Several reasons have been posed against the existence of conscience. Let us criticize them:. 1- The function of the conscience is not general: Some believe that if the conscience were universally original - in other words, if all human beings possessed it - why does it not show in all of them? Could anyone imagine someone like Genghis Khan having a conscience?. We must respond by saying that there are many instincts in humans about which people are highly diverse in possessing, using and fulfilling, such as the sexual instinct, emotions, curiosity and lots of others. Even the absence of some non-instinctive mental activities or a spiritual phenomenon cannot imply that an individual is basically devoid of it.. 2- Differences in the functions of the conscience in human beings: Some say that if the conscience is to be original, why is there so much diversity among people in its functions? Various functions for the conscience cannot defy its existence, as the existence of brutally savage human ...

As most of you will already know, the New South Wales parliament recently passed legislation abolishing the right to conscientiously object to vaccination for the purpose of enrolment in early education services in that state. The law takes effect on 01 January 2018.. However, as the law applies only to those enrolments on or after that date, and not existing enrolments, unvaccinated or partially vaccinated children may still be enrolled up until 31 December 2017, even if the placement does not commence until 2018.. So, if you were considering enrolling your child in an early education service next year, please ensure the enrolment is finalised before the end of this year.. How to Register a Conscientious Objection to Vaccination. The Interim Vaccination Objection Form for the purpose of enrolment in NSW Child Care Centres is available from the NSW Health website. You should download and print a copy from the website and bring it to a consultation with a GP or authorised nurse immuniser. The ...

by Ginger Taylor HHS establishes a new Conscience and Religious Freedom (CRF) Division within its Office for Civil Rights, holds livestream today, Jan 18th at 10:30am EST. The religious rights of families in Mississippi, California and West Virginia, along with...

At worst Guru was facilitator in the crime and not a part of directly perpetrating the crime, and the evidence against him was mere circumstantial and that the police lied about the time and place of arrest, fabricated evidence including arrest memos and extracted false confessions. Court noted that Guru was not a member of any banned organization, Court ruled The conviction under section 3 (2) of POTA is set aside. The conviction under section 3 (5) of POTA is also set aside because there is no evidence that he is a member of a terrorist organization, once the confessional statement is excluded. Incidentally, we may mention that even going by confessional statement, it is doubtful whether the membership of a terrorist gang or organization is established. Further that since The incident, which resulted in heavy casualties, had shaken the entire nation and the collective conscience of the society will only be satisfied if capital punishment is awarded to the offender. So does it mean that the ...

A new essay with Joshua Rust.. In the first part, we summarize our empirical research on the moral behavior of ethics professors.. In the second part, we consider five possible explanations of our finding that ethics professors behave, on average, no better than do other professors.. Explanation 1: Philosophical moral reflection has no material impact on real-world moral behavior. Jonathan Haidt has called the view that explicit moral reflection does have a substantial effect on ones behavior the rationalist delusion.. Explanation 2: Philosophical moral reflection influences real world moral behavior, but only in very limited domains of professional focus. Those domains are sufficiently narrow and limited that existing behavioral measures cant unequivocally detect them. Also, possibly, any improvement in such narrow domains might be cancelled out, in terms of overall moral behavior, by psychological factors like moral licensing or ego depletion.. Explanation 3: Philosophical moral reflection ...

6. Am I at peace with this decision? To act out of an unresolved doubt or a troubled conscience is destructive to the person. One can identify a right choice in advance of the action by the peace of mind and soul the decision brings, and a wrong choice by the guilt in initiates. One should of course be sure by consulting of sources (step 2 above) that one is not acting out of false conscience, scrupulosity, or unhealthy guilt. Anxiety (What would my mother say?) or bravado (I wish X could see me now!) might indicate such unreadiness to take this action because it shows a morbid excitement rather than a sense of legitimate pleasure in expressing ones deepest self. The importance of a well-formed conscience is obvious. It is the result of education and a habit of right choices. It is more like a developed skill, such as aesthetic taste, than an infused gift. Though one should never act in bad faith, there comes a time when the moral calculus must end, and one can act, in good faith, though not ...

People wrote; when Stalin would be faced with a difficult situation, which was not solved by consultation, he would visit Lenins grave. He would stay there until his problem was solved. This materialists conscience did not believe that Lenins soul was dead. If he did, why would he go to Lenins grave? Why would he ask help from Lenin? Why do others build monuments over the graves of unknown soldiers and then respect them? Their consciences testify to the fact that there is a God and that there is life after death. If revelation did not exist, this is what mans conscience or divine disposition would do.. The problem is this: if this is so clear why does most of mankind reject it?. The answer to this question is found in chapter Qiyāmat:. Rather man desires to go on living viciously.6. For this reason they overlook every truth. If one wants to enjoy power he must overlook his responsibilities. If he does not do this he will realize that he is a servant of Allah and has responsibilities that ...

Why do I know more things than other people? Why, in fact, am I so clever? I have never pondered over questions that are not questions. I have never squandered my strength. Of actual religious difficulties, for instance, I have no experience. I have never known what it is to feel sinful. In the same way I completely lack any reliable criterion for ascertaining what constitutes a prick of conscience: from all accounts a prick of conscience does not seem to be a very estimable thing.... Once it was done I should hate to leave an action of mine in the lurch; I should prefer completely to omit the evil outcome, the consequences, from the problem concerning the value of an action. In the face of evil consequences one is too ready to lose the proper standpoint from which ones deed ought to be considered. A prick of conscience strikes me as a sort of evil eye. Something that has failed should be honoured all the more jealously, precisely because it has failed-this is much more in keeping with my ...

When I last wrote about this issue, I was furious about one of Ws last power grabs before the White House door knocked his ass on the way out. Im talking about his sneaky attempt to unnecessarily broaden the so-called rule of conscience, which I believe would result in greater restrictions for women seeking competent unbiased…

The last book I loved was Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk by Tony DuShane.. Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk is a triumph, not only for the adolescent Jehovahs Witness whose voice grows like his first lone pubic hair into a riot but for anyone who has ever felt the spirit of any kind of community; it will remind anyone who has felt the urgings of the heart and stripped naked before love that the rest of the world is something to plunge into even despite the pain and hardship and injustice here.. Gabe is paralyzed by being constantly taught to evaluate the potential consequences of every action. The whole world is off limits. The heart is treacherous and deceitful above all things is the signpost for his conscience and for his soul. He has been taught this as a truth and as religion. Jesus Jerk is the account of one teenagers coming to terms with such a ludicrous and yes blasphemous claim, and ultimately, his defying it. A poignant statement on what an acute conscience can do to an ...

