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http://www.mikomma.de/virkla/names/schuels/kanada/campus/wilfried.htm | 2023-05-29T14:47:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224644867.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20230529141542-20230529171542-00216.warc.gz | 0.89914 | 267 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__247220296 | en | Wilfrid Laurier University
you who stand today on the threshold of life,
with a long horizon open before you for a long
of usefulness to your native land, if you will
permit me, after a long life, I shall remind you
already many problems rise before you: problems
of race division, problems of creed differences,
problems of economic conflict, problems of
national duty andnational aspiration.
Let me tell you that for the solution of these
problems you have a safe guide, an unfailing
light if you remember that faith is better than
doubt and love is better than hate.
Banish hate and doubt from your life. Let your
souls be ever open to the promptings of faith and
the gentle influence of brotherly love. Be
against the haughty, be gentle and kind to the
weak. Let your aim and purpose, in good report or
ill, in victory or defeat, be so to live, so to
strive, so to
serve as to do your part to raise even higher the
standard of life and living... | philosophy |
https://justask.net/ask-core-values/ | 2019-11-12T12:58:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496665573.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20191112124615-20191112152615-00086.warc.gz | 0.961872 | 352 | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-47__0__10030187 | en | We have a high standard for our we run and operate our business. We believe in serving our customers, our staff and our community. It is through our core values that we continue to grow as a company and continue to build strong relationships with our clients.
We believe that the customer’s best interest should guide every decision that we make.
We value each other as people more than we do as coworkers or employees.
We believe in transparency in all interactions with our clients, our vendors and ourselves.
We believe that communication is the highest technical skill.
We celebrate constructive criticism from our clients, vendors and each other.
We believe that technology has no intrinsic value of its own for a business – its value is derived from its ability to increase profit, reduce cost, or create efficiency.
We believe in honesty, at all times, without exception.
We believe in providing our customers with consulting advice that we would give if it was our own business. The needs of the customer always outweigh short-term profit potential.
We believe in paying attention to the little things, just as diligently as we address the big issues. It’s often the little things that make the difference.
We believe that every technical problem has a solution and we refuse to accept a situation as “unsolvable”.
We believe that our true value as a company is not solely measured in sales revenue or profit but also by our capacity to give back to the community and serve the needs of the greater good.
We believe in fun and that the value of loving what you do cannot be underestimated.
We believe in continuous incremental improvement in all that we do.
We believe that diversity in background and culture makes us stronger. | philosophy |
http://dialogueanddeliberation.com/personaldeceptioncasenarrativesample.html | 2022-12-01T00:58:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710777.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20221130225142-20221201015142-00292.warc.gz | 0.94163 | 472 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__118086983 | en | Prepare a typed, double spaced (approximately 2-4 page) case narrative in which you identify and explore a personal experience involving deception.
Be sure to select a situation in which you made the decision to deceive someone. Be sure the example is ethically complex, such as a situation involving an ethical dilemma or other type of ethical challenge. Be sure to avoid selecting an example in which your decision to deceive was made simply in order to gain personal advantage, to avoid discomfort, or for other reasons that fail to meet minimal standards of ethical justification as explored in class and in the readings.
In your narrative, be sure to address the following prompts:
· Specifically what happened? (be sure to provide enough information for readers to understand the nature of your ethical dilemma)
· How did this experience affect one or more relationships of importance to you?
· What other impact did this experience with deception have on you and others?
· Imagine the situation from the standpoint of the person(s) being deceived. Do you have reason to believe that, if given all of the fact, the deceived in this case would find your decision to deceive him, her, or them ethically justifiable? Be sure to provide strong support for your assessment, reflecting sensitivity to the other’s perspective.
· Apply all steps of the Principle of Veracity to the case.
· In retrospect, and applying the Principle of Veracity, do you believe the decision to deceive was ethically justifiable? Why or why not?
Criteria for Assessment:
1. Follows all assignment guidelines
2. Provides a clear and concise explanation of the nature and importance of a personal experience with deception
3. Demonstrates understanding of the complexity and importance of relevant ethical choices
4. Demonstrates ability to identify and analyze a real-world ethical problem or dilemma and to identify those affected by the dilemma
5. Demonstrates understanding of the Principle of Veracity and its application to a real-world problem or dilemma
6. Demonstrates moral imagination, balanced partiality, and empathic listening abilities
7. Applies the Shared Criteria for Technical Competency, Mechanics, and Related Presentations Skills
Note: Be careful to select a morally complex situation involving deception (rather than confidentiality, withholding of information, or secrecy). | philosophy |
http://watsonwanders.com/tips-quips/2017/11/14/traveling-is-the-antidote-to-ignorance | 2019-08-21T09:09:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027315865.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20190821085942-20190821111942-00544.warc.gz | 0.979172 | 631 | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-35__0__36161163 | en | "Traveling is the Antidote to Ignorance"
I recently heard a travel quote that stuck with me like a tick. In Trevor Noah’s standup special, Afraid of the Dark, he says “Traveling is the antidote to ignorance.” I absolutely could not agree more.
Traveling isn’t just an opportunity to see the world; it’s a chance to experience it and be changed by it. It allows you to learn from people completely different from anyone you know at home, and to hear them explain their culture, customs, and cuisine. There is no match to this kind of education (sorry to my alma matter...you were a close second!). It’s one thing to learn about the Berlin Wall, Buddhism, or the Vietnam War in a classroom or book. It is something entirely different to see the places these things were born, grew, and manifested. To speak to the people who live that history is incredible, and it is not possible to remain unchanged by it. Travel opens your eyes and forces you to see the huge, wonderful, and painful aspects of our planet.
Backpacking from Western Europe to Southeast Asia when I was in college was the best learning experience I’ve ever had. When I was in Istanbul, I learned about the deep rooted respect for women that the Islamic faith teaches. When I was in Thailand and the world proclaimed that there was a violent coup occurring, I watched as hundreds of people peacefully and calmly protested their government. When I was in Holland, I learned where the greatest dams in the world were built, and how they became a symbol of national pride. When I was in Uganda, I learned that sugar cane tastes best when picked fresh from the side of the road. I’ve heard stories of family, and culture, and religion, and hardship. I’ve learned about completely different cultures, customs, and ways of thinking, and I have been so blessed by the experience.
What’s more, I’m not alone in my education. There is an entire, massive community of people all over the world who have travelled and been positively changed by it. They flock together in backpacker hostels and expat meet ups, and I really don’t think there is a nicer group of people on the planet. They have all opened themselves up to the world, and they are excited to welcome you into their community of wanderers. They are all working to free themselves of ignorance -- to listen to your story and tell you theirs. Experiencing the world has taught them patience, gratitude, and appreciation for everything. No matter where I travel, I always seek out these people and I am never disappointed.
Traveling has certainly been the best, and most effective, medicine for my affliction of ignorance. And I cannot wait for all the many more things it has to teach me.
If you too want to experience the world and learn from it, let me know! I’d be more than happy to help you plan your next adventure. | philosophy |
https://www.ebrjournal.net/home/vol23/iss4/3/ | 2024-02-21T14:30:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473518.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221134259-20240221164259-00192.warc.gz | 0.870582 | 245 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__13270019 | en | Covid-19, ethics of pandemics, racism, racial essence, substance of race
The article treats intercultural problems of global-scale crises, focusing upon the pandemic of the viral disease COVID-19. It deals with the question of whether racism is universal or culturally conditioned, and shows that it is an ideological inheritance of the ontological status of the concept of race, which was developed and established in the context of the European ideational tradition. By presenting traditional Chinese models of relational and anti-essentialist concepts of the self, the article aims to point to new possibilities of understanding interpersonal and intercultural interactions that can help us to develop new strategies against the pandemic.
Rošker, J. S. (2021). An Increase in Racism during the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Ontology of Race: Intercultural Comparison of the European and Chinese Traditions. Economic and Business Review, 23(4), 251-259. https://doi.org/10.15458/2335-4216.1290
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. | philosophy |
http://sx.hlcn.org/home/volunteerCate/detail/id/18.html | 2020-04-10T00:13:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585371880945.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20200409220932-20200410011432-00232.warc.gz | 0.983781 | 480 | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-16__0__159890763 | en | "When I walked into Huiling on my first day of work, my life changed completely. I had volunteered in America at special education schools during high school and tutored at inner city schools in college and had been challenged by both, yet nothing prepared me for Huiling. Anyone can sense the passion and the drive of the teachers within 5 minutes of being there; they know they face an uphill battle academically, socially, and emotionally in their work, and yet the challenge invigorates them. Huiling is an anomaly in China, where special education is not understood and volunteering is practically non-existent; Huiling believes that its students can and deserve to live as any other human should and is almost 100% dependent on volunteer support to survive, whether it is as a teacher or through financial assistance. Teachers are working 5 days a week, whether it is in the classroom or in student housing, planning the next week's training items, or going out of their way to take students into their homes when there is no where else to go. They understand the students in a way that parents, many of whom divorce or leave their child to friends out of shame or disappointment, friends, and the community do not – special education thrives when the student is not seen as unusual or challenging, but extraordinary and valued for who they are, not who they will become. Maybe that's the reason why, when you walk into Huiling, you only here laughter, music, and gleeful shouting of the students, unburdened by their physical or mental short comings. In their world, those who cannot understand and shun them are not important because they have what any person, Chinese or American, young or old, male or female, desire more than anything and what many people will never find as hard as they may try: unconditional and unfailing love based on who they are, not what they can do.
Working at Huiling was one of the greatest experiences of my life. I had a chance to work with some of the wisest and happiest people in a situation that, from the outside looking in, might have seemed hopeless. To be able to insert myself in their lives was such an honor, yet I am even more grateful they have become a permanent part of mine and pray that one day, I will be led back there to become a permanent part of the Huiling family." | philosophy |
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The Magical Trances
Sacrilege: Destroying the Sacred
Heresy: Alternative Definitions
Iconoclasm: Breaking Images
Bioaestheticism: The Body
PETER J. CARROLL
With Illustrations by Andrew David
To all those Psychonauts with whom I have stood in midnight forests,
in temples, in subterranean chambers, and atop mountains,
invoking the Mysteries . . .
I wish to gratefully acknowledge all the people who, over the years, have helped make this book possible. To Ray Sherwin, who helped make the first version of Liber Null available for students of the IOT in 1978, and who worked with me to produce the revised version of 1981; to Christopher Bray of the Sorceror's Apprentice, who helped keep Liber Null in print and produced a limited edition of Psychonaut, and who helped by making these available to students through his bookstore; to Andrew David, who did the illustrations for Liber Null; and to Brian Ward, who did the illustrations for Psychonaut. My thanks to you all. The present edition is a completely updated and edited version, which makes both works available in one binding.
Liber Null was written for the serious occult student, and therefore contains some powerful rituals. These rituals and exercises should be performed by readers who are in good health. If one suffers from heart disease, epilepsy, or any chronic disease, please do not use the material in this book. The author and the publisher will not accept any responsibility for misuse of this material, nor will they accept any responsibility for anything that may occur when readers use the exercises discussed here.
An IOT Publication in Class 4°, 3° and 2°
The Order and the Quest
The Alphabet of Desire
The magic of the IOT is an intensely practical, personal, experimental art. Two major themes run through this book: that altered states of consciousness are the key to unlocking one's magical abilities; and that these abilities can be developed without any symbolic system except reality itself.
The magical style of thinking is explored with chapters on alternative belief and the alphabet of desire.
A natural inclination toward the darker side of magic is as good a point as any from which to begin the ultimate quest, and half this book is devoted to the black arts.
Independently of ancient dusty books and mystification the vital elements of many traditions conspire here to create a living art.
The Illuminates of Thanateros are the magical heirs to the Zos Kia Cultus and the A .'. A .'. This book, written originally as a sourcebook for the IOT, is now being released for those who wish to work alone and for those seeking admission to the Order. Although the initiate is referred to as "he" throughout, the reader should understand that this is merely in keeping with the traditional style of magical texts of this type, and that this course of study by no means excludes women.
Diagram 1. The survival of the magical tradition.
The Order and the Quest
The secrets of magic are universal and of such a practical physical nature as to defy simple explanation. Those beings who realize and practice such secrets are said to have achieved mastership. Masters will, at various points in history, inspire adepts to create magic, mystic, religious, or even secular orders to bring others to mastership. Such orders have at certain times openly called themselves the Illuminati; at other times secrecy has seemed more prudent. The mysteries can only be preserved by constant revelation. In this, the IOT continues a tradition perhaps seven thousand years old, yet the Order in the outer has no history, although it is constituted as a satrap of the Illuminati.
In the Order with no past there is nowhere to conceal the future from the present. It takes its name from the gods of sex, Eros, and death, Thanatos. Apart from being humanity's two greatest obsessions and motivating forces, sex and death represent the positive and negative methods of attaining magical consciousness. Illumination refers to the inspiration, enlightenment, and liberation resulting from success with these methods.
The specific purpose for which the IOT is constituted is to help determining in what form the as yet embryonic fifth aeon will manifest. Its task, although historic, consists in disseminating magical knowledge to individuals. For at no time since the first aeon has humanity stood in such need of these abilities to see its way forward.
There is no formal hierarchy in the IOT. There is a division of activity depending on ability as it develops.
Students strengthen their magical will against the strongest possible adversary — their own minds. They explore the possibilities of changing themselves at will and explore their own occult abilities in dream and magical activity.
Initiates familiarize themselves with all forms of occult attainment and seek to perfect themselves in some particular form of magic. They should also find others capable of aspiring to the Order and offer them help.
Adepts seek perfection in all aspects of personal magical power, wisdom and liberation.
Masters seek to realize the aims of the Order by whatever forms of action or non-action they deem appropriate.
Diagram 1 is an exposition of the survival of magical traditions from the first aeon to the fifth. For an extended discussion of the aeonics involved, consult "The Millenium".
SYLLABUS OF THE
THIS COURSE IS an exercise in the disciplines of magical trance, a form of mind control having similarities to yoga, personal metamorphosis, and the basic techniques of magic. Success with these techniques is a prerequisite for any real progress with the initiate 3° syllabus.
A magical diary is the magician's most essential and powerful tool. It should be large enough to allow a full page for each day. Students should record the time, duration and degree of success of any practice undertaken. They should make notes about environmental factors conducive (or otherwise) to the work.
Those wishing to notify the Order of their intention to begin the work are invited to do so via the publisher.
To work magic effectively, the ability to concentrate the attention must be built up until the mind can enter a trance-like condition. This is accomplished in a number of stages: absolute motionlessness of the body, regulation of the breathing, stopping of thoughts, concentration on sound, concentration on objects, and concentration on mental images.
Arrange the body in any comfortable position and try to remain in that position for as long as possible. Try not to blink or move the tongue or fingers or any part of the body at all. Do not let the mind run away on long trains of thought but rather observe oneself passively. What appeared to be a comfortable position may become agonizing with time, but persist! Set aside some time each day for this practice and take advantage of any opportunity of inactivity which may arise.
Record the results in the magical diary. One should not be satisfied with less than five minutes. When fifteen have been achieved, proceed to regulation of the breathing.
Stay as motionless as possible and begin to deliberately make the breathing slower and deeper. The aim is to use the entire capacity of the lungs but without any undue muscular effort or strain. The lungs may be held empty or full between exhalation and inhalation to lengthen the cycle. The important thing is that the mind should direct its complete attention to the breath cycle. When this can be done for thirty minutes, proceed to not-thinking.
The exercises of motionlessness and breathing may improve health, but they have no other intrinsic value aside from being a preparation for not-thinking, the beginnings of the magical trance condition. While motionless and breathing deeply, begin to withdraw the mind from any thoughts which arise. The attempt to do this inevitably reveals the mind to be a raging tempest of activity. Only the greatest determination can win even a few seconds of mental silence, but even this is quite a triumph. Aim for complete vigilance over the arising of thoughts and try to lengthen the periods of total quiescence.
Like the physical motionlessness, this mental motionlessness should be practiced at set times and also whenever a period of inactivity presents itself. The results should be recorded in your diary.
Magic is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will. The will can only become magically effective when the mind is focused and not interfering with the will. The mind must first discipline itself to focus its entire attention on some meaningless phenomenon. If an attempt is made to focus on some form of desire, the effect is short circuited by lust of result. Egotistical identification, fear of failure, and the reciprocal desire not to achieve desire, arising from our dual nature, destroy the result.
Therefore, when selecting topics for concentration, choose subjects of no spiritual, egotistical, intellectual, emotional, or useful significance — meaningless things.
The legend of the evil-eye derives from the ability of wizards and sorcerers to give a fixed dead stare. This ability can be practiced against any object — a mark on a wall, something in the distance, a star in the night sky — anything. To hold an object with an absolutely fixed, unwavering gaze for more than a few moments proves extraordinarily difficult, yet it must be persisted in for hours at a time. Every attempt by the eye to distort the object, every attempt by the mind to find something else to think of, must be resisted. Eventually it is possible to extract occult secrets from things by this technique, but the ability must be developed by working with meaningless objects.
The part of the mind in which verbal thoughts arise is brought under magical control by concentration on sounds mentally imagined. Any simple sound of one or more syllables is selected, for example, Aum or Om, Abrahadabra, Yod He Vau He, Aum Mani Padme Hum, Zazas Zazas, Nasatanada Zazas. The chosen sound is repeated over and over in the mind to block all other thoughts. No matter how inappropriate the choice of sound may seem to have been, you must persist with it. Eventually the sound may seem to repeat itself automatically and may even occur in sleep. These are encouraging signs. Sound concentration is the key to words of power and certain forms of spell casting.
The part of the mind in which pictorial thoughts arise is brought under magical control by image concentration. A simple shape, such as a triangle, circle, square, cross, or crescent, is chosen and held in the mind's eye, without distortion, for as long as possible. Only the most determined efforts are likely to make the imagined form persist for any time. At first the image should be sought with the eyes closed. With practice it can be projected onto any blank surface. This technique is the basis of casting sigils and creating independent thought forms.
The three methods of attaining magical trance will only yield results if pursued with the most fanatical and morbid determination. These abilities are highly abnormal and usually inaccessible to human consciousness, as they demand such inhuman concentration, but the rewards are great. In the magical diary, record each day's formal work and whatever extra opportunities have been utilized. No page should be left blank.
The transmutation of the mind to magical consciousness has often been called the Great Work. It has a far-reaching purpose leading eventually to the discovery of the True Will. Even a slight ability to change oneself is more valuable than any power over the external universe. Metamorphosis is an exercise in willed restructuring of the mind.
All attempts to reorganize the mind involve a duality between conditions as they are and the preferred condition. Thus it is impossible to cultivate any virtue like spontaneity, joy, pious, pride, grace, or omnipotence without involving oneself in more conventionality, sorrow, guilt, sin, and impotence in the process. Religions are founded on the fallacy that one can or ought to have one without the other. High magic recognizes the dualistic condition but does not care whether life is bittersweet or sweet and sour; rather it seeks to achieve any arbitrary perceptual perspective at will.
Any state of mind might arbitrarily be chosen as an objective for transmutation, but there is a specific virtue to the ones given. The first is an antidote to the imbalance and possible madness of the magical trance. The second is a specific against obsession with the magical practices in the third section. They are:
Attaining these states of mind is accomplished by a process of ongoing meditation. One tries to enter into the spirit of the condition whenever possible and to think about the desired result at other times. By this method, a strong new mental habit can be established.
Consider laughter: it is the highest emotion, for it can contain any of the others from ecstasy to grief. It has no opposite. Crying is merely an underdeveloped form of it which cleanses the eyes and summons assistance to infants. Laughter is the only tenable attitude in a universe which is a joke played upon itself.
The trick is to see that joke played out even in the neutral and ghastly events which surround one. It is not for us to question the universe's apparent lack of taste. Seek the emotion of laughter at what delights and amuses, seek it in whatever is neutral or meaningless, seek it even in what is horrific and revolting. Though it may be forced at first, one can learn to smile inwardly at all things.
Non-attachment/Non-disinterest best describes the magical condition of acting without lust of result. It is very difficult for humans to decide on something and then to do it purely for its own sake. Yet it is precisely this ability which is required to execute magical acts. Only single -pointed awareness will do. Attachment is to be understood both in the positive and negative sense, for aversion is its other face. Attachment to any attribute of oneself, one's personality, one's ambitions, one's relationships or sensory experiences — or equally, aversion to any of these — will prove limiting.
On the other hand, it is fatal to lose interest in these things for they are one's symbolic system or magical reality. Rather, one is attempting to touch the sensitive parts of one's reality more lightly in order to deny the spoiling hand of grasping desire and boredom. Thereby one may gain enough freedom to act magically.
In addition to these two meditations there is a third, more active, form of metamorphosis, and this involves one's everyday habits. However innocuous they might seem, habits in thought word, and deed are the anchor of the personality. The magician aims to pull up that anchor and cast himself free on the seas of chaos.
To proceed, select any minor habit at random and delete it from your behavior: at the same adopt any new habit at random. The choices should not involve anything of spiritual, egocentric, or emotional significance, nor should you select anything with any possibility of failure. By persisting with such simple beginnings you become capable of virtually anything.
All works of metamorphosis should be committed to the magical diary.
|Andrew Laushkin «Браун, Д. Точка обмана»|
В арктике обнаружен уникальный артефакт, способный раз и навсегда изменить будущее человечества
|Translated by David Wyllie|
|Theory and Methods in Political Science /Ed by David Marsh and Gerry...||Девід Іден Лейн (англ. David Eden Lane; 2 листопада 1938 28 травня...|
Девід Іден Лейн (англ. David Eden Lane; 2 листопада 1938 28 травня 2007) білий революціонер, прихильник ідей білого націоналізму....
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|David Myers "Social Psychology"|
В ней описаны фундаментальные принципы социального мышления, социального влияния и социального поведения, а также разнообразные эксперименты...
|Терри David John Пратчетт|
Сатаны отправляется жить в самое обычное семейство в рядовой английской семье. Демон Кроули и ангел Азирафель пытаются предотвратить... | philosophy |
http://www.jflom.com/new/quotes/ | 2020-05-26T21:36:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347391309.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20200526191453-20200526221453-00171.warc.gz | 0.899654 | 308 | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-24__0__147056074 | en | The following is a collection of quotes that I find either inspirational, motivational, amusing or just plain funny. If they are original quotes, I will sign them, otherwise assume someone else has already coined them.
“It’s easier to ride a horse in the direction it’s going.”
“We may be through with the past, but the past ain’t through with us.” -Ricky Jay as the Narrator, Magnolia. (Paul Thomas Anderson)
“It’s dangerous to confuse children with angels.” -Henry Gibson as Thurston Howell, Magnolia. (Paul Thomas Anderson)
“Life does not stop and start at your convenience, you miserable piece of shit.” -John Goodman as Walter Sobcheck, The Big Lewbowski. (Joel & Ethan Coen)
“Keep the pen moving!”
“Don’t you hate that you have to wait for a black person to commit a crime before calling the cops?” -Ian Fortey (writer at Funnycrave.com)
“I really like sex and not dying.” -Alex Noriega, author of Stuff No One Told Me.
“I contend we are both atheists, I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” -Stephen F. Roberts | philosophy |
https://testadmin.cps.sk.ca/imis/CPSS/CPSS/Legislation__ByLaws__Policies_and_Guidelines/Legislation_Content/Legislation_Content/Code_of_Ethics.aspx | 2023-01-31T10:09:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499857.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20230131091122-20230131121122-00297.warc.gz | 0.925859 | 3,584 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__282138451 | en | The Code of Ethics
Last Update: February 20, 2020
See also The Code of Conduct (CPSS)
BYLAW 7.1 The Code of Ethics
(a) Subscription to and observance of the Code of Ethics is a condition of registration under the Act.
(b) No person who is registered under the Act shall contravene or fail to comply with the Code of Ethics.
(c) Contravention of or failure to comply with the Code of Ethics is unbecoming, improper, unprofessional or discreditable conduct for the purpose of the Act.
(d) Every person who applies for registration under the Act shall subscribe to The Code of Ethics, as adopted by the College of Physicians and Surgeons from time to time, as a condition of registration.
(e) Every person who is registered under the Act shall observe The Code of Ethics, as adopted by the College of Physicians and Surgeons from time to time, as a condition of maintaining his or her registration.
(f) The Code of Ethics as adopted by the College of Physicians and Surgeons is the 2018 Canadian Medical Association Code of Ethics and Professionalism, with changes (as italicized) to paragraphs 18 and 33 of the CMA Code of Ethics and Professionalism.
(g) The Code of Ethics adopted by the College of Physicians and Surgeons is as follows:
The CMA Code of Ethics and Professionalism articulates the ethical and professional commitments and responsibilities of the medical profession. The Code provides standards of ethical practice to guide physicians in fulfilling their obligation to provide the highest standard of care and to foster patient and public trust in physicians and the profession. The Code is founded on and affirms the core values and commitments of the profession and outlines responsibilities related to contemporary medical practice.
In this Code, ethical practice is understood as a process of active inquiry, reflection, and decision-making concerning what a physician’s actions should be and the reasons for these actions. The Code informs ethical decision-making, especially in situations where existing guidelines are insufficient or where values and principles are in tension. The Code is not exhaustive; it is intended to provide standards of ethical practice that can be interpreted and applied in particular situations. The Code and other CMA policies constitute guidelines that provide a common ethical framework for physicians in Canada.
In this Code, medical ethics concerns the virtues, values, and principles that should guide the medical profession, while professionalism is the embodiment or enactment of responsibilities arising from those norms through standards, competencies, and behaviours. Together, the virtues and commitments outlined in the Code are fundamental to the ethical practice of medicine.
Physicians should aspire to uphold the virtues and commitments in the Code, and they are expected to enact the professional responsibilities outlined in it.
Physicians should be aware of the legal and regulatory requirements that govern medical practice in their jurisdictions.
A. VIRTUES EXEMPLIFIED BY THE ETHICAL PHYSICIAN
Trust is the cornerstone of the patient–physician relationship and of medical professionalism. Trust is therefore central to providing the highest standard of care and to the ethical practice of medicine. Physicians enhance trustworthiness in the profession by striving to uphold the following interdependent virtues:
COMPASSION. A compassionate physician recognizes suffering and vulnerability, seeks to understand the unique circumstances of each patient and to alleviate the patient’s suffering, and accompanies the suffering and vulnerable patient.
HONESTY. An honest physician is forthright, respects the truth, and does their best to seek, preserve, and communicate that truth sensitively and respectfully.
HUMILITY. A humble physician acknowledges and is cautious not to overstep the limits of their knowledge and skills or the limits of medicine, seeks advice and support from colleagues in challenging circumstances, and recognizes the patient’s knowledge of their own circumstances.
INTEGRITY. A physician who acts with integrity demonstrates consistency in their intentions and actions and acts in a truthful manner in accordance with professional expectations, even in the face of adversity.
PRUDENCE. A prudent physician uses clinical and moral reasoning and judgement, considers all relevant knowledge and circumstances, and makes decisions carefully, in good conscience, and with due regard for principles of exemplary medical care.
B. FUNDAMENTAL COMMITMENTS OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION
Commitment to the well-being of the patient
- Consider first the well-being of the patient; always act to benefit the patient and promote the good of the patient.
- Provide appropriate care and management across the care continuum.
- Take all reasonable steps to prevent or minimize harm to the patient; disclose to the patient if there is a risk of harm or if harm has occurred.
- Recognize the balance of potential benefits and harms associated with any medical act; act to bring about a positive balance of benefits over harms.
Commitment to respect for persons
- Always treat the patient with dignity and respect the equal and intrinsic worth of all persons. Always respect the autonomy of the patient.
