Lucy Carter > Quotes

“Usually, a person would think of cooking as a domestic chore rather than an opportunity for critical thinking,” Dad observed during the conversation.

“That is true, but one cannot have an opportunity to critically think unless they make it an opportunity to critically think,” I replied. “Many people actually do see cooking as a mere domestic chore, and hence make it a mere domestic chore.”
― Lucy Carter, The Reformation

“Is religion really the only way people can be morally right?”
― Lucy Carter, The Reformation

“In the patriarchal societies of ancient Israel, it was considered rewarding and traditional to have multiple wives, just as it was considered rewarding to have honor and wealth, so God, in 2 Samuel 12:7-8, was possibly giving the wives as a reward to David, but not necessarily as a way to permit polygamy. Knowing that God does not change his mind or his original intentions for society [ see Numbers 23:19], we know that God’s emphasis on the oneness of two spouses in Genesis 2:24 was not to be changed, so, even with the way God rewarded David, it does not indicate that God actually approved of David’s polygamy.”
― Lucy Carter, Feminism and Biblical Hermeneutics

“Yes, the brain creates consciousness to generate thought, but because consciousness develops one’s awareness and perception, that would mean that the mind dominates the brain, because, by manipulating a person’s awareness and perception, it does not simply generate thought like the brain does, but instead, it controls thought.”
― Lucy Carter, The Reformation

“People in Africa actually sold each other before the triangular slave trade began, so although I think slavery glorifies dehumanization, I wanted to show that there was no racism in slavery. It's not very probable for one race to be racist against its own race of people, or for the Africans to enslave other Africans out of racism against other AFRICANS! Rather, the only racism behind slavery was the INTERPRETATION and the EXPLOITATION of it. Originally, slavery was about commercialism and power, not about race, since Africans sold other Africans, but whatever people did with racial supremacy and the suppression of Native Americans and Africans was what actually could have been the strongest cause of the racism that used slavery as a cushion of support. Slavery isn’t racist. Rather, it could be used to support racism.”
― Lucy Carter, The Reformation

“Later on, however, I actually did read an unabridged Bible and researched more verses using online topical Bible resources, only to find out that Stanton might have been right. The Bible definitely left room for the relegation of women’s status in all respects. Women appeared to have been held accountable for every sinful act that’s committed because of a single woman who lived in the Garden of Eden, hence appearing to make them required to be silent in church. Women were supposed to be mothers and wives, which are noble pursuits, but it appeared as if men had a wider range of opportunities: they could be fathers and husbands… along with apostles, pastors, political leaders, polyglots, AND leaders of municipal congregations! The pursuits other than being a father and husband were considered to be noble pursuits for men, but if a woman pursued any of that, even if she had the capabilities and the good intentions, it would be considered blasphemous, at least from what I understood”
― Lucy Carter, Feminism and Biblical Hermeneutics

“To be able to acknowledge Solomon’s first wife shows that some attention was given to Solomon’s non-polygamous marriage, when he was dedicated to a single wife. Compare “Besides Pharaoh’s daughter, he married women from Edom, Sidon, and from among the Hittites” to “He married women from Edom, Sidon, and from among the Hittites.” The phrase containing besides Pharaoh’s daughter creates a stronger implication that it was proper for Solomon to marry only the daughter than the phrase that listed the women he married, creating a stronger sense of approval towards monogamy.”
― Lucy Carter, Feminism and Biblical Hermeneutics

“We are told that
daggers are murderous
and swords are noble

They both do
the same thing, though”
― Lucy Carter, For the Intellect

“...but my favorite already-discovered aspect of critical thinking in cooking is the demand for thought experimentation when trying to innovate with food. For instance, today, I made you that crab salad (although the crab was actually just imitation crab), but anyways, I observed that there was this sweetness to the imitation crab, so I conducted a thought experiment with myself. I thought that the sweetness of the crab made the crab delicate, so I deduced that it would be best to use iceberg lettuce in the salad to enhance the delicacy of the crab, because iceberg lettuce is light and crisp, as opposed to cabbage, which is thicker and has a stronger and most likely overpowering flavor that may be incompatible with the delicacy of the crab. In that same thought experiment, I also thought that bell peppers would go well with the salad, because they also have a sweetness similar to the imitation crab, and they have a fresh flavor to them, so I thought it would compliment the crab. I also added that lite ranch dressing, because I knew that the lightness of the dressing would still be cohesively connected to the overall delicacy of the salad, and plus, a lot of the components in the salad were sweet, so the ranch balanced the ratio of sweetness to savoriness. Then, in the thought experiment, I reasoned that if I sprinkle sunflower seeds on it, the dish would be more elevated because of the nuttiness of the seeds. Overall, because of my experiment, the dish had most of the flavors that you and I wanted, but you did say that you wanted more vegetables to balance out the crab, so while we were eating, I conducted another thought experiment, where I thought, of course, about adding more vegetables, and I also thought about the possibilities of adding lemon juice or some citrus fruit like tangerines into my revised version of the salad.”
― Lucy Carter, The Reformation

“A person could still have what are considered to be “good” intentions and do something that does not benefit others. For example, in this old Anime show called MY Hero Academia, there was this villain called Stain who had really good intentions for heroes: he thought that heroes should live up to their potential and do their hero work out of dedication, not just for fame and money, but to enforce those ideals, he would attempt to murder heroes whom he believed did not live up to those ideals.

