With no readings for the week I was not sure what to blog on or if we were even to blog. I was thinking about the last chapter after I had done my mid term test. I was thinking of the big rush of the seminal thinkers during the years around 500 BC to around 500 AD. We were blessed to get Saddhartha, Jesus, Confucius, Socrates, Plato, the creators of Hinduism and I am sure there may be a few that I am forgetting or do not know of. What has happened since? There obviously have been great minds: Martin Luther King, Ben Franklin, Thomas Edison, Da Vinci, Einstein, etc. Though these minds were great they did not have the dramatic philosophical following the past seminal thinkers had. why? People have only gotten smarter and more intelligent as time has gone on so why has no great mind shown up? Gandhi is pretty close to these seminal thinkers I feel but I do not know much of him. Have all the great ideas been touched on? Has everything been answered or solved by a past man of great intelligence? How about a great woman? There must have been one at some point in our worlds history. I know woman for so long were in the background, unequal, and basically unheard but how about those that were heard... where was their great genius? Is it possible that one of the great thinkers or a later thinker may have been directed by a woman? Maybe she knew she would never be heard and she passed along greatness through a man that she knew would be heard and followed.

        I hope that we learn about so modern day great thinkers at some point this semester. I would really like to hear about a woman that had a great following and had some very meaningful words that would go on to impact the world. The world we live in today is to driven by social media and power and respect. A great mind today would be caught p doing TV interviews, tweeting, blogging or whatever in order to pass along their message. The great minds never intended for themselves to be followed or talked about centuries later. They talked, preached and educated because it is what they felt was right and the people that they talked to felt that their words were so meaningful and amazing that they ensured the words were recorded and made sire to be passed on for all to one day be a part of.