- Never exploit the patient for personal advantage.
- Never participate in or support practices that violate basic human rights.
Commitment to justice
- Promote the well-being of communities and populations by striving to improve health outcomes and access to care, reduce health inequities and disparities in care, and promote social accountability.
Commitment to professional integrity and competence
- Practise medicine competently, safely, and with integrity; avoid any influence that could undermine your professional integrity.
- Develop and advance your professional knowledge, skills, and competencies through lifelong learning.
Commitment to professional excellence
- Contribute to the development and innovation in medicine through clinical practice, research, teaching, mentorship, leadership, quality improvement, administration, or advocacy on behalf of the profession or the public.
- Participate in establishing and maintaining professional standards and engage in processes that support the institutions involved in the regulation of the profession.
- Cultivate collaborative and respectful relationships with physicians and learners in all areas of medicine and with other colleagues and partners in health care.
Commitment to self-care and peer support
- Value personal health and wellness and strive to model self-care; take steps to optimize meaningful co-existence of professional and personal life.
- Value and promote a training and practice culture that supports and responds effectively to colleagues in need and empowers them to seek help to improve their physical, mental, and social well-being.
- Recognize and act on the understanding that physician health and wellness needs to be addressed at individual and systemic levels, in a model of shared responsibility.
Commitment to inquiry and reflection
- Value and foster individual and collective inquiry and reflection to further medical science and to facilitate ethical decision-making.
- Foster curiosity and exploration to further your personal and professional development and insight; be open to new knowledge, technologies, ways of practising, and learning from others.
C. PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
PHYSICIANS AND PATIENTS
The patient–physician relationship is at the heart of the practice of medicine. It is a relationship of trust that recognizes the inherent vulnerability of the patient even as the patient is an active participant in their own care. The physician owes a duty of loyalty to protect and further the patient’s best interests and goals of care by using the physician’s expertise, knowledge, and prudent clinical judgment.
In the context of the patient–physician relationship:
- 1. Accept the patient without discrimination (such as on the basis of age, disability, gender identity or expression, genetic characteristics, language, marital and family status, medical condition, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic status). This does not abrogate the right of the physician to refuse to accept a patient for legitimate reasons.
- 2. Having accepted professional responsibility for the patient, continue to provide services until these services are no longer required or wanted, or until another suitable physician has assumed responsibility for the patient, or until after the patient has been given reasonable notice that you intend to terminate the relationship.
- 3. Act according to your conscience and respect differences of conscience among your colleagues; however, meet your duty of non-abandonment to the patient by always acknowledging and responding to the patient’s medical concerns and requests whatever your moral commitments may be.
- 4. Inform the patient when your moral commitments may influence your recommendation concerning provision of, or practice of any medical procedure or intervention as it pertains to the patient’s needs or requests.
- 5. Communicate information accurately and honestly with the patient in a manner that the patient understands and can apply and confirm the patient’s understanding.
- 6. Recommend evidence-informed treatment options; recognize that inappropriate use or overuse of treatments or resources can lead to ineffective, and at times harmful, patient care and seek to avoid or mitigate this.
- 7. Limit treatment of yourself, your immediate family, or anyone with whom you have a similarly close relationship to minor or emergency interventions and only when another physician is not readily available; there should be no fee for such treatment.
- 8. Provide whatever appropriate assistance you can to any person who needs emergency medical care.
- 9. Ensure that any research to which you contribute is evaluated both scientifically and ethically and is approved by a research ethics board that adheres to current standards of practice. When involved in research, obtain the informed consent of the research participant and advise prospective participants that they have the right to decline to participate or withdraw from the study at any time, without negatively affecting their ongoing care.
- 10. Never participate in or condone the practice of torture or any form of cruel, inhuman, or degrading procedure.
Medical decision-making is ideally a deliberative process that engages the patient in shared decision-making and is informed by the patient’s experience and values and the physician’s clinical judgment. This deliberation involves discussion with the patient and, with consent, others central to the patient’s care (families, caregivers, other health professionals) to support patient centred-care.
In the process of shared decision-making:
- 11. Empower the patient to make informed decisions regarding their health by communicating with and helping the patient (or, where appropriate, their substitute decision-maker) navigate reasonable therapeutic options to determine the best course of action consistent with their goals of care; communicate with and help the patient assess material risks and benefits before consenting to any treatment or intervention.
- 12. Respect the decisions of the competent patient to accept or reject any recommended assessment, treatment, or plan of care.
- 13. Recognize the need to balance the developing competency of minors and the role of families and caregivers in medical decision-making for minors, while respecting a mature minor’s right to consent to treatment and manage their personal health information.
- 14. Accommodate a patient with cognitive impairments to participate, as much as possible, in decisions that affect them; in such cases, acknowledge and support the positive roles of families and caregivers in medical decision-making and collaborate with them, where authorized by the patient’s substitute decision-maker, in discerning and making decisions about the patient's goals of care and best interests.
- 15. Respect the values and intentions of a patient deemed incompetent as they were expressed previously through advance care planning discussions when competent, or via a substitute decision-maker.
- 16. When the specific intentions of an incompetent patient are unknown and in the absence of a formal mechanism for making treatment decisions, act consistently with the patient's discernable values and goals of care or, if these are unknown, act in the patient's best interests.
- 17. Respect the patient's reasonable request for a second opinion from a recognized medical expert.
PHYSICIANS AND THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE
Patient privacy and the duty of confidentiality
- 18. Fulfill your duty of confidentiality to the patient by keeping identifiable patient information confidential; collecting, using, and disclosing only as much health information as necessary to benefit the patient; and sharing information only to benefit the patient in a manner consistent with The Health Information Protection Act. Exceptions include situations where the informed consent of the patient has been obtained for disclosure or as provided for by law.
- 19. Provide the patient or a third party with a copy of their medical record upon the patient’s request, unless there is a compelling reason to believe that information contained in the record will result in substantial harm to the patient or others.
- 20. Recognize and manage privacy requirements within training and practice environments and quality improvement initiatives, in the context of secondary uses of data for health system management, and when using new technologies in clinical settings.
- 21. Avoid health care discussions, including in personal, public, or virtual conversations, that could reasonably be seen as revealing confidential or identifying information or as being disrespectful to patients, their families, or caregivers.
Managing and minimizing conflicts of interest
- 22. Recognize that conflicts of interest may arise as a result of competing roles (such as financial, clinical, research, organizational, administrative, or leadership).
- 23. Enter into associations, contracts, and agreements that maintain your professional integrity, consistent with evidence-informed decision-making, and safeguard the interests of the patient or public.
- 24. Avoid, minimize, or manage and always disclose conflicts of interest that arise, or are perceived to arise, as a result of any professional relationships or transactions in practice, education, and research; avoid using your role as a physician to promote services (except your own) or products to the patient or public for commercial gain outside of your treatment role.
- 25. Take reasonable steps to ensure that the patient understands the nature and extent of your responsibility to a third party when acting on behalf of a third party.
- 26. Discuss professional fees for non-insured services with the patient and consider their ability to pay in determining fees.
- 27. When conducting research, inform potential research participants about anything that may give rise to a conflict of interest, especially the source of funding and any compensation or benefits.
PHYSICIANS AND SELF
- 28. Be aware of and promote health and wellness services, and other resources, available to you and colleagues in need.
- 29. Seek help from colleagues and appropriate medical care from qualified professionals for personal and professional problems that might adversely affect your health and your services to patients.
- 30. Cultivate training and practice environments that provide physical and psychological safety and encourage help-seeking behaviours.
PHYSICIANS AND COLLEAGUES
- 31. Treat your colleagues with dignity and as persons worthy of respect. Colleagues include all learners, health care partners, and members of the health care team.
- 32. Engage in respectful communications in all media.
- 33. Take responsibility for promoting civility, and confronting incivility, within and beyond the profession. Avoid impugning the reputation of colleagues for personal motives; however, report to the appropriate authority any unprofessional conduct by colleagues or concerns, based upon reasonable grounds, that a colleague is practising medicine at a level below an acceptable medical standard, or that a colleague’s ability to practise medicine competently is affected by a chemical dependency or medical disability.
- 34. Assume responsibility for your personal actions and behaviours and espouse behaviours that contribute to a positive training and practice culture.
- 35. Promote and enable formal and informal mentorship and leadership opportunities across all levels of training, practice, and health system delivery.
- 36. Support interdisciplinary team-based practices; foster team collaboration and a shared accountability for patient care.
PHYSICIANS AND SOCIETY
- 37. Commit to ensuring the quality of medical services offered to patients and society through the establishment and maintenance of professional standards.
- 38. Recognize that social determinants of health, the environment, and other fundamental considerations that extend beyond medical practice and health systems are important factors that affect the health of the patient and of populations.
- 39. Support the profession’s responsibility to act in matters relating to public and population health, health education, environmental determinants of health, legislation affecting public and population health, and judicial testimony.
- 40. Support the profession’s responsibility to promote equitable access to health care resources and to promote resource stewardship.
- 41. Provide opinions consistent with the current and widely accepted views of the profession when interpreting scientific knowledge to the public; clearly indicate when you present an opinion that is contrary to the accepted views of the profession.
- 42. Contribute, where appropriate, to the development of a more cohesive and integrated health system through inter-professional collaboration and, when possible, collaborative models of care.
- 43. Commit to collaborative and respectful relationships with Indigenous patients and communities through efforts to understand and implement the recommendations relevant to health care made in the report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.
- 44. Contribute, individually and in collaboration with others, to improving health care services and delivery to address systemic issues that affect the health of the patient and of populations, with particular attention to disadvantaged, vulnerable, or underserved communities. | philosophy |
http://gorgeousandsassy.com/?p=53 | 2023-06-08T18:17:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224655092.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20230608172023-20230608202023-00696.warc.gz | 0.983317 | 802 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__246949558 | en | Every time it happens, it takes me by surprise. I catch a glimpse of a man and he is familiar, sending a zing of recognition through me. Is it his height or the way he carries himself? His walk? His thick hair ruffling in the breeze? I don’t know for sure, because I can’t remember any of those things clearly anymore. But occasionally I happen upon a man who reminds me of my father and for a moment I can’t help but suspend disbelief. I’ll pretend he isn’t dead, after all. And he’s here, in my city, to finally reunite with me. I know it’s not true, of course. I’m not crazy. And I’m not a child – in fact I’m a year older than he was when he died. But I always let myself believe for just a moment and I feel a tiny flutter of childlike expectancy in my heart. Does everyone who loses a parent when they were young do this? See them in places where they cannot be and get foolishly hopeful, just for a few seconds? We never stop wanting our parents to see us, after all. I once read that children need to see their parents’ faces light up when they walk into a room. I always make sure that my kids see me seeing them and loving them from afar. It’s not hard to do. They are my favorite faces to see.
I don’t think of my dad very often anymore. It’s much too hard to picture him, as he’s been gone 32 years this month. He was tall and smart. He was quiet, an introvert. He had a very dark sense of humor. He had demons that killed him. I too am an introvert with a dark sense of humor. I think I’ve made friends with my demons and I don’t think they’ll kill me. Well, maybe we’re not friends. My demons and I hold each other at arm’s length, regarding each other warily, to be sure, but we’ve developed a mutual respect. I’ve become a remarkably productive citizen and a responsible and loving parent. I feel like I’m faltering sometimes, but still I avoid most of the self destructive bullshit that attracted me when I was younger. I’m also honest with myself, for the most part. I don’t know if my dad was aware that his demons were starting to win. Or if he cared. But I know that losing him to them was my first and biggest heartbreak. And the one I never got over.
My kids ask me what he was like and I’m never sure what to say. The thing I remember most vividly about him is how he could be right next to you in a room, but it would feel like he wasn’t there at all. He was already a ghost to me before he was actually gone. I fear I’ve inherited this tendency as well. I’ve been asked where I was, when I was right next to someone, more times than I can count. I think it’s partly an introvert thing, the need for time and space to process things alone, but it’s also…more than that. I am working on finding a balance. I think I still have time.
I dream of him sometimes. He just appears in my sleep and hangs out with me, like no time at all has passed. He never says anything profound, but there’s always a point when I tell him that I thought he was dead and we laugh and laugh. Then I wake up and I’m strangely happy. It would be just like him to haunt me in this way. | philosophy |
https://mrcspillsthetea.com/philosophy-and-goals/ | 2023-06-08T22:05:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224655143.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20230608204017-20230608234017-00313.warc.gz | 0.95496 | 841 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__54769883 | en | Learning is a non-linear process that requires trust, collaboration, failure, and exploration. Every individual learns in a unique way and it is my job to build relationships with each of my students to understand how they learn best and provide them with the resources and support they need to succeed. I see it as my responsibility to nurture the talents that each learner brings into our shared space so that they may realize their full potential. I not only want every learner to succeed in their academic and professional lives, but I also work to support the social-emotional development of every learner. In this way, I think of my role as a coach in our learning space where I support the development of the whole learner in every task and challenge with which they are presented.
It is important for me to put theory into practice and reimagine traditional teaching practices in the learning space. My facilitation of learning is always grounded in inquiry. Learners are more likely to engage in academic discourse and higher-level thinking when they are challenged to develop a solution to a problem or question (Fogarty & McTighe, 1993). Each year my curriculum aims to answer a singular Essential Question (EQ), and this guides the learning for the year. It gives learners a purpose for their work in the course, and it also provides structure. With backward planning in mind, each unit or segment of learning aims to answer a facet of the larger EQ so that learners explore their line of inquiry from a variety of perspectives. For example in my English 10 course, the question “What is America’s story?” sets the context for the year, and in one unit we look at the sub-EQ of “To what extent is the American Dream achievable by all?” in which we investigate the American Dream through the lens of class and social status. I make it a point to establish the end goal of each unit during the first week of study by providing learners with the summative assessment so they have a clear understanding of where their learning is headed.
A challenge inherent to all forms of education is addressing a varying range of abilities in the learning space. One of the biggest moments of growth in my career has been moving away from a deficit mindset and recognizing that when high expectations are held, learners will rise to that challenge regardless of their ability level (Tomlinson & Jarvis, 2014). I often scaffold my assignments and tasks as “mild,” “medium,” and “spicy” which provides opportunities for every learner to self-select a task that is appropriate for their current level of mastery. It is incredibly important for me as a facilitator of learning to use the experimentalist approach both in my teaching and leadership roles as I see the school as a laboratory where there should always be an emphasis on problem-solving skills to find the best solution (Glickman et al., 2018). Both facilitators and learners must work together to guide the learning process.
I firmly believe that limiting our perceptions of education only further reinforces inequitable structures that limit the growth and advancement of historically marginalized individuals. It is my goal to support learners in developing their voice and expertise to facilitate our learning. Through honest reflection of my practice as an educator, I model how learners can collectively value diverse identities and knowledge in the pursuit of creating a more equitable educational system by reimagining our pedagogies.
Fogarty, R., & McTighe, J. (1993). Educating teachers for higher order thinking: The three-story intellect. Theory into Practice, 32(3), 161.
Glickman, C. D., Gordon, S. P., & Ross-Gordon, J. M. (2018). SuperVision and instructional leadership: A developmental approach (10th ed.). Pearson.
Tomlinson, C. A., & Jarvis, J. M. (2014). Case studies of success: Supporting academic success for students with high potential from ethnic minority and economically disadvantaged backgrounds. Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 37(3), 191-219. | philosophy |
http://www.ikonotv.art/ondemand/video/446684/trailer.html | 2020-08-10T11:17:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439738674.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20200810102345-20200810132345-00258.warc.gz | 0.934084 | 532 | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-34__0__126539088 | en | Richard T. Walker
Richard T. Walker makes videos, photographs, text works and performances that reveal a frustrated, obsessive relationship with landscape and at the same time explore the complexity of human relations. Videos and photographs show the artist alone in the centre of dramatic landscapes, occupying a position reminiscent of a classic romantic figure contemplating the infinite, awe-inspiring mysteries of an impersonal natural world. As Walker’s narratives unfold, accompanied by his own musical compositions, viewers find themselves becoming beguiled by the artist’s gentle wit and drawn into his intimate relationships. Describing his work, Walker state:
“I think, or I hope, that the viewer becomes simultaneously pushed away and pulled towards the landscape. There is a sort of redemption in the music – the idea of the Sublime is re-appropriated, re-positioned and I think the initial relationship to the Sublime becomes questioned.”
In his videos and photographs, Walker creates almost comic scenarios in which the artist apparently picks over the intricacies of his personal life in the face of an emotionally detached nature. These play off the familiar music video format, a format in which the anguishes of romance are so regularly thrashed out, to reveal the shortcomings of language to describe or articulate our response to emotional or physical landscapes.
There is a conversational directness and honesty in Walker’s work that draws the spectator into his world. His narratives take the form of diary entries, letters or imagined dialogues: communication that allows the figure in the landscape to speak straight from the heart. The matter-of-factness of his tone is in direct contrast to the grandeur of the visual material, which seduces the viewer much as the artist wishes to be seduced by his unresponsive lover.
Recent solo shows, group exhibitions and performances include contingency of an afterthought, FraenkelLAB, San Francisco, USA (2016); everything failing to become something, Carroll / Fletcher, London, UK (2015); the fallibility of intent, Di Rosa, Napa, USA (2015); the predicament of always (as it is), The Contemporary Austin, Austin, USA (2014); the predicament of always (as we are), ASU Art Museum, Tempe, USA (2014); the security of impossibility, The Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, USA (performance) (2013); in defiance of being here, Carroll / Fletcher, London, UK (2013); let this be us, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, USA (2013); and Stage Presence, SFMOMA, San Francisco, USA (performance). | philosophy |
https://egadget.us/the-art-and-science-of-gift-giving-a-celebration-of-thoughtful-generosity/ | 2024-03-02T19:22:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947475897.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20240302184020-20240302214020-00721.warc.gz | 0.905219 | 636 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__137889225 | en | Gift-giving is a timeless tradition that transcends cultures, religions, and generations. Whether it’s a birthday, holiday, anniversary, or a simple gesture of appreciation, the act of giving and receiving gifts is deeply ingrained in human culture. Beyond the material exchange, gift-giving is a reflection of emotions, relationships, and the art of expressing sentiments through thoughtful tokens. In this article, we delve into the significance of Gifts-Gifting and explore the psychology and cultural aspects that make this practice a universal language of love and connection.
The Essence of Gift-Giving:
At its core, gift-giving is a way to show appreciation, love, and care for others. A carefully chosen gift speaks volumes about the giver’s understanding of the recipient’s preferences, desires, and personality. It goes beyond the tangible item; it’s a symbolic gesture that communicates emotions and strengthens the bonds between individuals.
The Psychology of Gifting:
Gift-giving has psychological dimensions that contribute to its enduring appeal. The act of giving triggers a sense of joy and fulfillment in the giver, activating the pleasure centers in the brain. Likewise, receiving a thoughtful gift can create a profound sense of gratitude and connection, fostering positive emotions.
Gifts as Expressions of Love:
Gifts have the power to express emotions that words may fail to convey. Whether it’s a romantic gesture, a token of friendship, or a family tradition, gifts become a tangible representation of love. The time and effort invested in selecting the perfect gift demonstrate a genuine desire to make the recipient feel valued and cherished.
The Art of Thoughtful Giving:
Thoughtful gift-giving involves more than just picking something off a shelf. It requires careful consideration of the recipient’s interests, preferences, and needs. A well-thought-out gift demonstrates an understanding of the recipient’s personality, making the experience more meaningful. It’s not about the price tag but the thought and effort put into selecting the item.
Cultural Perspectives on Gifts:
Different cultures have unique customs and traditions associated with gift-giving. In some societies, the act of giving and receiving gifts is highly ritualized, while in others, it may be more casual. Understanding these cultural nuances adds depth to the gift-giving experience and helps ensure that the gesture is appropriate and well-received.
The Rise of Experience Gifts:
In recent years, there has been a shift towards giving experiences rather than physical objects. Concert tickets, spa days, or cooking classes are examples of gifts that create lasting memories. This trend highlights a desire for meaningful, shared experiences that contribute to personal growth and connection.
Gift-giving is an art form, a language that speaks volumes about human connection and emotion. In a world often characterized by fast-paced living, taking the time to choose and give thoughtful gifts is a reminder of our shared humanity. As we celebrate the tradition of gifting, let us appreciate the joy it brings, the bonds it strengthens, and the enduring legacy of generosity that transcends time and culture. | philosophy |
https://comparativestudies.osu.edu/people/urban.41 | 2023-09-22T17:08:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506421.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922170343-20230922200343-00615.warc.gz | 0.712912 | 4,220 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__35355060 | en | Professor, College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Comparative Studies
431 Hagerty Hall
1775 S. College Rd
By appointment. Please email me for a time to meet.
Areas of Expertise
- Colonial and Post-Colonial Studies
- New Religious Movements
- Religions of South Asia
- Religion and Politics
- Comparative Religions
- Ph.D. in History of Religions, University of Chicago
- MA in Religious Studies University of Chicago
- BA in Religion, Philosophy, and Art, George Washington University
- Antioch University Buddhist Studies Program, Bodh Gaya
Hugh B. Urban is interested in the study of secrecy in religion, particularly in relation to questions of knowledge and power. His work focuses primarily on religions of South Asia and new religious movements in the United States. He is the author of numerous books, including: Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics and Power in the Study of Religion (2003), The Power of Tantra (2010), The Church of Scientology: A History of a New Religion (2011), and Secrecy: Silence, Power and Religion (2021). He is also an avid amateur mycologist and member of the Ohio Mushroom Society.
2022 The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Secrecy, co-edited with Paul Christopher Johnson (Routledge)
2021 Secrecy: Silence, Power, and Religion (University of Chicago Press).
2018 Irreverence and the Sacred: Critical Studies in the History of Religions, co-edited with Greg Johnson (Oxford University Press)
2016 Zorba the Buddha: Sex, Spirituality and Capitalism in the Global Osho Movement (University of California Press)
2015 New Age, Neopagan, and New Religious Movements: Alternative Spirituality in Modern America (University of California Press)
2011 The Church of Scientology: A History of a New Religion (Princeton University Press).
2009 The Power of Tantra: Religion, Sexuality and the Politics of South Asian Studies (I.B. Tauris/ Palgrave MacMillan).
2007 The Secrets of the Kingdom: Religion and Concealment in the Bush Administration (Rowman & Littlefield).
2006 Magia Sexualis: Sex, Magic and Liberation in Modern Western Esotericism (University of California Press).
2003 Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics and Power in the Study of Religion (University of California Press).
2001 The Economics of Ecstasy: Tantra, Secrecy and Power in Colonial Bengal (New York: Oxford University Press).
2001 Songs of Ecstasy: Tantric and Devotional Songs from Bengal (New York: Oxford University Press).
2022 "Dark Webs: Tantra, Black Magic and Cyberspace." International Journal of Hindu Studies 26, no.2: 237-252.
2022 "Modernity and Neo-Tantra." In The Oxford Handbook of Tantric Studies, edited by Glen Hayes and Richard Payne (Oxford University Press).
2021 “The Knowing of Knowing: Neo-Gnosticism, from the O.T.O. to Scientology.” In Gnostic America: The Afterlives of Gnosticism in American Religion and Culture, 105-121. Ed. by April DeConick and Jeffrey J. Kripal. Leiden: Brill.
2019 "The Goddess and the Great Rite: Hindu Tantra and the Complex Origins of Modern Wicca." In Magic and Witchery in the Modern West, edited by Ethan Doyle White and Shai Feraro (Palgrave MacMillan)
2019 “The Knowing of Knowing: Neo-Gnosticism, from the O.T.O. to Scientology.” Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies 4: 99-116.
2019 . “Poétique et politique de la comparaison: suicide révolutionnaire ou meutre collectif.” Asdiwal: Revue genevoise d’anthropolgie et d’histoire des religions 13: 61-68.
2019 “The Cradle of Tantra: Modern Transformations of a Tantric Center in Northeast India, from Nationalist Symbol to Tourist Destination.” South Asia 42, no.2.
2019 “Dancing for the Snake: Possession, Gender, and Identity in the Worship of Manasa in Assam.” Journal of Hindu Studies 30, no.7: 1-26.
2018 “Death, Nationalism, and Sacrifice: Ritual, Politics, and Tourism in Northeast India.” In Irreverence and the Sacred: Critical Studies in the History of Religions, eds. Hugh B. Urban and Greg Johnson. New York: Oxford University Press.
2018 “Introduction: Destabilizing the Sacred.” In Irreverence and the Sacred: Critical Studies in the History of Religions, eds. Hugh B. Urban and Greg Johnson. New York: Oxford University Press.
2018 “Rajneeshpuram was More than a Utopia in the Desert; It was a Mirror of the Time.” Humanities 39, no.2.
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2011 “The Occult Roots of Scientology? L. Ron Hubbard, Aleister Crowley and the Origins of the World’s Most Controversial New Religion,” Nova Religio,
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2010 “Birth Done Better: Conceiving the Immortal Fetus in India, China and Renaissance Europe,” in Notes on a Mandala, ed. Laurie Patton. University of Delaware Press, 2010.
2008 "Secrecy and New Religious Movements: Religious Secrecy and Privacy in a New Age of Information,” Religion Compass,2, no.1, pp.66-83.
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2006 “The Secrets of the Kingdom: Spiritual Discourse and Material Interests in the Bush Administration.” Discourse 27, 1: 141-159.
2006 “Fair Game: Secrecy, Security and the Church of Scientology in Cold War America.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 74, no.2: 356-389.
2006 “America Left Behind: Bush, the Neoconservatives and Evangelical Christian Fiction.” The Journal of Religion and Society, 8 (2006).
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2004 “Songs of Ecstasy: Mystics, Minstrels and Merchants in Colonial Bengal.” The Journal of the American Oriental Society123, no.3: 493-519
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http://www.thesquadroom.net/episode18/ | 2018-02-26T03:50:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891817999.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20180226025358-20180226045358-00001.warc.gz | 0.943968 | 1,379 | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-09__0__121339716 | en | There is an old parable, attributed to the Cherokee Indians of the Two Wolves.
An old Cherokee Chief sit with his grandson and tells him, “A terrible fight is going on inside me.”
“It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil – he is anger, sorrow, hate, greed, self-pity, lies and ego. As his grandson looks on, the Chief continues. “The other is good,” he says. He is love, compassion, joy, peace, serenity, generosity, truth and faith.”
“That same fight is going on inside you” the Chief said to his grandson. “And it’s going on inside every other person too.”
The young warrior thought in silence for a minute before asking the chief, “which wolf will win?”
The old Cherokee simply replied, “The one you feed.”
I like this parable because it seems so perfectly suited for us in law enforcement. It’s a reminder not to become that which we are surrounded with. With our work, it’s easy to feed the evil wolf off the table scraps of our shift. The domestics, the child abuse, and the general stupidity of the human race make the evil wolf salivate for an easy meal. We can’t feed that wolf.
We are, at our core, a good wolf. We come into this job with that heart. You may not be comfortable being all touchy-feelly so I’ll do it for you. Despite any gruff exteriors you may impose, or walls your build, you as a peace officer have immense love in your heart for your fellow human beings – even the stupid ones. With the exception of our military personnel, there is no other calling in which you will be asked to potentially lay down your life in violent defense of complete strangers.
You may not see it, but if that’s not love, compassion, joy, peace, serenity, generosity, truth and faith then I don’t know what is. You are a good wolf.
But that wolf has to eat. Even the best intentions fall apart when the body and mind begin to starve.
So we must feed the good wolf to stave off — and starve off — the evil wolf.
But how do we do that?
We all have different ways of recharging our batteries.
We might seek fellowship or solitude in the outdoors.
