SeNiOr_CiRcUmLeCtIO!
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What is our worldview?
In Mr. Kiely's religion class, that is the question we have dealt with all throughout this year. Now, being at the closing of this year, has the question been answered? What are we to learn from this year? Has religion ventured far beyond the expectations of the class? Most likely, students of the class will agree upon such a notion, including all the work we've been placed on as well. So what is the meaning of worldview? In the beginning of the year, the meaning of the worldview resulted us in reading pre-selected passages on primary textsof specific religions, forcing us to make references and develop rational thought toward them. Reading primary sources provided information and make connections to the Catholic/Christian viewpoint, while establishing distinctions among each particular religious faith. With that knowledge gained from that activity, the spark of the IIP projects erupted and our first assignment dealt with the understanding a religion from its roots--geography. Although, the region was on the broad side, the study enabled my group to become familar with another part of the world where a different culture exists.
In order to learn about other faiths, one must look deeper and down to the essential part--the human being. The reading source used for understanding the human person was the Iliad. In the Iliad, human emotion and reason were discussed around the prime questions of human existence--death and life. But the main focal point of the Iliad was in the two terms of kleos and time. Within these two terms, the human being as a whole was stressed, leaving a sense of self—where a line was drawn on personal feelings and beliefs. In that, the course started to shift gears and stepped a notch higher on an individual level. The basics of finding oneself adapted from the work of Davies in the Bred to the Bone. Within this novel, the reader enters the world of Francis, exposing his life and the painting of his life. The significance is vital for the fact that finding who you are as a person can overall shape you—finding your identity in this world. When that is proclaimed, that is when one can develop their own lifestyle, including decisions living life spiritually. Under that notion, another IIP project was conducted where the groups made contact with one of their age but of a different religion. By understanding the roots of religious traditions and various cultures, another hierarchical step is to take place, and take account from a primary source. That is where the last IIP project reflected just that. Discovering another person acts hand in hand in dealing with interpersonal relations. When establishing a connection with one whom you aren’t familiar with, you can indeed find out more about you than you’d expect. Just how Sarachevi takes the best out of Francis, another person, and in my case, the boy from Thailand, Sudrak was what created my own portrait of my life. And by keeping this record of my path toward my portrait, the feeling bestowed upon me will be a lasting memory on the journey of identity.
