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Blog Post Example: Creativity

       I know this reveals my true geek self, but just hear me out. Also, just as a PSA, in the famous words of River Song, "Spoilers!". In the popular BBC show Doctor Who, there is an episode in which the Doctor, Amy, and Rory are trapped in a dreamlike trance. The villain, who is revealed to be the Doctor's consciousness, has given the trio two worlds. One is the waking world, and one is the dream world, and they have to figure out which is which before they die in the real world. The crazy twist at the end is that neither of the worlds, or dreams, are real, and that is what really ties together the plot of this and the section of Pascal's "Thoughts" about dreams.
       Pascal says that "... during sleep we believe that we are awake as firmly as we do when we are awake..." (441). To me, personally, that is a very accurate statement, especially in the context of the argument that we, as finite humans, can never be sure of anything. Besides that, I really didn't have any thoughts about the argument that I want to share right now. The only thing I could think about while reading this segment was the fact that one of the producers at BBC definitely read Pascal.

PS. Here is a link to a scene from the episode: https://youtu.be/bw_BkGMZPRg



Here in this blog post, we can see the almost limitless possibilities of application within the boundaries of the Honors guidelines. 

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