We focus our off-duty time on family, kids, and loved ones.
We have hobbies to take us away from the places where the evil wolf might eat.
The poignancy of this parable should be doubly impactful when considered through the lens of our favorite nickname – that of a sheepdog. That lesson by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman needs no retelling but the commonalities and correlates to the One You Feed parable are striking.
Both have a wolf that is good – the sheepdog in the sense of the police. Both have a wolf that is bad.
It’s interesting…and I don’t think there’s a more appropriate commentary on the challenges of police work. It works on many levels.
First, is the most obvious one. We fight the good fight against the bad wolf. But if the parable is correct, we must be fed, satiated through some means. This is obviously a metaphor and not a literal feeding –although my wife will tell you how I quickly become a hangry evil wolf if I skip a meal.
So how do we feed? Accolades, awards, recognition, stats…sure, those things will feed us temporarily.
But what about honor, purpose, service, and strength. Those are far more satiating to the heart of the good wolf.
As noted, the good wolf is full of love, compassion, joy, peace, serenity, generosity, truth and faith. When that wolf is fed with honor, purpose, service and strength, I suspect it is invincible to the deceits of the evil wolf.
The challenge for us all in the current climate is to resolve to continue to feed the good wolf a healthy diet. Much like my old yellow lab, a change in diet is disastrous for both the canine and the lawn. So to, is a change in what we feed our good wolf. If the good wolf is allowed to now subsist on media scrutiny, confrontational cop blockers, political maneuvering and riots with hashtags, then the good wolf is going to starve…and shit all over my lawn in the process. The good wolf needs a good diet.
The second parallel between the Two Wolves Parable and Grossman’s essay is the observation that the sheep remain timid and reluctant to acknowledge and admit the sheepdog. In this sense, I see that the reluctance to support law enforcement in some areas of society is a reluctance to feed the good wolf the healthy diet it needs. Accolades, awards, and recognition are withheld for fear of encouraging the good wolf to be, well – a wolf. The wolf, starved of this positive attention begins to wither away until there’s nothing left to receive from the outside world.
So, I suggest that it is better that we find ways to feed our good wolf from internal sources of strength – from those ideas of honor, purpose, strength and service. That is, after all, where the quality food lies.
Third, if we take idea of the Two Wolves from a struggle inside each individual person and expand that to a struggle inside the entirety of a society, I think we’d see that we are collectively feeding the evil wolf. For reasons far too great to enumerate here, we have been feeding our evil wolf to the point that his belly is engorged, and his mind is full of lethargy of food coma proportions.
Then how do we continue to feed the good wolf in a world that is so intent on stuffing our nemesis? We must find that from each other, from the amazing feats of bravery and the intense acts of selflessness that occur dozens, even hundreds of times a day by ourselves and our partners. We must rally our collective honor, purpose, strength and service in a sort of mental potluck.
So, acknowledge each other and the amazing acts of love that you witness day in and day out from other sheepdogs. If you feed another’s good wolf, your own will be satisfied as well and when the gift is returned in your direction, you will find that you yourself are full. | philosophy |
https://www.alexsoares.art/c%C3%B3pia-pi%C3%A1 | 2024-04-14T08:10:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816875.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414064633-20240414094633-00668.warc.gz | 0.914968 | 166 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__41273683 | en | "But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought."
The sentence, contained in the book 1984, by the British writer George Orwell (1903-1950), summarizes an emblematic work of universal literature. Published in 1948, Orwell's dystopian novel depicts a world at perpetual war, oppressed by omnipresent government surveillance and the manipulation of information. Big Brother, leader of a perhaps non-existent party, oversees the tyrannical regime. Signs on the streets read: “Big Brother is watching you”.
Alex Soares saw in the situation in Brazil in recent years, with the insistence and strength of fake news and the manipulation of sounds and images, an unfolding of the dystopian reality conceived by Orwell. | philosophy |
https://thecovenspeaks.wordpress.com/2015/03/21/the-personal-may-be-political-but-that-doesnt-mean-your-political-should-be-petty/ | 2018-07-20T04:31:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676591497.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20180720041611-20180720061611-00581.warc.gz | 0.980615 | 619 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__100116480 | en | Feminism. At some point along the way, many of us seem to have convinced ourselves that the ideal feminist utopia was a universal ideal; that it was one we all agreed on. For those who vehemently support a woman’s right to choose prostitution, this meant that feminists who provided in depth critiques of prostitution could be likened to the devil, their feminist badges revoked as they were kicked out of Eden. For those who unwaveringly support a person’s right to self-identify with whatever gender they choose, this meant that those feminists who engage in discourse around gender were walking a dangerous line which meant every word that followed them thereafter could easily be discredited with ‘TERF’. I’ve seen many feminists thrown under the bus this way, and it is getting – quite rightly – fucking exhausting.
But more than exhausting, the attitude that accompanies any campaigning by these women – labelled bad feminists by the liberal feminist community – is one that involves so much work of importance being discredited, ignored, and even boycotted. I saw it when I campaigned for a change in how Twitter handled the reporting of abuse, with a certain corner of the internet seeking out evidence that I was a bad feminist in order to discredit my work. And of even more concern is that I’m now seeing this logic applied to Louise Pennington’s latest campaign – a campaign which aims to protect the rights of women who are reporting a rape to the police. A campaign that should be unanimously supported by those who claim to have the best interests of women at heart.
The critics of Pennington, however, are those guilty of rarely listening to what is truly being said, those guilty of being selective in what they read about an individual, and those guilty of putting their personal feelings about an individual above the need to prevent laws which are set to harm victims of rape and sexual assault.
This post isn’t written with the intention of changing the minds of these individuals when it comes to their perception of Pennington. However, I do urge those who refuse to sign a petition they would otherwise sign, on the basis that it has been created by someone with whom they disagree on other points, to take a moment to reconsider the implications of their decisions. The message one sends out in these instances is one that is heard loud and clear by both your supporters and the feminist community. It’s one that echoes through to those who would otherwise attack the feminist community at any available opportunity. It’s a message that the feminist community can be divided, and at a time when we need to unite in order to protect the rights of women, a wedge can be driven between us.
Feminism was never about having to approve of everything each and every feminist says. It was never about the need to agree on every topic. However, what has always mattered is that we unite on protecting the rights of women, even if that means putting personal dislikes – or in some cases, an opposition to other political stances – to one side. | philosophy |
https://news.bartdurham.com/blog/the-differences-between-a-right-and-a-law | 2021-02-25T16:29:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178351374.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20210225153633-20210225183633-00411.warc.gz | 0.968664 | 1,011 | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-10__0__151960081 | en | There are numerous terms used for ideals that are intended to dictate our behavior. These ideals are put in place with the goal of making our societies operate more smoothly. They are intended to keep people safe while remaining respectful of everyone’s personal freedoms.
Laws and rights are things we hear about throughout our lives. But what is the connection between them? How do they relate to each other? And how do they differ?
We’re probably all familiar with the idea of the law — that if you fail to adhere to the stated guidelines you’ll probably be in need of legal services in both Nashville and Bowling Green. But how are these laws put in place? Are they separate from our rights?
Let’s clear this up a little bit by looking deeper into where our laws come from, how we got the concept of our “rights,” and how they relate to each other.
The idea of law is generally known as a system of rules that is put in place by governmental systems with the goal of regulating the conduct of the citizens. However, law has been debated for a long time as either a science or an art. Is there a standard equation, or are there nuances? This debate is why we have legal services for our communities to navigate the sometimes confusing world of our legal system.
Law is split into two major factions: public law and private law.
This area of our legal system governs the relationships between individuals and the government. This includes:
- Tax law
- Administrative law
- Procedural law
- Constitutional law
- Criminal law
Because of the fact that public law is related to the relationship between citizens and larger governing bodies, the entities involved are inherently unequal. The government is much larger than a singular person. However, both the government and the individual are expected to act in accordance with the law, despite this asymmetry.
Examples of public law can be as minor as a jaywalking fine, and go up to tax evasion. However, because the law works in both directions, an individual can also bring actions against the government such as asking for a judicial review of charges.
This area of law deals with disputes between individuals or organizations. This includes:
- Property law
- Commercial law
- Family law
As private law deals with individuals on a more equal level than public law, it can be used to dictate the duties of individuals within their relationships. Tort law, for instance, can be brought enacted in reaction to one person bringing harm to another.
Examples of private law can be quite varied, but include circumstances such as custody disputes, property line disputes, and personal injury cases.
The Bill of Rights
This is a document that includes the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution (although more were added later). It dictates a series of personal freedoms to be enjoyed by citizens of the country. They are:
- Freedom of Religion, Speech, & Press
- Right to Bear Arms
- Housing of Soldiers
- Protection From Unreasonable Search and Arrest
- Right to Due Process of Law
- Right to a Fair Trial
- Civil Cases Rights
- Freedom From Excessive Bail, Cruel and Unusual Punishments
- Rights Retained by the People
- States’ Rights
There are now 27 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, but these are the original ten included in the Bill of Rights. These rights are largely viewed as the pillars of a just and fair society.
The Relationship Between Rights and Laws
It can seem on the surface that the general principles between rights and laws are the same — to guide people toward a society that is hospitable and beneficial to all individuals. And while these goals might be the same, the actual justifications and manifestations can be quite different.
A right is something a person should have in a society. These are ideals that relate to the general, everyday affordances for a person. They can be as simple as the right to speak, travel, or practice traditions that don’t harm anybody else.
A law is an enforceable direction that can be met with punishment if not followed.
Ideally, our laws would be dictated by strict adherence to our rights. However, this is not always the case. This leads us to another large distinction between rights and laws: Laws are more easily altered.
As we can see by the number of constitutional amendments, our rights can be altered as well. However, this is far less common when compared to changed laws.
Our laws can be challenged, changed, or upheld. Our rights are meant to be interpreted and guaranteed.
A great example of the relationship between the two is the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. African-American leaders felt their rights were not being upheld by the law, so they protested and fought against these injustices. In the end, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 changed the law to better reflect the constitutional rights of these citizens. | philosophy |
https://www.jobsinhotels.co.uk/our-vision-mission-and-values.html | 2018-12-10T20:44:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376823442.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20181210191406-20181210212906-00544.warc.gz | 0.908377 | 133 | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__5458961 | en | Our Vision, Mission and Values
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Our mission is to be the preeminent global hospitality company - the first choice of guests, team members, and owners alike
We're passionate about delivering exceptional guest experiences.
We do the right thing, all the time.
We're leaders in our industry and in our communities.
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We're the owners of our actions and decisions.
We operate with a sense of urgency and discipline
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https://soulawakeningacademy.co.uk/the-four-pillars/ | 2022-01-19T20:09:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320301488.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220119185232-20220119215232-00610.warc.gz | 0.926837 | 828 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__130353974 | en | For each of us, there are four pillars in life which act as a table to uphold, uplift, and support our lives. If one of these pillars is damaged or weakened, it can then create an imbalance that will weaken the integrity of the entire “table.” This is not unlike the energy of the first four chakras that work to support our flow of physical, emotional, mental and spiritual energy.
Like all things in life, there must be a balance. And the four pillars of life must reflect that balance to create harmony, flow, and lasting well-being.
The function of our chakra is affected by our life experiences, and the input and output of energy in each chakra will determine how we live our lives. If the energy function is underdeveloped due to one or more negative experiences, the chakra may be negatively affected as well.
Take, for example, the first chakra which governs the energy of meeting survival needs. If this chakra was poorly-developed, we would carry that energy up to the second chakra which manages our relationship with others.
The first chakra, called the Root or Base Chakra, may develop inadequately due to rejection, despondency, lack of food, shelter, money, and safety. If left unchecked, the consequences may resurface in our second chakra, the Sacral Chakra which governs our relationships with others and our sense of belonging and comfort.
For each chakra, the development of the previous level affects the one to come after it. And in the example above, the malfunctioning energy of the Root Chakra will influence how we relate to others, ultimately affecting our relationships, level of intimacy, our boundaries, and so much more.
You are only as strong as your weakest pillar, which is why the Soul Awakening Method is so important to chakral balance. How you live your life is dependent upon the experience, beliefs, and values held in each one.
The chakra system is one that develops in stages, and during the Spritual Coaching course, we will work with the energy found in each one. That includes the energy of your base chakra, your physical self, sense of belonging and foudnations, the sacral chakra which governs your emotions and inner child, your solar plexus chakra which governs your self worth and confidence and your heart chakra which holds the key to your transformation. This also includes your spiritual self and your overall enlightenment.
With the Soul Awakening Method (or SAM for short), you can clear any blockages found in your lower three chakras and create a clear energy channel to bridge to your heart chakra and your higher-self.
The Four Pillars of Life
Think of your chakras as being the four pillars of your life. Each chakra represents various themes that are fundamental to us all. No matter what our life experiences are, we all will strive to accomplish the following:
First Pillar – Root Chakra – Physical Self – Foundations -Goals – Security Needs
Second Pillar – Sacral Chakra – Emotional Self – Inner-child, Creativity, Relationships, Belonging, Intimacy, Self-worth & Value of Self
Third Pillar – Solar Plexus Chakra – Mental Self – Purpose, Drive, Identity, Success, Self-esteem, Confidence
Fourth Pillar – Heart Chakra – Spiritual Self – Unconditional Love, Higher-self Connection, Gratitude, Compassion, Self-love
The Four Pillars of Wellbeing
When evaluating a response you have to a current issue, consider all of the following:
Physical – How does your body respond to the current issues/problem/challenge?
Emotional – How do you respond emotionally, and how does this make you feel?
Mental – What happens to the way you think (your thoughts and beliefs)?
Spiritual – What happens to your inner light? How do you disconnect to yourself, to others, and to your goals? | philosophy |
http://researcharchive.wintec.ac.nz/1105/ | 2017-03-25T17:23:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218189031.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212949-00266-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.893565 | 383 | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-13__0__28036434 | en | Greenwood, Sallie (2010) Destabilising dynamics of envy in co-mother relationships. In: 5th International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 2-5 August, 2010, Cambridge, England. (Unpublished)
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Anglo-American societies are characterised by a diverse range of family forms and yet the ideal of the monogamous heterosexual nuclear family persists in the imagination as the dominant model. New Zealand like other western countries is only just beginning to grapple with the idea of multiple parents and what this means in terms of relationships, rights and responsibilities. When there are two mothers sharing the same child(ren) such as in open adoption, fostering and stepfamilies the question of recognition or 'which is the real mother' becomes paramount for the people engaging with them. The 'other' mother disrupts the maternal narrative—the unitary mother. The disruption is destabilising for them and others, and "[s]ince we are socially situated creatures…we are profoundly vulnerable to the ways in which we are perceived and characterised by others" (Markell, 2003, p.2). This paper explores one aspect of the destabilisation which is the role of envy as outlined by Melanie Klein and more recently developed by Morrison and Lansky (2008).
|Item Type:||Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)|
|Keywords that describe the item:||maternal subjects, object relations, envy|
|Subjects:||B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology|
H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
|Divisions:||Schools > Centre for Health & Social Practice|
|Deposited On:||19 Jul 2011 22:54|
|Last Modified:||19 Jul 2011 22:54|
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http://stapostleschool.com/student-life/academics/ | 2017-05-24T04:17:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607786.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170524035700-20170524055700-00542.warc.gz | 0.941222 | 968 | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-22__0__112795801 | en | As a parent, how do you evaluate a school’s effectiveness and whether or not it offers the best learning experience for your child? Education experts generally agree that successful schools share some common characteristics including:
- High expectations for every student;
- Rigorous curriculum and fair assessments;
- Strong school leadership;
- Qualified teachers in every classroom;
- Sufficient resources that help all students achieve;
- Parent and community support; and,
- A safe, healthy learning environment.
Excellence in education can only be achieved through the combined efforts of dedicated faculty and staff, students committed to the learning process, and supportive parents. Here at St. Thomas the Apostle, we intend to maintain the high academic standards established by the Sinsinawa Domincan Sisters over 125 years ago while continuing to explore opportunities for improvement to our programs.
Our preschool program, offered for three and four-year-olds, provides St. Thomas the Apostle’s youngest children the opportunity to grow in a positive Christian atmosphere. The program is designed to meet the needs and interests of each child based on the following ideals:
- Enabling children to be aware of God’s love for them
- Providing a happy and caring environment that nurtures growth and respect for self and others
- Creating opportunities for each child to act and interact in a positive and relaxing atmosphere
- Teaching with kindness, encouragement and direction
- Helping each child develop find and gross motor skills
- Promoting reading, writing and math readiness skills
- Promoting critical thinking skills.
We believe all young children can learn naturally in a social environment. Our program is based on the premise that children gather knowledge through discovery in free play as well as through social interactions with other children and adults. STA’s youngest students use hands-on activities to learn through meaningful experiences and by making relevant connections to the world around them. Teachers act as facilitators, helping children become responsible for their learning and at the same time providing opportunities for them to refine their social skills.
St Thomas the Apostle follows NAEYC (National Association for the Education of Young Children) guidelines for low student/teacher ratios. Classes are taught by a degreed, licensed preschool teacher supported by a teacher assistant.
We consider it a privilege to be entrusted with the development of each child enrolled in the prekindergarten program at St. Thomas the Apostle. We strive to foster each child’s individual cognitive, physical, social and emotional growth as we prepare them for the more structured learning environment in the primary grades. STA parents are encouraged to take an active part in their child’s prekindergarten life. We cannot replace you as your child’s primary teacher, but we can work with you to give them the foundation for a love of learning.
Kindergarten – 8th Grade
Traditionally, the classroom curriculum at St. Thomas the Apostle has included rigorous lessons, a focus on meaningful reading skills and analysis, effective writing, and critical thinking– all topics found in the Common Core for State Standards. While we believe in a balance of the arts and sciences, reading, math and science get greater attention with more time, hands on learning and an emphasis on thoughtful assessment and problem solving.
Literature classes are supplemented with Accelerated Reader, an on-line reading management software program, Simple Solutions Grammar and Writing Mechanics daily review, and an expectation that students read at home every night. Our intermediate grades enjoy the Great Books program that engages classes in a Shared Inquiry discussion of ideas and experiences found in major literary works. Teachers utilize the highly regarded Foss Science Program along with Everyday Mathematics (developed by the University of Chicago) which is complemented by Simple Solutions daily mathematics review. Our students are engaged in a social studies program enriched with actual and virtual field trips, guest speakers, and excursions in the community.
At St. Thomas the Apostle, we think it is important to promote each student’s personal gifts and talents on all levels – academic, artistic, and athletic. Technology skills and applications are incorporated in the educational experience with the support of weekly computer classes for grades K-8. Students also begin the process of learning Spanish as a second language through the foreign language program for Prekindergarten through 8th grade. Creativity and self-expression are encouraged through an Art and Music program for all. Physical activity is an important component for learning in addition to promoting personal health and well-being. All students have recess, weekly physical education classes, and optional participation in an intramural sports program.
All of this takes place in a faith-based environment where Christian values are integrated in every aspect of student life, in the classroom and beyond. | philosophy |
https://fortheloveofthedeal.wordpress.com/2015/01/29/sweat-pink-why-i-live-with-noexcuses/ | 2018-03-20T11:25:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257647406.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20180320111412-20180320131412-00495.warc.gz | 0.966107 | 413 | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-13__0__150340531 | en | Sweat Pink: Why I Live with #NoExcuses
2015 is the year of #NoExcuses. “I can’t, I don’t want to, I’m tired.” None of that flies anymore. Take 2015 for yourself. Be you. Be the best version of yourself you have ever been. Take time to yourself, make the change. Swap out your sugary beverage at dinner for water. Make turkey tacos instead of beef tacos. Participate in Meatless Mondays. Drink skim milk instead of whole milk. Have fruit for dessert instead of a giant slice of cake. Take life one small change at a time. Over time, these small changes add up to make you better, healthier, more fit.
So why do I live my life with #NoExcuses?
I have been told no by so many people in my life. I wanted to hear something different, something from another voice. A voice that would not take no for an answer. That person, that voice was all from myself. When someone told me I wasn’t good enough, I hit the gym and channeled that person as motivation during my workouts. If I had a bad day, I hit the gym. Angry at someone, pictured them while I was doing kickboxing. Needed to get my mind in a healthier environment, did Tabata or Insanity.
I live my life with #NoExcuses because I don’t have time to make excuses. When I am at the gym, I am motivated, dedicated to my health. The gym is a place where I better myself and have me time. My group fitness instructors push me to achieve my best or even better than before. Tuck jumping higher, getting lower on push ups, moving faster during agility drills.
I work full-time and still cut out time in my schedule to hit the gym. That’s how I live with #NoExcuses.
What does #NoExcuses mean to you? | philosophy |
https://www.generation-success.com/blog/my-first-generation-success-experience | 2022-01-24T04:21:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304471.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220124023407-20220124053407-00049.warc.gz | 0.947062 | 766 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__110579808 | en | “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find, the harder I work the more I have of it” – Thomas Jefferson
Or to slightly change the age old belief, “I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I (want to, or do) work the more I have of it”.
This was my mind-set when, at the beginning of December, I initially set myself the goal of making sure I attend as many events as possible — in order to connect with others, and find possible clients for my start-up (Synthe). So, it wasn’t (much of) a surprise when (literally out of nowhere) I was informed a few hours later of the Generation Success event happening on the following day (December 2nd).
You can probably guess what I did next…
Unexpectedly, due to other speakers being unable to attend on the day, the final session of the year was delivered by the founder of Generation Success, James Adeleke. After everything was done, two main takeaways which I got from listening to James’ story and the answers he gave in response to audience questions:
There will never be a perfect time to start, so do it now!
I’m sure we’ve all had an idea which we’ve put off for some reason or the other, like…
“I’ll wait until next year”
“I just need my workload to lighten up a bit before I start”
“I have no money to start”
“I don’t feel up to it today, so I’ll get onto it tomorrow”
“It’s just not the right time”
The thing is, there will never be the “right time”. So, if you keep holding it off — whether it’s the amazing idea, a new fitness regime, or whatever else — with the expectation that there will be a time when everything falls perfectly into your lap, you will end up waiting a very long time. Until you reach a point where you won’t be able to act on your idea/make a change to your life.
This brings me onto my second takeaway:
Don’t fear change… Embrace it
“OK, so I want to make the jump now, but I can’t seem to take the first step…”
Another thing which also prevents people from acting on their ideas or making that necessary change to their life is, FEAR.
● Fear of failure
● Fear of shame/embarrassment
● Fear of being outside comfort zone
As Seth Godin says in The Icarus Deception, “outside of your comfort zone is where the magic happens” — or something to that effect. The point is, you probably won’t accomplish anything great by staying within these invisible parameters either you or society (or usually a combination of the two) has set up.
So, whatever it is you want to do… please, just do it!
Also, one additional takeaway, which wasn’t something said but instead done, is learn to be a good listener and really care about others — as even after the session officially ended, James spent an additional hour or so listening to and answering the questions of all attendees who stayed behind to ask them.
To sum up the whole experience… basically, I’ll be at every Generation Success event I can make it to for 2015 and beyond. Hopefully, I’ll see you there, too?
By Wilson Oryema | philosophy |
https://www.cuttsyandcuttsy.com/CSR | 2019-02-24T00:46:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550249569386.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20190224003630-20190224025630-00342.warc.gz | 0.967949 | 283 | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-09__0__165279900 | en | We believe in being ‘other-centric’.
Our founding principles are people not patients, partners not clients and peers not employees. This is integral to everything we do.
Corporate social responsibility
Our responsibility goes way beyond the things that are second nature to us, such as the environment and working within the spirit of the law.
It is about how we run our business and how it affects the world and others around us. We believe the work we do helps people and is why we are 100% healthcare focused.
Supporting our people
We believe we have a responsibility to nurture and train our team to be the best they can be. We actively plan and invest in professional development to provide support to our team throughout their working lives and to encourage them in their careers. Every member of our team is encouraged to learn and encouraged to explore.
We whole-heartedly support flexible working. This is why for the past two years running, we have been awarded the Working Mums Best Small/Medium Enterprise in recognition of our work-life balance practices.
Every year we donate our time to good causes. We have even won awards for some of our work.
In 2017, we developed a series of films for Addenbrookes Charitable Trust to help them to promote the great work that they do, and to continue to receive charitable donations. You can view these films below. | philosophy |
https://ncifm-uk.com/blogs/news/reflections | 2023-12-11T19:24:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679516047.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20231211174901-20231211204901-00422.warc.gz | 0.969627 | 843 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__124269145 | en | I often find holidays challenging, it can be difficult to relax after being so busy at work before I leave and this time was no different. With so many beautiful temples to visit I felt inspired to restart my meditation practice which I admit had really slipped lately! In the centre of Yangon, there is a temple, set within a roundabout in a busy road intersection – a seemingly crazy place to try and meditate!
But as I sat, although I could hear the noises of the cars, birds and people coming and going, popping in for a quick meditation during their busy days it was in fact a really calming and reflective space.
Within this busy city centre temple after 30 mins I felt reconnected to myself, much calmer and with a powerful sense of oneness with the universe. My anxiety faded and I let go of the worries and busy thoughts which had filled my mind.
Curious I read more about Buddhism throughout the holiday and found many of the principles of it very interesting and potentially helpful in our busy modern life.
The concept is that all people have the same basic wish to be happy and avoid suffering, but very few of us understand the real causes of happiness and suffering.
We commonly believe that external conditions such as friends, relationships or money are the real causes of happiness, and as a result, devote nearly all our time and energy to acquiring these. Superficially it seems that these things can make us happy, but if we look more deeply, we see that they also bring us a lot of suffering and problems. In particularly our attachment to them and our difficulty when losing them or facing the inevitable changes that occur in life can bring great pain and suffering.
Why is this? Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind. The real source of happiness is inner peace. If our mind is peaceful, we shall be happy all the time, regardless of external conditions, but if it is disturbed or troubled in any way, we shall never be happy, no matter how good our external conditions may be. External conditions can only make us happy if our mind is peaceful. We can understand this through our own experience. For instance, even if we are in the most beautiful surroundings and have everything we need, the moment we get angry any happiness we may have disappears. This is because anger has destroyed our inner peace.
We can see from this that if we want true, lasting happiness we need to develop and maintain the experience of inner peace. The only way to do this is by training our mind through spiritual or meditative practice – gradually reducing and eliminating our negative, disturbed states of mind and replacing them with positive, peaceful states. We need to work on letting go of our attachments to desires, people and particular outcomes; and our anger and resentments in order to achieve this.
Eventually, through continuing to improve our inner peace we shall experience permanent inner peace, and this will provide a deeper sense of happiness than any external factors. As humans we need intimate connections, we are hard-wired for this and are social creatures, so it is achieving the balance of being vulnerable and intimate and being able to connect with others while also being flexible enough to allow change and transition to happen and letting go of desire and attachment which really brings inner happiness and contentment.
There is such wisdom in this, and it reminds me of the concept of balance, and how important balance in thoughts, actions and deeds are in creating a healthy mind and body. Mindfulness practice is adapted from Buddhist meditation practice and has much scientific evidence for aiding anxiety and depression, I often recommend Apps such as Headspace, CDs and books on mindfulness for my patients, and find it very effective.
It was really wonderful to be in a country where this practice is part of everyday life and although perhaps a cliché, I certainly noticed a welcoming, friendly and calm attitude wherever I went. It has certainly inspired me to practice my meditation more regularly and learn more about Buddhism, and to being committed to keeping some of that serenity now I am back in the hurly-burly of modern life!
