...Is believing in something better then knowing the truth? As a citizen within society, one is exposed to all different types of conspiracies and many believe they are true. In reality though, many conspiracies are just myths that no one wants to see them as. It is kind of like feeling secure knowing what they think is true whether it is or not. A common conspiracy known around the world is the one about Santa Claus. Many children grow up believing that this man delivers gifts to everyone around world. When children realize Santa is not real, they do not seem to want to believe that. When I was younger, I did not want to believe that just because I knew Santa brought expensive gifts and never wanted that to end. Once a child discovers santa is not real, the ipod turns into a pair of socks. Knowing Santa is not real not only ruins the type of gifts, but also the christmas spirit....
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... In a military environment following orders is essentially the top priority. Insubordination is generally defined as a willful or intentional failure to obey a lawful and reasonable request of a supervisor.1 Following orders shows that the organization is well structured and disciplined. Sometimes though an order comes down from above that you may feel is not ethical or it goes against your standard thought of what is right or wrong. Here I plan to discuss my thoughts on this topic as well as supporting my claim that through the use of utilitarianism, a solution to this issue could be reached. In the recent past the image of our military has been tarnished in perspective of the public eye as a result of some officers not following ethical conduct of the force. They believe that their thoughts and ideas about what can come from their orders are the only thing that matters and what you feel shouldn’t matter because you are a subordinate and should follow orders. With that said I believe that there should be an ethical process involved when making certain decisions. I also believe that all subordinates should let their superiors know what they think of certain common situations so there is no need to question someone’s ethics when there isn’t time to do so. In the civilian workforce people are ordered by their boss do take part in unethical practices all the time. A lot of the time these people obey the order because they are in fear of losing their job or some other repercussion...
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...Beliefs – Journal In this lesson we talked about a different way of knowing being beliefs. Are beliefs a way of knowing? Our teacher came into our classroom claiming that she was god. She then asked us to prove to her that what she’s saying isn’t true. Everything we would say that proves she is not god would only backfire with a counter claim making us realize that the only thing allowing us to believe what she is saying is false are our beliefs that god isn’t one of us humans down here on earth and he doesn’t show himself to us. A belief is trust, faith, or confidence in someone or something. An acceptance that a statement is true or that something exists. Paradigms are a group of beliefs they are a set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality for the community that shares them. Our beliefs affect our paradigms. For example a paradigm can be that all Arabs are terrorists this is a well known paradigm however I am an Arab that believes in peace and in god therefore my beliefs here are affecting the paradigm. Beliefs are a way of knowing to some extent, for example I believe in god because I believe in him I know that he exists none the less you can you know without believing? Yes you can, a good example on this is a nervous student who has a history exam was taught that the Battle of Hastings took place in 1066. In the exam this is a question that comes in the test and the student writes in the correct answer 1066 He...
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...Running head: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF OPEN THEISM An Analysis of the Open Theist Views Donell Winder Baptist Bible College Authors Note This paper was prepared for Survey of Doctrine TH517, taught by Professor David Mappes. A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF OPEN THEISM Abstract God is all knowing, unchanging, and all powerful. These are beliefs that are taught in the doctrine of God. These are beliefs that Christians live by and pass on to their friends and families. The Open Theist have come to challenge those beliefs. They argue God literally changes his mind, continues to learn, and is even said to take risks, (Sanders, 1998). The Open Theists are trying to challenge the Doctrine of God. This paper will dispute these beliefs and use evidence of scripture to prove that these arguments are invalid. Revelations 22:18-19 states,” 18 I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues which are written in this book; 19 and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the tree of...
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... How would other people describe you? To better understand how a person as to how they see themselves and the perception as to give a more in depth view of a person personality, when referring to references you are able to match the information to see if it is accurate. Determine if a person is honest about themselves. What are your Humans Resources Interview Questions How will this position in Human Resources be beneficial for you? And how will this position be helpful for you for future references? Knowing how beneficial the position is, basically tells employers how badly they want the opportunity with ATHA Corporation. Also, determines how they impact employment within this organization purposely trying to see if they are here for the money or to help with regaining a sustainable. What do you believe is the importance of Human Resources for ATHA? And how could be helpful to this corporation? This is to see how a possible employee views the ATHA Corporation, determining how they can help lead and prosper with the organization. What types of experience have you overcome within this department of work? Also, Explain how important this position is to you. By knowing what previous employment and gaining background on a person, also providing employer information on how much an employee already knows about this department. What are you future plans if hired for this position? Do you believe that ATHA would be long term for you if considered in this position or...