The Trump administrations new birth control rule is raising questions among some doctors and researchers, who say it overlooks known benefits of contraception while selectively citing data that raise doubts about effectiveness and safety. This rule is listing things that are not scientifically validated, and in some cases things that are wrong, to try to justify a decision that is not in the best interests of women and society, said Dr. Hal Lawrence, CEO of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, a professional society representing womens health specialists.. Two recently issued rules - one addressing religious objections and the other, moral objections - allow more employers to opt out of covering birth control as a preventive benefit for women under the Obama health care law. Although the regulations ultimately address matters of individual conscience and religious teaching, they also dive into medical research and scholarly studies on birth control.. Its on the science ...

The bill language is similar to that embodied in Section 1557 of the ACA, which had generated a regulatory scheme that undermines conscience protections in health care delivery.[REF] The bills language, however, is broader and more direct.[REF] It provides HHS with broad authority to change or modify the national benefits package. In the absence of conscience protections-combined with a reigning assumption that federal officials government-approved morality automatically trumps the moral, ethical, or religious convictions of physicians and patients- the provision invites even greater cultural and political polarization. It is reasonable to assume that the government health plan could require medical professionals to participate in a number of practices to which they would have profound moral or religious objections, including abortion, the provision of abortifacients, gender-reassignment surgeries, and even physician-assisted suicide, which is being aggressively promoted as an appropriate ...

Scrupulosity is a modern-day psychological problem that echoes a traditional use of the term scruples in a religious context, e.g. by Catholics, to mean obsessive concern with ones own sins and compulsive performance of religious devotion.[12] This use of the term dates to the 12th century.[13] Several historical and religious figures suffered from doubts of sin, and expressed their pains. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, wrote After I have trodden upon a cross formed by two straws ... there comes to me from without a thought that I have sinned ... this is probably a scruple and temptation suggested by the enemy.[10] Alphonsus Liguori, the Redemptorists founder, wrote of it as groundless fear of sinning that arises from erroneous ideas.[13] Although the condition was lifelong for Loyola and Liguori,[14][15] Thérèse of Lisieux stated that she recovered from her condition after 18 months, writing One would have to pass through this martyrdom to understand it well, and for me ...

Because the Supreme Court refused to consider the case, the appeals court ruling stands and the law remains in effect. This could limit the conscience rights of pharmacists throughout the state of Washington (49 other states already allow pharmacists to refer patients to other stores when they dont keep a drug in stock).. What just happened?. The Supreme Court refused to hear a case, Stormans v. Wiesman, that challenges a Washington law requiring pharmacists to dispense abortifacient drugs even when doing so would violate their religious beliefs.. What was the case about?. According to the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, in 2007 the Washington State Board of Pharmacy passed new regulations-drafted by Planned Parenthood-making it illegal to refer patients to neighboring pharmacies for reasons of conscience, despite allowing them to refer patients elsewhere for a wide variety of business, economic, or convenience reasons.. Two individual pharmacists and the owners of a family owned pharmacy ...

Today the average price of a first trimester abortion (88 percent of abortions) is $468,[15] increasing after that by about $100 for each additional week of pregnancy. Abortions after 24 weeks (0.08 percent) are the most expensive-the procedures themselves are more complicated, some take two days necessitating an overnight stay. If women have to travel long distances to obtain an abortion (often due to the provider shortage) they incur additional expenses. Lynne Randall, the director of the Consortium of Planned Parenthood Abortion Providers (caps), estimates that first trimester abortions would cost $1,000-more than double the going rate- if they had kept up with medical inflation.[16] Advocates had anticipated that medical abortion would be less costly, but this has not been the case. In most markets, the price of medical and first trimester surgical abortion is the same. This is partly a reflection of the actual cost to the clinics when all of the relevant overheads are factored in. While ...

Empathy is a strange thing. It tells us to be in someone elses shoes. But that is hardly followed.. Why because we dont have the the capacity to empathize with everyone naturally.. For ex- I would know more of mens problem than of womens problem.. So I would like to keep conscious thoughts and efforts close to what I can naturally empathize. However that should not be the case when I am not on vacation. Its vacation because we derive pleasure from empathy.. For ex- Friends birthday, Having a grandkid or being an uncle, or social media post likes, chauvinism and also sex.. We know pleasure without conscience is not healthy yet we are reluctant to the idea that empathy is bad for conscience.. Because they are things in your environment it is selfish to put empathy as a factor for judgment because it is bound to be biased.. It clouds the facts on advantages you are born with and also disadvantages of others.. For ex- A single isolated incident of crime or violence in your context cannot ...

AJC Mourns Passing of Representative John Lewis, Our Nations Moral ConsciencePR NewswireNEW YORK, July 18, 2020NEW YORK, July 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- American Jewish Committee (AJC) mourns the passing of Congressman John Lewis (GA-5), the civil rights giant who worked closely with the Rev., and

1) No-one is under a duty (by contract or by statutory or other legal requirement) to carry out or assist in carrying out an abortion.. (2) A person is entitled to refuse to assist in carrying out an abortion ...

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A court in the capital Astana banned Tabligh Jamaat in Kazakhstan as extremist in February 2013. Until the movement was banned, it used to send members on short-term missions to other towns and villages where they slept in mosques and addressed local Muslims, both door to door and in the mosque, a close observer of the movement in Central Asia told Forum 18. Male adherents are often identified by their beards and wearing of South Asian clothing. If Muslims are thought by the authorities to agree with some of Tabligh Jamaats teachings or practices, possess religious books often used in the movement, or meet others close to the movement, this can be enough to trigger a criminal prosecution (see F18News 12 December 2014 http://www.forum18.org ...

American Minute with Bill Federer. U.S. Supreme Court stated in the 1892 case of Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, written by Justice David Josiah Brewer (143 U.S. 457-458, 465-471, 36 L ed 226):. This is a religious people.. This is historically true. From the discovery of this continent to the present hour, there is a single voice making this affirmation.. The commission to Christopher Columbus … (recited) that. it is hoped that by Gods assistance some of the continents and islands in the ocean will be discovered …. The first colonial grant made to Sir Walter Raleigh in 1584 … and the grant authorizing him to enact statutes for the government of the proposed colony provided. that they be not against the true Christian faith …. The first charter of Virginia, granted by King James I in 1606 … commenced the grant in these words: … in propagating of Christian Religion to such People as yet live in Darkness …. Language of similar import may be found in the ...