Dr. Sally Moorcroft | philosophy |
https://colettelordphd.com/quote-from-pinks-happy/ | 2024-03-03T19:31:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476397.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20240303174631-20240303204631-00772.warc.gz | 0.972783 | 248 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__30771136 | en | Quote from Pink’s Happy
Every time I try, I always stop me Maybe I’m just scared to be happy
I know that it seems counter-intuitive, but it is not uncommon for folks I work with to be afraid of being happy, to be afraid of healthy change.
There are a variety of reasons for this. One of those reasons is because even if the way thins are right now is not pleasant or is painful, it is still a known and familiar way of being. There is often fear that change will cause things to feel or to be worse.
Also, many of my folks learned in childhood that being happy was not okay or safe, because it would be followed by punishment or abuse of some kind.
For these reasons it makes a lot of sense for me on why a person might be afraid of healthy change. Belittling oneself or judging oneself for this will not help them change. If we can hold space for things to get messy, to be unknown or in flux, then so many positive things are possible.
You do not have to be this way forever. But that means taking a step, making a change, or getting into therapy to help you do so. | philosophy |
http://serenityinchaos.tumblr.com/ | 2013-05-22T03:04:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701233842/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104713-00047-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.931714 | 198 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__132155959 | en | Wanna make a monster? Take the parts of yourself that make you uncomfortable—your weaknesses, bad thoughts, vanities, and hungers—and pretend they’re across the room. It’s too ugly to be human. It’s too ugly to be you. Children are afraid of the dark because they have nothing real to work with. Adults are afraid of themselves.
What the really great artists do is they’re entirely themselves. They’re entirely themselves, they’ve got their own vision, they have their own way of fracturing reality, and if it’s authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings.
― David Foster Wallace (via paradoxicalsentiments)
Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.
― Steve Maraboli (via onlinecounsellingcollege) | philosophy |
http://booksijustread.com/ | 2013-05-23T13:37:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703326861/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112206-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.96599 | 361 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__37978758 | en | The Quick and The Dead, by Joy Williams, could easily be mistaken for a small, quiet book if you only read the first few pages. These opening pages, when Alice is still a stranger, and when Williams’ weird world hasn’t quite unfolded yet, are an illusion. It doesn’t take much longer to realize that this book is bold.
Alice, a central figure, seems to be the glue that holds the rest of the book together. She begins as radical, to the reader at least, a teenager who swears while she babysits and gets abandoned far from home by the mom for whom she works. However, as we get deeper, Alice becomes a regular fixture, and it’s against her that we can measure all of the other elements of the book. A rebellious teenager starts to look pretty normal next to a man haunted by his dead wife’s ghost, eerie museums and nursing homes, and a man whose life is dictated by a monkey rambling around his head. Even the only two girls Alice can call her friends become more alluring than Alice herself, the tragedy of Corvus and the quiet persistence of Annabel poignantly showing us true suffering and mystique. Indeed, Alice almost becomes garrulous and obnoxious as we see her striving, striving to become the unusual woman she wants to be but can’t quite develop into naturally.
The best part of this book is finally figuring out what “the quick” in the title refers to. I don’t want to spoil anything, but the book becomes a haunting comparison between life and death in the most original way— Joy Williams teaches us about the mystery that surrounds both, and bends the definitions of the two ideas intimately and inexorably. | philosophy |
http://thatstoocute.com/18-lessons/ | 2017-04-25T06:33:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917120187.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031200-00557-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.971424 | 1,946 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__93436720 | en | I have to remind myself of these things all the time. I am not perfect. Not in the least…But these are things I have learned on my own journey through motherhood, whether it’s from trial and error, or the wisdom of mothers before me.
- Teach him to shower daily…with soap– In the hopes that he will do it at least once a week when he’s older. Yes, I had to add a qualifier because little boys (and many men) are gross. They seem to think that going under the water means they have bathed. EVERYDAY, I have to ask the Kid, “Did you soap your skin? That includes your pits, butt and balls!” No one likes smegma. NO ONE.
- Teach him all around hygiene- Brushing teeth correctly. This includes the tongue! White tongues and halitosis are Ewwww. Just saying. It puts the lotion on its skin so people don’t get hurt touching them. Hair maintenance, fingernail maintenance, changing his underwear. These are things I didn’t realize I would have to repeat to the Kid. Yet here we are.
- Teach him that no means no…not maybe– This is in all aspects of life. Not just when it comes to sex. Giving in after he’s begging only lets him think that he can get his way no matter what. If it’s no to the cookie, then it’s no to the cookie. It’s not “Fine, here’s the cookie. Stop begging and annoying me.” Say what you mean and mean what you say.
- Teach him that you’ll always have his back…except when he’s wrong– When he stumbles and falls, he knows you’ll be there. But, there is nothing I can’t stand more than someone being wrong and strong. It’s ok to have your son’s back when he’s doing the right thing. But if he’s done something wrong, whether or not you know for sure, get all the facts before you defend him. Even the best kids do stupid things. Let him know his wrong doing is a reflection on how you raised him. It’s a little thing I like to call “putting the fear of God into a child.” It has worked for centuries and will continue to do so long after we are gone.
- Teach him accountability– There are consequences to everything. Words and actions. They can be good or bad. It’s all dependent on what he puts in. Study for the test or don’t. Steal the candy or buy it. Speak up or allow something to remain. He has a choice in everything.
- Teach him to be contrite, honest and fair– Don’t be a pushover, but don’t be a bully. Saying sorry and meaning it, has a power all its own. Honesty will get him further than lies. Being fair, even when life isn’t, will sit well in his soul. Sharing even when the other kid refuses to…that’s the right thing to do. Golden rule and all that.
- Teach him faith in something bigger– Whether it’s God, Allah, Buddha, Brahma, Science or the Universe. Everyone should have a sense of something bigger than they are. It doesn’t have to be religious or spiritual, but an understanding that there are things that cannot or have yet to be explained.
- Teach him to question everything– How things work, where they come from and what does that mean? Children are innately curious beings. We take that from them when we get tired of their incessant questions. (Ever heard why a thousand times?) The age old answer of “Because I said so” can work for certain situations like when you’re asked “Whyyyy do I have to read AGAIN?” However, when you are asked how do volcanoes work, don’t stop at I don’t know. Go further and find out. When you go back and explain to your kid how a volcano works, what’s the difference between magma and lava, and you can talk about the layers of the earth..trust me those shining eyes are total hero worship.
- Teach him to try new things– This includes food, music, places, and people. The world is big and small at the same time. Something unknown is an adventure not yet had.
- Teach him to accept people as they are– They may not have as much money. They may actually have more. They may look different, or speak another language. They may have different priorities or interests. Everyone is the same because everyone is unique. Don’t judge people and simply take them as they are. It’s ok to not be someone’s friend, but that doesn’t give anyone the right to estimate someone else’s worth.
- Teach him to fall down and get up…without help– This lesson will take him far. I adore my son, but I was never a mother who over coddled. He knew I was there (See #4) but I always encouraged him to dust himself off and stand on his own. I may not always be around. There is strength in numbers but an even greater strength in self assurance. Do not do his homework, projects or shoelaces for him. He has to learn that life is hard and you have to push until you get through it.
- Teach him to ask for help– It’s ok to need help. But teach him to ask when he truly needs it and not simply because of laziness. Knowing your limitation and asking for help is a sign of strength. And one day when he’s on a road trip, he may actually ask for directions!
- Teach him to cry– Boys and men are allowed to cry. Like any other human, they have emotions. It is ok to feel and anyone who says otherwise can kick rocks. I showed the Kid what a starving child truly looked like, and I can assure you he cried and has never used the word starving to describe his level of hunger. Empathy, being unselfish and kind. Having a heart is his right.
- Teach him to listen– When he shows you his favorite toy and explains to you why it’s his favorite for the millionth time…pretend it’s the first. He’s sharing a piece of himself with you. Children learn by example. If you listen to him, he will (hopefully) listen to you. Eye contact and actual conversation can do wonders. Pay attention when he speaks, so he can expect it from others and do so in return.
- Teach him respect– Please. Thank you. Yes, Mommy. No, Daddy. Good Morning, Sir. Hello, Ma’am. Where have these gone? Teach these words by using them in front of and with your child. Showing deference is something different from demeaning yourself. Holding and opening doors, despite thanks being given, is still the right thing to do. Teach him to do the right thing without the need for a reward.
- Teach him the importance of traditions and family– These are the things that will carry until the end of time. Keep old traditions and start new ones. Celebrate a new job or the first day of summer vacation. Celebrate the A+ on the math test and the C- in gym (not everyone can hit the ball). Spend time with your child and they will want to spend time with you. It may take a while (the teen years. UGH) but they will come around. New pajamas and new sheets on Christmas Eve are a tradition handed from my grandmother, that I am teaching my son who will (hopefully) teach his own kids.
- Teach him to dream and imagine– Write stories together. Color outside the lines and fill up the empty spaces. Legos, building blocks and cardboard boxes are all just cities and towns waiting to be created. Maybe he is the dragon and he’s protecting the prince from an evil princess. Read fairytales to your sons, not just your daughters. Maybe the sky is purple and not really blue after all. Yes, he can be a scientist, and an illustrator and a race car driver. Or he can go to Mars after he creates a way to feed all the children in the world. Encourage imagination because without it he’ll just be another sheep herded along.
- Teach him love..that includes loving himself– Say you love him every day. Let him say it back to you and whomever else. Give hugs and kisses and smiles and silly high fives. When he looks in the mirror tell him he is handsome and smart. He’s not too skinny or too fat. He’s maybe not great in math, but he is a brilliant reader, and with practice he’ll be just as good in math. Let him share his food with someone less fortunate…or his toy…or say hello to someone who looks lonely.
Everything he does, starts and ends with you. No pressure. | philosophy |
https://westhillchurch.net/about-us/our-mission | 2023-05-29T09:46:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224644817.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20230529074001-20230529104001-00115.warc.gz | 0.968372 | 184 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__74759251 | en | Love God. Love others. Serve both.
As men and women who follow Jesus, we strive to center ourselves around what he called the greatest commands. One version of this teaching of Jesus is found in Mark 12:28-31:
One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?”
“The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.” | philosophy |
https://managebetter.buzzsprout.com/792494/8881089-wisdom-for-startups-from-gownups-with-r-gopalkrishnan-and-r-narayanan?t=0 | 2023-03-28T17:57:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296948868.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20230328170730-20230328200730-00386.warc.gz | 0.954958 | 475 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__33073792 | en | Giving up control and raining money is the first act of humility from an entrepreneur. Not my words but wisdom coming from grownups - R Gopalakrishnan (Gopal) and Naru Narayanan.
Earlier today I spoke with both these distinguished leaders on Wisdom for Startups by Grownup based on their recent book by the same name. The show was live on my channel.
Top moments from the session:
1. Shinise and Corporate Ayurveda: the principles of a long healthy life are universal and it is the same for an organisation. Organisations can last long and should aim to do so.
2. Minohoda, is Japanese for - it is not enough to have a great idea. You must also have a good understanding of your limitations. Love your idea but evaluate objectively
3. Raising money vs Using your Money: Raising capital is accompanied by giving up control. The desire for control is human nature and we don’t frown upon it. There was a time when Tata Sons held under 2% of Tata Steel.
4. The act of raising money is the first act of humility that an entrepreneur can show. The maximum feedback one gets is from the person who puts in the money. Nothing is worse than an entrepreneur who cannot make that transition from being my idea, my company, to our idea, our company.
5. Companies are like human beings. Companies can be like children and one gets attached to them. There is emotion. The company and the entrepreneur forge a clear personality of their own.
6. Hiring people you know vs the best talent: When you hire people whom you know, don't forget that those people also know you.
7. A team means you have talent Density. Portability.
8. PIAC – Purpose, Identity, Adaptability, Conservative is the secret sauce for success as a startup.
9. Kahlil Gibran said this in his point, he said, be grateful for parenthood, but remember, you're merely a vehicle through which that being has come into the world.
For this and more check the video on YouTube (Link in comments). I will publish a Podcast version soon as well.
Follow me on LinkedIn, YouTube, and all popular Podcast channels - Anshuman Tiwari | philosophy |
https://ctvoices.org/2012/05/everything-i-needed-to-know-i-learned-from-dr-seuss/ | 2024-04-24T22:20:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296819971.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424205851-20240424235851-00421.warc.gz | 0.950803 | 698 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__25648734 | en | A visit from my four-year-old nephew, Gabe (an orange-haired spitfire), provided the happy opportunity to share with him my family’s favorite Dr. Seuss stories. They are so prized not only because children love them, but because they are charming and literate enough for adults to read aloud approximately 1,042 times per childhood without losing their minds. But more importantly, as I’ve long thought and told anyone who’ll listen, they collectively embody a complete morality library for children, and for adults too. Yes, it’s true.
- Children are people, too. In Horton Hears a Who, a kind-hearted elephant saves an entire species that resides on a speck of dust from “size-ist” non-believers who cannot imbue worth and personhood on creatures so tiny until Horton convinces them that they exist and deserve protection, because “A person’s a person no matter how small.” If Connecticut Voices for Children didn’t already have a mission statement, that would be a strong contender. It also wouldn’t be a bad state motto.
- Fair play. Next, Sneetches is a pithy, anti-prejudice tale demonstrating, with fantastical contraptions and avaricious exploiters, the absurdity of the self-perception of superiority by Sneetches “whose bellies have stars” over Sneetches whose bellies have “none upon thars”. What more, really, do children and adults need to know about how to treat each other?
- Keeping our promises. Finally, Horton Hatches the Egg returns to our elephant hero, who in this adventure perseveres– through winter storms and hunters with guns and seasickness and exploitation at a circus and his peers’ derision—in protecting the nest and egg he’s sitting on, because he promised that he would! Horton’s mantra, “I meant what I said and I said what I meant, an elephant’s faithful, one hundred percent!” is a lesson just as important for adults as for children, and the question—“How do we keep the promises we make to children?”– is one which underlies all of the policy questions we ask at Connecticut Voices.
Through our work at Connecticut Voices for Children, we aim to value children and youth as our future, promote fairness and opportunity, and encourage other grown-ups to keep our promises to children. Early education is one of the best investments in the future we can make, and our annual early care progress report tracks how well the state is doing. Our report on changing demographics in the state points out that if we fail to offer fair play and broader opportunity for all of Connecticut’s children soon, both adults and children will suffer the consequences. Our work on the state budget looks at how we as a state can structure our revenue system so that we can keep our promises to Connecticut’s children’s into the future—with the necessary investments in their education, health, safety and family supports. And we also keep our promises to children by training and mentoring the next generation of their advocates.
By working together on policies that improve the lives of Connecticut’s children and families, we can all make Horton the elephant proud. | philosophy |
https://www.onlineistikhara.org/index.php/2023/06/08/discovering-your-destiny-with-online-istikhara/ | 2024-04-23T05:28:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818464.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20240423033153-20240423063153-00519.warc.gz | 0.913291 | 354 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__158233324 | en | Have you ever wondered what your true purpose in life is? Do you ever feel lost or unsure about the decisions you make? If so, you are not alone. Many people struggle with finding their true path, but there is hope. With the help of online Istikhara, you can gain insight into your dreams and future, and discover your destiny.
The Meaning of Istikhara
Istikhara is a powerful tool that can help you make decisions and guide you on your spiritual journey. It is a form of prayer that seeks guidance from Allah (SWT) and asks for His divine assistance in making important decisions. Online Istikhara is a convenient and accessible way to seek this guidance from the comfort of your own home.
Through online Istikhara, you can gain clarity and peace of mind about various aspects of your life, such as your career, relationships, and personal goals. By understanding your strengths and weaknesses, you can make decisions that align with your values and purpose.
The Benefits of Online Istikhara
Online Istikhara offers many benefits that can help you on your spiritual journey. It allows you to:
- Gain insight into your dreams and future
- Discover your true purpose in life
- Make decisions with confidence
- Align your actions with your values
- Find peace of mind and clarity
Online Istikhara is a powerful tool that can help you discover your destiny and find your true path in life. By seeking guidance from Allah (SWT), you can make decisions with confidence and align your actions with your values. So, if you are feeling lost or unsure, turn to online Istikhara for the guidance and clarity you seek. | philosophy |
https://www.kabane.ca/en/our-culture | 2021-10-26T14:52:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323587908.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20211026134839-20211026164839-00509.warc.gz | 0.942333 | 334 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__102027686 | en | Kabane strives to attract and retain the best resources, which are proactive and passionate people who share the agency’s values.
We are committed to nurturing our team’s talents and aspirations to stoke positive and contagious energy. We also are focused on exceeding customers’ expectations with high-quality projects that everyone can be proud of.
We believe that it is possible to have fun at work while being creative and successful.
For nearly 10 years, we have provided welcoming, stimulating and healthy work environment for all of our employees. We promote an authentic management style that focuses on accountability, commitment, collaboration and results. We believe in work-life balance.
We recognize that employees have lives outside of work. We understand the importance of ensuring that everyone’s mind, body and heart are healthy.
We value teamwork and draw on everyone’s strengths to push our ideas further.
We allow employees to be themselves, use their strengths, show off their flair, and share their dreams.
We foster transparency and simple communication. We work towards a goal in a friendly and respectful way. We seek simple and effective solutions.
We want to contribute to the betterment of local communities as well as lend a helping hand to charities we hold dear in our hearts.
We see work as a grand adventure and a way to nourish our team’s creativity and inspiration. We love it when team members have high-octane personalities and humble souls.
We constantly look for new opportunities, new possibilities and new solutions to every challenge. We believe all of our employees can take their talents further than they ever thought possible. | philosophy |
https://fashioningfaith.org/forgiveness-reconciliation | 2023-09-26T03:10:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510130.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20230926011608-20230926041608-00588.warc.gz | 0.957765 | 103 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__208451391 | en | Forgiveness & Reconciliation
We believe in the forgiveness of sins.... After the great commandments to love God and your neighbor as yourself, forgiveness is probably the next great hallmark of Christianity. Yet, just as love is easy to say but hard to do, so are forgiveness and reconciliation. We teach our children to say, "I'm sorry," but it's too easy for those to be hollow words – even for adults. Here we explore principles and challenges that address the holy concept of forgiveness and reconciliation. | philosophy |
http://indigoenergyint.com/index.php/en/services-experience/quality-management | 2021-06-23T20:00:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623488540235.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20210623195636-20210623225636-00610.warc.gz | 0.940808 | 257 | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__120733548 | en | Quality is a value that drives our approach in Indigo Energy International. As part of our business philosophy, quality is present in each of the services we offer, as well as in all the activities we carry out successfully.
Our professionals are aware of the impact of quality in each project we execute and, in this sense, seek daily to achieve excellence.
Being open to change and global thinking, allows us to continuously improve and be able to provide effective and efficient support in the administration of our Quality Management System.
Our main objective is to establish the highest standards of performance, efficiency and excellence in the services provided to our clients.
Quality Management is about offering the best practices and accumulated experiences, as well as the definition and systematic planning of control activities to guarantee safety and excellence in everything we do.
For all the above, we can ensure that we meet and exceed the expectations of our customers, because we focus on your total satisfaction.
In this way, at Indigo Energy International, we ensure the control and continuous improvement of the processes of our Quality Management System, certified under the international standard ISO 9001 (since 2011) by FONDONORMA.
At present, we are making efforts to crystallize our certification in standards such as ISO 45000 and ISO 14001. | philosophy |
https://employabilityskills.org/employabilityskills/lifelonglearning/ | 2024-03-03T05:59:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476205.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20240303043351-20240303073351-00529.warc.gz | 0.975536 | 126 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__183022569 | en | An orientation to lifelong learning encompasses the qualities of curiosity, humility, a willingness to learn new things, and the skills to pursue independent learning.
This quality has increased in importance since change has become the byword of the modern job.
In our research, employers made clear that they are not interested in employees who think that being ready for the workplace means they are finished with learning.
As one information technology educator put it: “IT is learning to learn” (IT Educator 7). And advanced manufacturing requires “utility players” who are willing to learn different functions and roles as needed.” | philosophy |
http://versusclucluland.blogspot.co.uk/2008/10/war-is-what-no-one-wills.html | 2017-04-30T20:29:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917125849.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031205-00190-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.956894 | 1,266 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__22980144 | en | Sometimes I waver between thinking about games as works of art and thinking about them as artifacts. Where the end of art is the representation of reality, the end an artifact is to do something for its users: carry their olive oil, or amuse them.. When we look at a grecian urn, we may admire the still unravished bride of quietness, but when we ask what the urn is for we would say that it's for storing olive oil. And when posterity digs up a copy of Call of Duty 4 and asks what it's for, they will say “this disc is for entertainment.” Simply put, Call of Duty 4 is an entertainment machine. I am almost never tempted to call anything a thrill ride, but I can think of no other expression meet for the machine-like entertainingness of Call of Duty 4.
Unfortunately the thrill-ride metaphor is too apt to pass up. On one hand the railed nature of your thrill ride captures the essential linearity of the level design and gameplay. Call of Duty manages these epic and impressive setpieces by restricting the character's choices. Not only are there few areas for reconnaissance or exploration, the game often punishes your severely for running off the set track. Perhaps I was not resourceful enough, but in most cases I found that advancing through tricky sections of the game was a matter of discovering the precise intended avenue towards the enemy position (usually by following a breadcrumb-trail of cover), and memorizing the set enemy locations. At its worst points, there is a shooting-gallery feeling to the levels in Call of Duty. However, the middle sections (including several pitched battles on a tiered Russian hillside, and a indelibly desolate Chernobyl-set flashback) have a positively open feeling to them, one missing from the clausterphobic alleyways of the anonymous middle eastern city that dominates the early sections of the game.
Really, Call of Duty as a whole is an object lesson in the importance of pacing and gameplay variety. Given that shooting and hiding virtually exhaust your congress with the world, Call of Duty creates an impressive array of different combat scenarios by varying the terrain and weaponry throughout the game. You never feel like you are doing the same thing over and over again. You are never locked into one tempo for long, and the most intense scenes (the frenzied dashes to a landing-zone rendezvous) alternate with slower, more deliberately paced passages that call on different sets of skills.
Indeed, the most memorable feature of Call of Duty is the way it juxtaposes moments of exhilarating empowerment with episodes of complete helplessness. One moment your enemies are a superior force that sends your squad cowering behind hay-bales, and he next they are sinners in the hands of an angry god, scattering to the four winds as you rain ordinance down upon them from an AC-130 gunship. In one scene you courageously rescue a comrade from a downed helicopter; in the next, your heroic solider watches a mushroom cloud rise above the city, wiping out the entire corps and rendering those heroic deeds meaningless. The alternation of empowerment with disempowerment has been a staple of the genre for some time now (every shooter feels the need to put you behind a turret at some point), but Call of Duty's setpieces are so well-crafted that they transcend the conventions of the genre. The moments of most extreme helplessness-- the opening sequence played from the the perspective of a man on the way to his execution, or the scene in the aftermath of a nuclear explosion-- achieve a kind of haunting power that is uncommon in the medium.
Some commentators on the game have puzzled over the game's attitude towards war and military service. Daniel Golding took the characterization of your fellow soliders, and the pithy quotes that flash across the screen on your demise, as a sign of the game's anti-war message. Mitch Krpata wrote: “Some time ago, the US Army released a game called America's Army to help them pick up new recruits. If those kids played Call of Duty instead, they'd probably make a run for Canada.”
I think both of these writers make fine points in favor of their arguments, but I think this alternation between empowerment and disempowerment in the gameplay is the key to understanding Call of Duty 4's viewpoint on war and military service.
I obviously have no idea what military duty is like, but based on what I've gleaned from firsthand accounts, participation in war involves a horrific combination of responsibility and helplessness. On one hand, being a solider means that the lives of the people you care for the most-- your best friends, your fellow soldiers-- depends your intellect and courage, your skill at your craft. I can't imagine the burden of being responsible for the lives of the people closest to me, having their lives depend on my capabilities. It is this burden of responsibility, rather than some abstract commitment to God and country, that ison the mind of soldiers as they enter the battlefield.
On the other hand, the reality of armed conflict is that war often renders the best efforts of individual men and women meaningless. Tolstoy wrote that war is something that “no one wills,” and what he meant is that everyone involved in the conduct of war-- soldiers and generals alike-- is subject to a chain of effects and contingencies that are radically beyond their control. The forces that dictate life or death for individual soldiers in the field are arbitrary and impersonal, both too complex and too random to be mastered by even the most farsighted men.
Call of Duty 4 succeeds in being more than entertainment where it conveys both of these elements at the same time: both the ennobling heroism and the powerless vulnerability that are intrinsic to warfare. While the player's skills suffice to stave of nuclear holocaust in the end, she finds herself unable to prevent the extermination of the rest of the company and the apparent death of your gamelong mentor, Captain Price. The triumph of skill over death is always incomplete. This strikes me as a welcome step towards realism in the most implausible of games. | philosophy |
https://amst.umd.edu/faculty/james-maffie/ | 2021-05-12T02:39:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243991693.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20210512004850-20210512034850-00191.warc.gz | 0.757454 | 874 | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__178435228 | en | Jim Maffie is senior lecturer in the Department of American Studies and an affiliate of the Departments of Philosophy and History and Religious and Latin American Studies Programs. He is author of Aztec Philosophy: Understanding a World in Motion (2014) and numerous articles examining various aspects of conquest-era Mexica (Aztec) philosophical thought. He argues that the conquest-era Mexica advanced a highly sophisticated and systematic philosophy worthy of consideration alongside other world philosophies. Maffie is currently writing a second book tentatively entitled Toltecayotl: An Aztec Understanding of the Well-Ordered Life that focuses on Mexica ethics and understanding of the good life. His work employs a broadly inter-disciplinary approach including philosophy, indigenous studies, linguistics, ethnography, religious studies, ritual studies, art history, archaeology, and history.
- Ph.D., Philosophy (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
- M.A., Philosophy (University of California, San Diego)
- B.A., Philosophy (University of California, Los Angeles)
- Conquest-era Aztec (Mexica) philosophy
- Indigenous philosophies of the Americas
- Indigenous environmental and political movements in the Americas
- Latin American philosophy
- Mexican-American (Chicano) philosophy
- Comparative world philosophy
- Africana philosophy
- Postcolonial theory.
- Aztec Philosophy: Understanding a World in Motion. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2014.
- “Teaching Aztec (Mexica) Philosophy: Discussion and Syllabus,” American Philosophical Association Newsletter for Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy (forthcoming).
- “In Huehue Tlamanitiliztli and la Verdad: Nahua and European Philosophies in Fray Bernardino de Sahagún’s Colloquios y doctrina cristiana,” Inter-America Journal of Philosophy 3 (2012): 1-33.
- “Pre-Columbian Philosophies,” A Companion to Latin American Philosophy, Susanna Nuccetelli, Ofelia Schutte, and Octávio Bueno (eds). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010: 9-22.
- “’In the End, We have the Gatling Gun, And they have not:’ Future Prospects for Indigenous Knowledges,” Futures: The Journal of Policy, Planning, and Futures Studies Special Issue: Futures of Indigenous Knowledges 41 (2009): 53-65.
- “Consciousness and Reality in Nahua Thought in the Era of the Conquest,” in Helmut Wautischer (ed.), Ontology of Consciousness: Percipient Action. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008: 99-128.
- “The Centrality of Nepantla in Conquest-era Nahua Philosophy,” The Nahua Newsletter 44 (2007): 11-31.
- “Flourishing on Earth: Nahua Philosophy in the Era of the Conquest,” The Nahua Newsletter 40 (Special 20th Anniversary Issue) (2005): 18-23.
- “The Epistemology of Aztec Time-Keeping,” American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy 3 (2004): 95-101.
