...reasoning (crash course). A thing is moral because it a right thing to do - the existence of itself is already consider good - , not because it has a good consequence. As an alternative way to put this, if a thing is acknowledged as rationally good, it is moral. So how do we know it is rationally good like Kant said? I will discuss about it later on. But first, you have to know why we must live according to that moral law. Can’t we do the bad thing if we want? Agreeing with Kant’s argument, we can’t, it is our duty to fulfil it. He reasoned all living thing ( except human ) always act...
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...My Personal Philosophy Essay People develop and shape their personal philosophy during the whole life. Some circumstances may radically change our views, depending on our age, social status and personal qualities. As for me, at this stage of my life I can’t say it for sure that my personal philosophy is complete and well-shaped. In my research paper I want to express my views on several sides of human life. I’d like to attract attention to such concepts as sense of life and happiness, good and evil, morality and faith in God, love and death, eternal life values, karma and religion. I’ll answer the questions what love and happiness mean for me personally. I understand that the concept of life philosophy is really versatile and it’s hard to express personal views on so many aspects. That’s why my research deals with only those things which are important for me at this stage of my life. If you look at life from different sides for some period of time, and then gather all your thoughts into one picture – that would be your life philosophy. Humans strive to find out and clearly define the sense of their living, and feel unhappy and desperate without it. Each person has his own sense of life and discovers it for himself only. There are people who live their lives without asking what they are living for. Personally I have always been concerned with this question and I think it is important to have at least some slightest peace of sense in life. Sometimes I feel myself broken and empty...
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...will chat. Man: I do pray. Just makes me feel good. I am actually busy now. I am in the midst of something. Jesus: What are you busy at? Ants are busy too. Man: Don’t know. But I can’t find free time. Life has become hectic. It’s rush hour all the time. Jesus: Sure. Activity gets you busy. But productivity gets you results. Activity consumes time. Productivity frees it. Man: I understand. But I still can’t figure out. By the way, I was not expecting YOU to buzz me on instant messaging chat. Jesus: Well I wanted to resolve your fight for time, by giving you some clarity. In this net era, I wanted to reach you through the medium you are comfortable with. Man: Tell me, why has life become complicated now? Jesus: Stop analyzing life. Just live it. Analysis is what makes it complicated. Man: why are we then constantly unhappy? Jesus: Your today is the tomorrow that you worried about yesterday. You are worrying because you are analyzing. Worrying has become your habit. That’s why you are not happy. Man: But how can we not worry when there is so much uncertainty? Jesus: Uncertainty is inevitable, but worrying is optional. Man: But then, there is so much pain due to uncertainty. Jesus: Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional. Man: If suffering is optional, why do good people always suffer? Jesus: Diamond cannot be polished without friction. Gold cannot be purified without fire. Good people go through trials, but don’t suffer. With...
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...Humans are knowledge seekers and become more atoned to seeking that knowledge as we humans become more intellectual and gain depth into the fields we study. Should we look at this as a gift or a curse? The authors Ehrman and Stackhouse, authors with great resumes in the faith and in scholarly subjects of religion, tackle the subject of an all-powerful and good God with depth. The way they deal with this controversial question is through the concept of suffering and how they can use suffering to explain this question. Not only do they ask questions that common people don’t ask, but they also answer these question through the lens of many types of religion and explanation. They have their opinion and also arguments to both sides of the points they illustrate. They were concerned more with opening every door available and letting the reader decide which path they would like to take as far as investigation or their opinions with the topic. Besides that, it was clear that Ehrman was not in favor of an all-powerful and good God and that suffering proves that while Stackhouse was. Ehrman, a man who previously served the lord but changed his ways, makes the case through suffering that a good, powerful God does not exist. He starts off by saying that God brought Jesus to our world in a point of darkness or sin. (7) Why doesn’t God come into our world again? There had been many tragedies after Christ and we can sure use guidance to help with the new sufferings. Using the fact that God...
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...I don't think that we should be forced to do 100 hours of community service. Maybe fewer hours or not having to do it at all just a choice if we want to, I don't think they should tell us we won't be able to graduate if we don't get those 100 done. Here are some reasons on why we should have to do community service, Some high schoolers have jobs that take up their afternoon and sometimes the weekends,Some of the students can't drive yet so there parents would have to take them and some parents work and don't have time to take them for 3 hours or more than that come back and pick them up repeatedly, and finally other students have younger siblings they have to take care of or go pick up from schools. There are my three reasons on why we should...