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In a report from the European Commission on 12 January 2011, the European Commission stated that: The Commission is committed to contributing, in line with its responsibilities, to the promotion of the memory of the crimes committed by totalitarian regimes in Europe.[35]. On 29 March 2011, a public hearing on What do Young Europeans know about Totalitarianisms? took place in the European Parliament, hosted by the European Peoples Party under the patronage of the Hungarian Presidency of the European Union, and organised by MEPs Sandra Kalniete, László Tőkés and Milan Zver.[36] The purpose of the hearing was to focus on the importance to provide objective and comprehensive information about the totalitarian past, as public discourse can lead to a better, deeper understanding of our shared history and a greater feeling of unity.[37] László Tőkés MEP, Vice-President of the European Parliament (EPP), said in his address during the hearing that: War crimes, genocide and mass ...

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Action, Volition et Conscience. Léquipe Action, Volition et Consciousness (AVoC) apporte des problématiques novatrices concernant les fonctions supérieures non spécifiques à une modalité liées à la perception et à la motricité chez ladulte. Léquipe AVoC souhaite notamment développer trois thèmes majeurs : Le contrôle des mouvements volontaires et stimulus-driven, la plasticité perceptive et la réciprocité sensation-action, une approche clinique et expérimentale de la conscience et de lattention. Le premier thème concerne les fonctions et le substrat neuronal contrôlant linteraction avec lenvironnement (activité sensorimotrice ou actions idéomotrices). Les travaux du second thème questionnent la possibilité daméliorer les capacités perceptives et les performances sensorimotrices par lutilisation des dispositifs de réalité augmentée et de substitution sensorielle. La troisième thématique proposera de nouvelles idées concernant linterrelation entre ...

Human Rights Watch and the Moroccan Association for Human Rights said in a joint statement on Wednesday those arrested over the past five months include students, artists, citizen journalists and social media commentators and are facing such charges as showing a lack of due respect for the king, defaming state institutions and offending public officials.. According to the statement, some of those detained have targeted the wealth and lifestyle of King Mohammed VI, contrasting it with what they perceive as the states failure to guarantee basic rights and economic opportunities for young Moroccans.. Others encouraged people to participate in protests against socio-economic injustice, the rights groups added, Presstv reported.. The rights groups said prosecutions were being conducted under the criminal law rather than the four-year-old Press and Publications Law so the courts can hand down jail terms where they saw fit.. Ahmed Benchemsi, HRWs Middle East and North Africa communications ...

Priests for Life has retained noted civil rights attorney Charles LiMandri of San Diego to represent them in their lawsuit against Obama. LiMandri achieved national distinction by saving the famous Mt. Soledad Cross - a historic war memorial that had been erected on public property many decades ago, which local atheists sought to have torn down. He has also fought for the rights of San Diego firefighters who were forced to participate in a vulgar gay pride parade against their will or else face termination. He was also the General Counsel for the National Organization for Marriage--California during the successful Proposition 8 Campaign to save traditional marriage.. ...

This level of social awareness was thought to have originated about 50 thousand years ago among our thickset cousins the Neanderthals. The jawbone pushes the date for collaborative survival way back - about 175 and 200 thousand years ago. It suggests pre-Neanderthals had significant elements of fully human behaviour, says Chris Stringer an archaeologist at the Natural History Museum in London, UK. But it doesnt tell us exactly when caring for other group members first evolved. Until recently the social sophistication needed for group members to care one another was thought to have arisen with our direct ancestors, the early modern humans. Discoveries of elderly and diseased Neanderthals showed that they were looking out for each other around 50,000 years ago. Markings on worn teeth from the same site suggest that pre-Neanderthals, like their Neanderthal descendants, were particularly dependent on their teeth for survival, using them to scrape off meat and crush bones. The lack of stone tools ...

While Chile has taken a step closer towards legalizing divorce, the church hierarchy has indicated that it will not end its fight against the bill. Final passage of the bill will leave only two countries, Malta and the Philippines, where divorce will still be illegal. The bill may become law in early 2004, and was finally passed after six years of struggle, despite polls consistently showing that up to 70 percent of Chileans support an easing of the divorce law. The bill still presents many problems, especially related to the waiting periods involved. In order to get divorced by mutual consent, couples will have to wait three years, but if the divorce is contested, the waiting period rises to five years. However, if one of the petitioners can show that the other is, for example, gay or an alcoholic, they will be able to get a divorce much more quickly. The hierarchy of the Catholic church fought the bill through parliament and is expected to lobby heavily before it is signed into law. The church ...

The third problem is with the stoning of children (i.e. legal minors). The Deuteronomy 21 passage may not be limited to legal minors, but it surely includes them. So why is it wrong to kill legal minors, in particular? Here Ill quote from my article Why it is wrong to execute minors:. Prefrontal cortex. Interestingly, these intuitions are supported by the fact that the prefrontal cortex, the last part of the brain to reach maturity, affects a broad range of cognitive abilities including, among others, the ability of young people to anticipate the consequences of ones behavior. (See this helpful discussion for a quick overview.) This is why, for example, teenagers are much more likely to engage in highly risky behavior than adults. (Take a few minutes to peruse the range of idiotic teen stunts memorialized on youtube.). So consider a legal mandate that says all children who talk back to their parents are to be stoned. A twenty year old can anticipate more fully the consequences of their ...

The task is one of casuistry, and only a simpleton legalist would think that figuring these things out is easy or automatic. But then, because some of the situations are difficult, and wise men leave space for differences of opinion, it is assumed that all such situations are equally complicated and that it is necessary to leave that same room to differ. But let me give you a short list of such things, some of which I think should be discussed charitably-for are these things not complicated?-and others of which I think the preacher should only address from the pulpit if he is willing to throw his necktie over his shoulder while hopping around in a denunciatory fashion.. Using birth control. Yoga pants on people who cant afford to be seen that way. Hard-R movies. Yoga pants on people who can afford to be seen that way. Thirty-year mortgages. A tattoo of a .357 Magnum. A tattoo of a tiny butterfly on a suburban moms ankle. Pink hair, there we go. Unwillingness to come within thirty yards of ...

