Goal: Reflect on and apply personal connections to the text
In the novel, Jonas and his community experience "stirrings" at the age of 11 or 12. After they have reported this, they are required begin taking pills to subside and prevent these stirrings from occurring. What is “stirrings” a euphemism for and do you think that the lack of this inhibits true emotional connection in the community? Explain. Do you believe that without these feelings true love can exist? Why or why not?
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The stirrings are what we would call puberty (even though you already knew that, it was part of the question) and I think it causes people to connect more slowly. It does not limit the capabilities of relationships, as they are based upon personalities and preferences. Why would you love someone that you don't like? True love can exist in their community, but love at first sight cannot. The rate of relationship growth in their society could cause them to stop commiting to a relationship, but it makes them more aware of the person on the opposite end of the realationship. They'd get to know them better, instead of just "No, I'm not tired." Also, without all the physical attraction, there wouldn't be things like PMS and STD's and, if I may have your permission to say this, no more "Whoops! I had another baby!" I actually think a better question would be if our society stresses physical appearance too much. For some people, they don't go outside untill they've spent at least half an hour working on their hair or something like that; I myself would be playing basketball in the driveway waiting for them. In the giver, they don't even need mirrors, which shows alot. People judge others based on what they wear or how they look, which, in my opinion, shouldn't matter. In some cases, I agree with taking the pills, but I feel that it leaves some of the experiences people could, well, experience out of their memories. Even further, it keeps people from having children, making them assign people to produce babies. Again, I'm straying too far from the question, but the point is that the pills both do and do not (I really couldn't decide) affect the extent of a relationship. Still, I don't think it should be my decision that makes the difference.
ReplyDeleteIn the novel the giver Im going to tell you what stirrings are and if true love can exist in our world without it. First of all stirrings are sexual emotions towards another person that someone likes. This stage of life happens when puberty takes place. An example of this is in the story Jonas wants to wash some girl in the bath tub. I think the world still could remain having true love. I support this because love is all in the head and even if you did take these pills you can still love somebody because its your choice. This pill is good in a good way also because you can still have love, but with these pills it can help prevent STD's. Also I disagree on my statement that true love can exist because without these emotions you wouldnt be as close to your lover if you had no emotions. Like you may hang out with different people if you had no emotions. That is what a stirring is and also if true love can exist with no emotions.
ReplyDeleteIn chapter five, Jonas experiences his first “stirrings”, and he has to take pills to stop these thoughts or feelings from occurring. I think the word “stirrings” is a euphemism for sexual feelings or a physical attraction towards someone, so he is probably going through puberty. I feel that when you take the pills to stop the stirrings, it inhibits these kinds of connections within the community. This is so because then no one feels true love towards any one person in the community, due to the lack of attraction towards people. Although you could still love someone, you lose a connection of intimacy towards that person, therefore not being totally in love with someone. Furthermore I believe that true love can still exist, even without these feelings of intimacy. For example, you could love someone based on similarities in personality, interests and character traits. Also, taking these pills could help the community by lowering teen pregnancy rates, STD’s, and the number of divorces within the community. In contrast to this though, you still lose the love connections that you may need to obtain a happy relationship. That is my answer about “stirrings” and how stopping them affects a relationship with someone.
ReplyDeleteStirrings just are a euphemism for sexual feelings toward another person, or puberty. By taking the pill, the community is ensuring that no one falls in love instantly. This way, they can go about their lives without thinking about anything but the task that is at hand. But because they are all on the pill, there is no true love. This is because I think true love is a mix of personal tastes, thoughts, characteristics, and also appearance. Yes, you have to like a person’s personality before you can love them. But how can you truly love anyone when there is no physical attraction? These feelings will never be felt for anyone in the community as long as they are all on the pill. This also means that the feelings of true love will never be felt, even after a woman and a man have been paired together. There will always be feelings of attachment, but they will never be strong feelings. True, the pill would cut down on STD’s and other sexually transmitted diseases. Also, teen pregnancy would no longer happen because of the lack of attraction to anyone. They would all be fine not loving anyone until they were paired with a spouse. Even then, they would never be truly in love. Just a BFUWASTTHOTO (Best Friend Until We Are Sent To The House Of The Old). In my mind, these people can never experience what we call love when taking the pill. They can only experience close friendships.