- “To Walk in Balance: An Encounter between Contemporary Western Science and Pre-Conquest Nahua Philosophy,” in Science and Other Cultures: Issues in Philosophies of Science and Technology, Robert Figueroa and Sandra Harding (eds.). New York: Routledge, 2003: 70-91.
- “‘We Eat of the Earth, then the Earth Eats Us’: The Concept of Nature in Pre-Hispanic Nahua Thought,” Ludus Vitalis X 17 (2002): 5-20.
- “Why Care about Nezahualcoyotl? Veritism and Nahua Philosophy,” Philosophy of the Social Sciences 32 (2002): 73-93.
- “Alternative Epistemologies and the Value of Truth,” Social Epistemology 14 (2001): 247-257. | philosophy |
https://officialflagpole.com/blogs/ofp-blogposts-3/national-sanctity-of-human-life-day-a-celebration-of-life-and-liberty | 2024-04-20T22:05:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817688.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420214757-20240421004757-00827.warc.gz | 0.961063 | 498 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__148571223 | en | On January 22nd, the United States observes National Sanctity of Human Life Day. This day is dedicated to recognizing the inherent value and worth of every human life, from conception to natural death. It is a day to remember that every individual has the right to live, to be protected, and to be treated with dignity and respect.
The United States was founded on the principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. These principles are embodied in the Declaration of Independence, which states that "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
National Sanctity of Human Life Day serves as a reminder that the right to life is the foundation of all other rights. Without the right to life, other rights such as freedom of speech, religion, and the press, become meaningless. As Americans, we should be proud to live in a country that recognizes and protects the rights of its citizens, starting with the most basic right: the right to life.
The observance of National Sanctity of Human Life Day is also a call to action. It is a reminder that we must work to protect the rights of the most vulnerable among us. The sanctity of human life can be threatened by policies, actions, or beliefs that devalue or disregard the intrinsic value of human life. This include fighting against abortion and euthanasia, as well as supporting policies that protect human life such as healthcare, education, and disaster relief.
As we observe National Sanctity of Human Life Day, let us remember the preciousness of every human life and the responsibility we have to protect it. Let us also remember that our freedom and our prosperity as a nation are built on the foundation of respect for the sanctity of human life. Let us continue to uphold the principle that every human being has the right to live, to be protected, and to be treated with dignity and respect, as it is the cornerstone of our democracy and a source of our pride as Americans.
In conclusion, The National Sanctity of Human Life Day is a day to remember the inherent value and worth of every human life. It serves as a reminder of the importance of the right to life and it calls for the protection of the most vulnerable among us. It reminds us of our responsibility to stand for the protection of human life, a cornerstone of our democracy and a source of pride for being Americans. | philosophy |
https://www.firstfoundation.ca/about/mission-values/ | 2019-03-19T02:16:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912201882.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20190319012213-20190319034213-00347.warc.gz | 0.95118 | 193 | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-13__0__108484159 | en | Mission (What Keeps us Going)
First Foundation’s mission is to help people to own valuable assets, grow in wisdom and wealth, and protect themselves and their loved ones.
Values (How We Do It)
First Foundation accomplishes its mission by adhering to the following values:
We believe it’s important to have the courage to lead and do the right thing, in spite of our fears.
We choose to be honest with clients, partners, and colleagues. This is a must that can never be compromised.
We seek consistency from ourselves so that all clients will enjoy the same great experience.
We believe that choice is superior to a lack of choice. We value that people have the right to choose who will serve them, and we compete for their business by offering valuable information and attractive options.
We build strong and rewarding relationships by being loyal and supportive to our clients, our colleagues, and our community. | philosophy |
https://eggheads.world/join-the-exclusive-world/ | 2023-12-06T01:48:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100575.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20231206000253-20231206030253-00874.warc.gz | 0.938926 | 121 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__196453782 | en | Today will be a good day. It’s a fresh start, a new opportunity to make progress and achieve your goals. Embrace the challenges and obstacles that come your way, for they provide an opportunity to learn and grow. Approach each moment with a positive attitude and an open mind, and you’ll find that the possibilities are endless. Whether it’s tackling a difficult project, spending time with loved ones, or pursuing a personal passion, today is the day to seize the moment and make it count. So get up, get motivated, and make today the best day yet! | philosophy |
http://thedailyaztec.com/65371/opinion/combat-hate-with-compassion/?print=true | 2020-08-15T05:45:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439740679.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20200815035250-20200815065250-00047.warc.gz | 0.96413 | 1,216 | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-34__0__572132 | en | Whenever evangelical extremists come to San Diego State, to preach their sermons of “whoredom” and “sodomy,” there always seems to be a crowd that is as equally enthusiastic about engaging in religious warfare.
Such was the case on March 5, when infamous “sex-ed” preachers, Brother Jed and Sister Cindy, made their annual visit to our campus to remind us of how promiscuous our demographic is, brandishing signs that screamed “whore” as Sister Cindy wielded her famous chocolate tampon tree.
However, the focus shouldn’t be on tired arguments and tropes of divorcing Christian extremists from Christians. Should we have looked at the debacle rationally, it’s very clear that the sermons of zealotry aren’t representative of the Christian faith, nor values. No one should reasonably believe that this extremist behavior is representative of Jesus’ teachings of love and compassion. But while focusing on the actions of SDSU onlookers, there seems to be a more imminent issue.
As Sister Cindy was waving her tampon tree and calling students “sodomites” and “whores,” I noticed students had taken upon themselves to steal her signs and publicly ridicule her, vilely returning the favor in slurs and expletives. Brother Jed, when asked about violence and intimidation from students, said this was nothing new in his and his wife’s campaign across the U.S.
“Someone earlier stole our sign and threw it in the trash, and someone else tried to steal my wife’s bag,” Brother Jed said. “We’ve been spat at before, but usually this is the norm for us.”
Now, normally I’m usually not the first one rushing in to support evangelical extremists, with likes of Westboro Baptist Church, but it’s important to question the level of ethics when students combat this extremist behavior with hate and disrespect. This is in no way condoning Christian extremism, but we can’t ignore the fact that retaliating in the same manner exudes the same judgment and hostility we attempt to condemn.
The most proactive and practical way to approach hate on campus isn’t by dispersing more hate and conflict, but by approaching it with positivity, love and compassion. When we engage in religious debates with these preachers we too often demonize them. When we demonize, we profoundly reject their humanity, and in doing so, we reject ours as well.
However, it’s comforting to note the Christians who don’t prescribe to the same hateful rhetoric while combating this hate.
Among the jeering crowd, Alejandro Espinoza, a Southwestern College student visiting SDSU for bible study, stood up against the hate. What made his approach unique was he wasn’t attacking Sister Cindy, but he was talking to the students about the true teachings of Jesus Christ.
“What made me want to go up, was that I didn’t agree with what she was saying,” Espinoza said. “I believe Christianity is about loving people unconditionally, no matter who they are and no matter what they’ve done. God loves you no matter what, he’s not going to force you to love him back and whether it’s today, or in a thousand years, he’s still going to be available to you without judgment. Christianity is about receiving love and loving others in the same way. I had to let people know that this is what my faith is about.”
Espinoza spoke and people listened, and it’s small moments like this that should serve as hopeful. To some, this narrative may seem like an isolated, singular incident, but Espinoza isn’t alone in combating the hate of these preachers with the loving teachings of Christ.
Last September, when an anti-gay preacher came to James Madison University, students didn’t retaliate in debate against the preacher, but drowned him out in song — effectively showing the power that human kindness has in overpowering hate. Similarly powerful and iconic, were the angels of Laramie, which effectively blocked out the hateful protests of the Westboro Baptist Church at Matthew Shepards funeral.
Interestingly enough, Brother Jed’s campaign at the University of Minnesota inspired an unlikely coalition between an atheist group, a Lutheran pastor and the LGBTQ community.
The three drastically different groups united in a large counter-protest to block Brother Jed, by holding up signs stating slogans such as “Hate is not a family value” and “Free hugs from atheists.”
Students weren’t instigated to fight back, but they were prompted to unite, and make an even larger display of love.
Itzel Hernandez, a comparative literature and comparative international studies sophomore, said when opposing hate preach on campus, it’s important to approach it with an intent to not judge, but offer words of kindness.
“I think it’s important to not go up with the purpose of fighting them,” Hernandez said. “It’s less about saying that you’re right and they’re wrong, but it’s about you having something good to offer to everyone.”
At the end of the day, our capacity for compassion needs to extend beyond our ability to judge and slander. We can be humanists in dealing with those who wish to demonize us, and utilize a compassionate approach in combating hate speech.
Next time any extremist preacher is on campus, rather than ridiculing him or her, let’s demonstrate how united our campus is in displaying compassion and love for, not only each other, but for those who need it most: those preaching. | philosophy |
http://thomasraylumen.blogspot.jp/2009/08/dreamcatcher.html | 2013-06-20T06:41:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710605589/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516132325-00072-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.936746 | 157 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__125430978 | en | (yes, I know it's just an abandoned billboard, but I can dream can't I?)
It's believed by members of the Ojibwe Tribe and other Native American People that a dream catcher changes a person's dreams by allowing only good dreams to filter through during the night, while keeping bad dreams in the net, to have them disappear with the light of day.
It's a beautiful thing.
Cherish your visions and your dreams
as they are the children of your soul
the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
~ Napoleon Hill
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
~ Carl Sandburg
When you achieve your dream
pursue another dream.
That's how to live a life of adventure.
Sweet dreams everyone. | philosophy |
https://www.bellefitnesslifestyle.com/exercise-fitness--inspiration/rest-to-progress | 2021-04-20T15:37:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618039476006.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20210420152755-20210420182755-00114.warc.gz | 0.975718 | 150 | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__202492880 | en | Whenever we take time off from training and rest, many of us feel guilty, including myself. It's been programmed in our lives to be on the go, to always be doing something productive, and make the most out of each day. I think we all forget that sometimes making the most of the day, is to actually doing NOTHING.
By doing nothing (in terms of training), and just relaxing and eating good food, we recover and refuel our body efficiently. When we recover properly, we end up being able to train harder, better, and faster, for the next time! Therefore, be happy on your NOTHING days, they're actually more productive than you think.
...so relax, and rest up! ;) | philosophy |
https://clipsconvert.com/hanuman-ji-status-video-download/ | 2024-03-05T05:19:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707948217723.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20240305024700-20240305054700-00097.warc.gz | 0.858503 | 643 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__137969376 | en | Unveiling the Ultimate Hanuman Ji Status Video Download Guide
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https://pressservices.triad-city-beat.com/essay-writers/ | 2024-04-25T13:27:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712297295329.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425130216-20240425160216-00707.warc.gz | 0.964001 | 1,106 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__138267114 | en | Probably, every modern person will agree that writing an essay is a very difficult assignment and requires a certain skill from a person. Therefore, not everyone can successfully cope with this task. But thanks to the help of experts, we can write an excellent essay on a certain topic. It’s very easy today to contact an essay writing agency and get highly qualified support from professional academic writers. But still, it’s worth learning how to write an essay without any help. In this article, we will tell you about the five most prominent essay writers. Try to read the article carefully and highlight important points for yourself.
Famous Essay Writers
So, information about the outstanding essay authors is represented below.
George Orwell is the author of the essay “My Country, Right or Left”. This paper should be read by every sane person who understands the importance of liberal values and is ready to evaluate his past and present, proceeding not from pseudo-patriotism, but from understanding that love for the native land consists in not only remarking on successes, but also revealing shortcomings, problems, and injustice. Due to the fact that a person can see black in the history of his Fatherland and speak frankly about historical and modern abscesses, he becomes a real patriot who loves his homeland. Honesty in evaluations always distinguishes patriots from pseudo-patriots.
Herbert Wells wrote the well-known essay “About the mind and cleverness”. Wells’ concise essay was devoted to the phenomenon of ‘originals’, which spread by the end of the 19th century: according to Wells, they were not only well-versed in all matters but had their own opinions on any issue, and most importantly, they joked about everything with an enviable gleam. According to the author, the works of art of the ‘wise men’ are nothing but the best witticisms placed in a frame. After thinking about who feels good at such jokes and concluding that no one is, Wells decides on a broader discussion — about the fate of the states and those who are at their head. “I assure you, the rational is the opposite of the great. The British Empire, like the Roman Empire, was created by dumbasses. And it is possible that clever men will destroy us”, — writes Wells, and then in one paragraph explains the relationship between great art and the ability to avoid that petty egoism, the manifestation of which is cleverness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson is the author of the essay “Self-Reliance”. Ralph Waldo Emerson — one of the greatest philosophers — was the wise men of Western culture. He still has a great influence. Moreover, his ideas were never more relevant than today. “Self-Reliance” has become one of the key works that formed the ethics of American individualism. It continues to be part of the modern rich literary heritage. “Insist on your own, never imitate anyone. You can use your own gift at any moment by combining it with the achievements of the whole civilization, but if you rely on the talent of another person, you will get only a random half of the achievement..”, — wrote Emerson in his work. The writer called out to trust yourself. This means listening carefully and trying to hear God’s quiet voice inside yourself.
Thomas Eliot wrote the famous essay “Tradition and Individual Talent”. This is a key essay from the collection “The Destination of Poetry”. Eliot here reflects on two components of poetry: the personal feeling of the author, introducing his individuality into the work, and also on the literary tradition in which the author exists. The key idea of the essay is about the value of the emotion that arises inside the work. The uniqueness of this paper lies in the fact that Eliot as if covers all literature and art. The author of the essay gives a masterly simple definition of the difference between good and bad poets, which consists of a conscious or unconscious approach to creation. According to Eliot, a good poet prefers consciousness as a more subtle sphere.
Walter Benjamin wrote an essay on the topic “A work of art in the era of its technical reproducibility”. In a small essay, just a few pages, Benjamin raises, in general, the main questions about art ‘in that times and ‘nowadays’, about how we perceive art in general, about how this perception has changed over the centuries, about whether art is photography and how the concept of art, in general, has changed with the advent of photography, about how to evaluate the notorious ‘technical reproducibility’ in the context of the value of a single work. Benjamin has no answers but the method that he chose to explain his position eloquently replaces all the lengthy reasoning that might appear. In order to understand the seething of the author’s feelings, it’s enough to read a single sentence from his essay several times: “Orientation of reality to the masses and masses to reality is a process, which influences on thinking and perception is limitless”.
Thus, now you know information about famous essay authors. We hope you find this information useful. | philosophy |
https://throughtheeyesofi.com/2015/05/02/dont-always-baby-your-baby/ | 2019-12-08T04:46:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575540506459.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20191208044407-20191208072407-00508.warc.gz | 0.976718 | 603 | CC-MAIN-2019-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-51__0__6857637 | en | Don’t Always Baby Your Baby
Good parents realize that there is always much more for them to learn about in regards to being “good parents”. In a perfect world, parents would all have boundless energy, patience, knowledge, tolerance, understanding and flexibility, but no one is perfect. There is so much more to being a parent than just putting them to sleep, feeding them and buying their necessities. It also includes having a wide variety of practical skills in which more than majority of parents aren’t equipped with to have the ability to inquire, or even have the knowledge of the skill’s being, let alone their importance and affects.
When it comes to my stepson, or my own future biological children….it is not my job — and it is certainly not anyone else’s — to prevent them from feeling frustration, fear, or discomfort. If I do, I have robbed them of the opportunity to learn that those things are not the end of the world, and can be overcome or used to their advantage.
If they get stuck, it is not my job or anyone else’s to save them immediately. If I do, I have robbed them of the opportunity to learn to calm themselves, assess their situation, and try to problem solve their own way out of it.
- I don’t want my children to learn that they can’t overcome obstacles without help.
- I don’t want them to learn that they can reach great heights without effort.
- I don’t want them to learn that they are entitled to the reward without having to push through whatever it is that’s holding them back and EARN it.
- I want my children to know the exhilaration of overcoming fear and doubt and achieving a hard-won success.
- I want them to believe in their own abilities and be confident and determined in their actions.
- I want them to accept their limitations until they can figure out a way past them on their own significant power.
- I want them to feel capable of making their own decisions, developing their own skills, taking their own risks, and coping with their own feelings.
- I want them to climb that ladder on the slide without any help, because they can. I know it. If I give them a little space, they will soon know it too.
Because, as they grow up, the ladders will only get taller, and scarier, and much more difficult to climb. I don’t know about you, but I’d rather help them learn the skills they’ll need to navigate them now, while a misstep means a bumped head or scraped knee that can be healed with a kiss, while the most difficult of hills can be conquered by chanting, “I think I can” to “I know I can” to “I did it” | philosophy |
http://travelersdream2012.blogspot.com/2014/08/im-blugold-now.html | 2019-02-22T10:30:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247515149.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20190222094419-20190222120419-00420.warc.gz | 0.972213 | 480 | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-09__0__128023882 | en | Identities... We all have them, get caught up in them, try to change them, but one thing never changes. No matter how much you may try, you will always have one. It's impossible to escape and it kind of stinks. What if I do not want to be the quiet one or the outgoing one or the funny one. What if I want to be all three or none of the above? Imagine a world where we all got to choose how everyone perceived us... It would be nice for every to look at me and see someone who enjoys a good competition but also happens to dress nicely. To be looked at as the nice Christian girl that is outgoing, but not labeled, therefore, as a prude. So many times I find myself worrying about how to phrase things so that I do not give away certain facts about myself. Or do you ever catch yourself sort of talking up your own person? "Ya, I work out a lot. Oh I'm a biker, I've ridden in triathlons before. Here's one minute fact about my life that makes me cool and let's leave out the rest..." Why do we do that? It's like an innate need to make ourselves seem cooler.
But here is where it counts. Do you really think God created you to be one thing only? It says in 1 Corinthians 4:7, "For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?" God created each of us different. I have plenty of personality traits in common with family and friends and even strangers. What makes me and my identity unique is the combination of things that I am. I am a Christian. I am loving. I am artistic. I am outgoing. I am a traveler. And my being will always be transient. For now, I am a college student, a Blugold. And some things I will never get the chance to be again. The youngest child. A kindergartener. A bible school student. Regardless of where I am in life, my identity will always be changing. There may be parts of it that I do not like or may try to hide, but I can find the basis of my identity in Christ. The rest just makes me, me. | philosophy |
https://enpowerts.com/who-we-are/our-core-values/ | 2023-09-24T09:15:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506632.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924091344-20230924121344-00834.warc.gz | 0.919411 | 129 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__105090075 | en | People change. Businesses change. Technologies change.
So, where do we find stability in the quicksand of all this change? Strength and endurance through this ever-changing landscape are rooted in our core values. These core values are the formation blocks by which we live, make decisions, grow as individuals, and build business.
It is our commitment to you, the community and to ourselves to:
- Live life with respect and dignity.
- Encourage truth with humility.
- Build and strengthen character.
- Give, grow and give some more.
- Serve with timeliness, precision, and quality. | philosophy |
https://www.negotiation-360.com/episode-36-the-conscience-code/ | 2024-02-23T03:42:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474360.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20240223021632-20240223051632-00377.warc.gz | 0.946753 | 315 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__47497451 | en | Richard Shell, who teaches negotiation at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, is our guest in this episode. His new book, just published this month, is The Conscience Code: Lead with Your Values, Advance Your Career. It addresses challenging moral issues that arise in negotiation and in leadership, as well.
At the heart of it, what do we owe others (if anything) in regard to fairness, honesty, and the possible use of pressure tactics?
We dug deep into those questions. For example, the three of us discussed what we should do if we’re looking to buy a lovely vacation cabin, and its elderly owner has significantly underpriced the property. Should we snap it up, bargain for an even better price, or inform the owner that the price is too low?
In the leadership context we spoke about the delicate dance of simultaneously exerting authority and power, while being respectful and empathetic with people we lead.
In both settings, Richard emphasized the importance of anticipating tough choices, rather than grappling with them on the fly. He also offered a core principle for making hard decisions. Before acting, always ask yourself, “What would a person of conscience do?”
PS: As it happens, Mike recently posted two related articles on related issues on Jazz of Negotiation: “Fair Enough” 2 and “Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire.” If you’re curious, take a look and see how your ethical code compares with how Jazz readers responded. | philosophy |
https://www.jordanfamilylearningcenter.com/ | 2023-12-02T14:07:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100427.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202140407-20231202170407-00774.warc.gz | 0.945636 | 281 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__254941329 | en | Philadelphia's #1 Faith-Based Preschool!
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We strive to provide a healthy balance of child-directed and teacher-guided activities, as well as time for children to work individually, in small and in large groups. We believe that a stable, safe, healthy, comfortable, faith-filled, and culturally relevant environment is crucial to a child’s growth, and we provide this environment at our Philadelphia preschool learning center. Teachable moments happen every day creating social, emotional, cognitive, and physical growth that will encourage children to be lifelong learners.
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Our mission at Jordan Family Learning Center, LLC is to provide a healthy balance of child-directed and teacher-guided activities, as well as time for children to work individually, in small groups, and in large groups.
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https://www.minabhanna.com/community | 2024-04-14T14:02:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816879.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414130604-20240414160604-00601.warc.gz | 0.967036 | 131 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__13405133 | en | We promise to help people pursue what’s possible. We do this in our business every day, by offering personalized financial guidance. But we also work hard to build a better future for our communities. We strive to be a force for good by connecting and inspiring our people through key programs and leveraging the strength and stability of Equitable Foundation.
This is not just about giving our time to a great cause. It’s about building up our communities and recognizing that we're stronger together – as a team, as a company and as a community. We aspire to drive positive and sustainable change in society and to advance community vitality and social mobility. | philosophy |
https://hackolympus.com/posts/3/ | 2024-04-19T18:48:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817442.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20240419172411-20240419202411-00272.warc.gz | 0.96626 | 513 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__124087576 | en | Reflections on Trusting Trust, written by the legendary Sir Ken Thompson, essentially raises a deep but valid question: should we trust the code written by someone else ?
The paper begins with a very interesting series of talks on various pieces of code, divided into stages and the most fascinating and overwhelming was stage 3, where Sir Ken Thompson provides us with a case study.
In this case study, he tries to introduce us with an idea about how compilers can be made to have backdoors inside of them. A compiler can be designed in such a way that it injects intentionally vulnerable code into a specific program.
This is a very critical thing for me to think about because compilers are used to convert code into binary, so even if the original code is free from any bugs or vulnerabilities, compiling it with an unsafe compiler will automatically make it vulnerable to attacks, and no one except the person who wrote the compiler may know about it.
Now, for me personally, this whole case study changed my perspective on software. Should I even trust the OS on which I am doing my work? In fact, should I even trust the software that I am using for my regular usage ? And what’s frightening is the fact that Unix was open source so this kind of compiler mishap is noticeable but what about software that is commercial and whose source code is not in public ? Is it game over ?
These questions might sound ambiguous but are very valid because whenever we use a software, we never think about its security and that’s what is going to harm us in the long run.
Moral is and as Ken Thompson says in his paper, “You can’t trust code that you did not totally create yourself…” So if we should not trust the code written by someone else, should we just stop using code ? The answer is No because that’s obviously not possible. But what we can do is and as Ken Thompson says in the beginning of the paper is, “to trust the people who wrote the software.” Obviously this is also not a fool proof statement because people too can’t be trusted.
In my opinion bad people(otherwise known as black hat hackers) will continue to evade system security because code is written by humans and humans make mistakes which leads to vulnerability and therefore exploits. But it is the job of expert good hackers(otherwise known as white hat hackers ) to find those mistakes, before the bad people can get their hands on it. | philosophy |
https://tais.tw/principals-message/ | 2024-04-14T18:25:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816893.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414161724-20240414191724-00079.warc.gz | 0.958385 | 499 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__157825813 | en | Welcome to our TAIS website!
Thank you for showing an interest in us. We hope that spending time on this site will give you a glimpse of who we are.
Taiwan Adventist International School prides itself on providing holistic education aimed at developing the whole person – body, mind and spirit. This means that we aim to provide a quality academic program that will develop students who are independent, critical thinkers with strong intellectual curiosity. We also believe that a healthy body is linked to a healthy mind, and we provide opportunities for our students to adopt good habits in diet, sleep, exercise, and self-discipline. Most importantly, our education is centered around the belief that each person is uniquely created by a loving God who desires that they lead useful and joy-filled lives.
Enrolling at TAIS opens our students up to a world of opportunities. TAIS is part of the Seventh Day Adventist education network, the second largest network of schools worldwide with over 8,800 schools from primary to universities in over 100 countries. We hold three accreditations. TAIS are accredited by the Adventist Accrediting Association, by Griggs International Academy and by the Nantou County government as an experimental school. These accreditations provide our graduates with diverse opportunities. The American High School diploma means that our graduates can attend university abroad, as 99% of our students choose to do. The government accreditation offers them the choice to continue with university here in Taiwan if they so choose. You can learn more about our accreditations here: Accreditations and about where our graduates go to school here: Universities TAIS graduates attend.
Perhaps the most special aspect of being a part of TAIS is that we value the close relationships that we form with our students. Joining TAIS is becoming part of a family. Our small teacher- student ratio, our educational philosophy, and beautiful boarding facility combine to support enduring relationships. We aim to ensure each student is known and loved. Our bonds are nurtured in the classrooms and in the dorms. They are developed through the club activates where we learn and play together. They are cultivated through our spiritual activities where we learn the worth God places on each individual and practice the value of service and love for others. They are nurtured through our care groups where students and faculty spend quality time together.
We invite you to our beautiful campus to come and see for yourself. Welcome! | philosophy |
https://it-kosmopolit.de/2012/11/ | 2023-06-02T01:06:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224648245.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20230602003804-20230602033804-00472.warc.gz | 0.952767 | 378 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__280593702 | en | The brilliant article On Being A Senior Engineer came in my mailbox via A Smattering of Selenium #125 – as it’s a long text, here’s my essence:
- (…) This is because they [mature software engineers] know that nothing they make will ever only be in their hands, and that good peer review is what makes better design decisions. As it’s been said elsewhere, they “beg for the bad news.”
- [About criticism of someones code:] “But the attitude that someone’s code is their baby should come to an end.”
- Mature engineers do not shy away from making estimates, and are always trying to get better at it. (…) No one should be allowed to avoid the issue by the old formula, “I can’t give a promise because it depends upon so many uncertain factors.”
- Mature engineers lift the skills and expertise of those around them. (…) we call this a “generosity of spirit.”
- They know that they work within a spectrum of ideal and non-ideal, and are OK with that. They are comfortable with it because they strive to make the ideal and non-ideal in a design explicit.
- A great manager of mine said to never go to your boss with a complaint about anything without at least one (ideally more than one) suggestion for a solution.
- Don’t rewrite code without consultation. There’s a fine line between “fixing code” and “rewriting code.”
- The only true authority stems from knowledge, not from position. Knowledge engenders authority, and authority engenders respect – so if you want respect in an egoless environment, cultivate knowledge | philosophy |
http://beyogagp.com/addiction-recovery/ | 2018-02-24T16:07:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891815843.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20180224152306-20180224172306-00781.warc.gz | 0.947492 | 218 | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-09__0__272177485 | en | “Addiction is fueled by an underlying state of or condition of dis-ease.” -Tommy Rosen
The practices of yoga- breathwork, movement, meditation, etc- are a tried and true method to addressing the physical symptoms of addiction. More and more, yoga is being recognized by the medical and mental health communities as a worthy methodology.
We offer the following classes in an effort to ease and minimize the discomfort that addiction brings to the individual and the community.
The Yoga of 12-Step Recovery
Wednesdays 6-7:30pm through Dec 13, 2017
Suggested donation $5-10, but nobody is turned away for inability to pay.