Abstract. Defense attorneys at the Nuremberg Medical Trial argued that no ethical difference existed between experiments in Nazi Concentration camps and research in U.S. prisons. Investigations that had taken place in an Illinois prison became an early focus of this argument. Andrew C. Ivy, MD, whom the American Medical Association had selected as a consultant to the Nuremeberg prosecutors, responded to courtroom crticisim of research in his home state by encouraging the Illinois governor to establish a committee to evaluate prison research. The governor names a committee and accepted Ivys offer to chair the panel. Late in the trial, Ivy testified - drawing on the authority of this committee - that research on Us prisoners was ethically ideal. However, the governors committee had never met. After the trials conclusion, the report was published in JAMA, where it became a source of support for experimentation on prisoners.. ...

By Erin Luhmann and Saideh Jamshidi;. October 16, 2013 - In September, Iranian President Rouhani granted amnesty to 12 political prisoners as he made his way to an annual session of the United Nations General Assembly. But former Evin prison inmate and 2009 IWMF Courage in Journalism Awardee, Jila Baniyaghoob, cautions this isolated act does not signify democratic momentum. We heard a lot of noise, inside and outside of Iran, she said. But we have more than one thousand political prisoners. The judiciary officials have promised the release of more than 80 prisoners, but there is no follow up news. Chances are, they may never be released. Determined to keep the international community vigilant, Baniyaghoob published a memoir, chronicling the time she spent inside Tehrans Evin prison for her work as a journalist. An interview with the author reveals that Women of Evin: Ward 209 is more than a detailed account of the physical and emotional tortures she endured for giving voice to Iranian ...

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A meat-centered diet is inefficient not only in nutritional value, but also in land utilization. The US Department of Agricultural Economic Research Service reports that 16 kg of grain are needed to produce 1 kg of beef. Consequently, as is depicted in the adjacent diagram, the average amount of grain required to feed one beef-eater can be used to feed ten grain-eaters.. The Appeal to Conscience In our present times, we have scores of statistics like the ones quoted above to make the logic of vegetarianism compellingly clear. But even without these statistics, the resonance of vegetarianism with our essential human conscience and intelligence is so intuitively strong that eminent thinkers throughout history have not only chosen but also championed vegetarianism. To illustrate, here are the quotes of just a few reputed vegetarians:. As long as man massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love…Those that kill animals to ...

Accountable Laughter. Everyone should have someone that they can be accountable unto. It is important that people can check in with others from time-to-time, on whether they have had moments of laughter or not. Laughing with other people can prove more beneficial than laughing alone. However, do not discount laughing alone, because any form of laughter can deflate the negative stimuli, thus fostering the positive. Visualization Laughter can be manifested through purposeful desire and a conscience effort. If, you desire to laugh, but have not laughed in sometime, or you are simply needing a spirit of laughter, it can be manifested through conscience effort. Visualize on a positive event that brought laughter to your life. Think upon this event and let yourself be back in that moment. You will transcend the negative and your spirit will be uplifted. Remember to pay attention to moments of delight; focus on the joy and peace that they have created, in order that you have a reservoir of memories ...

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Thats Jupiter doing its cosmic job, astronomers like to say. Better it than us. Part of what makes the Earth such a nice place to live, the story goes, is that Jupiters overbearing gravity acts as a gravitational shield deflecting incoming space junk, mainly comets, away from the inner solar system where it could do for us what an asteroid apparently did for the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Indeed, astronomers look for similar configurations - a giant outer planet with room for smaller planets in closer to the home stars - in other planetary systems as an indication of their hospitableness to life ...

Scott Stephens reflects on the origins of our modern capitalist society, in which religion too easily cohabits with voracious, avaricious consumption.

Scott Stephens reflects on the origins of our modern capitalist society, in which religion too easily cohabits with voracious, avaricious consumption.

Three decades and counting after he died, Phil Ochs still influences singers and audiences around the world, some who were not even born when he died. Online discussion groups and websites are dedicated to Phil Ochs and his music and writers continue to produce articles and books about his music and his life. Phils sister Sonny Ochs Tanzman manages an ongoing series of Phil Ochs Song Nights with performers who sing his songs across the United States and the rest of the world. His brother Michael archives his music and his daughter Meegan worked with Michael to produce a box set of his music called Farewells & Fantasies. Thirty-two years after his death, the North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance awarded the 2009 Elaine Weissman Lifetime Achievement Award to Phil Ochs ...

5. And he was wounded for our iniquities. He again repeats the cause of Christs great afflictions, in order to meet the scandal which might have arisen from it. The spectacle of the cross alienates many persons from Christ, when they consider what is presented to their eyes, and do not observe the object to be accomplished. But all offense is removed when we know that by his death our sins have been expiated, and salvation has been obtained for us.. The chastisement of our peace. Some think that this is called the chastisement of peace, on account of men being careless and stupefied amidst their afflictions, and therefore that it was necessary that Christ should suffer. Others view peace as relating to the consciences, that is, that Christ suffered, in order that we might have peaceful consciences; as Paul says that, being justified by faith through Christ, we have peace with God. (Romans 5:1) But I take it to denote simply reconciliation. Christ was the price of our chastisement, that ...

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Charity Choice list of charities includes Prisoners of Conscience Appeal Fund and other Poverty charities. Prisoners of Conscience Appeal Fund in London is featured in the Social Welfare charity database on Charity Choice.

In his 1960 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Saint-John Perse said that it is enough for the poet to be the guilty conscience of his time. Perse was a poet who ventured inward and he often described his journeys in terms of landscapes and broad histories, of the interior made exterior.

Research question: Owners and architects face mounting pressure to incorporate environmentally sustainable features in new arenas, ballparks, and stadiums. In this study, we apply Rogers diffusion-of-innovations framework to highlight the key influencers and factors contributing to the decision to adopt pro-environmental initiatives. Research method: We conducted interviews with 13 senior architects whose portfolios collectively contained over 25 eco-friendly sport facilities spanning Europe, Australia, Africa, and North America. The facilities discussed were used for a variety of leagues and events, including FIFA World Cup, the Olympic and Paralympic Games, college football and basketball, Major League Baseball (MLB), and the National Football League (NFL). The data were transcribed and analyzed following the open, axial, and selective coding sequence. Results and findings: The results of the study indicated that owners and quasi-owners reviewing green facility proposals considered the input of

By Catholic News Service NEW YORK (CNS) -- Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and prolific author who died July 2 at age 87 in his New York home, has been remembered in tributes from around the world for standing up for human dignity and for being a witness to the world…

The Catholic tradition is more resilient than many realize when issues of human life and dignity are compelling.. For most of its history, the Church condemned cremation severely as a violation of the dignity of the human body and an attack on the central Catholic doctrine of the resurrection of the body. It felt so strongly on this issue that a Catholic funeral service was forbidden to all who would choose cremation. Even in those centuries, however, cremation was not only allowed but also considered a moral duty in times of Plague when infection and the lives of others were at issue.. Catholic doctrine forbidding usury or the taking of interest on money continued through its history. Usury is condemned in the Bible and it was affirmed by centuries of Catholic teaching. Yet, when it was clear that the new economic order of the modern period depended on usury for the financial health of the human family, the imputation of interest on money loaned was not only deemed permissible for the world at ...

