A DISASTER MAY OR MAY NOT HAPPEN ONE MINUTE FROM NOW- SHOULD YOU LISTEN TO REINA?

Uhm…I listened to the Cassandra podcast, yesterday? And on Monday.
And now I have to do this… thing. Blog post. Whatever.

Anyway, Reina earlier said that in one minute, a disaster will happen and that you should listen to her or else you will die. But should you really? Why should you believe someone that types in all caps? 

That is what the citizens of Troy thought of Cassandra. To them, she was a little bit insane. Who wouldn’t think that? She acted strangely, sometimes, and she would always talk with weird, jumbly words.

However, what they didn’t know, was that she was speaking a prophetic language. Which means that she could see the future. It came with a drawback, though. She could only say them in the aforementioned weird, jumbly language, and no one could believe her. 
All her warnings were ignored.
And disasters happened.
Which is exactly what would happen if people don't listen to the warnings now. Global warming, obesity, and more, the problems could all be pretty much fixed if certain people listened. Certain people. 
I know people have tried, and tried, to convince people (such as our president) that those problems were real. But many of the “convincing” involved plenty of arguing. And I think that arguing will only make it worse. I’ve seen people who have complained about others forcing their (though correct) views on them. And this will increase the hatred for the other’s opinion. No one’s going to listen to an angry person. We should use a more peaceful way to coerce the other people into a better view. I don’t know how, but we just… should.
Yeah, we should.

A DISASTER IS GOING TO HAPPEN IN EXACTLY ONE MINUTE NOW EVERYBODY LISTEN TO ME-

"EVERYBODY WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE IN ONE MINUTE IF YOU DON'T LISTEN TO ME!" "Um, ok."

 The Cassandra Curse seems like a weird concept-I mean, it's just Greek Mythology, it's not real...right? Actually, results show that if 1: You aren't an authoritative figure, 2: You don't have proof, then most likely people aren't going to believe you. The lesson I learned was also to SPEAK OUT-if there's a disaster, SPEAK OUT! And if they don't listen to you, WELL TOO BAD! Ok, maybe not that last part. But yes, if there's a disaster coming, and you are aware of it, please speak out because it may as well be the last day of humanity on your hands. But what if people don't believe you? Well, if I was someone (now, mind you, I'm just a regular citizen in this case) trying to warn everybody of some weird disaster, I probably wouldn't do it the way I started out this post. I think the best way to go would be to warn an authoritative figure first. Since people seem to listen to authoritative figures (like I don't know, teachers, bosses, the President, ect.) more than they do to just everyday regular citizens, that's what I would start with. And if that figure doesn't believe me, I'll just need to get some proof of some kind to make that figure believe me. But what if the authoritative figure is part of the disaster? I don't want to be Cassandra and start speaking in riddles and have everybody laugh at me, but I do want to try to convince at least a few people. Sure, 4 people against the world might be hard, but if you look at it like 4 people against one powerful figure...that's better than just not telling anybody. I think at that point, I'd be pretty angry-I think that'll convince people further since anger seems to be a type of feeling everybody understands and follows more than other emotions (I mean, being happy doesn't really work. Being sad might make people confused. I don't really know if you can be fearful-it might work, but for me, I think anger is the best way to go.). I learned that most people aren't comfortable going out of their comfort zone (that seems very uncomfortable doesn't it) and so, as a result, if they know a disaster is going to happen and they aren't an authoritative figure of some kind and/or they don't have proof, they won't speak out. It makes much more sense if you imagine yourself in 'Cassandra's' shoes. What about you? Do you think that if you were in Cassandra's situation you would do the same? Would you stay quiet? What would you do? Tell me in the comments below AND EVERYONE IS ACTUALLY GOING TO DIE IN ONE MINUTE NOW EVERYBODY LISTEN TO MEEE-


Now go listen to Sal from Sally Face-





P.S. If Emma says something about not trusting me, DON'T TRUST HER either! She types in all lowercase (probably not in this post, but everywhere else, YEAH-) and that's just shady.

The Good And Bad Of The Cassandra’s Curse

The Good And Bad Of The Cassandra’s Curse

Cassandra is a woman that existed in Greek Mythology that could see the future. As good as this sounds, this was actually more of a curse. Cassandra could see the problems in the future, but nobody would believe her. Many people had reasons though. Cassandra spoke in riddles and was always into the future. During a war, Cassandra could see a victory and would be happy, while people beside her were still fighting. Although Cassandra was only a myth, many things that are happening right now are similar. People with high power in government may not listen to a person with little power, even if that person is correct. In the 1990s, a space shuttle named Challenger took off, only to explode in less than a minute after takeoff. Could somebody actually know that the shuttle was going to explode, but not say anything? Sometimes people know that something wouldn’t work, but the majority did not believe it. From Cassandra, we should learn to consider what people say, even if it doesn’t sound right at first. So, with so many tips and information is given every day, how do people know what to believe and what to ignore?