Refuge Recovery is a mindfulness-based addiction recovery community that practices and utilizes Buddhist philosophy as the foundation of the recovery process. Refuge Recovery can be used as a principle source or an addition to any other method of recovery. The choice is yours! All are welcome. Weekly peer-led meetings include guided meditations, readings from the book Refuge Recovery, and group sharing and discussion. | philosophy |
https://benramsey.com/purpose/ | 2018-04-23T21:36:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125946199.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20180423203935-20180423223935-00073.warc.gz | 0.965746 | 243 | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-17__0__137065429 | en | I believe the Web has the power to change and shape the world we live in for good or evil. It has the power to create new communities and new economies. It can destroy old barriers and topple regimes. It brings us closer to our family and friends, and it makes the world a lot smaller by connecting us to people and cultures we never knew existed. Yet, with all its good, it can also be used to tear people down, to hurt, vilify, and bully them.
I choose to be an instrument for good, using my skills as a web developer to build a better world for my child, nieces and nephews, and their children. I want to build products that enrich the lives of others, helping to grow their businesses, expand their knowledge and understanding of the universe, increase their freedoms, and connect them to family, friends, and the rest of the world. It is through greater global communication and understanding that I believe we can achieve a more peaceful world, and I believe I can lend a hand through building software for the Web.
This is my purpose as a web developer. The purpose of this website is to share my web development knowledge and experience with others. | philosophy |
https://www.incarnationwi.com/why-incarnation-old/ | 2023-01-31T13:12:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499871.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20230131122916-20230131152916-00399.warc.gz | 0.950642 | 629 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__9550972 | en | We have it all. Information whenever we want it. Connection with hundreds of ‘friends’ in real-time. Independence from authority–the ability to write our own story.
And yet we don’t have it all. We look around and see the devastation of poverty, racism, violence, and division. We feel the emptiness of isolation and loneliness. We struggle to shoulder the weight of building our own identity. We have a gnawing sense that things are not how they should be.
So what’s the solution? How can the world be made right? God’s answer is a surprising (and scandalous) one. In order to heal the brokenness of our world, God actually enters into it and restores it from the inside. He assumes what is ours to give us what is his. It’s unthinkable, mysterious, and wonderful. It’s Incarnation. The word is unfamiliar, and perhaps feels lofty. Actually, it’s a really earthy word. And we need it. It means “in flesh” (remember carne–meat/flesh–from Spanish class?) and describes how God took on human flesh in the person of Jesus so that we might be brought into God’s very life.
Think of that! God didn’t make things right by sending a message, giving abstract principles to live by, or intervening from a distance with his nose plugged and gloves on. No, God makes things right by entering into our hurt, pain, frailty, and confusion. Through Jesus’s life, death on the cross, and resurrection from the dead, he defeats the power of sin and death and welcomes us with open arms. We’re embraced by Jesus! And because Jesus was fully God and fully human, our union with him joins us to God. This is Good News, indeed!
So we can trade our loneliness, fear, and anxiety for a life of intimacy, peace, and hope. We can trade the crushing weight of writing our own story for a life of rest in Jesus, who authors our biography. We can trade vague aimlessness for a life of purpose in God’s great story.
You see, Incarnation doesn’t stop with our union to God. Through that union, we are also united to all other persons who have put their trust in Jesus (the Bible calls this Body of Jesus, or the Church). As members of this Body, we have a purpose or calling: to carry the presence of Jesus with us wherever we go. Since we’re in Jesus (and Jesus is in us), we actually embody his healing and transforming presence in our families, at school or work, and in the community. In this sense, then, we incarnate (embody) the presence of Jesus in the world. This is God’s plan to bring hope, healing, and transformation to the world, and we get to be part of it!
Welcome to Incarnation: A people embraced by Jesus, and embodying his presence. | philosophy |
https://courses.learnmore.duke.edu/search/publicCourseSearchDetails.do?method=load&courseId=1120194 | 2023-11-29T05:47:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100056.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20231129041834-20231129071834-00533.warc.gz | 0.944608 | 227 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__295872923 | en | ONLINE: For centuries, Westerners have assumed human nature determines how we act, much as an animal's nature determines its behavior. Beginning about 150 years ago, the idea took hold that it is the other way around: How we decide to act determines who we are, what we value and how the world appears to us. That intellectual movement came to be called existentialism. In this course, we will read and discuss some of the most fascinating and influential existentialists, including Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre and Camus. For each class session, there will be a reading of a selection of one of these thinkers. We’ll use our class time to discuss and evaluate their ideas. As a result of our lively discussions, students can expect to come away from this course not only knowing the correct angle to tilt their beret and how to smoke a Gauloises cigarette without coughing, but being able to assess how much of their life is determined and how much is the product of their choices. | Facilitated discussion.
Max enrollment: 30. | philosophy |
http://www.nikiperry.ca/thedogblog/the-art-and-science-of-dog-training | 2020-11-28T11:33:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141195417.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20201128095617-20201128125617-00000.warc.gz | 0.959561 | 1,269 | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-50__0__196451624 | en | I'm often asked about my methods for training dogs and what approach I take to change behaviour. For years, I've just replied that I am principal based, not method based because fundamentally, how all dogs learn is the same.
Of course, as we are all individuals, and dogs are too, so each different dog will have their own little idiosyncrasies that are distinctive and personal, but FUNDAMENTALLY, all dogs learn the same way. This isn't my opinion on the matter, this is science.
This got me thinking deeply about The Art and Science of Dog Training. Beyond the limiting thoughts that accompany traditional dog obedience trainers, those who are stuck on their METHOD of training rather than the principals of learning, when you strip away the layers upon layers of opinions, theories, arguments and manipulative phraseology, the only thing left are the fundamental truths.
The first fundamental truth is that all dogs' behaviour is influenced by an innate intelligence. All dogs have this and it is equally the same in all of them. It is what keeps them in the moment, it makes them responsive, adaptive and tells them exactly what to do, at the time they need to do it and in the context of which is required. This genetic component of behaviour is of prime importance when considering what motivates behaviour responses. Genetic characteristics are the intrinsic, predispositions to particular behaviours in certain situations. These are also known as instincts that are preprogrammed in our dogs.
Although learned behaviours can be acquired through very personal, subjective experiences, dogs don't get trapped in the "thought-feeling" loop that humans can suffer in for years and years of depression and anxiety. Dogs are meant to exist simply; when they are hungry, they eat; when they are tired, they sleep; when they need to poop, they poop; when they are scared, they fight or flight. It's really not that complicated, but we make it complicated because WE live in the "feelings" of our, always racing, thoughts. And then, we put those feelings onto our dogs and completely forget about their inherent need to be raised in an environment that they can thrive in. An environment that allows them to be a dog, but learn how to co-exist with humans with help from the next fundamental truth.
The second fundamental truth is within the principles of learning. Dogs DO NOT understand right from wrong or good from bad the way that humans do. As we discussed above, dogs are governed by an innate intelligence that tells them exactly what they need to do, in the moment they need to and in the context that is required. This remarkable intelligence gives dogs the ability to solely rely on themselves rather than a map or steps telling them exactly how to do what and when they should do it. There's no 12 Step Program in "How to be a Dog." They are just born, knowing what they need to do and with proper socialization from their family, they thrive both psychologically and physiologically.
Dogs know what works...and what doesn't work. It's simple:
Learned behaviour can be acquired through interactions with the environment (including people and animals), or it can be acquired through very personal, subjective experiences (perceptions, thoughts and emotions). When dealing with animals, the latter factors are much more challenging to identify, which is why we rely on observable behaviour to identify setting events and discriminative stimuli when establishing our hypothetical contingency statement of a particular behaviour. Unfortunately, our doggos can't tell us their story, they can only show us their response to stimuli.
In regards to teaching dogs how to co-exist with humans, Applied Behaviour Analysis offers scientifically sound teaching technologies through the application of the learning principals of behaviourism. With its roots in human learning, ABA, offers the tools required to assess the dysfunctional relationship between a particular behaviour and the environment and seeks to replace the undesired behaviour with constructive and more socially acceptable behaviour responses.
The Science of Dog Training is what it is. It's science. I have read manipulative phraseology presented by a method-based dog trainer that stated an e-collar isn't punishment or negative reinforcement, but the principals of learning prove otherwise. An e-collar functions to lessen the likelihood that a particular behaviour will occur; that's the whole point of it, and that by definition, is punishment. The main problem with an e-collar is that it is non-contingent punishment, because the dogs rarely understand the EXACT behaviour that resulted in the shock. The handler may observe an immediately change in behaviour, but this is not to be confused with actual learning which can only occur when the dog understands how their behaviour influenced the consequence. What you achieve, is learned helplessness, or lack of any behaviour to avoid the possibility of punishment.
This particular approach to training dogs is technique based rather than principle based because the attempt to change an undesired behaviour happens without first clarifying the relevant relationship between behaviour and the environment/consequences. It's focus is on rapid behaviour change often without understanding of the contingencies, rather than actual operant interactions that influence experiential acquisition of new behaviours. A trainer can train however they want to, but they can't deny the fundamental truths of the principals of learning.
The Art of Dog Training is a lifelong journey to discover within yourself as both a companion to dogs, or a professional to dogs. It is how you deliver the science in a way that is unique to you. The science is the way it is, the art is ever evolving; it is your own very special way to apply the science to raise and care for your whole family.
The Art and Science of Dog Training offers a completeness for both the trainer and the student. The science is unwavering, the art is beautifully evolving through teaching exercises. But it all comes together to raise ethical standards, empower learners and truly enrich the lives of all who participate.
I have spent the past 15+ years learning the science of how all things learn and mastering my art as an animal trainer, behaviour consultant and transformative coach. With my specialty in canine reactivity, fear, aggression and canine communication, I have many insights to share into understanding, preventing, predicting and changing canine behaviour. | philosophy |
https://www.kryschendo.com/about-kryschendo | 2023-05-30T10:28:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224645595.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20230530095645-20230530125645-00053.warc.gz | 0.9569 | 912 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__273991004 | en | Kryschendo: Personal growth and awareness through steady increase and expansion in all directions and all ways.
We are here to help you co-Create and Thrive in your life without limits. We will support your capacity to Lead and Empower yourself and others, especially when it feels like no one else will follow. Our mission is to help you live your life in the full Expression of Abundance and share your Magical Truth with the world.
We are committed to lifting up and celebrating the truth in each of us. Personal growth can be challenging but is the only way to feel supremely alive and in perpetual flow with our genuine desires that produce the current here and now. Like fingerprints we are each unique and have something distinctly different to bring to this time and space, so we challenge you to "bring it" in a way that is bold, truthful and free - each and every day.
Join us as we share stories, insights, inspiration and the tools needed to feel free and fully empowered. Free to not simply survive but thrive in this lifetime. Please do share your story...the next story we share may likely be YOURS.
Krystene Du Maurier
"The music birthed the intuitive and the intuitive birthed the music."
Krystene comes from a long line of mystics and musicians. As a young child, Krystene was raised with classical music as her solid building block and disciplined platform for her intuitive gifts. A concert pianist by the age of 22, she turned her attention toward the mystic side of her roots where the same disciplined developmental protocol was required. Krystene, in here own words...
"Music and people have a vibrational signature that is in perfect balance with itself. If the balance has been distorted or contorted by outside frequencies, it is simply a matter of time before the distortion outweighs the original signature. In this distorted reality, depression, apathy and self-worth are the main energy signals, often accompanied by physical symptoms of disease and illness. The goal and focus through my gift is to re-set the weights and balances of the original signature which often includes distortions in the mind, emotional body and physical body. This ultimately brings back to the forefront of the human experience a steady flow of vitality, clarity of thought and clear intent. Life passion and life purpose are successfully restored and in their proper place."
The thru-line of her training ultimately coalesced into her story and just like music she could easily communicate and dialogue with people on the desires of health and well being or the pain points of stress and dis-ease. Through practical application of vibrational modalities, she is able to return the body, mind and spirit back to homeostasis (aka: harmony), ultimately allowing the individual Life Purpose to have the wide highway to thrive, prosper and grow.
Krystene has dedicated her life to the principle workings and synthesis of the physical world. She shares this with you thru Numerology and psychic gifts that help you heal, see around the next bend and get messages from loved ones. Krystene deeply cares about you and living life in abundance.
Myscha Du Maurier
Firestarter Myscha Du Maurier is a motivational speaker and educator who uses his intuitive skills to ignite and inspire the ‘knowingness’ in us all. Myscha not only speaks from the heart but from the mind of reason and logic, with a deep and personal understanding of lifes’ inherent challenges. He is a powerful voice with a singular focus to activate change. With that said, Myscha, in his own words...
"I have spent much of my adult life looking for the 'U' (aka: Me) in "Us". I found my passion in the arts and endurance sports all of my life and yet I was slugging it out in corporate America, to make an impact, for over two decades. I have come to integrate the artist, storyteller, intuitive, business leader, activator and athlete into one very unique package. And I look forward to working with the boldest, most battle scarred and most determined of you out there to help in any way I can. You are not alone and not without your own stories of challenge and endurance, knowingness and suffering, tenacity and triumph. You are after all, my teachers in this world." | philosophy |
https://www.breathe.center/global-meditations | 2024-03-02T14:18:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947475825.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20240302120344-20240302150344-00321.warc.gz | 0.857885 | 182 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__9348744 | en | top of page
our global meditation focus this month:
Every month, we highlight one free, easy-to-access meditation from among the great and diverse contemplative traditions across the world. This month we are grateful to immerse ourselves in the Zen tradition of Japan, offered from the ancient monastery of TOKOZENJI, one of the oldest temples of the Rinzai School of Zen Buddhism. Situated near Yokohama City, South of Tokyo, TOKOZENJI is dedicated to the Buddha of medicine and healing known as “Yakushi-Nyorai” (Sanskrit: Bhaisajyaguru).
REGISTRATION & DETAILS:
FREE | Every Wednesday 8:00 am ET | 9:00 pm Japanese Time|
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http://jesusgilhernandez.com/2016/06/11/its-not-about-you/ | 2019-09-23T07:57:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514576122.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20190923064347-20190923090347-00099.warc.gz | 0.972078 | 347 | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-39__0__43368009 | en | Friday, September 23rd, 2016
Repeat the words, ‘It’s not about me!’ every day, multiple times a day. Don’t make your leadership about being in charge, being right, getting promoted, or looking the best.
Make leadership about the cause of the organization, serving the legitimate needs of those you’re leading, and not taking yourself so darn seriously.
The day you become a leader, it becomes about them. Your job is to walk around with a can of water in one hand and a can of fertilizer in the other hand. Think of your team as seeds and try to build a garden. It’s about building these people. Only you will know the team.
That’s right. The minute you move from being a task-oriented professional to being a manager of people, it stops being about your individual talents, your successes, and starts being all about coaching, motivating, teaching, supporting, removing roadblocks, and finding resources for your employees.
Leadership is about celebrating their victories and rewarding them; helping them analyze when things don’t go to plan. Their successes become your successes. Their failures are yours too. Too many people today think leading is exclusively about their own performance.
One person, no matter how talented, cannot accomplish much in a managed organization of today’s complexity and global reach. Transforming through others is the job of the leader at any level. The day you become a leader, your job is to take people who are already great and make them unbelievable.
Summing-up: Leadership is not about you, it’s about the people who work for you. | philosophy |
http://flippersrunning.blogspot.com/2012/01/simplicity.html | 2018-05-24T01:56:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794865884.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20180524014502-20180524034502-00581.warc.gz | 0.982182 | 283 | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__175409436 | en | "Runners just do it. They run for the finish line even if someone else has reached it first." –- Unknown
The simplicity of it shocked me the first time I read it. Upon reading it a second time, I had to laugh, but of course we keep running. Even if ten people have crossed in front of you, even if you are number 195 out of 200, for some reason you just keep running for the finish line.
When I ran my first 5 K race at the beginning of December, I never once stopped running for the finish line. In fact, when my body wanted to quit, my mind kept thinking about that finish line drawing nearer with every step. What is it about running that keeps you driving to cross that line even when you're sweating buckets, your lungs burn and your legs have gone numb? What makes you stagger over that line and think to yourself "Wow. I did it! I want to do that again!"
It's slightly crazy, don't you think?
Then again, maybe it's because you have reached a goal. Maybe it's the satisfaction you get out of beating your own body, the elements and, if you're lucky, another runner or two. Even if you aren't that lucky and you cross it last, for what ever reason, we runners just keep running. And yes, I have finally called myself a runner. | philosophy |
https://www.livritual.com/copy-of-the-ritual | 2021-01-26T20:46:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610704803737.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20210126202017-20210126232017-00740.warc.gz | 0.931076 | 458 | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-04__0__217097083 | en | Benefits of sage smudging
Cleanse a person, space or object.
Promote spiritual healing + wisdom
The name "Sage" comes from the latin "Salvia" which means "To feel healthy."
Burning herbs goes back to beginning of history, sage was even used in WW and the black plague to kill airborne bacteria, burning sage for one hour kills 94% of airborne bacteria. People have always burned herbs for ceremonial and healing purposes. Smudging, as it is practiced today originates from the Native American and indigenous people.
Using sage in combination with an abalone shell as a vessel, they believe it clears away negative energy and spirits, and the smoke carries your prayers upward to the creator.
Especially now when everything is centered around technology, there’s something to be said for practices that get us back in touch with the four elements. Getting back to a simple practice of using something from the earth instead of chemicals. It's been scientifically proven that sage removes bacteria from the air—it literally purifies the air of contaminants. Negative energy is energy that’s stagnant while positive energy is in motion, so if you’re feeling like the energy in your house is stuck, it's very closely related to the physical realm.
Origins of sage smudging
It’s an earth-based practice that connects you with the four elements. The benefits are two-fold: it's getting negative energy to move up and out, and it also lifts the energy of the space. Sage is an astringent herb and it affects your awareness and elevate your energy.
Connecting with the elements is essential to the ritual: Obviously the fire used to light the sage symbolizes fire, the smoke symbolizes air, the vessel underneath (traditionally an abalone shell) is water and sage symbolizes the earth. Abalone also comes from Native American roots – it comes from the sea so it has a deeper expression of water energy and has the same energetic properties as crystals.
Putting it together is really a reminder of why you’re doing what you’re doing. You want to have all four elements to create a balanced ritual for the fifth element—the spirit—to come through. | philosophy |
http://jill.sendcere.net/post/nothing-beats-the-bond-of-besties/ | 2024-02-29T08:25:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474795.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20240229071243-20240229101243-00370.warc.gz | 0.949373 | 330 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__80823631 | en | How do you describe a friendship like that? Here are some famous quotes about friendship. Which one captures your friendship best?
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’” – C.S. Lewis
“A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.” – William Shakespeare
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” – Elbert Hubbard
“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” – Henry Ford
“Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.” – Author Unknown
“Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.” – Ally Condie
“The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?” – Eugene Kennedy
“Friendship isn’t a big thing — it’s a million little things.” – Author Unknown
Good friends are hard to find and impossible to forget. Let these simple quotes inspire you to make time for your special friend today. Nurture what you share together and send them your love in a custom card or gift today. | philosophy |
https://shitakirisuzume.com/ | 2023-03-29T22:06:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296949035.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20230329213541-20230330003541-00769.warc.gz | 0.974933 | 277 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__176934912 | en | Long ago our people were very poor, yet happy and thriving with friendship and community. One day a Sparrow stopped along his path to return the blessings of health, wealth and happiness given to him by our people. He led us to great fortune and with the gifts of the Sparrow we now had unfathomable riches and prosperity. But, with this newfound wealth our people were permeated with the Curse: Greed and Jealousy.
The way of those before were lost, we tumbled into turmoil, succumbing to the burden of The Curse. We have been Chosen to return us to glory. As the Chosen People, we embark on our voyage to employ the practices of the past. Our people who were not stricken with The Curse of Greed and Jealousy. The purity of Friendship and Community, overcomes the evil of Greed and Jealousy. A project built on taxes, is not a project that will succeed. Too intent on the pursuit of profit, succumb to the lethality of Greed. We remember what it takes to build something everlasting. The Chosen People are our community and with them we will prevail. Now is the time to return to what has succeeded before us and for us to continue this mission. Forgo greed, forgo jealousy, join our community and become one of The Chosen People. | philosophy |
https://chelseajmurdock.com/teaching-materials/cultural-rhetorics/ | 2022-09-28T23:20:01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030335286.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20220928212030-20220929002030-00476.warc.gz | 0.949882 | 150 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__59661783 | en | This course observes rhetoric as cultural practice with connections to community, place, identity, and language. Focused on developing an understanding of rhetoric as multifaceted and complex, this course will investigate intersections of culture, power, and meaning-making through relational and constellated practice. By considering space and materials, we will engage the ways that we make meaning through various rhetorical constructions, considering the intersections of our respective identities and cultures in the ways we communicate. To do this, we will consider various different modes and texts, from material to digital rhetorics, craft and ways of making, race and ethnicity, as well as writing and textual processes. Performance, popular culture, and visualities will also play large roles in course content and conversation. | philosophy |
http://unsoundmethodology.blogspot.com/2013/10/ | 2018-07-22T01:13:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676592875.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20180722002753-20180722022753-00105.warc.gz | 0.977074 | 358 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__152788310 | en | Martyrdom is an idea that seems burned into the human soul. We love martyrs almost on instinct, as they reflect our highest ideals, they are what we're supposed to be. The 20th century gave us a host of them, figures that still loom large over American culture, rightly venerated. And in our pop culture, we particularly lionize them, telling their stories over and over. At times, we almost obligate their demises. Earlier this year, as Spartacus reached its final episodes, some fans started speculating that the creators would pull a fast one, and let their historical hero skirt his destined martyrdom and escape into the Italian mountains. After all, we don't really know how Spartacus died. Appealing though a happy ending for long suffering Spartacus was, creator Steven DeKnight, however, quite rightly pointed out how troubling it would be for the man to let hundreds of thousands die for his cause, then walk away. DeKnight was right, of course. But martyrdom is a hefty burden and not all martyrs get such clear moral stakes. In the last act of Dragon Age II, the mage-guarding Templars are ordered to kill their charges, fed by the fear that the mages will soon become demonically possessed. For the mages, there are two options—die a horrible stabby death, or let a willing demon take over their body so they can fight. Each mage picks the latter. Many players didn't accept that the mages would make the choice that, in effect, proves the Templars right. But to me, it was a simple recognition of this truth: the moral high ground is hard to appreciate when you're dead.I've been thinking of this ever since I beat The Last of Us. | philosophy |
http://www.drjosephwarren.com/2011/10/the-united-voice-of-america/ | 2017-04-28T00:30:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917122720.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031202-00621-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.965368 | 111 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__167909184 | en | Date: November 11, 1774
“It is the united voice of America to preserve their freedom, or lose their lives in defence of it. Their resolutions are not the effect of inconsiderate rashness, but the sound result of sober inquiry and deliberation. I am convinced, that the true spirit of liberty was never so universally diffused through all ranks and orders of people, in any country on the face of the earth, as it now is through all North America.”
Source: Letter to Josiah Quincy, Jr. | philosophy |
https://www.salmahbeydoun.com/un-covered | 2024-02-27T09:48:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474674.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20240227085429-20240227115429-00813.warc.gz | 0.950494 | 116 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__135724988 | en | Created and Choreographed by Sofia Klass
Where does your imagination take you when you fall in love with a painting? (Un)Covered explores this question with one of the most iconic paintings in the world, The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli. From this painting emerges a strange and unique world where we explore the human form: its beauty and its strangeness. We ask, is beauty ever really attainable or is it just an illusion? We go inside the artwork and ourselves with a quest to learn how the Venus is in all of us. | philosophy |
https://francinemathews.com/author-bio/on-writing/ | 2024-02-29T15:33:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474843.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20240229134901-20240229164901-00817.warc.gz | 0.971118 | 2,127 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__130676066 | en | I have always been someone who wrote for a living. When I was young, I put words on paper because I was a solitary child, because my father died when I was a teenager, and the world I could make in the pages of lined notebooks helped keep my loneliness at bay. I wrote to escape, to conceive a more exotic life. I wrote myself out of despair and into adulthood, and words, for me, will always possess a transformative power.
But ultimately I wrote because I had no choice. Words are the way I understand existence. Maybe this comes from voracious reading, or maybe from the particles of DNA in my body. I know that I am incapable of drawing more than a stick-figure, incapable of singing an unwavering note; but words are the gift of my particular brain. When I write, I live out my destiny as much as an elk does, bugling in the autumn, or a salmon swimming upstream.
Russell Baker, in his book Growing Up, declared that he decided early in life that: The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn’t require any (Russell Baker, Growing Up, Ch. 9).
He was obviously going for a laugh when he put that sentiment down on paper. It’s common for laymen to regard writers as self-indulgent, rather indolent people who like to sleep late, work in their pajamas, and earn their living in fits and starts. Writers don’t have their taxes withheld, which makes them almost un-American. But Russell Baker was also confessing his writer’s self-doubt: If it comes as naturally as breathing, it must be illegitimate.
Those of us who write—who have scribbled words on paper since we could hold a pencil—live deep down with the paradox of the gift. We know that words are the only way we understand experience—we live our great moments of joy and sorrow most fully once we’ve managed to write a scene about them—but we’re almost ashamed of how easily that happens. Everything is material, including the people we live with, the terrible or lovely things they do to us, the lies and the sadness and the joy we ourselves cause. It all ends up on paper. In every writer, there is something of the exploitative and the ruthless; and perhaps this is what it means to attempt art.
We writers may avoid fiction for years together, putting the words into newspapers, or book reviews, or academic journals or how-to guides. We may write letters that no one reads, or volume after volume of meticulous journals.
But whatever we do with the words that come, we cannot stop them coming. And because it is somehow as automatic as breathing, we take it, on some level, for granted.
Writing isn’t work. Writing is how we live. We take that material and fashion something spiritual from it, a guide for traveling from one day to the next.
When I write of hunger, said MFK Fisher in The Gastronomical Me, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it, and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied and it is all one.
Her prose sings because she was writing most deeply about what sustained her, about the force that kept her going year after year, from one continent to another, despite war and heartache and age and illness.
A love of words can sustain us when nothing else will. We find it in the solace of books beloved from childhood, from that flash of genius when we craft a truly great sentence, from a smattering of print on the page of a letter.
We horde words like precious objects, turning them over in our minds. We become thieves in the conversational night, beggars at the feet of the eloquent, covetous of all we cannot say.
My dear friend Barbara wrote from Taipei, “The rain comes as suddenly as a knock at the door and pours straight down like it’s looking for Noah.” I’ve emailed that sentence to everyone I can think of, because it’s perfect, and I wish I had written it; I wish I could steal it, and put it again in the mouth of some character.
Barbara does not write for a living. But Barbara could.
When I say, as cavalierly as Russell Baker, that writing isn’t work, it’s how we live, I’m not talking about editing, here, or the agony of revision or the pain in the ass that is outlining a novel. I’m not talking about research or character development or what it takes to hold suspense.
I’m talking about the impulse that gets me up at night, some nights, when my children have long since gone to sleep, and the words of dialogue that have kept sleep at bay, force me downstairs in the heatless chill of my empty house. I’m groggy and humming with words; I’ve got to get them down on paper, thrown onto a screen, or I’ll be editing and re-editing them in my brain until dawn.
I’m talking about the moment that comes, in every novel I’ve ever written, when the outlines and the research and the plotting are forgotten, and my characters grow wings. They pick up the book and fly away with it, and I run after them, typing furiously, taking dictation as they tell me how things must be. Ernest Hemingway said, in Old Newsman Writes, that all good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.