His intentions would be morally right by current philosophical standards on morality, but he was destroying members of humanity, which is not beneficial to those members. His intentions didn’t actually follow the duality, because although he intended for humanity to be heroic instead of greedy, he still had spite in himself, so part of his intentions were for the benefit of humanity, but the other part was not. They were, in fact, for the detriment of heroes he disliked. He was not COMPLETELY following the benefit-intention duality.”
― Lucy Carter, The Reformation

“What do you want?” I asked, trying to ignore him.

“Probably something that you want.”

I rolled my eyes at the emphasis of the word you.

“And what would I want?” I asked.

“To go back to Africa. If you want to live in America as if it's Africa, then you might as well go back to Africa.”

“Go BACK?” I asked, emphasizing my incredulity at the sound of the word back.

“Isn’t that where you came from?”

“I mean… I could see it in my ancestry… my parents were of African decency… but I was born in America, and I am legally an American citizen.”
― Lucy Carter, The Reformation

“Of course, the inclusion of these theories may seem like extraneous material, but it perfectly exemplifies that the natives of Logicalard Fallaciod could not tell the difference between a theory and a fact. They also had no idea that theories, especially their theories, were more likely to be created with logical fallacies, just like the ones about the inception of the planet and those created to “confirm” the “veracity” of those theories.”
― Lucy Carter

“Subjects such as history have less of that problem solving relationship. Because history is driven by human nature, one cannot merely hypothesize what happened; one must, unfortunately, resort to memorization. To analyze history, one must memorize a fact, but STEM enables students to analyze the logic behind a STEM occurrence or phenomenon throughout. STEM is a subject of problem solving. STEM is problem solving.”
― Lucy Carter, For the Intellect

“To summarize, the model I created was a revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy. Usually, in the 2000’s, it was common for people to use a pyramid to represent Bloom’s Taxonomy, with “remember” at the base, and “synthesize” at the shortest part, or the top. This was a good model for determining the attainability of each skill and the levels each skill is at, but I decided to use the umbrellas to add stronger emphasis on how each skill depended on and impacted one another. I did not think that the pyramid modeled this dependency and impact well, because it did not visually show how each skill overlapped one another; it merely showed the levels of each skill, not how each skill depended on and impacted one another.”
― Lucy Carter, The Reformation

“The view on the equations was even more stupid--the extraterrestrials thought that because the equations used scientific notation, the imaginary unit, sigma notation, and alphabetical letters that were magically and ironically used in mathematics, they theorized and overall concluded that these equations were indisputably correct, since the hoo-mans (humans) on Earth used a multitude of calculus symbols and large numbers to learn more about the universe.”
― Lucy Carter, Logicalard Fallacoid

“In addition, as seen in the verse above, God’s command for Adam to “rule over” Eve was a result of Eve’s sin, not a result of God’s own desires.”
― Lucy Carter, Feminism and Biblical Hermeneutics

“I mean, time may seem boundless and infinite, but the boundlessness and infinity only reinforces the limitations of time, because it shows our limited ability to reach the unlimitedness of time. Because of our mortality and the need for punctuality, we have no other choice but to be limited by time. I am limited by time. I don’t have infinite amounts of time to write this essay, let alone write every essay I want to write in the future, which ultimately can simplify to: “I don’t have infinite amounts of time to live.”
― Lucy Carter, The Reformation

“Solitude

I don’t want to live under
your servitude

I just want to fulfill
all the roles
and live all the lives”
― Lucy Carter, For the Intellect

“ I recollected the time when my preschool teacher called my ability to make images in my mind out of abstract things my “superpower,” so I decided that I should be a superhero, and as a superhero, the first person I will be saving is myself.”
― Lucy Carter, For the Intellect

“The most objective things are always subjectively interpreted. The brain gives birth to consciousness, so you could perceive things as they ARE, but consciousness, as the essence of perception and interpretation of that perception, is what causes the objective things the brain figuratively tries to reveal to us to be subjectively interpreted. In other words, we perceive things as we—or maybe as someone else—-thinks they SHOULD BE. Likewise, the most scholarly library, which contains books purely made of facts, will always be subjectively interpreted by the reader.”
― Lucy Carter, The Reformation

“I believe that things like presumption of innocence has its practical applications,” I said, “but presumption of innocence also comprises proving that a person is guilty (or innocent) after that presumption. That’s why we say presumption of innocence before PROVEN guilty. I do see why trust is good, but I don’t want it to be blind. Presumption of innocence requires some trust in the accused, but at least it’s not blind trust in the accused! I want trust to be justified by reason and evidence. That type of submission is just blind trust.”
― Lucy Carter, The Reformation