ReplyDeleteIn The Giver Jonas experiences his first stirring, and even though he likes the feeling he is told to take pills to rid them. Stirrings are like physical attractions, or sexual feelings. I believe those feelings are a big part of a real relationship. In my mind love is a mixture of interests, thoughts, and physical attractions. The people are told to take the pills, which stops them from having stirrings. The people only have one dream then, which means they don’t really know what it’s really like to experience those feelings. So in my point of view I think the kind of love that they know, and are used too is good enough for them, because they hardly know another way of love. In the book, the people are paired with others that they are supposed to marry. They pair the people with other people that have the same interests and that get along well. I don’t think the people of the community would not experience love with their spouse, it would just be a different love than we are used to. The lack of intimacy would be gone in these relationships, which would leave them with just close friends. So to answer your question yes, I think love can exist when taking the pills. It would just be a different kind of love than the people in our community experience with their spouses.
ReplyDeleteIn the previous chapters that we have read, Jonas experiences something new. He has these sexual feelings, or some call it puberty. In order to stop this, everyone in the community has to take pills to control them, and make sure they don’t have those feelings again. While taking this pill, I feel that this does make the community lack true emotional connections. No one really is going to know how he or she feels truly. I also feel that with these pills, no one in the community will ever experience true love. Part of love is being attracted to your partner. Taking these pills will not allow you to have those feelings; therefore you cannot experience love. The pills could be good or bad. They could be good because they would prevent STD’s and teen pregnancies. These pills would be bad because no one would get to experience the wonderful feeling of love!
ReplyDeleteJonas experienced stirrings in chapter 5 in the book”The Giver.” Stirrings are a euphemism for what we call puberty in our world. Everyone in the community has stirrings around the ages of 11 and 12. After they report it they start taking a pill, which helps stop these feelings from occurring. When the people in the community take these pills I do think it is stopping true emotional connection in the community. No one can truly say how they feel about somebody else. Many people believe that having people take these pills is a good thing. They can help stop teenage pregnancies, and other stuff in that general area. I think that pills are a bad thing because they stop you from having, maybe the best experience in your life, love. As I said before people can’t share how they really feel about one another. If a person likes this other person they can’t tell them through their words, or show them through their actions. Their minds would be blank from the pill, and they would never experience true love.
ReplyDeleteStirrings are when you go through the emotional and physical stage of puberty. I think the lack of emotional community would be boring because you would have the same emotions everyday so it wouldn’t be exciting. If you liked or loved someone and had to take those pills, you would never experience the real feeling of true love! True love can’t exist if nobody knows how they really feel about someone! True love is a strong feeling you get when you are in a very serious relationship with somebody. In Jonas’s community there is no meaning of true love if you get assigned to be married with someone! When you have to take the pills, you won’t get to experience true love! True love is a gift and you have to really feel it if you want to use it! There is no chance you can have true love in Jonas’s community. Jonas’s community will never know the real meaning of true love if they have to take those pills!
ReplyDeleteIn The Giver, Jonas does start to have stirrings, which I agree with Mike, is just a euphemism for sexual feelings. I also agree with Michael because, in my opinion he is right about how when you take this pill, it does inhibit those kinds of connections with the community. Then you cannot experience the intimacy, like he said. Although Mike said you couldn’t experience that feeling, he says that true love can still exist. I strongly disagree with that opinion. When you take the pill, the point of it is to eliminate any strong feelings toward someone. If you and someone else have the same similarities and interests, then you could just be good friends. In the novel, when you are partnered with someone, it means the two people would be good friends that the elders think would be able to raise two children together. They might not even be friends in the beginning, but once they get together, and share their interests, they will become better friends. But they will not have sexual feelings toward each other because of the pills. So, basically, what I’m trying to say is that while taking these pills, true love could not exist in the community.
