January+10

=World Cultures Daily Round Up for (date)=

Scribed by:matt, Heather, Kirste,Colter, Alyssa, Lauren, the pat man <('.'<),BRADEN, Brittani, Mandy,Zach Activities for today we listen to Mr Niffer talk to us about the poo book. He showed us another picture of something he wants. A ipod thats a phone song of the day:Dont Leave Me This Way by: Thelma Houston Picture of the day: iphone (Mr. Neiffer wants one of these!) took notes on Daoism?.... AWESOME > Concepts covered in class with brief summary > > > We don't know when he died... > Was he Confucius' teacher?? Confucianism and Daoism are very similar > 1. Dao (Tao) is the first cause of the universe. It is a force that flows through all life > 2. A believer's goal is to become one with Dao (one with nature) > 3. Wu wei --> "Let nature take its course" > "The art of doing nothing" > "Go with the flow" > 4. Man is unhappy because he lives according to man-made laws, customs, nad traditions that are contrary to the ways of nature. > Mr Neiffer shode us an iphone that he wants.
 * Describe acitivies for class
 * We talked about Without a Paddle
 * Daoism
 * Not sure when Lao Zi (founder of Daoism)died.
 * Lao Zi means "old master"
 * To become a Daoist you need to : reject formal knowledge and learning, rely on your instincts, work on discovering the "rythm" of the universe, and ignore the political and social laws of society! ......sign me up!
 * Yin Yang
 * We talked alot more about Confucious and Daoism and how some poeple think that Lao Zi was Confucious' teacher.
 * Daoists beleive that this is a world of opposites and everything is balanced
 * the Dao De Jing is the basic text of Daoism
 * The uniqueness of Taoism
 * We talked about the art of doing nothing. ( which by the way I have mastered! )
 * The study that Daoism you have to be one with nature
 * And I actually figured out the art of doing nothing today
 * We talked about the person who did make Daoism and how he was the tacher of Confucious.
 * and we talked about bad movie
 * We talked for two minutes adout Monty the card game
 * Braden got two more passes
 * Mr. Neiffer showed us the new iphone, which is pretty sweet!
 * And then he told us a story about how he is the farthest one from "THE WAY".
 * We learned what the yin means and what the yang means and how they balnance each other
 * Daoism was thought up by Lao Zi whose name means "Old Master"
 * The Dao De Jing is the basic text of Daoism
 * Major Daoist Principles
 * Describe important concepts covered in class
 * Phiilosophy of Daoism
 * Describe assignments made in class today
 * study japan and china for semester test?...SWEET!!!!
 * All scribing due by 10:00pm on Thursday
 * Here is where you put facts, websites or other information that relates to concepts discussed in class
 * Miss Tuss watched Neiffer again
 * Yin is feminin, Earth:moon, weak and Yang is masculan, Heavens:Sun, strong
 * yin = feminine, passive, darkness, cold, weak, earth, moon
 * yang = masculine,active,light, warmth, strong, heaven, sun
 * we talked about what we would have to do to convert to Daoism
 * [[image:http://nrich.maths.org/content/id/2912/yinyang.gif]]this is the yin yang sign!!
 * [[image:http://21talks.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/03/apple_iphone.jpg]]This is the phone that Mr. Neiffer wants.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/taoism.htm http://www.beliefnet.com/story/80/story_8059_1.html http://www.yakrider.com/Tao/Taoism_Daoism.htm http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/taoism.html

the yin yang sign has a feminine and masculin side