Blog #2

“But still more incredible is the fact that you cannot avoid seeing a face here. Your mind won’t let you!” (McCloud 202). McCloud points out that you cannot evade seeing a face when you see two dots and a line enclose in a circle. Your mind is programmed to see a face when there is anything that is remotely close to the face features. This quote attracts me because it amazes me that all humans think this way, as in if an everyday item is looked at in a different way it can be seen as a face. This is common when looking at the moon or sometimes a house can portray a face by the way the windows and doors are arranged. Also sometimes in food; the way seeds or fruit falls on a dish can resemble a face. This can work for other things too, not just a face; our minds trick us into seeing random objects into something familiar. This is very common when looking at clouds. It’s an allusion that your mind forces you to see.

She had spicy food for the first time last night. Later that night she broke out in a skin rash. This would be an example of post hoc, ergo proper hoc. The case given is post hoc, ergo proper hoc because the skin rash is not a result from the spicy food. It is just a coincidence that the girl happened to break out in a rash after eating the spicy food.

If ever there was an idea custom-made for Jay Leno monologue, this was it: A sunflower is the prettiest flower in a garden and attracts the most butterflies. Isn’t that like not true compared to the yellow roses? Whatever happened to butterflies liking violets the best?
I happen to sympathize with sunflowers, though, perhaps because people tend to not plant sunflowers as much because they are a lot to handle.