ReplyDeleteIn The Giver, Jonas experiences his first “Stirring.” Stirring are known as puberty or certain feelings you have for a certain person. The people in The Giver experience this between ages 11 and 12. Jonas first experienced this in a dream. Now Jonas has to take pills like his parents and many people from the community. When people take these pills, they don’t have feelings for each other any more. I think the couples can still love each other without having sexual feelings for each other. They can enjoy each others personalities, qualities, and other special talents that the person who they love has. However, I don’t think it would be like husband and wife, I think the people would be very close friends. They wouldn’t experience true love like people in our society. By taking these pills, it will stop teen pregnancies and divorces. Therefore the community will be much more peaceful than ours. So, overall I believe the couples are more like close friends and can’t love each other like people in our society can.
ReplyDeleteIn the novel, Jonas experiences his first stirrings at the age of twelve. I think that stirrings are a euphemism for sexual attractions or wanting. I believe that the lack of this inhibits true emotional connection in the community in the way that couples aren’t actually in love at first because they are assigned to each other. On the other hand, though, I think that true love can exist, but only if you want it to. While taking these pills, true love can still develop. It just takes time to learn what true love really is. I think that part of the reason that their stirrings are gone after they take the pills, is that it is in their heads. They know that it is a rule to take the pills and that they get rid of the stirrings, and they might be afraid that they will be released if the stirrings aren’t gone. I believe that true love can exist depending on the people in the relationship. I think this because if two people assigned together find that they aren’t that much alike, they probably won’t like each other, and therefore, true love can not exist. If two people find that they have a lot in common, they might get along better and true love is able to exist.
ReplyDeleteIn The Giver, Jonas comes up to his first “stirrings.” Stirrings are sexual feelings or an attraction towards another person. Jonas is told to take a pill to stop these feeling, and I am undecided if I think the pill stops real relationships or love. Love is not all about sexual feelings in my opinion. Love is more about your attraction towards the other person, interests, thoughts, appearance, and if they just click. Because of that, half of me is saying that the pill does not stop people from a true relationship or true love. The other half of me is saying that the pill does stop them from true love. People should not have to take a pill to stop their feelings for another person. If you have physical attraction to someone, you’re only human. I’m sure everyone has attraction towards another person, and they shouldn’t have that connection stopped. Love is a wonderful thing in life, and with or without the pill you can have love because if its true love the pill won’t stop you from liking someone. No matter what anyone does or says they can’t stop you from being attracted to someone if it’s true love. Without the pill that attraction probably just becomes stronger and stronger. With the pill the connection probably stays the same until you stop liking them. From my thoughts, it is YOUR decision on if the pill will stop your physical attraction towards another individual.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Josh. He makes alot of good points in his reply. I completely agree with him when he says that there would be no more "Whoops I had another baby." or STD's. Because, without sexual feelings that cannot happen. I also agree with Josh when he says that they dont care about physical appearence. People in Jonas' community barely look in a mirror. Clearly, people in his community like people based off of other characteristics. I think that in out community too many people are attracted to others because of their looks, and that's it. I am not one of those people, but I think that too many people in our society do that. I think it should be based on other traits like interests thoughts, and only part of it being appearence. Like Josh, when people take the pill I cant decide weather the it keeps people from real feelings or not.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Mike. I especially agree with his interpretation of the word stirring. I agree with the comment he made about the people in the community being able to have true love, but with the absence of intimacy they are not totally in love. I also like his ideas on how the pills can help. Mike said that they can help lower the amount of STD’s, teen pregnancy rates, and number of divorces in the community. But I don’t like how he said the pills would help lower these problems, because in the community there were no teen pregnancies, STD’s, or divorces in the first place. So the pills can’t lower these problems, because they were never problems. Divorce, teen pregnancies, and STD’s didn’t exist in the community. I believe that one reason for the pill is to prevent any of the problems from entering the community. I think the community thrives on the pill, so that if one of the problems mike mentioned were to happen, they would grow into bigger problems that would ruin the community. So they should probably keep the pill so they community stays in order. Those are some of the things I agree with mike about.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Josh. Like Megan says, he makes a lot of good points in his reply. I agree with him when he says that taking these pills can cause people in their community to connect more slowly. I also agree that in their community, there wouldn’t be any problems like STD’s. This would make it a safer place. Also, I think that our society does stress physical appearance too much. Other than this, I also agree with Emma. I think that she is right when she says that you don’t need sexual feelings for each other to have true love in a relationship. I can also agree with her when she says that this would make more of a friendship rather than any kind of serious relationship. Overall, I feel that these pills can and cannot help in some way.