When the words come like that, in a rush, I feel like a medium. Not a dress size, but an old-fashioned channel for the spirits. The words come from beyond me, somehow, or perhaps from deep within me, and they are forced to the surface by emotion and thought. I can find no other way to describe the creative process. I could no more shut out those words than I could cease to love or feel.
Sometimes words come to me in the shower. Or while I’m stopped at a red light. I once wrote the final scene to a book I hadn’t started while waiting for an airport shuttle. But they also come to me with surprising readiness most days that I sit down before my computer.
I have the luxury of writing for a living. I recognize that it is a luxury—to have escaped the day job, the “real work” that Russell Baker is afraid of—the legitimacy of a formal office, and like him, I feel vaguely guilty about it. I have the luxury of ordering my days. But that also requires a measure of discipline. With the privilege comes the responsibility not to misuse it.
I could plant bulbs all day. I could read cookbooks. I could needlepoint while my children build with Lincoln Logs. But instead I sit down at the computer every morning of my life and wait for the words to come. They have never failed me yet. It’s my bargain with the medium, with the rush from outside or within, that if I sit there, the words will grant me their blessing.
Years ago when my elder son, Sam, was five, he asked me why I write books. I tried to make him understand. I said that I got to tell stories that people liked to read. That my books were in libraries. That it was my job to stay home and make things up. He looked at me incredulously and said, “Gosh, Mom, I wish I were you!”
I laughed. I told him that he could be. He has a gift for telling stories; he tells them to himself all day long. He thought about it and said, “Well, Mom, when you’re done being a famous girl writer, you could always drive a race car.”
I like to think about that. Me, in the car, something fast and red without a top, probably, one finger on the wheel. But the words would still be there, humming in my brain while the tires spin and the lights flash and the checkered flag sweeps down in a blur. The words are never done. They’re the essence of how we live; they’re the signposts that mark the journey; they’re the only certainty we possess of having experienced at all. We don’ t write because it pays or because it’s cool to bring up at your average cocktail party. We write, as Carlos Fuentes says, so as not to die.
© Francine Mathews
“I always heard, ‘Write about what you know.’ I disagree. I say, write about what you love. You can always research the rest. If you’re going to live with a character and a place for months on end, you’d better love them. And the passion comes through. Editors are looking for passion.”
“Don’t write to fill a gap in the market. It’ll be gone by the time you get there.”
“Get into a book critique group. There’s great emotional support and objective criticism.”
Outline your work. “You need to know how to get from here to there, from beginning to end. Without an outline… It’s like trying to get into a car and drive to New York without a map. You know where you want to go, but not necessarily how to get there.”
(excerpted from the Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph) | philosophy |
https://travelsofthepilgrim.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/throwing-off-everything-that-hinders/ | 2018-06-24T02:58:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267866191.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20180624024705-20180624044705-00454.warc.gz | 0.9701 | 916 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__123545850 | en | Yoga is all about being present in the moment. It’s also about letting go – releasing muscle and joint tightness that locks up our bodies as well as negative thoughts and emotions that weigh us down. As I did my yoga practice this morning in preparation for and following my run, I realized that I was holding on to tightness; my muscles did not need to remain so taught. It may have been the result of habit, the fear of falling over, or simply inattention, but as soon as I discovered that I was the one resisting the stretch, I had to let go to permit those muscles to lengthen. It was simply a matter of awareness and choice. Exhaling, I allowed the tension to drain away, deepened my stretch and felt my muscles and joints breath a sigh of relief.
Once I let go of the physical stress through yoga, I felt more balanced, strong and light as I completed my long run. For the first time in a very long time, I finished the run feeling refreshed and knew that I could have run at least another mile. This was not just the result of one morning’s yoga practice, of course, but from the accumulated benefits of running consistently over several weeks, frequent yoga sessions, and the change in my diet. Just as I learn these lessons through yoga and running, my spiritual journey is also teaching me to let go of the anxiety, fear, and shame that have been holding me back from living the joy-filled life God intends for all of us. And like yoga and running, the release of those things that cause emotional and mental stress must be habitual as well.
Both the Christian walk and yoga are also about gratitude – being aware and thankful for all of one’s blessings. I am living my dream right now. By choosing to let go of negative emotions and embrace awareness of and gratitude for even the smallest things that bring me joy, I feel more fully alive. In this way I am able to move forward toward my goals with a greater sense of freedom and joy, unhindered by the things of the past. What is more, even painful events can be sources of joy when one looks for and finds the fruit they bore. I continue to discover ways I have grown from such experiences. The by-products of struggle – perseverance, resolve, determination, as well as new-found gratitude, faith, hope, and strength – propel me forward.
The ideas of awareness and gratitude that stem from my yoga practice and faith find expression in the habit of mindful eating. Even though I didn’t cheat on my diet, I allowed my emotions to dictate when and how much I ate for a couple of days. Last night, I felt overly full, lethargic, and depressed at my failure. This morning, after yoga and a great run, I decided to mindfully eat my eggs and at least half of my apple. I was enjoying it so much though that rather than beginning to write after I finished the first half of my apple, I continued on in that way until I got to my tea, which I’m currently sipping as I type. I find that being aware of the flavors, the texture, the temperature, and savoring each bite increases my gratitude for the meal. Since I contemplate each bite, I find my cravings for anything else subside because I am so thankful to have such tasty food. And I’m grateful to have found food that not only tastes good but also helps my body heal itself. Rather than my usual habit of shoveling it in as quickly as possible so I can rush to the next task, I chew each morsel slowly and more thoroughly, which aids digestion, and I feel full and more satisfied longer. I have also found that mindful eating (even if only practiced occasionally) leads to a sense of calm and greater focus when I return to work and to the rest of the day’s activities. With all of this in mind, I am heading out into the day once again to enjoy the sights, sounds, and delectable smells of the Aix market and to continue my academic work, thankful for so many blessings.
Image from: <http://yogaposes4stressrelief.blogspot.fr/>
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- How Yoga Is Great for Runners and Cyclists, Too (washingtonian.com) | philosophy |
https://oneyogaforall.com/ | 2019-11-22T18:43:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496671411.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20191122171140-20191122200140-00446.warc.gz | 0.909571 | 161 | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-47__0__163225930 | en | A holistic yoga practice
Yoga is a science with the goal to unite body, mind and soul.
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, written approximately 200 AD, define Yoga as yogas chitta vritti nirodhah
Our bright and intimate Yoga studio will accomodate up to 13 students per Asana group class and over 20 students for seated Meditation classes, Events and Workshops. Please reserve all offerings.
Parking is accessible on same block for three hours (aka Keyfood parking lot)
We offer Yoga and Meditation classes seven days a week. Please check the upcoming schedule for our Yoga and Meditation Classes, Events and Workshops offerings.
We ask that you read and adhere to our cOMmUNITY Etiquette for all offerings. | philosophy |
https://www.sochristian.org/single-post/2018/09/13/This-weeks-Scripture-Passage | 2020-03-29T03:39:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585370493684.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20200329015008-20200329045008-00341.warc.gz | 0.970812 | 246 | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-16__0__158210647 | en | Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” Genesis 1: 26-28
Yes, We Have Work To Do!
Already in Genesis we see that God created humans for a purpose, even in his own image, to rule over and care for his entire creation, to work with Him to make this world the way He intends it to be. This is what a Christian school does. It works with parents and with God himself to raise up children to work toward the vision of “may your kingdom come, may your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” | philosophy |
https://www.kepesita.org/apps/blog/show/1880466-learning-to-inspire | 2019-06-24T18:03:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627999620.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20190624171058-20190624193058-00269.warc.gz | 0.977819 | 465 | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-26__0__8563176 | en | Journal - Napló
|Posted on October 6, 2009 at 11:20 AM|
Inspired by the Earth Charter, we wrote this before starting on the trip.
We feel that it would be naive and disrespectful towards the people we hope to visit if we presumed that we, two ordinary guys, could come along and make positive change in their lives. On the contrary, we are hoping that they will make a positive change in ours.
The relationship between learning, teaching and making a difference is very clear to us. We don't preach in our neighbour’s house. We listen and we learn, if we disagree we might question, but not correct. After visiting a thousand neighbours perhaps we’ll be ready to teach at home.
That is not to say that we don’t want to concern ourselves with global issues. On the contrary, there is simply a sequence. First we need to learn what the issues are, then who it is that are facing them and how they work to solve these issues. Then we can go home, see how our lives connect to the puzzle and how we can work for the common good.
Wanting to make change for the common good is often described as youthful, naïve and idealistic. These are terms that describe such ambitions well, but working to make change implies nothing about the size of contributions. If manage to preserve our youthfulness and idealism even after our naivety is long gone, then we will be equipped to inspire and our contribution could ultimately be great.
How we might go about making change for the common good depends entirely on what we’ll learn these next years. We can only speculate. What I would think today is that the best way to make change at home is to work with the attitudes of young people. To challenge their view of the world and their position in relation to it before it gets entrenched.
I would think that a lecture tour of schools would be effective. We would use stories from the road to capture our audience attention and use it to challenge their perspectives and if successful to inspire them to work for the common good. If we can inspire one single person at a young age and he or she grows up to become a person of power, then our trip will have served its purpose. | philosophy |
https://elementary.carmarea.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=549869&type=d&pREC_ID=1054845 | 2024-02-23T14:14:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474412.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20240223121413-20240223151413-00407.warc.gz | 0.957378 | 239 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__6890471 | en | Welcome to our school! I am so excited, and honored, to be a part of the educational journey of your children. At the heart of great educators is the desire to help all children grow academically, socially, and behaviorally. This philosophy is exactly what you will find at Carmichaels Elementary Center.
Led by experienced, motivated teachers who strive to develop the very best in their students, we aim to give children the tools they need to be successful both in and out of the classroom. Through a focus on social progression, we also aim to promote key communication skills necessary for positive interactions with each other, the school community, and the outside world. By maintaining fair and consistent behavioral expectations, we aim to educate students on the proper behaviors that will help them grow as individuals, students, and citizens.
The elementary school years are a time of discovery, wonder, and growth. These years also lay the foundation and set the path for each student’s educational journey. We are truly honored to play a role in these years. Through our collective work and investment in the betterment of children, we aim to make these years the best possible for all of our students. | philosophy |
https://interiormythos.com/about-interior-mythos-journeys/ | 2020-12-01T14:03:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141674594.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20201201135627-20201201165627-00568.warc.gz | 0.950952 | 139 | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-50__0__77972877 | en | Joseph Campbell and the Mythos Journey
After spending his lifetime studying the myths, wisdom traditions, stories, cultures, art forms and depth-seeking practices of humanity through the world, Joseph Campbell came to the conclusion that, There is one mythology.
The One Mystery
Professor Campbell understood that the first and primary function of the one myth, in all of its countless manifestations, was and is to connect us individually and collectively with the One Mystery that cannot be expressed in words of thoughts and is beyond human concepts of time and space. It is this encounter with the Mystery of Ultimate Reality that is the transformative element in human experience. It is this encounter that is the experience and the practice of contemplation. | philosophy |
https://mycentennial.sd43.bc.ca/vanessaw2019/category/grade-12/english-12/ | 2023-06-07T05:51:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224653608.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20230607042751-20230607072751-00032.warc.gz | 0.970726 | 1,709 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__148916561 | en | To gain a comprehensive understanding of the varied personalities within Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, one must refer to Kohlberg’s three moral perceptions. This essay will analyze the statements and actions of multiple characters, in order to elucidate their reasonings behind their specific behaviours. In delving into the characters’ complex natures, one will gain an extensive insight into their specific motivations. Each character has encountered situations that fall into pre-conventional, conventional, or post-conventional perspectives. Depending on which one of Kohlberg’s perceptions they fall under, these circumstances will drive them to undertake certain actions. Within the essay, these three moral perceptions will be utilized to interpret the intricate behaviours of the characters from Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible.
There are many characters within The Crucible who exhibit pre-conventional behaviour. Kohlberg’s first moral perception is defined best as behaving in such a way to obtain reward and avoid punishment. One example of a character demonstrating pre-conventional behaviour is Tituba, an African American woman working as a slave for Parris. Tituba confessed to a crime she did not take part in when Parris threatened that he would “take [her] out and whip [her] to [her] death” if she did not admit to witchcraft. In order to escape death, Tituba makes the decision to confess in associating herself with the devil, which ultimately is a lie constructed to avoid punishment. The play is set in 1600’s Salem, where African Americans were easily presented as scapegoats. Tituba was highly aware of the privilege Parris, a Caucasian male, possessed within society, and specifically within the time period. Because she knew the only way to avoid such horrific punishment was to give Parris what he wanted, she confessed to a crime she was innocent of. Furthermore, Danforth solidifies his pre-conventional behaviour when he chooses to continue the hangings of the townsfolk. In lack of better judgement, he orders that “there will be no postponement” of the hangings. Danforth is highly aware the deferral of the executions of important townsfolk is beneficial towards the town. However, he is highly afraid that Salem will view him as an indecisive and weak judge. In order to avoid the punishment of being ridiculed by townsfolk, Danforth continues the trials even though he is aware he should not. He expresses that avoiding embarrassment is more important to him than potentially saving lives. The final character who behaves in such a way to avoid punishment is Reverend Parris. Parris chooses to lie about catching Betty and Abigail seemingly engaging in witchcraft because the townsfolk will “howl [him] out of Salem for such corruption”. The girls live under the same roof as Parris, meaning if the townsfolk discover them as bewitched, the town will assume Parris is corrupted as well. Parris decides to escape this narrative by failing to tell anyone about the alleged witchcraft he had seen in the forest. His life, career, and soul would be absolutely ruined if he had said anything, so he chooses to avoid punishment by keeping silent. From the provided examples, it is evident that there are plentiful pre-conventional characters within The Crucible.
In addition to the many preconventional characters, The Crucible contains an abundance of characters that can be described as conventional. Acting conventionally can be described as behaving in a certain way in means of fitting into a group. To begin, Abigail displays conventional behaviour when she puts on a facade towards the adults within the play. She desires to appear as a suitable girl in society when she proclaimed publicly that she is “a proper girl”. In dissecting the literature, Arthur Miller wrote Abigail’s character in such a way so that the reader views her as anything but a proper girl. Behind closed doors, Abby displays behaviours that reveal her true colours. However, when those doors are open, she must put forth an innocent persona in order to fit in with the other girls in Salem. Women within the 1600s needed to fit into the guidelines in which society deemed to be acceptable, or else they would be susceptible to being scapegoated. Because Abigail needed to fit into society, she puts on a persona to the town in order to be deemed as conventionally proper. Subsequently, the girls Abigail surrounded herself with display conventional behaviour. The girls want to belong in a group led by Abigail, they demonstrate this when they simultaneously scream “Abby stop it” as an echo of Mary Warren. To back up Abigail’s lie that Mary is bewitched, the girls support her by collectively pretending that Mary in controlling them. In completing this action, the girls band together to be part of Abigail’s delusions in order to fit in. Throughout the play, the girl’s conventionality deepens by continuously pretending the townsfolk are witches, simply to earn Abigail’s approval and to secure a place in her group. To conclude, John Proctor displays the need to fit into a group. Proctor’s affair with Abigail Williams would ruin his place as a highly respected citizen of Salem. If Proctor was not careful with keeping the affair a secret, Abby could “ruin [him] with it”. Throughout the play, many situations arise in which Proctor could confess to lechery to spare innocent lives. Although Proctor is too concerned with his reputation, and is too prideful to admit his wrongdoings. He ultimately continues to lie through the greater half of the play in order to fit into his role of being a good and proper husband. From the evidence provided, it is clear that there are many characters within The Crucible that display conventional behaviour.
The final moral perception is post-conventional, which multiple characters within The Crucible exhibit. Kohlberg’ third moral perception is best described as individuals with an internalised moral compass that cannot be altered by punishment, reward, or group-acceptance. The first example of post-conventional behaviour is when Elizabeth Proctor lies for the first time in her life. Elizabeth goes against her morals within the courthouse by saying “no sir”, stating her husband did not commit lechery. Elizabeth prides herself in being an honest woman of God, although, she corrupts her faith and goes against her morals in attempt to save her husband. In making said statement, Elizabeth believes that she is sparing her husband, yet ultimately ruining her chances of eternal life. Furthermore, Giles Corey showcases that his morals cannot be altered by punishment. When Corey finds himself being pressed with stones placed by Thomas Putnam, instead of giving information, he simply wants them to “add more weight”. Corey could care less if he dies, he will not have his morals corrupted by giving Putnam what he wants. Because Corey died a good Christian man, his children would inherit his land. This final action resulted in Corey redeeming himself as a post-conventional character. The final character that occupies post-conventional characteristics is Hale. In working as a minister, Hale’s association with the court ultimately went against his morals. After witnessing innocent people sentenced to execution, Hale decided to “quit [the] court” and resign as minister. Hale did not care about the punishment of losing his job, he only wanted to abide by his internalized moral compass. In throwing his professional life away, Hale proved his morals could not by altered by the situations he is put in. It is apparent from the examples provided that there are many characters from The Crucible that represent post-conventionality.
The analysis of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible through the lens of Kohlberg’s three moral perceptions has provided an insightful understanding of its characters’ behaviours and motivations. Through the examination of each characters’ actions in various situations, it can be observed that they each operate within a specific moral perception. Some operate as pre-conventional, whereas others operate conventionally or post-conventionally. This essay has demonstrated that the examination of characters within The Crucible through Kohlberg’s perceptions, is a powerful tool in the deeper understanding of human behaviour. | philosophy |
https://www.poughkeepsieschools.org/domain/27 | 2019-08-21T05:50:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027315809.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20190821043107-20190821065107-00140.warc.gz | 0.95625 | 131 | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-35__0__217611533 | en | Mission and Vision
The mission of the Poughkeepsie City School District is to ensure that every child will receive a high-quality education in every classroom. Students will benefit from a safe learning environment that provides empowering experiences supporting their academic, emotional, physical, and social development.
It is the vision of the Poughkeepsie City School District to graduate all students prepared for life, ready for college and career and instilled with enthusiasm for life-long learning. Students will be literate, critical thinkers, ethical users of technology, appreciative of the arts, concerned about the community in which they live, and responsible for their well-being. | philosophy |
https://shop.galactus.it/shop/accessori/accessori-dadi/q-workshop-set-di-7-dadi-japanese-last-words-stone/ | 2023-02-04T02:03:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500080.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20230204012622-20230204042622-00819.warc.gz | 0.953385 | 321 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__129329481 | en | Set di 7 Dadi per GDR.
The genesis of the Japanese Dice Set is strongly influenced by Virtues derived from the old traditions of the Samurai, known in the West mainly in an embellished, romantic version. This is completely sufficient to transfer certain elements to our times, creating a vision of the Samurai as a man not only trained in combat but also having adamant willpower, unrelenting self-discipline, and a strong system of values. According to the Bushido Code, these noble warriors were a great example of what every man and woman should strive to be in their lives. The Bushido Code is represented by seven major Virtues, originally called Gi, Rei, Yu, Meiyo, Jin, Makoto, and Chu – translated as Integrity, Respect, Courage, Honor, Compassion, Honesty, and Loyalty, respectively. We wanted our Japanese Dice to reflect these Virtues in a non-obvious but eloquent way. We know that our fans are gifted with great imagination, so we allow ourselves the following interpretation. The Last Words Stone is a set that reflects the virtues of the Bushido Code through Respect and Loyalty – to values and to people. By respecting traditions and remaining faithful to friends, you lay strong foundations for the fortress of your own being. Remembering your ancestors allows you to learn from their experiences and not repeat their mistakes, thus gaining respect from yourself and from others. This is valuable both in real life and during any game! | philosophy |
http://babyolsonaugust2011.blogspot.com/2010/12/reflections-on-infertility.html | 2018-07-22T23:44:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676594675.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20180722233159-20180723013159-00168.warc.gz | 0.981603 | 1,620 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__157650708 | en | I want to start this post off with saying, point blank, that if you have never experienced infertility, you have no idea how it feels or how it affects a person.
We live in a society and a time that endorses the idea of family planning. I mean, sure there are plenty of people that have children before they're ready for them, but the enforced ideal is that, when we're ready for them, when our time is right, when we're prepared enough and stable enough to care for children and we decide that we are indeed ready for them, we'll have them. That is, unless you're infertile. And there are a lot (and I mean, A LOT) of very ignorant and arrogant opinions out there concerning infertility.
Women grow up assuming and expecting that when they're ready to become mothers (if that's their choice) that they'll be able to. They go into the process of trying to become mothers with high hopes and excitement. A new stage in their life is about to unfold! And then month after month after month of trying and failing passes. Turns into years. People who weren't even in relationships before the infertile couple started trying to conceive now have babies of their own. You begin to wonder what's wrong with you, how you're defective, and what you've done to deserve this. Every woman should be able to procreate, I mean, isn't this what our prime purpose in being a woman at all is? There must be something wrong with you. You feel guilty for being in a committed relationship and not being able to supply that special someone with an heir to call their own. In some of the worst moments, you consider leaving them, to set them free in order to find another woman who is not broken. There is guilt, and tears, and disappointment deeper than most fertile people could possibly imagine. It becomes almost an obsession, there is nothing you want more in this entire world than to become a parent. And then, on top of all this, there is another layer of guilt because we do have so many things to be thankful for and this is all we can focus on. Why can't we just focus on the things that are positive in our lives instead of the things that we can't have? But that doesn't stop us from wanting to be parents, dreaming and wishing and . . . crying about it.
And to top it all off, we are ashamed. We are defective and broken. So we find a few close people to hold us up in our weakest moments and let them in our secrets, and then we do our very best to hide it from the rest of the world. Because surely they would look down us for it. Surely they would see us as lesser beings. I mean, if we are unable to conceive, that must mean that's God's way of saying, "No more!" for our bloodlines! At least, that's what we assume people would think of us, so we don't let them see the inside. We ward their questions off with some vague response: "When are you going to have children?" "Oh, when we're ready . . ." But really, the question tears your heart out, because the real answer is, "We've been trying for three years and suffered two miscarriages. We want nothing more in the world than to be parents. But really? Maybe never. And, quite frankly, it's none of your business."
And, oh goodness, don't get me started on listening to fertile couples talk about their conception struggles. We may have been trying for years, gone through many failed fertility medications and treatments, and then you expect to listen and sympathize with how agonizing it was that it took you three whole months to conceive your beautiful baby? You have a beautiful baby. We have piles of doctor's bills and less hope then we had in the beginning that this is ever going to work.
And there is nothing, I repeat, nothing that can resort an infertile woman to tears so quickly as someone else's pregnancy announcement. It's not that we're not happy for you. If this is what you want, we are happy for you. But we are sad and bitter and jealous and jaded for ourselves. We want that happiness for ourselves and we don't know if it's something that we're ever going to be able to experience and it hurts, more than you could possibly imagine. And if the pregnancy is unwanted? That hurts even worse. It just doesn't make sense and it's so beyond unfair that someone who doesn't even want it, can have our deepest heart's desire without even trying.
I cannot possibly put into words that feeling of disappointment when your period shows up again after another month of trying and failing for that positive pregnancy test, those moments in the dark when you're sobbing into your pillow feeling guilty and horrible and trying not to wake your husband up because you know he would try to fix it and it's SO not his fault . . . it's yours, the anger and the resentment and the bitterness and the humiliation. There aren't words to describe any of these. Being infertile is one of the biggest emotional roller coasters that a woman could ever possibly ride. And they usually ride it in silence because they are ashamed, which makes the burden that much heavier to bear.
So, I plead with you now, never chastise a woman for not jumping for joy at your pregnancy announcement, never tell a couple to 'just relax' and it will happen (pretty darn impossible if you don't even ovulate!), never tell a couple they should 'just adopt' (if you want children of your own, why should an infertile couple not be allowed to have the same want?), and for the love of all that is holy, keep your snide comments to yourself when it comes to pregnancy and babies. Because you have no idea what may be going on inside that woman's head and the impact that your negative actions and comments are having on her. If you haven't been there, you cannot possibly understand, but you CAN be tactful.
And with that, I cannot even express how grateful I am that my husband and I have come this far on our infertility journey. For us, all it took was a proper diagnosis and three months of proper medication to balance my hormones enough to kick-start my ovaries back into ovulating. Many other women are not as lucky. There are others that have gone through medications that make them a raging ball of emotions, painful injections, and, when all else fails, in vitro fertilization that comes with a $10,000 price tag and no guarantee of success. This whole thing has been harder on my emotions than I could even begin to describe, but it could have been worse, and for that, I am so incredibly grateful. And I extend my hope and my sympathy to the women who are still trying. Most of them will finally achieve that positive pregnancy test, experience a pregnancy of their own, and finally, FINALLY get the opportunity to hold their baby in their arms. A small percentage will not, and my heart breaks for them. I wish them all the luck and baby dust and what modern medicine has to offer in the world.
And, if there are actually individuals out there who have the audacity to assume that a diagnosis of infertility is God's way of bringing an end to a bloodline, I call you out. For one, how ridiculous that you could possibly think that you were intelligent or 'special' enough to be privy to the will of God and, for two, God helps those who help themselves. Perhaps this is God's way of ensuring that the children borne from infertile couples will be born into a home that loves them and appreciates every second with them, because I fully believe that there is no one who is loved quite so much as a child that was believed might never exist. | philosophy |
https://merage.uci.edu/news/2021/08/How-Transparency-Triggers-Ethical-Behavior.html | 2021-09-23T21:58:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057447.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20210923195546-20210923225546-00210.warc.gz | 0.95277 | 1,098 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__165429256 | en | August 02, 2021 • By Keith Giles
The results of Lunawat’s research, conducted with Professor Timothy Shields of Chapman University’s George L. Argyos School of Business and Economics and Professor Gregory Waymire of the Emory University Goizueta Business School, are summarized in their article “Financial Reporting and Moral Sentiments” which is forthcoming from the Journal of Accounting & Economics.
Drawing inspiration from Adam Smith
When famed economist Adam Smith published his Theory of Moral Sentiments, he surmised that human psychology played an undeniably pivotal role in the way industrial capitalism worked. “Smith suggests that our actions are not motivated solely by selfish maximization,” says Lunawat. “The other factor is that we care about the moral evaluations of others,” she says. “Both factors tend to guide our actions. Our premise, therefore, was that financial reporting can actuate that kind of sentiment within managers.”
Simply put, people want to be seen by others as moral, trustworthy, and fair. Our desire to convey these qualities to others means that even an impartial spectator can lead us to modify our own actions as we evaluate ourselves through the eyes of someone else.
A morality game
To test this theory, Lunawat and her colleagues created a lab experiment in the form of a game. “We recruited subjects to participate in a computerized investment game where they play the role of either a manager or an investor,” she says. “The investors give an investment amount to the other subject—the manager—who oversees that investment over six growth periods. If you are the investor who invests ten dollars, for example, there’s a random multiplier in the game that will randomly return either the same amount, or double the amount, or triple. The manager in the experiment can choose how much, if any, of that amount to pay back to the investor as dividend, or how much to take as a fee, and how much to reinvest into the next period. After six periods the manager decides on the final payout to keep, or to pay the investor.”
This final stage of the experiment—the liquidation phase—is the most important one. After this, the game ends. “We found that, when financial reporting is made available, the managers in our experiment returned a much greater portion of the investment to the investor,” she says.
What explains the difference? As Lunawat explains, it’s not the manager’s desire to retain the investor as a future customer. “Once the game begins, the investor has no power over the manager at any point in the game. They are totally at the mercy of the manager,” she says. “The manager cannot be fired or replaced if the investor doesn’t like how the manager handles the payouts. Still, the manager knows they will be observed and will be morally evaluated by the investor. This pushes the manager to behave more ethically and leads to a greater good for the investor.”