A 35-year-old man who had been in a vegetative state for 15 years after a car accident has shown signs of consciousness after neurosurgeons implanted a vagus nerve stimulator into his chest. The findings reported in Current Biology on September 25 show that vagus nerve stimulation (VNS)-a treatment already in use for epilepsy and depression-can help to restore consciousness even after many years in a vegetative state.. The outcome challenges the general belief that disorders of consciousness that persist for longer than 12 months are irreversible, the researchers say. . . [Full text]. Corazzol and Lio et al. Current Biology, Restoring consciousness with vagus nerve stimulation. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.07.060. ...

The Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund reports: The Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund (FCDF) yesterday (March 14, 2018) issued investigative subpoenas to the California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and its local office in San Diego. The subpoenas are part of FCDFs federal civil rights lawsuit challenging…

The latest session of deliberating the human rights situation in Iran was held on 8 November during the Universal Periodic Review with representatives of Iran and representatives of 33 other countries including the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Poland, and South Korea at the UN headquarters in Geneva.. According to Amnesty International, the participants in the meeting criticized the human rights situation in Iran.. A group of countries participating in the session, including the US, called for the release of prisoners of conscience, journalists, lawyers, opponents of the mandatory veil, and civil and human rights activists in Iran.. The US envoy said the Iranian government should release prisoners of conscience, including Narges Mohammadi and Nasrin Sotoudeh, saying Iran should repeal the compulsory hijab law, according to the report of this human rights organization.. The representative from Canada, along with 30 others, called for the abolition of the death penalty, especially ...

BRIDGET CONLEY-ZILKIC: Good morning and welcome to all of you. Thank you for coming. Sorry for the late start as well. Ill just give a brief introduction. And by the way, for any of you who have friends or colleagues who couldnt make it, we will be putting a transcript of this program up on our website, so you can forward it along to them through that method. The United State Holocaust Memorial Museum is mandated through its Committee on Conscience to alert the national conscience, influence policymakers and stimulate worldwide action to confront and work to halt acts of genocide, or related crimes against humanity.. We have been working on Sudan since 2000-the man to my left can probably correct me if Ive misused any dates-initially focusing on the conflict between the north and the south, with particular emphasis on the Nuba Mountains. And we have been working since 2004 on Sudans western region of Darfur. This museum was conceived as a living memorial to victims of the Holocaust. It was ...

1 Cor. viii. 12. But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. I SHALL, by Gods assistance, from these words debate the case of a weak, or (as some improperly enough call it) a tender conscience: and with what evidence I can, shew both what it is, and what privileges it may justly claim from this and such other places of scripture. One great one we have here set down, and that indeed so great, that it looks more like a prerogative than a privilege; namely, that to wound or sin against it, is no less a crime than to sin against Christ himself. Our apostle in two places of his Epistles treats professedly of this argument; to wit, in the 14th of the Romans, and in this 8th of the 1 Cor. For the 351better understanding of his design and meaning in both which places, it will be requisite to give some brief account of the subject-matter and occasion of them. In the 14th chapter of the Romans he speaks of such as had been converted from Judaism to ...

EDDIE GOLDMAN LIFETIME AWARD Written by Todd Hester Sunday, 15 March 2009 03:14 Gladiator Magazine Journalism Lifetime Achievement Award Eddie Goldman:...

Australia has been aggressively pursuing skilled migrants to sustain its population and foster economic growth. However, many skilled migrants experience a downward career move upon migration to Australia. Based on a survey of recent skilled migrants, this study investigates how individual (age, years of settlement, qualifications), national/societal (citizenship and settlement), and organization‐level (climate of inclusion) factors influence their career success. Overall, we found that: (1) age at migration matters more than length of settlement in predicting skilled migrant career success; (2) citizenship uptake and living in a neighbourhood with a greater number of families from the same country of origin facilitate post‐migration career success; and (3) perceptions of ones social/informal networks in the workplace - a dimension of perceived organizational climate of inclusion - also have a positive impact on migrant career outcomes.. ...

DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Division of Professional Regulation. 2500 Board of Pharmacy. Statutory Authority: 24 Delaware Code, Section 2509 (24 Del.C. §2509). 24 DE Admin. Code 2500. PROPOSED. PUBLIC NOTICE. The Delaware Board of Pharmacy, in accordance with 29 Del.C. Chapter 101 and 24 Del.C. §2509, proposes amendments to its regulation 3.0. Specifically, the proposed addition to 3.0 Pharmacy Requirements would require the pharmacist-in-charge at each pharmacy to develop written policies for situations in which a pharmacists professional obligation to dispense certain pharmaceuticals may conflict with the pharmacists personal beliefs, potentially causing the pharmacist to refuse to dispense the pharmaceutical. The Boards proposed regulatory changes do not specify how such situations should be handled. Instead, the proposed changes merely require the pharmacist-in-charge at each pharmacy to develop written policies for such situations.. The Board also proposes amendments to its regulation 16.0 ...

Nursing is identifying and responding to human responses in terms of promoting peoples health and well-being. Therefore the core of nursing practice has been built on the science of health and the art of care. The nursing professionals must be able to use their intellectual ability blended with humanistic feelings to extend their services to the society. Within the demand driven health care system today, many nurses are facing challenges in achieving higher educational opportunities when adhering to their professional obligations towards the society. With the demand for qualified nurses greater than ever, those entering this field must be well educated, adaptable, technology-enabled, and act as patient advocates. Thus, this post RN degree programme in OUSL is commenced from July 1994 and is being offered to registered nurses at the request of the Ministry of Health. It is offered through the distance mode of education, similar to the post RN degrees conducted by foreign countries. This ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A group of pharmacists asked the Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday to throw out a rule that forces them to dispense emergency contraception despite moral objections, claiming it amounts to illegal coercion. Gov.