ReplyDeleteIn chapter five of the Giver, Jonas experiences what the book calls “stirrings.” This would be his first time having sexual experiences, or puberty. Whenever you start receiving these “stirrings,” you must take a pill to get rid of these stirrings. Then they do not have any strong emotions towards this particular person. For this reason, true love cannot exist between a male and female. Attraction is an emotion, and emotions occur in the brain, and when someone takes the pill it removes that emotion from the brain leaving them with no attraction. In the Giver, for marriage to happen, they just assign adults to live with each other. Attraction does not occur there. Sure, they are friends, but do they really love each other? If you want a couple to be married, they need to love each other, not just be some good friends. Plus, when someone gets stirrings and takes the pill, then the next night comes, who is to say that they don’t have stirrings towards someone else. If this happens, then that person will not have emotional actions towards that person, they will just forget completely about the other person. Those are just a few reasons why love cannot occur between two people when there are stirring pills in effect.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Jade."Stirrings" is another way of saying that a person is experiencing puberty. Emotionally and physically you change. Your personality changes, your attitude changes, and the way you look at life changes. I also agree with jade about the pills that the community has to take. They do stop you from feeling a certain way about people. She said that it would be boring to have the same emotions every day of our life from the pills. I think that the society would be really dull it would be like having everybody in our world eat, act and, look the same. As Jade and many others said, true love wouldn’t exist. Jade also pointed out that you can’t truly love someone, without expressing your true feelings. When people in the community are husband and wife they are just friends and the don’t have a real connection, because they take the pill, as others do in the community. They stop true love which is the most terrible thing anyone, or anything could ever do.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Abby’s response. I agree with the fact that puberty is a good substitution for the stirrings that everyone has. It is the same exact thing. I also agree when she says that stirrings are emotional feelings. They are exactly like feelings because they occur in the brain and make you have attractions toward each other. Also, she says that the pill leaves there mind blank without any attractions. It takes away the feeling towards that person. She also states that it stops the emotional attractions between two people. This is true. To love someone, you need to share common interests, arts, and personalities. This pill cuts off those things. That is why I agree with Abby’s response.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the answer that Anna said. I agree with what she said about the definition of the word stirrings. Also, I agree with how she stated that the pills control these feelings of attraction towards other people. Along with this, I agree that these pills limit true emotional connections with people throughout the community. I also agree with how no one will experience true love, but it is not impossible to have love for someone. You can still love someone without being physically attracted to them, as long as both people are compatible. I agree with how STD’s and teen pregnancies would be prevented via the pills. I disagree, though, with how she said that you can’t experience love while taking the pills. Like I said before, love can still exist as long as you find someone who you are compatible with, even with the loss of intimacy. Finally, I agree with how she said that the pills are bad because you can’t experience the feeling of true love.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Anna on this question. I believe that the euphemism for stirrings is having puberty. She also says that they have to take pills. I agree with her that the people in Jonas’s society cannot have true love due to these pills they have to take. Also, Anna says that the pills can help too. They can lower the number of teen pregnancies and divorces. However I believe the couples can still love each other for their personalities, qualities, and other special things about them. They also share parenthood and raise two children, even though the children aren’t their own they are still a family. I think of the parents as very close friends. I like our society because like Anna said we experience true love and the people in The Giver don’t. Overall I dislike these pills because the people in The Giver cannot enjoy true love.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Abby, these pills are actually taking away these peoples true emotions. By taking the pill, they can’t tell people how they actually feel about them. This in turn causes their minds, as Abby said, to just stop thinking about love. As I might add, it’s been proved that having healthy relationships with the opposite sex is a good thing for people of our age. Puberty just happens. By trying to rein it in, you’re just killing one of the best times in a teen’s life. Yes, as she also mentioned it stops diseases and teen pregnancy. From my standpoint, the pill just seems like something that is taking away just to diminish something else. They are taking away teen’s true feelings for their own good. I think that’s what Abby was also trying to say in her response to the question.
