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The New Weird Order The World of Worldviews
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How should I live?
Who am I?
LIFE
Where do we come from?
What happens when I die?
Does it have meaning?
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LIFE 101 Meaningless?
Lifes but a walking shadow, a poor player That
struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And
then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an
idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying
nothing. Macbeth act V, scene V
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LIFE 101 Meaningless?
The secret of life is a good cup of coffeeThe
secret of life is keep your eye on the ballThe
secret of life is a beautiful woman
The secret of life is in
Sam's martinisThe secret of life is in Marilyn's
eyesThe secret of life is in Monday night
football,Rolling Stones records, and mom's apple
pies.The secret of life is there ain't no secret
The secret of
life is nothin' at all 
The Secret of Life
Faith Hill
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LIFE 101 Meaningless?
It is meaningless that we are born, it is
meaningless that we die. Jean Paul Sartre
The person who regards his own life and that of
his fellow creatures as meaningless is not
merely unhappy but hardly fit for
life. Albert Einstein
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LIFE 101 Meaningless?
Were all alone, were on our own, in this
horror show. -Third Eye Blind
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If you could live forever, would you and why?
I would not live forever, because we should not
live forever, because if we were supposed to
live forever, then we would live forever, but we
cannot live forever, which is why I would not
live forever. ---Miss Alabama (1994 Miss
USA contest)
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Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving
kids all over the world, I cant help but cry. .
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I mean Id love to be skinny like that but not
with all those flies and death and
stuff. --Mariah Carey
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Smoking kills. And if youre killed youve lost
a very important part of your life. --Brooke
Shields
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It's Only Fair . . .
Teens should have the right to trial by a jury
of their peers in matters where the value in
question exceeds 20. For example, when parents
refuse to spend 80 for sneakers, a teenage jury
will determine if said refusal is justified by
common sense or if it violates the teens
inalienable right to have what everybody else
has. -Elizabeth Lee, 16 Swarthmore, PA If
there was a Teenage Bill of Rights Parade
Magazine June 30, 2002
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I would rather be on a coach flight with N
Sync at the back of the plane in the last row in
them seats that dont go back, just stuck
there with the bathroom out of order . . . than
get married again. Marshall Mathers
(Eminem) Rolling Stone
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Cheshire Cat, she began, rather timidly would
you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from
here? That depends a good deal on
where you want to get to, said the
cat. I dont much care where said
Alice. Then it doesnt matter which way
you go, said the Cat.
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From Above
The World of Worldviews
WORLDVIEWS
From Below
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The World of Worldviews
WORLDVIEWS
From Below
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Worldview?
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Weltanschauung
Immanuel Kant - Critique of Judgment (1790)
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What is a Worldview?
. . . the central systemization of conceptions
of reality to which members of the culture
assent (largely unconsciously) and from which
stems their value system Charles H.
Kraft Christianity in Culture
A peoples world view is their way of thinking
about life and the world, coupled with the
values they set for themselves in the context of
that way of thinking. Nicholas Wolterstorff
. . . A comprehensive framework of beliefs that
helps us to interpret what we see and experience
and gives us direction in the choices that we
make as we live out our days. Richard T.
Wright
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What is a Worldview?
A worldview is first of all an explanation and
interpretation of the world, and second,
an application of this view to life. W. Gary
Phillips and William E. Brown Making Sense
of Your World, p. 29.
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Your worldview
EXPLANATION
INTERPRETATION
Your view OF the world
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Your worldview
APPLICATION
Your view FOR the world
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Behavior
Values
Worldview
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Your worldview answers the ULTIMATE questions
ORIGIN Where did everything come
from? MEANING Why are we here? MORALITY How
should we live? DESTINY What happens when we
die?
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O R I G I N
M E A N I N G
M O R A L I T Y
D E S T I N Y
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The Biblical Challenge
. . . Love the Lord your God with all your
heart and with all your soul and with all your
mind. - Matthew 2237
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The Biblical Challenge
Therefore, prepare your minds for action be
self-controlled set your hope fully on the
grace to be given you when Jesus Christ
revealed. - 1 Peter 113
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The Biblical Challenge
Therefore, I urge you brothers, in view of Gods
mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices,
holy and pleasing to God - this is your spiritual
act of worship. Do not be conformed any longer to
the pattern of this world, but be transformed by
the renewing of your mind . . . - Romans 121-2
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The Biblical Challenge
Test everything. - First Thessalonians
521 Do not believe every spirit, but test
the spirits to see whether they are from
God. -First John 41
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The Biblical Challenge
. . . men of Issachar, who understood the times
and knew what Israel should do . . . - 1
Chronicles 1232
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The Biblical Challenge
To these four young men God gave knowledge and
understanding of all kinds of literature and
learning. . .
In every matter of wisdom and understanding about
which the king questioned them, he found them ten
times better than all the magicians and
enchanters in his whole kingdom. Daniel
117,20
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Deep and Wide
My strong advice to you is to soak, soak, soak
in philosophy and psychology, until you know
more of these subjects than you ever need
consciously think. It is ignorance of these
subjects on the part of ministers and workers
that has brought our evangelical theology to
such a sorry plight. When people refer to a man
as a man of one book, meaning the Bible, he is
generally a man of multitudinous books, which
simply isolates the one Book to its proper
grandeur. The man who reads only the Bible does
not, as a rule, know it or human life. -Oswal
d Chambers
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Deep and Wide
Get to know everything so that if you meet a
godless man or a man with evil intentions, you
can answer him properly, and his wicked and
impious words will not befog your young
mind. The Adolescent (A Raw Youth) Fyodor
Dostoyevsky
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Asking the Big Questions

• Where did everything come from?

• How do we know if an action is right or
• wrong?

• Why are we here?

• What happens when we die?

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Presbyterians
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Pepsi Cola
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Episcopal
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What is a Worldview?
A worldview is first of all an explanation and
interpretation of the world, and second,
an application of this view to life. W. Gary
Phillips and William E. Brown Making Sense
of Your World, p. 29.
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Your worldview
EXPLANATION
INTERPRETATION
Your view OF the world
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Your worldview
APPLICATION
Your view FOR the world
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Behavior
Values
Worldview
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Worldview Resources www.boundless.org www.
facingthechallenge.org www.breakpoint.org www.pop
matters.com www.cpyu.org MOVIES MUSIC www.s
creenit.com www.lyrics.com www.imdb.com www.a
llmusic.com
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