The Bishops endorsed the comments already submitted by the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference (PCC) and the Pennsylvania Catholic Health Association (PCHA) and urged others concerned about religious liberty to also voice their objections to HHS and Congress. Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., Archbishop of Philadelphia and Chairman of the PCC, said, The HHS mandate is not simply bad social policy, but precedent-setting in its disregard for conscience rights. There is no reasonable defense for a coercive approach to contraception in health insurance coverage, and Catholics need to make their opposition known firmly and immediately to the Department of Health and Human Services. ...

Some veterans return from war with physical injuries, but many also return with mental injuries. The most common, and well-known, mental anguish that veterans suffer from after returning from war is post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). But some studies are beginning to suggest that there is another mental injury that that is growing in prominence, called moral injury.. During war, military personnel are faced with many ethical and moral challenges. And although their training has prepared them for how to handle these situations, sometimes what they did, or maybe didnt do, transgresses a deeply held belief and moral opinion. After such an act, some veterans spend years torturing themselves over the act because it went against their conscience.. Unlike PTSD, which is rooted in a fear that a persons life is in danger, moral injury can result when a veteran is consumed with guilt or shame for something they did that goes against their values.. The idea has gained more attention since the Iraq and ...

The above-referenced legislation would require large group health insurance plans to cover the costs of in vitro fertilization (IVF), gamete and embryo transfers, and other assisted reproductive technologies. The New York State Catholic Conference opposes this legislation.. While the Catholic Church empathizes with childless married couples yearning for the joys of parenthood, the Conference holds grave concerns with this insurance mandate. These concerns include the legislations a) requirement for funding acts that destroy innocent human embryos, both inside and outside the womb; b) endorsement of technologies which promote the manufacture of human beings, contribute to the breakdown of family relationships, and interfere with the natural act of marital sexual intercourse; and c) lack of any conscience protection for religious employers and those with ethical objections to assisted reproductive technologies.. Destruction of Human Embryos. Many of the assisted reproductive technologies ...

Dear Abby: I am responding to Alone but Happy, who feels guilty because shes relieved following the death of her husband from a long, difficult illness.. I dont think grieving a loved ones loss before his or her death is uncommon. Ive known several people who watched loved ones wither away into helpless, needy and miserable individuals. I cant think of one who didnt feel the same as Alone but Happy.. I have begun referring to it as grieve-as-you-go guilt. A person grieves through the decline and eventual demise of a beloved mate, and when she fails to feel sadness, she substitutes guilt where she believes her grief should be. But she has been grieving all along and needs to acknowledge it. Only then will she be able to enjoy not only her clean house but also her clear conscience.. - Azy in Washington. Dear Azy: You have keen insight. Read on:. Dear Abby: Nobody knows, unless they have walked that particular path, how difficult and lonely it is to watch a spouse disappear over a long ...

A combination of historical and modern constitutional documents guarantees freedom of conscience and creed. The law provides for freedom of religious belief and the rights of all residents to join, participate in, leave, or abstain from association with any religious community. It stipulates, Duties incumbent on nationals may not be impeded by religious affiliation.. Several constitutional provisions protect religious freedom. The main pillars are historical laws on fundamental rights and freedoms, including religious freedom, and treaties and conventions such as the European Convention on Human Rights, which form part of the constitution. Antidiscrimination legislation prohibits discrimination on religious grounds. Citizens have the right to sue the government for constitutional violations of religious freedom.. The law prohibits public incitement to hostile acts against a church group, religious society, or other religious group if the incitement is perceivable by many people, which an ...

A great way to understand consciousness is to study those that increase consciousness in others.. A mother who cajoles and exchanges smiles with her baby. A teacher who transmits knowledge. A neurologist who awakens a comatose by electrostimulations. A mystic who shares holist ideas.. There are many ways to define an increase in consciousness. Is there anything in common in all these ways that helps us to understand what consciousness is fundamentally?. Each way is anchored in a different level of information. This is why the consciences they describe appear so dissimilar. The only thing in common is the actual increase in consciousness, regardless of the medium of information.. This common feature is the addition of additional levels of information. We readily call this phenomenon an enlargement of consciousness. But its more of a stack. Higher-level information synthesizes previous ones.. The baby includes more elaborate signals from the mother. The teacher allows his students to access a ...

The Unitarian Universalist Womens Federation joins Catholics for Choice and other faith based organizations in urging the Supreme Court to decide in favor of the hundreds of thousands of employees at religiously-affiliated nonprofit organizations who could be deprived of their conscience rights, religious freedom, and access to healthcare in the face of the most recent challenge to the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Zubik v. Burwell will be heard by the Supreme Court tomorrow morning.. Kirstie Lewis, president of the Unitarian Universalist Womens Federation, said Ensuring that all women, regardless of the religious convictions of their employer, have access to preventative contraceptive services is essential not only to womens health, but also rights of women - including religious liberty, equality, and economic security - fundamental values of our faith.. Zubik v. Burwell specifically targets the Affordable Care Acts requirement that employers health plans provide free contraception coverage ...

Schwartz has heard some argue that there must be a more thoughtful and nuanced version of Donald Trump that he is keeping in reserve for after the campaign. There isnt, Schwartz insists. There is no private Trump… He kept a journal in which he expressed amazement at Trumps personality, writing that Trump seemed driven entirely by a need for attention…Lying is second nature to him…More than anyone else I have ever met, Trump has the ability to convince himself that whatever he is saying at any given moment is true, or sort of true, or at least ought to be true...He lied strategically. He had a complete lack of conscience about it... Truthful hyperbole is a contradiction in terms. Its a way of saying, Its a lie, but who cares? ...

The legend of the Llorona, the crying woman, is told throughout Latin America. It is about a young mother who, abandoned by her husband, is driven mad by grief, drowns her two children in the river and kills herself. She is punished by having to haunt the earth forever after.. Jayro Bustamante, the fiery director from Guatemala who burst on the festival scene with his debut film Ixcanul (Silver Bear winner at Berlin in 2015) and the LGBT drama Tremors, in Berlin this year, brilliantly reinterprets this folktale in The Weeping Woman (La Llorona), which leaps from psychological suspense and dark horror to a wrenching cry for social justice and respect for the Mayans. Here the lady in question is a ghost who haunts the guilty conscience of former strongman Enrique Monteverde (Julio Diaz), on trial for crimes of genocide against the Mayan peasants when he was president of the country. By shifting the guilt from the innocent mother to the political powers who ordered the extermination of the ...

