Back to Basics
Paradigms and Worldviews
We have looked at paradigms before. These are frames of reference or worldviews.
They are the baseline beliefs we have accepted as truth. They are the established hypotheses; the things we consider obvious or "accepted science." It is out of this body of assumptions and biases, that we analyze the world and our problems in order to formulate solutions.
Here’s the problem.
Weak faulty paradigms result in murky, confusing, sometimes conflicting conclusions. A life with this poor quality unchallenged thinking results in a fragmented person/personality.
And fragmented people are generally unhappy.
Knowing this about our feelings makes it possible to be able to look at our usually hidden worldviews or paradigms by asking ourselves simple quality of life questions.
Am I generally happy, peaceful, and content?
Or am I generally unhappy, troubled, and frustrated?
Do I believe I am a victim and locked out of having a meaningful purposeful life?
Am I jealous of anyone else?
If the answer to all of these questions shows you to be completely happy and content then you may suffer from delusional thinking because life is a mix of good, bad, happiness and sadness. Our worldviews are constructed as our mostly subconscious way to explain the troubled world we find ourselves in.
[Jesus Speaking]
Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.
And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”