ReplyDeleteStirrings are another word for puberty. By taking a pill to get ride of stirrings I believe that it does inhibit true emotional connection at first. True emotional connection can occur if you spend a lot of time with someone. You can eventually form a connection with them. Like how Jonas’s parents were probably not in love they probably became emotionally connected to each other. I believe true love can exist, but not at first. True love has to take time to develop. Since they take the pill it will take more time than an emotional connection. I think this because even in our society it takes time for true love to occur. Even if they didn’t have the pill I would take time for TRUE love to occur.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Danielle. She is right about how true love can still occur. I also agree with her on how it takes time for true love to develop. If it didn’t take time to develop it probably wouldn’t be true love. She is right about the people in the relation ship and how they have to have things in common to fall on love. If they didn’t have things in common I probably isn’t true love. And if they do have stuff in common it will probably be true love. Just like Danielle said. I also agree with her when she said that couples in the community aren’t in love at first. Not many couple in our society falls in love at first. I think it is common for it to take time for true love to occur.
ReplyDelete"Stirrings" is a euphemism for physical attraction towards someone else or sexual arousal, the starting stages of puberty. I still think that love and true connections in the community can still exist. Because their world is different from ours, their forms of love and connections might be different. Love at first sight may not be the case. The citizens build on arranged relationships. They know that they cannot change a decision or an arrangement by the community. When faced with this, they put their best foot forward and a positive attitude towards the relationship. Getting to know the other person with a positive attitude does make all those little connections come out. Those connections are just different from the ones of our society.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Megan. I think that sexual intimacy should have nothing to do with love. If you connect with a person through interests, thoughts, or even deeper recognitions, then it is possible to "love" someone in Jonas's community. I also think that it is truly natural to feel physically attracted to someone. I understand that the community was only trying to make things better. A part of me also thinks that though you can have different forms of connections without the pill, you still need that natural feel. As Megan said, love is a wonderful thing in life. Having the pill or not is not going to stop true love.
ReplyDelete“Stirrings” are sexual feelings, or as most people have put it, puberty. I do believe that the pill they take to stop these stirrings inhibits true love. Without true love in the community, you can not express your feelings to another person. If you can’t do this, you can’t truly be in love with someone. If you don’t have love in a relationship, then what do you have? Yes, you may be friends, but you might not be with the right person. Without the pills for the stirrings, you would definitely know if you were in love with someone, no settling needed. When you’re in love, you know you’re in love. Without the love, what is there to look forward to? Every day you go home to the same person. Wouldn’t you want it to be with someone you chose yourself, by the feelings you have? Yes, in their community you can always decide you do not like the person you have been put with, but that doesn’t mean that you will find someone better! Without being able to truly connect with someone, you might never be happy with the person you have. When it comes to love, and spending the rest of your life with someone, you need to choose, by yourself. That is my opinion on the pills the people in Jonas’ community take for the “stirrings” to stop.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Anna on the topic of the stirrings. When you take the pills to end the stirrings there are good and bad effects. Anna has stated many of these effects. Without these pills, you can never experience true love, just like both Anna and I said. You will never be able to experience these feelings of love with one another! On the other hand, there are a few good effects from the pills. As Anna stated, there would be no STD’s, or any other sexually transmitted diseases. Also, there would be no teen pregnancies, or any mistakes. Even though because they have never experienced love, so they would never long for it, they don’t know what they are missing. That is why I agree with Anna.
