pushes the idea that what is right and wrong is all based upon your perspective.
Here is the problem. There is truth out there. There is objective truth. This means that in our world of relativity and subjectivity that says we can all have equal opinions, objectivity is frowned upon. If you don't believe there is objective truth, hold up a fire on a stick to your hand and you tell me its hot, I'll tell you it's cold and it doesn't burn.
Now here is the deal...in our world, most people live their "I thinks" because it takes effort to figure out the truth. This project is a project in Catholic Theology. It is a project at a college preparatory. Therefore, if your posts are "I think" posts and remain "I think" posts, you are closer to failing than receiving an A grade. It is essential to understand that central to the Catholic Church teaching is Truth...Objective truth. One truth that rules the universe and all people. Therefore, subjectivity and living from a subjective perspective most often moves one away from their true identity and the truth the Catholic Church teaches.
You are being assessed in Catholic Theology in a College Preparatory school. It is foundational that you discover the truth, rather than stick to the superficial and non-moving "I think". I think means I remain in my own point of view. This is not a project about "I think", it is a project about "I have come to learn".
For example, if you come to post about the subjectivity/objectivity of love...great, you wrote what you think. That is wonderful for 3rd grade, but move beyond "I think" to "I have come to know". This project shows that you can find and discover the truth, most especially from the Catholic Church's view.
"I have come to know" needs critical thinking. It needs thinking in general, something our consumerist society tries to get you to not do. Why? Because once you start to think, you realize that what they promise to be fulfilling is not fulfilling. What they want you to buy to won't satisfy you. Critically thinking takes explaining. It takes examples. It takes understanding. It takes going beyond doing nothing to doing something. That is tough for most of us. It is easy to sit in our ignorance. Our society and culture would much rather have you do that. So long as you sit in your ignorance and subjective "I think" they get to continually prey on you, profit from you, and feed off you. So long as you stay in your "I think", you remain a slave to the world....and that is what the world wants. Once you start to go beyond you break free from its bondage.
Ironically (and I will end here), one who says "I think" has often done little in the way of actually thinking. It usually is equivalent to "from my point of view, this is what it should be like that best fits with the way I want to live." Thinking would mean changing one's point of view in accordance with truth, and that, for most, would be pushing it too far. It all comes down to this: do I revolve around truth, or does truth revolve around me. If I revolve around truth, then I better be ok with changing when I encounter it, rather than remaining stagnant in the center of my own universe.
