Comparing Worldviews
Comparing Worldviews
Take one current expression of worldviews (e.g. a movie, a book, a song, etc.) found in our modern popular culture and analyze it in 2-3 pages. Include a summary of the material and a critique of it from a Christian theistic perspective and/or your own personal perspective.
If you have ever experienced the phenomena of déjà vu or felt beside yourself, then the television Lost may be your kind of program. The television show Lost includes a number of mysterious elements that have been credited as supernatural phenomena, in occurrences of time travel, supernatural healings, and other unexplainable events. The series follows the lives of various individuals and groups of people, most importantly the survivors of the crash of Oceanic 815. The plane was flying between Sydney and Los Angeles, when it crashed on a mysterious tropical island somewhere in the South Pacific Ocean. Each show usually features a particular story line from the island as well as back flashes (or forward and/or side flashes; you would have to watch to understand) of individuals which typically provides background information into the lives of those on the island. In addition to the plane survivors, the series includes other groups which inhabit the island. The “Others” is a group who has inhabited the island for an unknown amount of time. There are also several episodes which include people from the Dharma initiative who were brought to the island to study its electromagnetism properties and other supernatural capabilities before meeting their demise from what is presumed to be an attack from the “Others”. Lastly, near the end of the series, the viewers are introduced to Jacob, the islands protector, and his nemesis twin brother. Throughout the six seasons of Lost, the viewer is brought along a journey of the group of survivors striving to survive in the mythological environment they have found themselves in. On the island there are unexplainable, even
Take one current expression of worldviews (e.g. a movie, a book, a song, etc.) found in our modern popular culture and analyze it in 2-3 pages. Include a summary of the material and a critique of it from a Christian theistic perspective and/or your own personal perspective.
If you have ever experienced the phenomena of déjà vu or felt beside yourself, then the television Lost may be your kind of program. The television show Lost includes a number of mysterious elements that have been credited as supernatural phenomena, in occurrences of time travel, supernatural healings, and other unexplainable events. The series follows the lives of various individuals and groups of people, most importantly the survivors of the crash of Oceanic 815. The plane was flying between Sydney and Los Angeles, when it crashed on a mysterious tropical island somewhere in the South Pacific Ocean. Each show usually features a particular story line from the island as well as back flashes (or forward and/or side flashes; you would have to watch to understand) of individuals which typically provides background information into the lives of those on the island. In addition to the plane survivors, the series includes other groups which inhabit the island. The “Others” is a group who has inhabited the island for an unknown amount of time. There are also several episodes which include people from the Dharma initiative who were brought to the island to study its electromagnetism properties and other supernatural capabilities before meeting their demise from what is presumed to be an attack from the “Others”. Lastly, near the end of the series, the viewers are introduced to Jacob, the islands protector, and his nemesis twin brother. Throughout the six seasons of Lost, the viewer is brought along a journey of the group of survivors striving to survive in the mythological environment they have found themselves in. On the island there are unexplainable, even