ReplyDeleteStirrings is a euphenism for sexual feelings toward someone. I think that it is unnecessary to have to tae those pills. Without those sexual feelings, you lack true conection with people. When you get married, i think that it should be for love, and yes, some sexual feelings toward the person you are married to. If our society lacked sexual feelings, where would we be? We would marrying because you had to not because you wanted to. I think that would ruin a relationship. I think that the society in the giver should not make you take those pills and marry for sexual attatchment or love. That is what i think about the stirrings and pills.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Jade on the topic of stirrings. Without these sexual connections, or puberty, we would have a VERY boring life style. Our life would be boring and dull everyday. It would be the same. You would feel the same about every person in the community and not be excited to see that one person you may see yourself with someday. If we were not allowed to have boyfriends or girlfriends, we would not be able to see how difficult or easy it is to cooperate eith another person. So we would just be jumping into a marriage without knowing how to act or respond to their feelings. I hope you find my response interesting.
ReplyDeleteThe word “stirrings” is a euphemism for sexual feelings for the opposite sex. In other words it means puberty. In taking the pills that are given to them, they do not go through puberty. Personally, I do not believe that if they take these pills that they cannot have true love. If they do not have feelings of love that is not in a friendship way towards each other they cannot have true love. True love involves feelings other than friendship. These stirrings should be allowed for true love to be taken place. I also do not think that if they are randomly matched with people that they can have a true love connection. They should be able to choose their husbands/wives. Also they should not have to take the pills.
ReplyDeleteStirrings are indeed a euphenism. In a way its kind of like puberty. For us its normal. In a way I don't think they should have to take them. I think its not right to have to take pills for something that is normal. What would love be without some sort of sexual feelings toward your spouse. Also its unnormal and the pills are playing with your true emotions and feelings. There is a side of me that disagrees though. One reason is that it does protect you from various diaeases. Also, loving a person just because they are a good friend would be nice too. Those are my reasonings and how i really think about the stirrings and th pills.
ReplyDeleteI agree with John. I think that John has a good point about having no true love connection without a physical connection. You can be in love in a friendly way, but for true love there must be at least some physical attraction. If you think the person is ugly in our world, you wouldn’t usually have a physical attraction with them. You can have a friendly attraction though. I also think that the people in the giver all have never had a boyfriend or girlfriend. Do the parents even kiss hello or goodbye? I do not think they have ever kissed anyone ever. In not doing this, it makes no true love connection with any physical attractions. I do not believe the giver will ever have any true love in their community.
ReplyDeleteI agree with many different people on this topic. One of them is Jade. She said that with the pills you would have a very boring life style. That is a very true statement. Nick also said something that caught my eye. He said that the pill removes the emotion of love from your brain. Also without love its just two adult friends living with each other. That is sad because I think everyone who wants it should havie the feeling of love. Also, that they know that someone loves them too. Both people had good views on stirrings, and that is why i agreed with them.
ReplyDeleteI agree with rachel. Also when she said a stirring is a sexual feeling toward someone that is what I said. I agree with rachel when she said that you shouldnt take pills for something thats right because its a part of life and why take pills to get rid of something that was meant to happen. Also I like when she said that the pills mess with the persons true feelings. I say this because if there is a person you really like, if you take these pills your feelings about this person might change. Also as rachel put it what would true love be without any feelings and emotions. Even though there is a bad part of the pills I agree with rachel when she says it can protect people against certain disease. An example of these could b HIV, STD's and many more. I disagree when rachel says that you can love somebody as a friend to because you can like the person alot. To include to this though if you really love somebody, its more than just being a friend. Those are some of my agrees and disagrees with rachels blog.