The power of symmetry
When the two parties to a transaction have different access to information, the outcome can unfairly favor the party with the information advantage. Economists call this phenomenon information asymmetry. It is absent from the work of many influential theoreticians, including Adam Smith’s, perhaps because it adds a suprising degree of complexity to otherwise relatively simple models.
Financial reporting serves to mitigate the information asymmetry between portfolio managers and their investors. Lunawat and her colleagues were interested in exploring how this mechanism might spark what Adam Smith would call the manager’s moral sentiment, by better aligning the manager’s incentives with those of the investor.
Transparency creates moral incentives
As their research suggests, transparency in financial reporting results in better reinvestment and resource-sharing actions on behalf of investor interests, even when the investor can impose no penalty or confer no reward on the manager. What’s more, the evidence strongly suggests that the real value of financial reporting is how it plays on the manager’s deeply held need to be perceived by investors as moral and fair.
“Even when the investor can confer no reward on the manager for a desirable action, nor exact any cost or penalty upon the manager for an undesirable action, the manager will still work in the best interests of the investor, simply because they desire to be seen as moral,” says Lunawat. “The transparency of the reporting actuates the moral sentiment of the manager who deeply cares about the investor’s moral evaluation of them.”
Observation, then, really does change the outcome of the experiment. If we know that someone is watching what we do, we will behave in ways that others perceive as moral and praiseworthy.
“We really do care what others think of us and how they see us,” says Lunawat. “Our experiment proves that financial reporting plays a very fundamental role by activating these moral sentiments. We create a greater alignment between the actions of the managers and what’s best for the investors. The investors are better off because the managers take better care of their investments when they know they’re being observed. This leads to greater financial reward, in the end, for the investor.” | philosophy |
https://www.whc2021prague.com/peter-kath | 2022-10-07T15:04:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030338213.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20221007143842-20221007173842-00199.warc.gz | 0.973941 | 888 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__147991809 | en | Dr. Peter Kath - Germany
Music as a part of an evidence-based health system
Dr. Peter Kath
Dr. Peter Kath, inwardly a musician, by profession lawyer, is engaged for more than 20 years as a disciple of Dr. Shri Balaji També with meditation, yoga and Ayurveda.
He is a member and consultant of the executive board of the registered association Santulan-Veda.
He lives in Frankfurt a.M. and is taking much pleasure with his wife and three sons.
Contribution to the Videocongress on 20 June 2020:
Transcript of the Contribution:
What is the purpose of the European Ayurveda Association? Our purpose is to promote and propagate Ayurveda and disseminate educational and informative material. The planned Platform 2020 Prague is in line with these goals and we are really thankful for the opportunity to support the considerable efforts made by Tomáš Pfeiffer and his team. I will present three small points. I want to talk about words, the law, and bridges.
Let us start with words. As You know, lawyers work with language. I am a lawyer and words are one of our essential tools. So speaking of traditional integrative medicine TCIM - what is tradition? Tradition is something that lives through repetition, something that we experience and something we repeat again and again. And from this point of view, Ayurveda has a really long history. If we talk about integrative medicine, integration means that we put something together and this is exactly what Ayurveda does, it integrates all elements. We do not treat the disease, we treat the patient. We strive to re-establish a balance, which is called ‘Santulan’ in Sanskrit. This is what we try to achieve. Now, evidence-based medicine - that is something I stumbled across when reading in preparation for this meeting. What does it mean? Evidence-based medicine is medicine based on facts. But let me pose it as a question – is it different from TCIM? What are facts? Facts are perceivable phenomena that we observe with our senses, perhaps expanded by technical means. But then again, they are just there to be observed with our senses. What are the facts related to? They are related to their application, the means we use and the result. We compare the situation before and after a treatment. From observing countless cases and my own personal experience I can say yes, Ayurveda produces results, yes, herbal medicine produces results, and yes, yoga practice produces results. So without any doubt, Ayurveda is based on facts and I am sure, from this point of view, you will confirm that all the branches we are discussing here and that you represent do the same.
My second point is the law. We have a custom that in order to prove a quality or a capacity, you need to offer a paper that shows you are a doctor, a professor, a lawyer, whatever, that your medicine does this and that, and that you have proved that it is successful. We have many such papers in Europe. Madan [Prof. Dr. Madan Thangavelu] presented one of them. And that means laws, rules and regulations in Europe. As a lawyer, I respect the laws and thank God we have them, but they have their limits and they need to be safeguarded against one-sided and unfair influences and, of course, profit-driven interests. I therefore see it as essential to build a database, because we need to know what is going on, we need this information. We need to gather all the laws and everything that is connected with this branch we work in.
My third and last point is bridges - what unites us? This is a question that was posed in your paper for this meeting. I would say we are one. Science has long recognized the butterfly effect; music is about oneness, Yoga is about oneness, Ayurveda is about oneness. So we are, in fact, united. There is no need to cross bridges, we are already there. I say we need to show and display this, and I think this initiative, the Platform 2020 Prague, is a good start. Thank you. | philosophy |
https://www.valleycharitablegamingsociety.com/charity/glacier-view-lodge-society/ | 2022-12-07T17:11:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711200.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20221207153419-20221207183419-00052.warc.gz | 0.913766 | 296 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__19852933 | en | ABOUT GLACIER VIEW LODGE
Enshrined in its Bill of Rights, Glacier View Lodge aspires to the following values: Non-judgmental living environment; Universal acceptance and individual recognition; Physical, emotional, spiritual and social support and comfort; Privacy and security; Individuality in thought, possessions and action; Highly competent, caring and compassionate staff; Vibrant community interactions and dedicated volunteers.
OUR MODEL OF CARE
Our holistic approach to care at Glacier View Lodge flows from our Mission Statement and our Resident Bill of Rights. We embrace each person – resident, family member, staff member and volunteer as an integral part of our community as a whole and a valued member of the care team.
We believe in the Eden Alternative Philosophy, as described by Dr. William Thomas. He believes that seniors suffer from “loneliness, helplessness and boredom”. At Glacier View Lodge we are “committed to creating a human habitat where life revolves around close and continuing contact with plants, animals and people of all ages.”
“An innovative community of care, responsive to the complex needs of our diverse population.”
– Glacier View Lodge Society
9:00 am – 3:30pm
(250) 338-1451 (250) 338-1115 | philosophy |
http://www.whyholistic.org/ | 2013-05-25T10:44:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705936437/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120536-00042-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.930375 | 447 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__115880733 | en | The following information can be downloaded as a leaflet ready for printing. See Downloads.
HOLISTIC is shorthand for an openhearted, open-minded approach that includes all spiritual paths. It recognises that everything is connected and celebrates diversity.
- A better understanding of the profound connection between harmony with nature, personal spirituality and wellbeing.
- An appropriate room in all schools for wellbeing, religious studies and self-development.
- Pastoral care based in a holistic approach, not just a single faith.
- A new perspective that embraces diversity and creates a shared space for conflict resolution and community building.
This new way of thinking is emerging out of the global village of the 21st Century. For the first time in human history, we can explore all the world’s cultures and beliefs.
Not surprisingly, many of us have moved on to an approach that is more inclusive and diverse. This approach also includes a deep respect for the beauty of nature and a knowledge that it is our responsibility to care for the wellbeing of all life on Earth, building a sustainable, just and harmonious world.
At this moment in time there is no platform or representation for this new approach. It is not recognised. It does not sit alongside other faith communities on decision-making and consultative bodies.
As private individuals this is fine, as we each do our own work and progress along our own paths. But our society and our planet are in crisis. Our world is changing. There are crucial issues and great opportunities. Individually we can do great good. Together we can work wonders.
It is important that each of us maintains our independence and freedom. We do not have a centralised organisation. We support the empowerment of individuals. At the same time, a community or network of like-minded people can be hugely beneficial and supportive. It can create a unified voice to say good and valuable things.
“The spirit of human solidarity and kinship with all life is strengthened when we live with reverence for the mystery of being, gratitude for the gift of life and humility regarding the human place in nature.” –The Earth Charter
To download this FAQ as a leaflet see Downloads. | philosophy |
https://bristowalumniassociation.org/vision/ | 2024-02-26T04:36:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474650.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20240226030734-20240226060734-00327.warc.gz | 0.924542 | 442 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__173734928 | en | BAA aspires to be an inclusive association of change agents mutually beneficial to ourselves, our Alma Mater and the society.
To create lifelong relationships that raise distinguished, successful and exemplary individuals who serve their alma mater and communities in ways that promote and maintain a peaceful environment.
CODE OF ETHICS
1.Tradition: we will uphold and maintain the noble Christian foundation on which Bristow was founded while ensuring that BAA remains a strong positive force of influence for generations of alumni members.
2.Service: As alumni members, we will put our knowledge, skills and endowments to bear in service to one another and the greater society as a collective effort for growth and development.
3.Honour and Respect It is the moral obligation of every BAA member to show respect, dignity and courtesy to one another. The BAA culture of deference to seniority at all times shall be upheld by all true BAA members, notwithstanding the different levels of achievements attained. However, achievement must be duly recognized and seniority unfailingly respected. We will achieve this by guiding our interactions towards one another and by creating safe spaces where views, opinions and ideas are freely shared in a manner that promotes a sense of belonging for all.
4.Honesty and Integrity: We shall uphold the principles of honesty and integrity in the manner we conduct our duties to W.M. Bristow Secondary School, the Alumni and the society such that we will be beacons of light to the society.
5.Innovation: is crucial to our continuing success; we will continually search and promote new ideas that elevate W.M. Bristow Secondary School as a standard for institutions and BAA as a forward thinking association of creative experts.
6.Selflessness: we shall remain true to the BAA spirit in the effort to promote coexistence, giving and volunteering without self-gratification, engendering strong family ties and promoting espirt de corps among members in all fields of service and enterprise.
7.Transparency and Accountability: to ensure that our actions and behaviour conform to the highest standards of excellence in service to BAA and the larger society. | philosophy |
http://sohaakulkarni.blogspot.com/2011/08/times-of-yore.html | 2018-06-20T01:22:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267863407.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20180620011502-20180620031502-00433.warc.gz | 0.934913 | 420 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__155469439 | en | Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of the easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep. ----- FROST.
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake. ----TAGORE
The quality of mercy is not strain'd.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.
'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown.
His scepter shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptered sway;
It is enthroned in the heart of kings;
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God's
When mercy seasons justice. ----SHAKESPEARE | philosophy |
https://www.thedreamsupportnetwork.com/dream-support-network-blog/dream-bigger-than-big | 2024-02-28T02:43:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474690.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20240228012542-20240228042542-00777.warc.gz | 0.969323 | 458 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__28446182 | en | I don't know why people limit their dreams. Some won't even allow themselves to dream. When they hear the word DREAM they laugh it off like the word has no power or significance. As if dreams and dreaming have no purpose in their life. These people value the power of their dreams so little that when asked about their dreams, they will say anything. Allow me to correct myself, they will say a sport or a career they are not educationally even trying to do but when asked about other dreams, they draw a blank. A blank on dreams? A blank on what you will do with your life? A blank on your aspirations? A blank on all the possibilities you can create? My wife tells me my assessment of people is unfair due to the fact that I travel in the dream world all the time. She says I can't expect normal people to have a response to their dreams immediately because they are not thinking about them. I disagree. Why aren't they thinking about their dreams? Why aren't you thinking about your dreams?
It is my belief that everyone should spend some time each day thinking about their life and their dreams. I believe that everyday individuals should talk about or speak out loud their dreams for the future, whether the dreams are big or small, difficult or easy, repetitious or singular. Our dreams are the wants and desires we don't have. Our dreams are the destinations we haven't traveled to or those we love and want to return to. Our dreams are the goals we have educationally, for our family and for our health. Our dreams are the adventures we feel we must take on to fill the spirit of adventure within us. I believe that our dreams are what direct our lives and without dreams we have no direction and usually remain stuck. We have to be able to visualize it before we get it. We need dreams. We need to write our dreams down and fall in love with them. We need to spend time figuring out how to make them real. Most importantly, we should be dreaming BIGGER than BIG. Why not? If you are willing to put in the work, all your dreams are possible. ALL YOUR DREAMS ARE POSSIBLE.
So, what are you waiting for?
Never Stop Dreaming! | philosophy |
http://linguistry.tumblr.com/post/15245849947 | 2014-10-20T04:22:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-42/segments/1413507441801.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20141017005721-00134-ip-10-16-133-185.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.906894 | 159 | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-42__0__180507708 | en | "We constantly distinguish—right and wrong, sacred and profane, clean and dirty, male and female, young and old, living and dead—and in every case trickster will cross the line and confuse the distinction. Trickster is the creative idiot, therefore, the wise fool, the gray-haired baby, the cross-dresser, the speaker of sacred profanities. Where someone’s sense of honorable behavior has left him unable to act, trickster will appear to suggest an amoral action, something right/wrong that will get life going again. Trickster is the mythic embodiment of ambiguity and ambivalence, doubleness and duplicity, contradiction and paradox."
– Lewis Hyde, Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art | philosophy |
https://www.neurodiversityeducationacademy.org/post/how-are-you-feeling-what-do-you-need | 2023-12-04T13:59:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100529.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20231204115419-20231204145419-00333.warc.gz | 0.92208 | 680 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__66228127 | en | Sensations, emotions and feelings are all traits we share as humans. They are complex, and multi-faceted experiences.
Sensation refers to the process in which information is taken and interpreted by the human brain with the assistance of sensory systems. Noticing our sensations support us to be connected with our bodies and the present moment as sensations can change rapidly.
Emotions are the bio-chemical experiences of our bodies when an event occur. These are chemicals released in response to our interpretation of a specific stimuli. It takes our brains about 1/4 second to identify the trigger, and about another 1/4 second to produce the chemicals that are released throughout our bodies. Emotions last for 6 seconds and form a feedback loop between our brains and our bodies.
Feelings are the interpretations that we give to emotions. Feelings alert us to how we feel and can be understood as mental experiences of body states. They are connected not only to emotions, but also our thoughts and our moods. Feelings also last longer than emotions and are typically judged as either pleasant or unpleasant experience.
In the practice of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) or Compassionate Communication, identifying our feelings and needs are core practices. In NVC, feelings arise out of unmet needs.
According to Marshall Rosenberg, the originator of Nonviolent Communication, asserts that there are nine major categories of basic human needs, which are often called the “universal human needs”:
Understanding or empathy
Sense of belonging
The rest of the needs are subsets or combinations of these basic needs. From the "What's Strong With You?" toolkit, we have the list of needs from The Center for Nonviolent Communication with a few additions form Peggy Smith.
Feelings are interpretations. Knowing how to work with them, we can explore what is behind those interpretations.
What do they tell us about ourselves?
What are the emotions behind the feeling?
Feelings are the bodily sensations that arise in you as a result of having interpreted a stimulus in a certain way. These are descriptions of what is going on inside of you. However, it is easy to fall prey to evaluations, judgments, and opinions hence we need to distinguish our feelings from our thoughts.
Check-in with yourself and recall if you use these sentence patterns:
I feel that.....
I feel as if.....
I feel you (I, she, he, they)...
I feel like....
We often use the word “feel” without actually expressing a feeling, i.e. “I feel like you don’t love me” is an expression of thought, not a feeling. It is important to use words that describe actual feelings rather than words that describe what we think others are doing.
According to Marshall Rosenberg, creator of Nonviolent Communication, faux/pseudo feelings are evaluative words that are often confused with feelings. Pseudo-feelings express an evaluation of someone else’s behavior. These are words that generally carry a message of wrongness or blame.
"...when you can differentiate between feelings and faux feelings, you can more accurately describe your own internal experience, which in turn allows you to more easily connect with others." - Marshall Rosenberg
Examples of PSEUDO FEELINGS
Taken for granted | philosophy |
http://www.bookadda.com/books/ramana-maharshi-sage-of-arunachala-144659 | 2017-04-24T07:20:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917119120.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031159-00008-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.944371 | 417 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__151677697 | en | At the age of seventeen, sitting alone at his uncle's house, the young Venkataraman, as Ramana Maharshi was known then, underwent a spontaneous €˜conversion experience' that would change his life forever, beginning his spiritual quest. He left home soon after, not stopping until he had reached the shrine of Lord Arunacalesvara at Tiruvannamalai. He never left it.
Hailed as one of the most remarkable and unique practitioners of Advaita Vedanta, Ramana Maharshi saw no difference between his life and teachings. Even Mahatma Gandhi had heard that the Maharshi was €˜known to be and was perhaps . . . [a] realized soul', and expressed a wish to meet him several times. That meeting never happened, but thousands of others flocked to him hoping to catch a glimpse of the man who is said to have experienced eternity.
In this absorbing biography, Arvind Sharma chronicles the life of Ramana Maharshi, his solitary and extraordinary spiritual journey, his wisdom and his message. Ramana Maharshi: The Sage of Arunachala will doubtless offer something to the believer and the questioner; the scholar and the layperson.
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My father told me a long time ago, that a smart person is one who comes into a situation, observes what is going on, takes notes, get everyone's views and gradually introduces change.
In fact, he told me that this rule even applies when one is invited to view a movie that he/she would have seen before.
Undoubtedly, if my father was here, he would conclude that this world is filled with "unsmart people."
Everyone seems to have the answers to all questions.
Feedback is a great tool. There are generally two thoughts that determine how receptive people are to feedback; the relationship one has with the giver of the feedback and one's openness and readiness to receive.
In other words, feedback from a spouse or relative is more likely to be accepted, than information given by the man on the bus.
Moreover, one who perceives himself as "having arrived," is less likely to accept much from another.
People often say that they are grateful for feedback, but sometimes you can sense defensiveness or resentment in their voices.
Sometimes, the feedback is viewed as an attack on our competence.
Let's face it no one wants to be criticized. We all enjoy accolades and hope that others can only see the good in us.
We must be cautioned, about believing any one of us knows everything.
Personally, I think that the least among us can sometimes make the most sense.
I recall attending an official school function, a few years ago, where I was the guest speaker and also asked to bestow prefect pins on several students.
I spent several hours at this assembly and was even interviewed by the media.
It was toward the end of the ceremony while pinning a badge onto a petite girl that a pleasant voice said, "excuse me mame, but you have lipstick on your teeth."
I was completely disappointed in all adults around me, that no one was willing to give me this necessary bit of information.
A third thought about the receptiveness of feedback, is fear. People, who can't accept feedback, are more reluctant to give feedback.
"If I don't speak ill of you, don't speak ill of me."
This view is distorted, as feedback should be constructive, meaning it should be given to build up and edify.
Therefore, the way that it is presented, should convey these sentiments.
Feedback that is presented in a destructed manner can still be considered for its content, but the receiver should be aware of the motive.
Feedback is essential for healthy growth and development.
No one should view himself above reproach and unable to hear how his behavior impacts another. By the same token, we have to be able to decipher what is helpful and what is damning. Let us all examine ourselves and determine how often we receive feedback, and do we really use the information to self improve, or avoid others.
POINT TO PONDER: Look into the mirror and see who you really are.
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https://broughprimaryschool.co.uk/re/ | 2023-12-11T09:05:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679103810.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20231211080606-20231211110606-00506.warc.gz | 0.940315 | 1,342 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__213237174 | en | Our Religious Education curriculum ensures that the children have opportunities to learn from and about religion, which will help them to understand and respect the world around them. At Brough School, we will fulfil the requirements of the The Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education by asking provoking questions about meaning and purpose in life, beliefs about God, ultimate reality, issues of right and wrong and what it means to be human. The children will have time to explore and consider different answers to these questions without barriers. Teaching therefore should equip pupils with systematic knowledge and understanding of a range of religions and views, enabling them to develop their ideas, values and identities. Pupils should learn the skills needed to articulate clearly and coherently their personal beliefs, ideas, values and experiences while respecting the right of others to differ.
Our Religious Education curriculum will provide the pupils with the knowledge and skills necessary to enable them to: appreciate the way that religious beliefs shape life and behaviour, develop the ability to make reasoned and informed judgements about religious and moral issues and enhance their spiritual, moral, social and cultural development. Children will have the opportunity to acquire and develop their knowledge and understanding of Christianity and some other principal religions represented in Great Britain.
At Brough Primary School we want children to ask questions about the world and reflect on their own beliefs, values and experiences. The Religious Education curriculum aims to encourage discussion, enquiry, debate and independence, and to agree or disagree respectfully.
The curriculum for Religious Education aims to ensure that all pupils:
Know about and understand a range of religions and worldviews, so that they can:
describe, explain and analyse beliefs and practices, recognising the diversity which exists within and between communities and amongst individuals
identify, investigate and respond to questions posed, and responses offered by some of the sources of wisdom found in religions and worldviews
appreciate and appraise the nature, significance and impact of different ways of life and ways of expressing meaning.
Express ideas and insights about the nature, significance and impact of religions and worldviews, so that they can:
explain reasonably their ideas about how beliefs, practices and forms of expression influence individuals and communities
express with increasing discernment their personal reflections and critical responses to questions and teachings about identity, diversity, meaning and value, including ethical issues
appreciate and appraise varied dimensions of religion or a worldview.
Gain and deploy the skills needed to engage seriously with religions and worldviews, so that they can:
find out about and investigate key concepts and questions of belonging, meaning, purpose and truth, responding creatively
enquire into what enables different individuals and communities to live together respectfully for the wellbeing of all
articulate beliefs, values and commitments clearly in order to explain why they may be important in their own and other people’s lives.
At Brough Primary School we use The Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education developed by East Riding of Yorkshire, Hull City, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire as the basis for our Religious Education curriculum.
In the Early Years Foundation Stage, the children will be introduced to the key festivals and special books, special people, places of worship, symbols and artefacts for Christianity and other religions studied KS1, plus any others relevant to children in the setting. Children will be introduced to the concept of belief in a particular deity, the fact that the name for ‘god’ varies from religion to religion and, as relevant to the religions introduced, that some religions have particular rules about naming god.
We follow the programme of units for R.E. at Key Stages 1 and 2, which offer a ready-made scheme of work with built-in-progressions and coverage of all statutory aspects of the agreed syllabus.
From the syllabus it is required that:
In the Early Years Foundation Stage the learning outcomes are referenced to Christianity and as appropriate to a range of other beliefs and cultures.
Key Stage 1 – Christianity and one other principal religion, plus one other religion or non-religious worldview
Key Stage 2 – Christianity and two other principal religions in some depth, plus other religions or non-religious worldviews
The following religions have been selected for study:
Christianity Years 1,2,3,4,5 and 6
Judaism and Baha’i faith Years 1 and 2
Sikhism and Agnostic beliefs Years 3 and 4
Islam and Humanism Years 5 and 6
There are no presumptions made as to the religious backgrounds, beliefs and values of the children or adults. Any religious backgrounds are valued to encourage individuals to share their own experiences freely. All religions and their communities are treated with respect and sensitivity and links which can be made between, home, school and a faith community are valued. We acknowledge that each religion studied can contribute to the education of all our pupils and promote teaching in Religious Education that stresses open enquiry and first-hand experiences wherever possible; for example, REAction and Christingle Services.
The long-term plan maps out the topics the children will study in each Key Stage. It is taken from The Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education. The subject leader provides medium-term plans for each unit of work from the agreed syllabus. This supports teachers with the development of lesson planning.
At Brough Primary School we want every child to leave us in Year 6 having had a wide range of opportunities to explore their own beliefs and the beliefs of others without barriers to learning. The impact of these, and of the quality of the provision they received, is measured through discussions, work they produce and the knowledge and skills they have developed.
We want children to enjoy learning about religions and other cultures and have the skills required to articulate clearly and coherently their personal beliefs, ideas, values and experiences while respecting the right of others to differ. Children should have knowledge of and understand a range of religions and worldviews; be able to express ideas and insights about the nature, significance and impact of religions and worldviews; and gain skills needed to engage with religions and worldviews, which will help them to meet or exceed the progression of skills requirements.
We measure the impact of our curriculum by:
Discussing R.E. work with the children to discover how they have been inspired
Scrutinising children’s work, with an opportunity for dialogue between teachers and the subject leader
Monitoring of taught skills across the school to evidence progress
Assessing pupils’ knowledge and ability to apply this to later learning
Images and recording of children’s practical learning | philosophy |
https://lunulacrystaldreams.com/de/products/pietersite-sphere-55mm | 2023-12-01T07:05:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100276.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20231201053039-20231201083039-00107.warc.gz | 0.85388 | 162 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__35270623 | en | Pietersite is a spiritual activation stone. It helps one find new directions and move forward when the way feels blocked, or when one is unable to see one’s path. It strongly activates the chakra system to allow for the grounding of a full spectrum of electromagnetic energy, increasing the amount of Light energy in one’s body and energy field.
Pietersite can ‘light a fire’ under one’s base chakra, giving one the resolve to take action and changes one’s life. It can help one to become fearless and overcome uncertainty and indecision.
Pietersite stimulates the physical body, lending energy and strength. It’s a nervous-system stone and is useful in stimulating and strengthening the nerves and the brain. | philosophy |
https://uzbnames.com/boys/ayub/ | 2023-12-09T21:58:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100972.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20231209202131-20231209232131-00343.warc.gz | 0.977242 | 159 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__61655043 | en | Ayub is an Uzbek name derived from the Arabic language, meaning “Job” or “patience.” It encourages its bearer to remain steadfast in their beliefs and values, to be resilient and to never give up in the face of adversity. Additionally, it serves as a reminder to be patient and understanding, to think before acting, and to always strive for justice and fairness. It also encourages its bearer to show kindness and compassion, to be generous and to use their influence to help those in need. Furthermore, it reminds its bearer that trust and loyalty are essential components of any successful relationship, and that they should strive to build meaningful connections with those around them. Finally, it encourages its bearer to stay true to themselves, to remain humble and to never forget their roots. | philosophy |
http://barbaramarcella.blogspot.ca/ | 2017-02-21T10:10:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-09/segments/1487501170700.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170219104610-00280-ip-10-171-10-108.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.985424 | 312 | CC-MAIN-2017-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-09__0__117964252 | en | When I was a little girl I was terrified of shadows.
Not just any shadow though, it was my own. My parents tell me I would turn around and see this giant scary gray thing and I would run away and cry.
I would cry because no matter how far I ran... the shadow seemed to become bigger and would never stop chasing me.
I was too little to understand that there was simply nothing there... but a shadow cast from my own body.
Sometimes I think I'm still afraid of my own shadow.
Not literally... but all of my fears become a shadow that I'm constantly trying to run away from.
Isn't it funny how we grow up... but the fears never leave? They just change and become different things.
I wonder what would happen if one day we actually turned around to face the shadow and walk towards it instead of run away.
We'd see it would become smaller... and that it's not real.
The shadow I feared for the longest time only seemed like a giant because I kept running from it.
But once I got closer, I saw that I actually made it bigger than it was.
The moment we realize that the giant shadows are created from us running from them... we'll have the courage to turn around and finally face them.
And slowly but surely step by step, we'll come to know that we ourselves are bigger than any shadows we cast.
Take the first step and turn around, face your shadows... they only seem bigger from far away. | philosophy |
https://tokillalion.com/ | 2022-01-24T16:13:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304572.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20220124155118-20220124185118-00136.warc.gz | 0.92092 | 119 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__143416261 | en | This is a common cry throughout our culture from Christian men who are seeking to find freedom from the nagging grip of sexual lust. In To Kill a Lion, Bruce Lengeman takes men beyond behavior modification and answers the question, “but what’s driving the drive?” Some approaches to sexual purity adequately tell men, “It’s bad! Don’t do it!” but don’t give men real solutions. To Kill a Lion is about destroying sexual roots. It is about who a man is, not just what he does. | philosophy |
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