Lesson 1 REEXECO

ON Realities
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• As the deer longs for streams of
water,
• so my soul longs for you, O God.
• My soul thirsts for God, the living
God.
• When can I enter and see the face
of God?
• My tears have been my bread day
and night,
• as they ask me every day, “Where
is your God?”
• Those times I recall
• as I pour out my soul,
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• When I would cross over to the

shrine of the Mighty One,*
• to the house of God,
• Amid loud cries of
thanksgiving,
• with the multitude keeping
festival.f
• 6Why are you downcast, my
soul;
• why do you groan within me?
• Wait for God, for I shall again
praise him,
• my savior and my God.
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• My soul is downcast within me;

• therefore I remember you
• From the land of the Jordan* and
Hermon,
• from Mount Mizar,g
• 8*Deep calls to deep
• in the roar of your torrents,
• and all your waves and breakers
• sweep over me.h
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9By day may the LORD send his

mercy,
and by night may his righteousness
be with me!
I will pray* to the God of my life,
10I will say to God, my rock:
“Why do you forget me?i
Why must I go about mourning
with the enemy oppressing me?”
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• 11It shatters my bones, when my

adversaries reproach me,
• when they say to me every day:
“Where is your God?”
• 12Why are you downcast, my soul,
• why do you groan within me?
• Wait for God, for I shall again praise
him,
• my savior and my God.
Lesson 1

Introduction: Course Overview

Lesson 1: What is Reality?

Reality of Man’s Existence and

Spiritual Longing for GOD
GROUP ACTIVITY

1. Personal 2. Social 3. National

Reality Reality Reality

4.
5. Terrestrial
International
Reality
Reality
What is
reality?
• Greek Philosophers
• For Plato Reality is the
World of Ideas
• Aristotle
✓ For Aristotle and his
followers, the senses are a
gateway to reality.
• For Leibniz Reality is the
“best possible world.”
Plato’s Reality

•The World of
Ideas vs the
world of
shadows
 • Aristotle
What is reality? ✓ For Aristotle and his followers, the senses are a gateway to reality.
What is reality?

• For Leibniz
Reality is the
“best possible
world.”
What is
reality?
• “According to Heidegger, we only
experience reality when it breaks
down: the weather seems weird,
floods destroy our crops, heat
becomes unbearable.“

• https://www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/the-new-basics-reality
Comeback of Reality

“Minsan mas dama mo ang halaga niya kung wala na siya.”

“We know more of the value of a person or thing when it is already

gone.”
 • Probably the greatest impetus for the comeback
Comeback of of reality was climate change, the “wicked
problem” that suggested some things were real
Reality no matter what we called them, or whether we
called them at all.
❑Nearly half (48.8%) of
the survey participants
chose climate change as
their top concern, and
❑78.1% said they would
be willing to change their
lifestyle to protect the
environment
War against Nations •UKRAINE
 • AMIDST THE DE-
HUMANIZING
REALITIES…there is a
usual question that man
asks: “Where is God
amidst all these?”
Objective and
Subjective Reality

• 1. Objective reality is
"existence as such". The
world of facts.
Independent of anyone's
thoughts, opinion or
feelings.
• Knowledge of objective
reality is gained by the five
senses of sight, hearing,
touch, taste, smell.
Objective and Subjective
Reality

• 2. Subjective reality is the

inner world of the mind.
The world of emotions and
feelings. It is composed of
one's own thoughts,
opinion and judgements
and emotions.
Personal Reality