Thursday, August 24, 2017

Aug 24, Thu - Life's Ultimate Questions

Next Quiz/Test: TOMORROW is Quiz 1a: Romans 12:2, 2 Corinthians 10:5 (ESV)

Handouts: None given

Reminders:
Book Report Key Due-DatesTitle & Author (Mon, Sep. 11, written on a paper in class), Pre-Reading Form (Mon, Sep. 25, @ start of class), Book Report/Project (Mon, Nov. 14, report on TurnItIn.com / Art @ start of class)

Instructional Time: Unit 1 - Introducing Worldviews
Journal 1-4: Study Packet, Page 8
- What are some of the most important questions one can ever ask him/herself?
- - Questions with answers that…
- - - Relate to the major parts of his/her life.
- - - Relate to what they ultimately value & live for
- - Create a list of as many questions like this that you can think of.

Video: reView: Sign: Student Manual/Workbook, Page 14. 
- 1) Where did Nick try to go? Did he succeed?  Why or why not? 
- - Although Nick tried to leave, he didn't succeed because he hadn't finished the test 
- 2) What were the four questions on the test? 
- - How did you get here? 
- - Why are you here? 
- - How do you choose? 
- - What happens next?
- - NOTE: These are 'big questions' that everyone, in some way, answers in their life (whether consciously or unconsciously!) 
- 3) Why didn’t the other students help him answer the questions? 
- - He had to answer them for himself
- - Like each of us have to work through & answer these questions for ourselves--we cannot just copy someone else
- 4) Why was it important that he come back and sign his name on the test booklet? 
- - He had to take ownership for his answers
- 5) Why are some of the big questions we ask in life? 
- - Many answers for this could be given, this was actually the journal activity for today. 

Video: reView: Ultimate Questions TS: Student Manual/Workbook, page 15. 
- 1) What are the four ultimate questions? 
- - Origins: Where did everything come from?
- - Meaning: Is there a meaning of life? If so, what is it? 
- - Morality: What is right and wrong?  And how do we know?
- - Destiny: What happens when we die? 
- 2) What makes these questions ultimate? 
- - All questions that take life seriously ultimately come down to one (or more) of these questions!
- - Everybody from every time in history must answer them
- - - Ignoring them is a form of an answer
- - - They are inescapable because they affect everything from the way an individual lives to how a nation governs
- - The answers deal not just with ourselves, but with all humanity & all of the universe!
- 3) What is popular culture? 
- - See previous blog entries for this. 
- 4) Why is it wrong to think it doesn’t matter what the answer to the ultimate questions are? 
- - Because it actually does matter!
- - Our ideas about reality determine how we live day-by-day

Worldview: Related Ideas: Study Packet, Page 2
-  Four Key Ultimate Questions of Life: Your worldview determines (and comes from) how you answers to life’s big questions. A good World View answers these:
- - Origins: Where did everything come from?
- - Meaning: Is there a purpose to life?  If so, what?
- - Morality: What is ‘right & wrong?' How do we know?
- - Destiny: What happens when we die?

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