weigh it three times. For the purpose of this experiment, for the distance between the gates, 10.15 cm. was used.
The four car runs are presented in the table below.
Table 2. Car runs.
Times
Run 1 .0487 s.
Run 2 .0491 s.
Run 3 .053 s.
Run 4 .0486 s.
Discussion
For the predicted value the team got 2.10 m/s and for the experimental value the average of all four was taken and the team got 2.04 m/s. The team hypothesis was that the Law of Conservation of Energy would be confirmed. The hypothesis was confirmed because at the beginning at the top of the track the car had gravitational potential energy and at the end at the bottom of the track all of the gravitational potential energy had been transferred into kinetic energy. The car was not moving at the top but had gravitational potential energy because it was up in the air. It rolled down the track losing the gravitational potential energy but gaining kinetic energy because it was moving.
The equation to calculate the experimental error was |predicted value - experimental value| / predicted value × 100% The experimental error in this experiment was 2.86%. The possible sources of error were few. The team was careful to avoid parallax error. The team measured everything three times or the instrument used to measure was accurate enough to not need to measure multiple times. Human error was avoided by measuring everything three times. The main possible source of error was an equipment malfunction. The scale used to weigh the car could have been wrong or have had a broken part that caused it to read the weigh wrong. The timer could have not stopped at the right time or started at the right time.
Conclusion
The conclusion of this experiment is that the hypothesis of the Law of Conservation of Energy being confirmed, was confirmed. The Law of Conservation of Energy was confirmed in this experiment. There was very little room for error so the conclusion is definitive.
References
The Student Lab Report Handbook, 2nd ed. (Novare Science and Math: 2010)
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