“Also, in Genesis 2:24, it states, “This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.” This verse emphasizes the oneness of two spouses. God’s ideal intention for marriage was for the two spouses to be united into “one,” but if the husband is being united with multiple wives, then that would mean that he would be unable to become “one” with any of the women, since his mind is divided between his multiple wives instead of being fully dedicated and united to a single wife.”
― Lucy Carter, Feminism and Biblical Hermeneutics

“Also, many moral actions have a little immorality in them. For example, war could be done to rescue orphans in a village that is part of an empire, but this may come at the cost of killing people in the empire, so, from a bigger picture perspective, this action is morally right by current philosophical standards, because the warriors intend to benefit the orphans, but if one looks at the details behind the war, one should observe that the warriors intended to kill people in the empire that they possibly hate, so they intended to hurt the people, which could be seen as immoral.”
― Lucy Carter, The Reformation

“Still, education is what foundationally supports philosophy, so I will focus my attention on educational aspects that I think should be promoted----this includes helping students learn the logic behind why something is true, use things that have been memorized to apply them in tasks involving critical thinking or real-world problem-solving, improve modeling skills, explain why skills are important to learn, instead of forcing people to remember them, and---”

“Please, stop it, Martha.”

“Wait--what?”

“Luke 10:41.”

I looked for my One Year Bible, searching for Luke 10:41, which said, “But the Lord said to her, ‘My dear Martha, you are worried and upset over all these DETAILS.’” (The emphasis on “all these details” was Dad’s, not mine.)”
― Lucy Carter, The Reformation

“In addition, the Bible actually states that people (men and women alike) are to be sanctified through Jesus and the truth of his word. Hebrews 13:12 states, “And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate, to sanctify his people by his own blood.” The phrase “his people” refers to all people that are his, not just the men that are his, and by dying for the people’s sins, they were sanctified, or freed from sin and able to access a path to Christ.”
― Lucy Carter, Feminism and Biblical Hermeneutics

“Anyways, I am not very sure if anything like hypnosis or thought control would make a philosophical zombie. Trying to “program” an already-conscious person does not seem conducive to making a being like a philosophical zombie, because of the freewill in thinking that I discussed while talking about reality and anti-realities. Because a person is free to think, he or she would have to choose whether or not they should be convinced by someone, or submit to hypnosis/programming, in this case. By making this decision, a person would have to sense what they could submit to, and think about it in order to make a decision as to whether or not they should let themselves act based on some kind of programming. These actions require conscious thought, even just a few seconds of it. As of right now, I believe that creating a philosophical zombie, although possibly conceivable depending on what lexicographers and linguists do, may not be possible in real life.”
― Lucy Carter, The Reformation

“The fact that an individual had a predestined identity in society for being geofus, aviator, therma, or cryo was not only unethical, but was also illogical; what was more irksome about the passages in the web search was that the research methods were wholly supported by logical fallacies: equivocation for the analysis on cyro-organisms, the causal fallacy for the analysis on therma-organisms, the slippery slope fallacy for the analysis on aviator-organisms, and the appeal to authority for the analysis on geofus-organisms”
― Lucy Carter, Logicalard Fallacoid

“Nerdy jokes are amazing, but the greatest form of nerdy jokes are STEM jokes. While STEM jokes, like any other form of nerdy jokes, consist of something witty and possibly a little awkward, they are a unique and noteworthy category of jokes, as they require technical knowledge to be immediately comprehended. For those who do not specialize in the scientific discipline that is being referenced in a joke, a little bit of logical deduction and inference would be required to understand the joke. They are like riddles.”
― Lucy Carter, For the Intellect

“It’s because I have certain standards for the connotations that my name rings and the legacy that I leave behind,” I responded. “When people hear my name, I want them to recognize it for the reasons that I want. I want to be recognized for my intellect, my intellectual discoveries, my writing, my contributions to equality, and other such things. I don’t just want to be recognized for being a converter; I want to be recognized for being who I truly am.”

“You want to be famous?”


“I would have to be in order for my legacy to be known… but I want to be famous for intellectual change, philosophical contributions, my writing, and my support of equality. I don’t just want to be famous for converting! My life could amount to more than just conversion!”
― Lucy Carter, The Reformation

“Yeah,” I agreed, “the author just immediately tries to write down as many emotions as possible. Initially, I thought that the method of writing was ineffective, but eventually, I realized how the structure potently manifested her passion for her own thoughts about mental illness and the restrictions of herself and the woman in the yellow wallpaper. First off, the experience-oriented writing was relevant to the conveyance of the author’s ideas, because since the writing was, well, about experiences, the issues the author was addressing appeared to be more based on the reality of society, not a hypothetical model of it, and the issues really were based on the reality of society, since some of the events in the book were actually based on events in the author’s life. Also, the spontaneity and honesty of the writing was an effective choice of the author. I observed that the narrator’s silence in the presence of her husband and her spontaneous and expressive writing were juxtaposed, which emphasized the restrictions the narrator was put in and also her progressive views on mental health and her ability to stay true to herself. Also, this way of writing exemplifies that the narrator had to hold in so much thought because of her restrictions. She wrote without hesitation! In other words, her spontaneous writing and the lack of thematic structure in her writing showed her ability to stay true to her own beliefs.”
― Lucy Carter, The Reformation