kelsey - symbols

An interesting quote form class I wrote down is: “symbols function as a surveyor’s staff or guide for becoming oneself. I thought that this was interesting that it fit in so well with some of the stuff I have learned in my communications classes. Just as there is the relationship with the self and the other, there is the relationship with the self and the society. In Communications symbols serve the same purpose as a means for creating a mutually understood language that conveys meanings. In religion and art we see it in the way, let take a painter for instance, uses symbols and puts them together in a wy that creates meanings. These meanings help us see beyond the art into the holy other which lies beyond it. In the same way language is made up of symbols, understood meanings given to objects and ideas that we put together in such a way as to construct meanings that we use to relate to other or society as a whole. But most interesting, is not that symbols help us communicate to theres, but through the shared meanings we have created, but the way we relate all these symbols to ourselves and use them personally which helps us create who we are.