ReplyDeleteI disagree with Abby because I really don't think true love and physical attraction have much to do with each other. How you feel about someone else should be about your personalities. If you love someone without being physically attracted to them at all, it really shows how much you love them. Also, just because you don't have sexual feelings doesn't make the world boring (unless you're a playa.) It's not like they're clones, they each have unique appearances. It's like how girls do each other's hair and all that fun stuff. You're not doing it because you have feelings for each other, right? Lastly, you can feel love without being attracted to someone. I don't know why so many people don't believe this; I blame the media. Like you said, love isn't expressed through words, unless you're a really good poet. Love isn't exactly expressed through actions, either. There's no way you can make someone love you; it's a sort of mutual understanding. If you've ever seen the episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog where the bell player came to Nowhere, that sums it up perfectly. Attraction isn't what makes people love each other; love is what attracts people to each other. If the pill made their minds blank, they wouldn't be able to develop a relationship at all. The pills are what makes their society so much less sexist than ours. I think that the pills have no impact on love, and they can feel just as much emotion as we can.
ReplyDeleteIn the Giver they talk about every child getting stirrings between the ages eleven and twelve. Stirrings are sexual emotions towards someone you like or are attracted to. When Jonas experiences stirrings he is probably going through puberty. I feel that when a person takes these pills, there love towards that other person or anyone is reduced. I believe that they won’t feel love towards another person because they are taking these pills. They may be a little attracted to another person but they aren’t totally in love with them. I also believe that they could become attracted to another person not just because of there looks, but because of there similarities and interests. One reason the pills could help is it would limit sexual diseases and young age pregnancies. Although they would reduce these things, they person wouldn’t ever fall in love with the one they really love. That is my answer about stirrings and what the good and bad things are about getting rid of them.
ReplyDeleteI agree with many people on this response. One person I agreed with most was Nick. I agree with him because he says that if you make the person take the pills true love will not exist between a male and a female. He is also right about attraction is emotion. When the person takes the pill it removes emotion from the brain leaving no attraction. Another reason why I agree with Nick is when he says that they just pick two adults to be together. If you picked two adults that had nothing in common, there would be no attraction and as a result they wouldn’t really love each other. I agree with nick on one more point. If someone takes a pill one night who is to say they won’t be attracted to a different person the next night. After reading all of Nick’s response, I agree one hundred percent of what he said.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Megan. She said that love is when you are attracted to the other persons interests, thoughts, and there appearance. Also like what Megan said, you can’t truly love someone just by your sexual feelings with that person. I do agree with Emma though when she said that couples can still love each other without having sexual feelings. I also agree with Emma when she said that taking those pills make the community much safer! There would be no more teen pregnancies, and there wouldn’t be divorces! That would make the community much happier and a safer place for people. Lastly, I agree with Anna. You can be really good friends and be partnered up, but don’t have to have sexual feelings for the other person. You can just be really good friends! Not everyone has to have a sexual attraction to someone else!
ReplyDeleteStirrings is a euphemism for sexual feeling or attraction towards another human being. I believe that without these, yes, it does inhibit true emotion. Whether we like to admit it or not, the human nature bases a lot of attraction to another person on looks. This takes away all of that feeling. I believe that there can be true love. True love is based on being compatible and having a certain feeling for the other. It is not based on looks. So it holds back one part of love, but the other part is made even more important. With the kind of love in the community looks are not even a factor. It is all pure. So I have come to the conclusion that while having no stirrings is beneficial in some ways, it holds back other feelings.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Josh. The pills are some good stuff. I say this because in addition to preventing teen pregnancies and STD”s, it can prevent homosexuality. If the feelings are never there, they can never realize they’re gay. After this, they get one of the opposite sex to be their mate for life. They will never realize. There will be less drama in the community and more sameness. This is great for the community . It is exactly what they want. The pills do a lot that is in favor of the community and they’re rules.
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