Why Didn't You Pay Attention?

Cassandra was a woman that came from Greek myths. She was somebody who could predict the future. She was cursed because even if she knew what was happening and told everybody, they never listened to her. Imagine how frustrating that would be! She even told somebody’s husband that his wife would kill her and he was like nah,that’s not going to happen. Well, it happened. Yay for not listening to Cassandra! I’m making it look like it was easy to understand her but when she predicted the future and was telling people, she would speak in a prophetic language. It would be a riddle to people. In the greek myth, she saw the trojan horse coming, and she told one of her riddles. I think people understood her but just didn’t believe because she was also just some person with no authority. The leader probably thought “what makes her so much more special than just a regular person in the crowd?”. There have been events like the challenger spaceship from NASA which blew up within minutes of launch. People from the government told to delay the launch but they were quickly overruled and the ship was told to launch on the regular date. I think the reason that lots of people don't believe things are because they think that they are not possible like cassandra telling the husband of a wife that would kill him. People think it's not possible but it's staring you right in the face and it's actually a true.There are things today that people still don’t listen to that are true but they don’t think are true? Are you one of those people who think certain things aren’t true?

I told you!

Cassandra was a person in Greek mythology. She was not just any person, she was a cursed person hence the term, Cassandra’s curse. She was gifted with being able to tell the future. That’s really cool, right? Like you could bet on football games or become a pro gambler. No, not when your in ancient Greece because first, there’s no football, and second, you can’t actually predict things in a normal language for other people to understand. You would mostly talk in riddles. Like if there’s a tsunami coming you would say something like “I see the earth’s plates moving, water rushing.” Well even if people could understand you, there was a curse to this gift. No one would listen to you. Also, you couldn’t see the future always. It would be a sort of a random event, like a seizure but less harmful to you. Specifically you. People like Cassandra exist today. Of course, not the 100% future predicting part but the part where they can tell something is going to go badly. Like people who predicted something in Sudan would go badly, only when the person is in high rank or has a connection is s/he listened to. Like a commoner saying to the president that Sudan would go to crap compared to like a general saying it. Only the high ranking people are listened to. Kinda shows the social division in our world right? Powerful people have all of the voice. You could try it if you don’t believe me. Research something that is not widely world known and post it on social media. Is it seen or even noticed?

This is a link for a CNN 10 video for the challenger explosion.https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2013/06/03/vault-backstory-1986-challenger-disaster.cnn

Blog Episode II: Why Won't Anyone LISTEN TO ME!!!!!!

Y'all did an excellent job listening to the Podcast! It takes skill to be able to focus on the spoken word and to take useful sketchnotes at the same time. And speaking of those notes, you will need those now for this next blogging assignment. The Hidden Brain Podcast about The Cassandra Curse was all about why we sometimes do not heed dire warnings about upcoming catastrophes. From the lessons of the stinky tunnel to the Greek tales of Cassandra, and of course the difficulties of getting people to listen to the truth. 

Your challenge here is to write a post about the lesson you learned from this episode. How might you try to convince someone else to listen to what you know to be true when they already seem to be in disagreement with you? Or what, maybe, should we do to convince those in power that action needs to be taken? Or how might your thoughts today be different if you had a chance to visit the Alaskan tunnel spoken of in the podcast? Do your best!

Posts 

1. Must have a catchy, relevant title.  
2. Must be 75+ words in length. 
3. Must be free of any spelling errors. (Word choice errors are not spelling errors. For example; there/their/they’re, choose/chose, loose/lose, to/too/two, etc…) 
4. Must end with an interesting exit strategy. (A question or challenge to the reader) 

Comments 

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4. Must also end with an intriguing question for the writer. 

Two additional rules: 

You must be the 1st or 2nd person to comment on a writer’s post. If there are already two comments, choose another student’s post. 

Writers should (not must) respond briefly to all comments. 

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Dora was extremely popular at some point in history, let's rewind.

I was listening to this Dora podcast, and I figured out in the early 2000's Dora a tv show about a pan American girl who is trying her very best to explore around her neighborhood with a map, backpack, and a monkey. She originally some old fashioned white girl, but back then there was no culture variety back then so they made her a Panamerican. I challenge you to go look at your favorite tv show and figure out the origins behind it.