The Moral Responsibility of Volunteer Soldiers from Boston Review. Traditional just war theory has it wrong. Soldiers are morally culpable for fighting in unjust wars, and thus deserve the option of selective conscientious objection.

Catholic Church!. February 1, 2012. Dear Friend of Life,. At a time when youd think President Barack Obama would be trying his best to woo the crucial Catholic vote for the November election, he comes out with a doozie of a decree from the Department of Health and Human Services that will REQUIRE Catholic institutions such as hospitals, charities, and universities to PAY FOR the abortion-causing birth control pills (as well as sterilization and contraception devices) that are diametrically opposed to Catholic moral teaching!. The new decree is a direct part of ObamaCare - which Obama himself previously reassured us would respect the moral conscience of religious institutions, and never require them to do something against their beliefs or religious principles.. However, now that ObamaCare has become law and is being implemented at the real world level, it is quickly revealing its true colors.. Chief among those is the Obama Administrations obsession with abortion (and anything else ...

Since the dawn of the cinema at the turn of the 20th century, the church and its vicissitudes have been an essential part of the Hollywood story. There is a basic affinity between film and religion; both propagate values and offer visions of life that can-and often do-rival one another. For that reason, religious leaders have always been wary of Hollywoods effect on the moral and religious character of the nation and its influence around the world. The film industry evolved in tandem with the church and other social institutions as it became integrated into society as a legitimate art. Negotiations with Hollywood were complex as church leaders sought to resolve enduring tensions between profits and the public welfare, freedom and control, art and entertainment, morality and marketing.Approaches to the cinema embody deeply held religious principles held in some tension. The one stresses freedom of expression and individual conscience; the other a concern with protecting the church and the moral and

Been in command of chemical tankers (mainly) for more than 6640 days, spread over 30 years ( a world record! ) . The chemical contents are patented . This blog site will transform your mind . You yourself, are the teacher, the pupil, the messiah, the seeker, the traveller and the destination. It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to this profoundly sick society . I will be re-writing world history. Awaken your inner voice . Your own conscience is the best interpreter. In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act . The naked truth can never be hate speech or defamation. This blog site does not sacrifice truth on the altar of political correctness . Do not enter this blog site if you cannot handle the truth . Capt Ajit Vadakayil leads the only KALKI REVOLUTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS on this planet .. SHRADDHA , STRENGTH AND HONOR - ALWAYS !. Use Bing/ Yandex/ Yahoo/ DuckDuckGo search engines, not evil Google..To open blog links inside my old posts substitute DOT IN ...

The constitution bars discrimination based on religion without an acceptable reason. It stipulates freedom of religion and conscience, including the right to profess and practice a religion, to express ones convictions, and to be a member or decline to be a member of a religious community. It states no one is under the obligation to participate in the practice of a religion. The law criminalizes the breach of the sanctity of religion, which includes blaspheming against God, publicly defaming or desecrating to offend something a religious community holds sacred, and disturbing worship or funeral ceremonies. Violators are subject to fines or imprisonment for up to six months. Authorities have rarely applied the law, most recently in 2009.. The law explicitly prohibits religious discrimination and prescribes a nondiscrimination ombudsman responsible for supervising compliance with the law. The ombudsman investigates individual cases of discrimination and has the power to levy fines on ...

Been in command of chemical tankers (mainly) for more than 6640 days, spread over 30 years ( a world record! ) . The chemical contents are patented . This blog site will transform your mind . You yourself, are the teacher, the pupil, the messiah, the seeker, the traveller and the destination. It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to this profoundly sick society . I will be re-writing world history. Awaken your inner voice . Your own conscience is the best interpreter. In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act . The naked truth can never be hate speech or defamation. This blog site does not sacrifice truth on the altar of political correctness . Do not enter this blog site if you cannot handle the truth . Capt Ajit Vadakayil leads the only KALKI REVOLUTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS on this planet .. SHRADDHA , STRENGTH AND HONOR - ALWAYS !. Use Bing/ Yandex/ Yahoo/ DuckDuckGo search engines, not evil Google..To open blog links inside my old posts substitute DOT IN ...

Religious attacks on the public school system show contempt for this valuable public institution, and for the freedom of conscience and religion. Conservative cuts to the public school system, as well as promises of tax incentives for parents of children in private schools, are nothing but thinly veiled religious policies.

Though Trump tactfully thanked the evangelical and religious community, its no secret that evangelicals remain divided over the candidacy and potential presidency of Donald J. Trump.. Since last June when Trump declared his intentions to run for president, many Christian evangelicals have fervently, tirelessly, but thoughtfully explained why they, in good faith and conscience, could not, cannot, and will not support Trumps bid to be the next President of the United States (see here, here, here, here, here, and on it goes). Additionally, these and other evangelicals have religiously and ethically reasoned that all evangelicals have a moral obligation to withhold their support and vote from Donald Trump, period (here, here, here, here and here).. Though their religious counsel, shepherding, and political opinions are indeed essential, I wonder if evangelicals have spilled too much ink venting their disgust, admonishments, and doom-and-gloom prognostications against Donald Trump, his candidacy ...

In medical practice, the treatment and prognosis in the end of life has associated to ethical dilemmas, which are established in conformity with individual or collective beliefs and values. Dysthanasia from Greek, means to make death difficult, and it is currently an ethical problem with significant consequences. Considering that death itself has two moments, the process of death and the moment of death, dysthanasia is the undue prolongation of the process of death with the help of technological devices that allows the life sustaining procedures. Although it is through the technological advances that the moment of death can be delayed, it is the beliefs and values that are deep rooted in the sub conscience of the physicians that are responsible for the demeanor of end of life ethical dilemmas. Beliefs and values when encompassed in areas like phenomenology of knowledge, dialectic of technology, conflict of values and existentialism and metaphysics, can somehow explain this issue that is current,

There are three priorities. The first is the granting of the freedoms of faith, conscience, and religious denomination. Muslims living in Germany have the right to form a community and to have a mosque. This certainly involves potential conflict such as with the burqa ban, the status of women, or the circumcision issue. The second focus is family law. In cases of divorce, people in mixed religious or cultural relationships often face conflict between the applicable law and religious beliefs. The third point concerns inheritance law. This differs greatly depending on the cultural background. In Muslim law, there is no testament and last will. Men are better off than women, which is a clear violation of our principle of equality. On the other hand, even German law allows a sons preferential treatment over a daughter in a will, so we have to be careful about correcting here. A prominent example demonstrates the potential for conflict: A few years ago, an Iranian professional football player living ...

