april 3 w online meeting #11

for our MOM: What makes you curious?

JOURNAL TOPIC:
Montag appears to be heavily influences by his relationships with other people.  What influences you more, your relationship with yourself or your relationship with others?  Why?

-OR-

You can use your journal simply to write about life and your experiences in these unusual, challenging times.

AGENDA:
1. MOM
2. Journal
3. Our meeting
4. Post

POST:
In today's meeting we talked about curiosity, and I realized I had two potential topics for posts: here are both. :)

1. Do you think our curiosity is determined by our personality, or by our culture, or both?  Think about it: we have all these ways of controlling people, and one of them is warning them against curiosity ("curiosity killed the cat" and eating from the tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden are two well-known examples).  What do you think? How does the cat get curious enough to take the risk? (title: THIS CAT IS CURIOUS)

2. In the book, Montag gets "sick" and doesn't want to go to work.  Now that he is reflecting on what firemen do and why, it's more difficult for him to justify doing this for a living.  What do you think about what Montag does?  How would you feel having to do something that hurts other people?  Are there more important values that should guide what we do in our working lives, or is it just about the paycheck?  (title: IS IT JUST ABOUT THE JOB?)