My web / personal religion / philosophy of life / sense of self / life list

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My worldview. Life map. Web of beliefs. B-system. Personal philosophy. Personal religion. Sense of self. Way of life.This mind map is an aid to help you figure out your personal worldview: what you believe and value and how those beliefs and values relate to one another as well as to past experiences and how you live your daily life.Pay attention to whether your beliefs, values, practices, and experiences are consistent with one another or whether you have spots of cognitive dissonance where there's a conflict between, say, two of your beliefs or between a belief and a deeply held value.As you develop your "web" of beliefs you could also consider how it compares and contrasts with the beliefs, values, practices, and experiences of others. Although perfectly understanding others and where they're coming from is probably unrealistic if you put work into practicing imaginative empathy to construct what seems to you to be their web of beliefs, values, practices, and experiences, you could get some sense of where they're coming from and possibly get a glimpse of what it's like to be them.This sort of "worldview mind mapping" can also give you insight into the overall, often complicated, rationale of your beliefs and the beliefs of others. Moreover, worldview mind mapping could offer a rough and informal picture of what it means for a belief or practice to be rational or reasonable. This is true especially for our bigger-picture beliefs that can't be directly proven from, say, sense experience, introspection, memory, testimony, or so-called pure reasoning.

Actions/Practices/Habits/Behaviors | "How do I live my life?"

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This is where you add actions, practices, routines, and rituals. What do you actually do in your life? What do you think about? How do you spend your time? How do you spend your money? What does your phone history say about how you organize your life? What about your trash can?

pray here and there; not always

keep a bible in my car

Jehovah's Witness app on my phone

Beliefs | "What do I think is true?"

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Here's where you add your beliefs, views, and opinions. What's your stance on the existence of God? Morality? The meaning of life? What happens after we die? I've added a link to a page that can help you brainstorm topics you'd like to address.Once you've got a small set of beliefs identified, you can begin the process of systematization -- that is, figuring out how your beliefs interrelate and, perhaps, conflict.And this systematizing process will, of course, include sorting through the relationships and potential conflicts and tensions between your experiences, values, and practices as well.

Believe in God

always will be a tiny bit of JW

believe in equality

Values | "What's important to me?"

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Here's where you add what matters to you. What's important to you? What's not? What do you feel is central and what's not that important? One way to think about this is to think through what you love, what you hate, and what you're indifferent about.These values inform how you evaluate things. Your personal judgment of values themselves, experiences, beliefs, practices, projects, and relationships.

Acceptance

Family

Independence

Loyalty

Being true to myself

Experiences | "What's it like being me?"

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Here's where you add important life experiences that have shaped you. These could be major or minor experiences from childhood up to the present moment.

Grew up going to the Kingdom Hall

Yearly assemblies (international
chruch assembly once a year)

Bible study as a kid

society (friends and other family)

Relationships | "Who do I really connect with?"

mom

sister

dad

boyfriend

Tia

Blind spots? | "What am I missing?" or "What are we hiding?"

Missing things | What's being overlooked?

a set religion

Avoiding or changing the topic | What's not being said?

how judgmental JW's can be sometimes

Emotions | "What do I feel?"

confused

anxiety

gratitude/ thankful

Institutions

home

school

general public

work

My situation/context

accepted in my family

believe in God but not forced
to follow a specific religion

Introduce yourself

Theme or question?

Connect it w/ web

Any tensions w/ web?

Value.