Last week, New Mexicos Supreme Court ruled that the state government can force a wedding photographer to shoot a gay wedding, even though she holds the view that marriage is between one man and one woman - and even though New Mexico doesnt perform same-sex marriages.. … Is a baby sitter still free to choose which families shell work for? Can a doctor still choose which procedures shell perform? Actually, a Michigan court has already answered that one, saying an in-vitro fertilization clinic violated a womans rights by refusing her IVF on the grounds of her being unmarried.. … This is how the culture war generally plays out these days: The Left uses government to force religious people and cultural conservatives to violate their consciences, and then cries theocracy when conservatives object. ...

By Mary Washington. The Trump administration has been marked by weekly public relations disasters and gaffes causing several people to question Presidential Donald Trumps mental stability. In an interview with Salon, Harvard psychiatrist Dr. Lance Dodes said Trump has several mental issues that make him a danger. You know, I have known lots of people like that, and none of them are as evil or dangerous as Donald Trump because they do not have the sociopathy part. They may be oriented towards themselves, they may be self-centered, they may care mostly about themselves, said Dodes. But when it comes right down to it, they have some compassion; they have a conscience. But not Donald Trump. That is the malignant part. So yes, you want to say he is narcissistic personality, yes. Malignant narcissism? Yes. Sociopathy? Yes. Antisocial personality? Yes. Paranoia? Absolutely. He is quite paranoid, but again, if you look at it from underneath, it all fits together.. Former Trump campaign operative ...

Yesterday, the Feminist Majority put out a statement against Colorados Amendment 48. Apparently, Amendment 48 would recognize the personhood of embyos. This is what the Feminist Majority had to say about that:. We want to make sure that women have more rights than an egg! Well, either their statement reflects a profound ignorance-because those of us who are pro-life do not equate eggs with embryos- or this is what they have been wanting to say all along.. With smoke and mirrors, they speak of the embryo in its pre-fertilized state so as to avoid the scientific truth we know about all embryos…that they are living human organisms. Eggs are not.. Why do they do they insist on ignoring this scientifically obvious difference? Because the Feminist Majority really does believe that grown women have more rights than smaller humans, and that this goes against the conscience of the majority of Americans. It is necessary to their agenda to obfuscate this issue because an egg with moral worth is not an ...

Introduction. Work Cited Sophocles. Antigone. Trans. Richard Emil Braun. Oxford University Press. 1973. Antigone and Kreon The accepted wisdom of a culture is most accurately, and most often, reflected in the constructive efforts of its general population. Most artisans, authors and historians of Ancient Greece, for example, convey in their art and literature is the norms of everyday life in Ancient Greece. The play Antigone by Sophocles is one of the most distinguished pieces of theatrical work that reflects upon Greek mythology and culture. Antigone has several themes and circumstantial settings that can be indirectly referred or related to in modern society. Sophocles uses various and strategically placed characters to present his play as well as his themes. Sophocles develops a character in his play Antigone that is the definition of brave and courageous. ...read more. Middle. Antigone is portrayed as a woman acting out of obligation and duty, to the gods, her family, and her conscience. She ...

We believe that it is important that parents and the school work together to assist our students in developing and demonstrating the following desirable characteristics:. Ethical/moral characteristics: empathy, kindness, conscience, fairness/justice, tolerance, honesty, tolerance, forgiveness, commitment to democratic ideals, loyalty, respect, responsibility.. Intellectual characteristics: open-mindedness, critical thinking, intellectual curiosity, creativity, pursuit of excellence, appreciation.. Social/personal characteristics: cooperation, acceptance, conservation, industriousness, self-control, image of strong self-worth, perseverance, neatness, attentiveness, unselfishness.. The school will demonstrate and model the above characteristics when dealing with students, parents/guardians, community members and colleagues.. The school also recognizes that students and their parents are our primary clients. This recognition will see the school:. ...

Love - I dont like Hawkins label love here because this isnt the emotion of love. Its unconditional love, a permanent understanding of your connectedness with all that exists. Think compassion. At the level of reason, you live in service to your head. But that eventually becomes a dead end where you fall into the trap of over-intellectualizing. You see that you need a bigger context than just thinking for its own sake. At the level of love, you now place your head and all your other talents and abilities in service to your heart (not your emotions, but your greater sense of right and wrong - your conscience). I see this as the level of awakening to your true purpose. Your motives at this level are pure and uncorrupted by the desires of the ego. This is the level of lifetime service to humanity. Think Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Dr. Albert Schweitzer. At this level you also begin to be guided by a force greater than yourself. Its a feeling of letting go. Your intuition becomes extremely strong. ...

Congress has accommodated, to the extent compatible with a comprehensive national program, the practices of those who believe it a violation of their faith to participate in the social security system. In § 1402(g), Congress granted an exemption, on religious grounds, to self-employed Amish and others. [Footnote 11] Confining the § 1402(g) exemption to the self-employed Page 455 U. S. 261. provided for a narrow category which was readily identifiable. Self-employed persons in a religious community having its own welfare system are distinguishable from the generality of wage earners employed by others.. Congress and the courts have been sensitive to the needs flowing from the Free Exercise Clause, but every person cannot be shielded from all the burdens incident to exercising every aspect of the right to practice religious beliefs. When followers of a particular sect enter into commercial activity as a matter of choice, the limits they accept on their own conduct as a matter of conscience and ...

The Saint Louis University Athletic Training Program is committed to the professional preparation of skilled, compassionate and confident entry-level athletic trainers who contribute to society as clinicians, professionals, and scholars. We build on SLUs Jesuit educational tradition of to form health care professionals of competence, conscience and compassionate commitment. SLU AT Program faculty, staff, students and graduates will strive to promote optimal health and wellness and advocate for their respective communities ...

The measure would amend President Obamas Affordable Care Act to reflect the Hyde amendment by prohibiting taxpayer dollars from funding any health plan that includes coverage of elective abortions. The measure retains Hydes exception for abortions performed due to the childs conception in rape or incest or to save the mothers life.. The bill also makes clear that no health insurance carrier may be forced to provide coverage of abortion in any of its health plans, and strengthens the conscience rights of health care workers and institutions to reject abortion training, procedures, or referrals. ...