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...Religion has this ideology of a God who is all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-good. But, the biggest issue with this is whether or not he really exist due to the problem that there is evil in the world. A philosopher who argued this was Simon Blackburn. I argue Blackburn is right to claim that the existence of evil strongly suggests that a God who is all-good, all-knowing and all-powerful doesn't exist. Blackburn claimed that the existence of evil strongly suggests that there does not exist a God who is all-good, all-knowing and all-powerful. He wrote the book entitled “God” and in chapter five under on the section entitled “Problem of Evil”, he spoke about how in religion that God created everything meaning the good and the bad. He supported...
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...achieve. Regarding the factors that are critical to successful and effective negotiation per the checklist is setting clear objectives for what needs to be achieved and resolved. Just like many other things in life establishing clear goals helps to understand what you need, where you want to be and what the desired outcome is. Without knowing what you want to accomplish and what you would like the desired outcome to be, negotiation is obscure and unclear. Although setting goals and objectives for a negotiation checklist is an obvious consideration, it nevertheless, is extremely critical to understand what you’re trying to accomplish in a negotiation and is the foundation in which everything else follows. Another very important factor that goes hand in hand with establishing objectives for negotiating is what the issues are that needs to be resolved. Knowing what you’re trying to accomplish and what specific issues need resolved is crucial to effective negotiating. Again, knowing exactly what needs negotiated and resolved is an obvious answer, however, it is very important to have specific issues addressed. This will help to eliminate any misunderstandings and will also help to keep the involved parties more informed and comfortable in what items need addressed. Another very important consideration that can easily be overlooked is what the limits to the other party’s authority are. Most everybody has experienced a situation in which a problem was attempted to be resolved by...
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...fully appreciate Plato's ideas and viewpoint, it is important to understand his contributions to rationalism and his perception of human knowing. It is also essential to know and appreciate how his Allegory of the Cave depicts rationalism and human knowing, and parallels Christian thought. Finally, comparing and contrasting Plato’s worldview with that of his students Aristotle will provide a broader understanding of rationalism and human knowing, and Plato’s allegory. Plato made many important contributions to philosophy as well as to the rationalist tradition. Rationalism is the philosophy that knowledge is acquired by reason without resort to experience (Princeton, n.d.). The first thing Plato taught was that our concepts and knowledge are gained independently of sense experience (Stanford, 2004). This teaching does not resonate with me, and I believe that while this may apply to some people, it does not apply to everyone—including myself. The second element he argued is that reason is superior to sense perception because sensation is incapable of providing the necessary elements which are present in knowledge (Nash, 1999). I partially agree with the reasoning of this element; however, I do believe that intuition—a sensory experience—can trump knowledge at times. Sometimes you may not have the knowledge to understand a situation, but you have the feeling that something is awry. In my opinion, this is an example of sense experience providing knowledge. Plato’s philosophy of...
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...from and depends upon the interaction with others. We simply cannot have knowledge if you are isolated from others. Take the example that you are alone, in a room, with no windows. In this situation the person in the room cannot possibly have any understanding of the outside world. They would also not know the most basic of information. Would one know that one was human or that there are other people beside oneself out there? How would one also think of things if there were no former knowledge of language? The person in the above example can be thought of as one of the humans that are living in the underground cave in the article that I have previously read titled, “The Allegory of the Cave.” Both the person in the room and the human in the cave have no prior knowledge of the outside world. Though the human has seen shadow, heard voices, and has had some interaction with others, he still does not know whether the things that he has seen or heard are in fact true. The person in the room does not have the luxury to leave the room like the human in the cave did to explore the world. Because the human was able to leave the cave, he gained new knowledge and learned that his previous knowledge was not correct. A way that we can gain knowledge from the interaction of others is through our parents or peers. As we are growing up, our parents help us gain knowledge of the world by telling us what things are. They pass on the knowledge that they have gained onto us. They also provide...
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...prisoners that are chained down in a dark cave. What they are prisoned for who knows, but they have been prisoner's to this dark cave since they can remember. The only light visible to them is at the mouth of the cave. The prisoner's of the cave are Plato's analogy of uneducated people who lack common sense. People who live in a world of imagination and illusion, not knowing what's real and what isn't. What Plato states as the, “ignorance of our human conditions”. Outside the cave are the people of knowledge. The people who live in the light, or the enlightened people. When Plato speaks of the cave and the people dwelling in it, it makes me think of our world now and the people I believe to be stuck in a “cave”, whereas that cave is a...
