Photo Journal Walk Cont.

Photo Journal Walk

So I walked around in Redondo Beach. I've grown up here and it will always be home to me. As I walked and saw all of the things that are all so familiar to me I realized how long I've taken for granted how beautiful a place I live in. I walked along the beach on the board walk till I reached the end which is about a mile long from my house. I sat at the end and thought about my goals and where I want to end up in life. I have a long road till I reach where I want to end up but I'm motivated to get there. I then walked up to my grandparents property. They still own the house but my grandfather died a year ago in October and my grandmother now lives with either my uncles or our house. As I looked out from there property I remembered my grandfather and how much he loved the view. I then thought about where he had gone in his life. He is my inspiration. He had over 200 patents for Boeing. He is the brightest person I've ever met, and probably will ever meet. I want to live up to his expectations, his goals that he had for me. I remember him telling me that it is all mental. "If you are motivated" he would say, "you can do whatever you want." I then walked down to the park I spent so many summers in. I learned how to ride a bike in this park. This is home to me. I sat down and thought of all my favorite memories. Building forts, walking all the trails in the forest, playing on the jungle gym, and buying 5 cent candies from the general store that no longer is open. This is my home, and always will be my home. Although I plan to leave Washington because of the cold, wet weather. I will always remember those great days. The good old days in which I spent running around on my bike. I will always cherish these spots. Things change but the will always be the same to me.

My plan is to write out post-it notes and place them on random cars in parking lots. Some examples of things I will say will be, "cheer up, it will get getter, or smiles make the world go round". Things that are intentionally being kind and most will have an inspiration to them. I plan to do this during this weekend. I have a feeling it should be fun to see the reactions of the people.

Question 2

Sometimes I feel like I'm a Grendel. The Grendel's of this world are those who have been picked on, teased, and shoved into the back corner of our world with little respect given to them. Grendel's build up tension until one day they snap. Look at history and you will find examples of there people. They are the murderers, the psycho-killers. It all starts with the person not feeling included in the group, and outcast of society. Those people become angry with life and start to feel hatred toward people. Grendel's are the kids at school who are thrown into trash cans day after day, or the kid who gets made fun of for being older, smarter, or even those who are good. Personally as a kid, I was picked on, an outcast at SCS. I was always left out or made fun of. I would come home angry when I personally did not want to feel angry. I began to hate others, look at them as just another person who would find something to laugh at me about. I believe that this is the reason I'm an introvert. I don't like interactions with others and most importantly, I don't let anyone close enough to me. Many people at SCS don't really know me for who I am. I some times feel pressured to look a certain way and act a certain way just so that I don't get picked on. To this day I remember one kid who picked on me probably the most. When we had a meeting with him, his dad, and my dad, we asked him why he hated me so much and he said, "Because he's good". I feel like the Grendel's are not those people who fell into peer pressure but those who stay out of it. They are out of the social norm. They are those who strive to do good things and in return get picked on for it. My only strength that keeps me from completely breaking down some days is my family and knowing that some day I'll be able to look back at them and say, "What a bunch of losers they were". My only other strength I find, is in God. God has always been there, especially in my deep and dark times. I hope to continue to work hard, make myself to be who I know I can be, and forget about the things that others have said. One of my favorite sayings that has always given me some encouragement is, "sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me".

Myers-Briggs

I'm a infv which means that I'm an introvert, Intuitive, Feeling and Judging. My percentages are 11%, 38%, 12%, and 67%.

When looking through some of the links I found this was the description for that personality type. "As an INFJ, your primary mode of living is focused internally, where you take things in primarily via intuition. Your secondary mode is external, where you deal with things according to how you feel about them, or how they fit with your personal value system. INFJs are gentle, caring, complex and highly intuitive individuals. Artistic and creative, they live in a world of hidden meanings and possibilities. Only one percent of the population has an INFJ Personality Type, making it the most rare of all the types"

I completely agree with this description. I'm definitely an INFJ because I'm a caring and gentle person. Also as I looked through good jobs I found that an INFJ is perfect for the medical field and especially for child care.

Predestination Vs. Free Will

Since the 16th century, men have fought over two different theories for how we can find salvation. Those two ways are predestination and free will. Predestination comes from the teachings of a reformer by the name of John Calvin, who started the philosophy of Calvinism. A Calvinist believes that the human is totally and always sinful. They also believe that God chose those who are elect and those who are not. Along with that a Calvinist believes in what is called “limited atonement”, or the thought that God did not send his son to earth to take the sins of all mankind but only those select few. That is the basic explanation of a Calvinistic worldview, but we only want to examine one part of their philosophy and that is whether we are predestined for heaven or hell. Webster’s Dictionary defines predestination as such, “the doctrine that God in consequence of his foreknowledge of all events infallibly guides those who are destined for salvation”. On the total other end of the spectrum comes another philosophy, and that is free will. Free will comes from the beliefs of Jacobus Arminius, who started Arminianism. This philosophy believes that the human gets to choose whether to accept of deny Christ’s salvation. They also believe that Christ’s death was for all mankind but did not secure everyone’s salvation. We want to look at the first part of their philosophy and that is, humans have a choice to accept Christ. Free will is defined in Webster’s Dictionary as the “freedom of humans to make choices that are not determined by prior causes or by divine intervention”.
The controversy that stirs between these two philosophies is the fact that God chooses people to be elect, where as people choose to go to God. They are complete opposites. People look at predestination as “unfair” because God chooses some and does not choose others. This brings us to a very big question that has been on the mind of many. Is there a middle ground between free will and predestination, or are we as humans looking at this problem in the wrong point of view all together?

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