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Personal Narrative-Relativism, And The Barrier I Am

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Personal Narrative-Relativism, And The Barrier I Am
The first barrier I have displayed was Egocentric memory. Egocentric memory is the natural tendency to “forget” evidence that does not support our thinking and to “remember” evidence that does (Paul, Elder, 2006, P.7). For example this happens a lot when other people tell me stories. I always tend you remember things in the story that pertains to me and if I’m interested in the story. Now for example, let say my boyfriend wanted to tell me a story about the time he almost rolled his car. So one day he would tell me the story when he almost rolled his car, then a month later he would ask me “Hey, have I ever told you about the time I almost rolled my car?” Then instantly I would say no because at that time I didn’t remember him telling me the story, then once he starts to tell me the story I start to remember the story and all of the details. I am then stuck re-listening to the story again. The second barrier I have displayed is avoidance disorders- relativism. Relativism means what …show more content…
I know that I am catholic but I just keep on questioning God and how he made the world. It just doesn’t seem realistic to me. I was baptized and I had my first communion, but after that I stopped going to Sunday school because one of the head people at church was a “witch” in my eyes. If I missed a day of Sunday school she freaked out on me and said I couldn’t come to church next week, and their were many other things that she did to scare me. But she was the reason why I started questioning religion and God. I thought to myself, if she is so holy and want people to go to church, then why would she punish me by not having me come to church? I then thought that are people who follow god really that mean? I then realized that not everyone is like the way she was. But as I got older and learned about the Big Bang Theory, more and more questions started boiling in my head. Now I am at the point where I don’t know if I believe in a religion or

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