{"id":598,"date":"2016-09-26T03:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T09:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leogaumont.com\/?p=598"},"modified":"2018-01-09T16:58:16","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T23:58:16","slug":"everybody-has-a-worldview-worldview-series-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leogaumont.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/26\/everybody-has-a-worldview-worldview-series-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Everybody Has a Worldview: Worldview Series (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Everybody Has a Worldview: Worldview Series (Part 2) by L\u00e9o Gaumont\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Haz1BIcUmlk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>(A wise man once said) When we\u2019ve chosen to take a different path, we must be prepared to do things differently, and be willing to come into conflict with those who would have us do otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Think about this. What happens when you decide to do something different? Do people encourage you? Not really. Some may be challenged by your choice while others may actually be threatened by it, but few will applaud it.<\/p>\n<p>The path that you\u2019ve taken as a home educator is a decision to do something different and with that comes the challenges and conflicts of those who would prefer that you do like everybody else.<\/p>\n<p>What is it that makes people react, sometimes violently when someone challenges their position on a matter? To answer that question we need to consider the root cause or foundational premise that directs the actions of people. That brings us to the importance of world view.<\/p>\n<p>World view is defined as what is unquestionably assumed to be true, about oneself, and the world around us. (repeat)<\/p>\n<p>The whole idea of world view actually is the world\u2019s replacement for a word that the \u201cworldly\u201d don\u2019t like to use and that word is \u201cfaith.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, instead of asking what faith do you belong to, we sort of make it more generic and downplay its meaning, I guess, by saying it is a world view rather than a faith.<\/p>\n<p>Faith is defined as a strongly held belief or theory and world view as what is unquestionably assumed to be true about oneself and the world around us.<\/p>\n<p>There is not much difference in those two definitions and we can see that they are connected as faith is the foundation of world view. Quite frankly, they are the same because both are established on our perception of God.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody has a world view or faith foundation. One of the greatest tricks of the world is to say, \u201cI\u2019m not religious.\u201d I have never, in my entire life, met a person who wasn\u2019t religious, for the simple reason that there is not a person on earth that does not have a world view or faith system.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve lived, you\u2019ve experienced things, you\u2019ve heard things, you\u2019ve been told things, you\u2019ve read things, everything that you\u2019ve been exposed to has been part of what formulated your world view.<\/p>\n<p>Whether right or wrong, true or false, reality or otherwise, everyone has a world view based on all our personal experiences, whether we are aware of it or not.<\/p>\n<p>Some people can actually point at it and give it a name. Other people don\u2019t know that they have one but indeed they do and it\u2019s based on our perception of God.<\/p>\n<p>Now, speaking of education, how many people have actually been home educated? Very few, I venture to guess. Most of us are actually doing something that we have never experienced ourselves as students.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s like telling our children to do something that we\u2019ve never done. A bit of a challenge, to be sure as it must begin with our correcting the errors in our worldview.<\/p>\n<p>So really, when we stop to think of it, what do you think is going to happen when someone starts talking to you as a home educator and asks, what experience have you had with education?<\/p>\n<p>Nearly all of us have been to school. So what do we bring with us? What\u2019s our world view in regards to education? It is probably what we\u2019ve experienced which is, school.<\/p>\n<p>So what do 99.9 percent of the people do when they first start home educating? Bring the school home, because that\u2019s all we\u2019ve experienced, that\u2019s our world view. We\u2019re comfortable there, because that\u2019s what we\u2019ve come to believe is true.<\/p>\n<p>I want to challenge your world view as it relates to education. It\u2019s important, because your world view becomes the foundation of every decision that you\u2019re ever going to make in your life, including all the decisions you will make regarding the education of your children.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s important because you want to make the best decisions and your making that decision is going to be based upon what you believe to be true.<\/p>\n<p>I find it\u2019s almost impossible for me to start any session on any topic without first talking about world view. It is that important. Debates that we may have, usually boil down to an expression of faith or our strongly held belief or theory in a matter.<\/p>\n<p>Where are we placing our faith? Where is our world view? Since our world view and faith is the foundation for our intellectual and spiritual being, it becomes the bias.<\/p>\n<p>As a matter of fact, you can see this throughout the world. The Jewish people believe that their world view is the correct one, everyone else falls under the category of gentile. The Muslim people figure that their world view is the correct one and everyone else falls under the category of infidel.<\/p>\n<p>The Christian world view also believes that it\u2019s the right one (and I happen to believe that it actually is the right one) and everyone else falls in the \u201cother category\u201d we refer to generally as unbelievers. All these are faith categories and therefore, all are world views.<\/p>\n<p>So, whether Christian, Jewish, Muslim or any other religion, all world views really have two perspectives; one in keeping with what one believes and another which is what everybody else believes or anything that does not agree with what we believe. This creates an environment of us versus them.<\/p>\n<p>If you think about this, it is the reason for every war that has ever been fought. Both sides see the other side as \u201cthe other guys\u201d who don\u2019t but should believe as they do and they are willing to fight over it, whether with words or with actions.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-598-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/lg-wp-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/09\/WV2Aud.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/lg-wp-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/09\/WV2Aud.mp3\">https:\/\/lg-wp-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/09\/WV2Aud.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(A wise man once said) When we\u2019ve chosen to take a different path, we must be prepared to do things differently, and be willing to come into conflict with those who would have us do otherwise. Think about this. What happens when you decide to do something different? Do people encourage you? Not really. Some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leogaumont.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/26\/everybody-has-a-worldview-worldview-series-part-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Everybody Has a Worldview: Worldview Series (Part 2)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[46,51],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog2017","category-worldview","tag-worldview","tag-faith"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leogaumont.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leogaumont.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leogaumont.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leogaumont.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leogaumont.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/leogaumont.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"https:\/\/leogaumont.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leogaumont.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leogaumont.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leogaumont.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}