Connection/Reflection 3

I was taking the BC calc ap, sorry this is late! I think that's a valid excuse!
Reflection
I disagree with a lot of Spinoza's ideas. I don't believe in God, so I don't see God in nature, or God being nature. I also don't think God decides everything we do, but I do see how nature affects what we do. By nature, different people and things can only do so much. But I think his idea of freeing ourselves from feelings to be happy is very off. I think people should react to their feelings and do things their passionate about to be happy. I still think that Sophie's relationship with Alberto is weird. What's the point of dressing up?! Why did he pick her?! It's hard to get through the monologue sections of the book. And it's still weird he calls her Hilde. Haven't quite found the meaning behind that yet. I liked Locke's ideas of simple sensations and complex ideas of things. His primary and secondary qualities were also interesting. They are definitely realistic ideas.

Connection
Reading through the Spinoza chapter, I can't connect much with his thoughts and philosophies. I guess I see his idea of nature controlling what people do in the sense that by nature my arm is connected to my body, there fore I can't take my arm off...but that's extreme. With animals though, by nature they have no thumbs, so it's harder for them to pick things up. They have to learn to pick things up other ways. I don't know if that example completely applies, since the subject is very vast and can be vague. Locke's primary and secondary qualities are seen almost every day though. Music for example, every one can agree on notes or how long a song is, but some people might think it's a great song and others it can hurt their ears. Everyone sees physical things the same, then there are the senses qualities, that differ from everyone.