My thoughts about lesson 2

My thoughts about lesson 2 were that it wasn’t as captivating as the first lesson was. I still learned as much though it was really hard to concentrate and let everything the guy was talking about stay inside my head. Knowing what is right and wrong is really hard. Knowing the truth is the hardest, at least to me. I think that what we think is right to us is the “truth” and what seems wrong to us is “completely wrong”. The similarities and differences between God and the Devil are quite interesting. The interesting part is that they are both trying to influence us in to believing what is true and what are lies. The only bad thing is that we cannot differentiate between the two. It’s like we need visual truth laid out for us instead of just believing, and the one that usually gets us of guard from the truth is the devil’s side from a believer’s view.
Honestly when I want to find the truth about something and it’s being laid out right in front of me, I usually still believe the wrong one. It’s so hard to know the truth and know what is wrong, and really frustrates me because later in the future I realized I believed in the wrong thing all along. I agree with the truth project packet on page 2 under the topic “Worldview” it says “Lack of a personal, biblical worldview in America- We fail to see Christianity as a worldview that governs every area of life.” I think it’s true because if you think about, everything we go through is in the bible, and God controls everything that happens, but we still don’t know the truth. Anyway God allowed this to happen for a reason so we can’t really question him because he is above us all in everything.

My thoughts on the Truth project

What I thought about the truth project video was that it was very deep and I got to learn so much in just one episode. For example, why Jesus came into the world? I originally thought it was because he came to save us, but it was actually to “testify to the truth”. Honestly that would have never come to mind first if someone asked me Why Jesus came into the Earth? I really wouldn’t mind sitting in a class with the person who was speaking because not only was I not falling asleep, he also got my mind wondering what I actually know about God and Christianity. I also thought that a lot of the world doesn’t really know what truth is, when they were going around asking people, which was quite interesting. I honestly think there are certain types of truth and maybe that’s why we can’t define the word. When I answered the question about “cosmic battle” I answered “a fight between cosmic.” What it actually meant was the fight between truths vs. falsehood. At least that’s how I understood it.
I don’t think I agree with what insanity meant in the Webster Dictionary thing. I think insanity has different branches. Such as losing touch with reality, and going crazy, and etc. That’s my opinion though. As I’m watching the video and the speaker is asking a question, I answer to in my head and when the students answer aloud we have the same answers but it’s not what the speaker is usually looking for and it’s funny because we all have the same answers to questions we think are always right. But it’s good to learn from more from what u guessed. Other than that I really thought the first episode of the truth project was quite well and deep in certain topics.

Anxiety Activity

In the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Will, the main character, usually doesn’t confront his issues, he chose blindness when it came to issues between him and another person. For example, in one of the episodes, his father, sort of abandoned him but when he comes to spend time with Will, and take him on a trip just the two of them, the father usually has excuses of how “business has come up” the last minute and that he has to go but he will come back for him next time. That was always the excuse that he gave Will, and Will would usually say “yeah next time then.” As the father left, Will broke down in front of Phil- Character, and expressed all his anger out. I think the way he handles that issue isn’t healthy. I think this because; the relationship is sort of fake or not close. It shows first that the dad is maybe ashamed of Will. Will feels this but can talk to his dad about it because they don’t have a close relationship as much as Will wants them to have. The connection is probably lost because the dad left when Will was a baby. If they both talked about how they felt, the relationship would be stronger.

Anxiety

First of all, anxiety for my understanding is worrying too much, and can lead to depression, sickness, and even death. Anxiety could be connected to stress and vice versa. Thank God there are ways Anxiety can be treated. Ways I can deal with anxiety is maybe looking at what is making me worry too much. Then maybe look for ways to help reduce the anxiety. After maybe avoid the issue that is worrying me. Finally, I would hopefully let go of that issue. Maybe if the last one doesn’t work, I would just cry it out. That usually makes me feel better. Or even be around friends who make me smile. I think the best way too overcome anxiety is to be around people who you enjoy, but then maybe that could be someone’s anxiety. Some coping strategies are maybe laughing a lot, having a better self-esteem, sleep, and try to relax yourself. The way I resolve conflict b/w me and my friend is by talking it out, mostly, if I don’t do that, I avoid them. I try to act mature about the conflict, and try to be as reasonable as possible. Some people cry, some people get extremely angry, or even don’t care if they are involved in a conflict with another person.

Journal responce

What I thought about the ending of the story was, “OH WOW”. I thought this because of how Oedipus stabbed his eyes. That was so disturbing, just imagining it. It was sad that Jocasta killed herself too, because of the things she found out. Back when Creon and Oedipus were having their argument in front of the Chorus, the way Creon was most reasonable, most believable and most in control, he should have been the one to be King instead of Oedipus. I also thought the way Creon didn’t seek revenge on Oedipus because of the way he acted but instead, I think Creon took care of Oedipus’ daughters. I think how Oedipus was begging to be banished from Thebes was sort of harsh on himself because I think he went through enough brutality by stabbing his eyes. Over all, the story was very interesting and not as hard as I thought it would be. At the end I felt a bit of pity for Oedipus because of the things he did, like stab his eyes, and made the effort to connect with his city even if he was of higher people (?). Most of the leaders today wouldn’t really do the things Oedipus did even if it was a fiction story.