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...working closely with others. Lastly the website defines social as occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others. As determined by the website I would work well in sales, food and service working. This exercise may have proven accurate for some but highly off based for myself. I have no interest in working in a food industry or in a social setting. I believe the questions and results weren’t accurate to say the least. I will not be using this career planner. The questions that were presented to us are: discuss the ways in which understanding your personal competencies will help you to improve your critical thinking skills, and how can knowing your competencies help you to evaluate arguments? On a positive note I do believe the competencies activity was very accurate. I say this because I’m aware of my incompetency’s and my strengths and weaknesses. The result of the activity was remarkable because I feel to believe that it was spot on. I think that it is very important for a person to know their incompetency’s...
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... 2. Does Enterprise face any risks from its HR strategy? b. Of course Enterprise faces risks from its HR strategy, as well as any other industry hiring brand new employees. There is always the struggle of teaching new employees the rules and strategies of the industry they are working for. They have to go through a training session to tell them what is expected of them and how they should go about doing their job. One good thing to note about Enterprise’s HR strategy is that they like to hire former athletes and former people who have been in a club of some sort so that they at least know they are hiring someone who has been dedicated to something at some point, and hopefully they can be just as dedicated to their job. 3. Would you want to work for Enterprise? Why or why not? c. Personally, I wouldn’t see myself working for Enterprise. Knowing I went to school and took the time to earn my degree, as well as spending money in the process, I can’t see myself wasting what I earned on cleaning cars as a job. I understand it would be a job right out of college and I would be making some kind of money but I believe I worked too hard in school...
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...Epistemology: How do we know what is true? Aleisha Roche 11/9/12 Empirist those of the philosophers who believe that it is not rationalism but your senses that tell us the truth about knowledge. Philosophy could be something no one, not even philosophers, could actually agree on how to view life. Philosophy is divided into multiple branches and Epistemology deals with the “theory of knowledge.” A philosopher’s job is to figure out what is truth, weather relevant or irrelevant and discover how it is that we know something and if it is true. Epistemology of Philosophy shows how truth fits into life. We will be looking into the Western and Asian views on truth from Aristotle to Plato to Kant. This philosopher is known for his study of matter being reality. Plato’s epistemology is that we can have guiene knowledge only on things that are perfect and unchanging. We have knowledge about the forms, but not the material things. Beliefs and opinions are the only thing we can have in a material world. Plato says that before we are born our souls live in a realm of the forms and have complete knowledge of the form but we don’t realize it. We can only recall when in difficulty. Now this philosopher’s theory is the view that all Knowledge originates from experience bases his study on question and answer. Aristotle believes that the object of real existence is the ones that we encounter through our sense perception. Humans, according to Aristotle, do not acquire knowledge all...
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...making it a mistake toward a patient. Culture is a very important no matter what you. Dealing with patient that has a different belief, different background it is hard Finding ways to learn about the culture that is out there, specially the ones that the clinician has to see. To know their beliefs and the culture before the clinician makes a mistake. Some patients just listen to you, but they want to believe in what they want to believe. To support this group I would have to learn about the different culture that is out there before getting to work. As a hispanic person I can relate my culture with them, but not with the others culture. Making sure that I have the courage to ask about their culture before making a step. Also, making sure that it is ok to ask without having a difficult misunderstanding between myself and the patient. Throughout this there were be a lot of challenges that I am going to have to face it, Someone of them are knowing that there culture can affect my work, knowing that some of their culture don’t allow you to touch them, to hold there hand, some can be as I am been a woman, not taking the medications that the patient has to take. Before this all happens, making sure that I know about their culture and what their beliefs are. My expectations toward this groups are to make them feel comfortable with me, making sure that I learn all about their culture and their beliefs. Knowing that sometimes I can not make sense to this group. I will be there to help...
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...Pursuit of Interpersonal Communication Pursuit of Interpersonal Communication Interpersonal communication is a very vital part of everybody’s life and success. This is because in our everyday lives, we communicate with people directly even if we do not want to. It was said by Confucius “Tell me and I’ll forget. Show me and I’ll remember. Involve me and I’ll understand.” This is very true because people tend to forget things that they are not interested in. So if your interpersonal communication is good, they will be more interested in the conversation and will recall that information more precisely. For this reason, interpersonal communication has been studied and perspectives or views have been made to distinguish whether certain communication is considered interpersonal. One of the earlier perspectives that were created is called the situational perspective. The situational perspective is a view that communication between people is interpersonal depending on the factors that are distinct to certain situations. There are five factors or characteristics that make communication interpersonal in the situational perspective. These factors are small number of communicators, in close proximity, maximum sensory inputs, no intermediaries, and immediate feedback. Small number of communicators means that there cannot be a lot of people involved in the communication. Usually two or three people are the norm for interpersonal communication in this perspective. Other...
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