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...Pearl Sold to the Devils for Gold CHARACTERS * JOHN, right eye-blind boy, Paul’s almost little brother * PAUL, left leg-amputated boy, John’s almost big brother * BOSS, syndicate’s leader * SYNDICATE 1/ DOMINIQUE * SYNDICATE 2 * WAITRESS * BOY THIEF * POLICEMAN SCENE ONE Mid-morning, at the street SYNDICATE 1: I think were lucky today! SYNDICATE 2: Why? What’s the reason? SYNDICATE 1: See that kid….Standing near the store. SYNDICATE 2: Yeah! Yeah! I got you. [Syndicate 1 approaches the kid] SYNDICATE 1: Hey there kid! What’s your name? JOHN: I’m John. SYNDICATE 1: How old are you? JOHN: I’m six years old. SYNDICATE 1: Why are you alone? Where are your parents? JOHN: I lost them two years ago. SYNDICATE 1: What happened? JOHN: I can’t remember anything. SYNDICATE: Don’t you have any relatives or friends here? JOHN: I don’t have friends. SYNDICATE 1: Why? You know what, friends give each other gifts. JOHN: Like what? SYNDICATE 1: Like chocolates. Do you want some? JOHN: Uhuh… SYNDICATE 1: Does it taste good? I have more chocolates do you want some more? JOHN: You have more? Do you have lots of it in your pocket? SYNDICATE 1: Yes! But a friend of mine has lots of it in his house. JOHN: Really? She must be rich! How lucky, I wish I was like her…rich… eating all those chocolates. SYNDICATE 1: I’ll introduce you to her. Don’t be afraid, she’s friendly especially to kids who are lonely like you. JOHN: You think so...
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...When I heard of the word Ecology, I can’t help myself to visualize and wonder how God created the Universe. My idea of God creation of course, is the one that I read in the bible, book of Genesis. The Earth was formless and desolate. Total darkness and the power of God are moving over the water. With his command, everything appeared. Then we have the day and night. Then, He divides the water and keep it in two separate places, and so on and so forth. He created every single thing that man will need of, for its survival. At my young age, I have a lot of question: Why the earth is round? Why is the sky so high and why man can’t reach it? Why there is land, mountains, seas, rainbows, trees, and grass and animals and flowers and fruits? Why God created all these? I know very well that God made us human the highest form of animal, thus protector of all His creation. It is now our obligation to do protect all that he created. How can we do that? What is the power of man that God has given to protect his creation? Do we really have to be concern about God’s creation? Do we really have to care for our Land, Water, and Air? How do these creations affect us Human? Maybe this time we have stop, and think. They say ecology is the scientific study of interactions of organism with one another and with the physical and chemical environment. How do we people interact with these organisms? It seems so simple, but it’s not. Interactions, there is a relationship, right...
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...Dreaming of you every night Thinking of what you're doing right now You are my world The feeling that can't hide anymore I care for you because you are my life YOU'RE GONE The selfish me, who thought only myself The heartless me, who didn't know your feelings The foolish me, who always hurt you The worthless me, who didn't deserve your love Could I stop the time and go back to the past To see the things that I'm seeking for Could I change the time and return to that place To hear the whisper that I'm listening for I couldn't believe that I'm already changed for you Now I'm ready to fall in love with you I want to make you happy and to see you're smiling To show you how much I appreciate your love But I was too late to do what's right Why I'm such a fool for not recognizing you I was wrong to hurt you that way Give me one more chance to erase the bad memories of me When my heart finally start to beats for you Now you're gone and nothing is left Come back to me, I can't face my life now It's hard to live now without you GET OVER YOU Don't say a word that cause you to hurt me Don't say a phrase that couldn't be true I want to stay into this moment even though I knew this was a fantasy I want to stay with you even its cause me to be miserably I don't know why I can't leave you, what am I supposed to do? I don't know why you can leave without me, should I let you go? Back to the time, I don't know you...
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...Why can’t we just be friends It was the spring of 2015. Fifteen year old Zenda and Wendi were walking along the beach in Sydney, Australia looking for a good spot to spend the day. Once they found a spot, they began to unpack their towels, sunscreen and the volleyball for the day. Once they both are unpacked they agree to tan for about 30 minutes. While they are tanning, Zenda smells hot dogs. Zenda tells Wendi, “Dude! We should go get some hot dogs when we finish tanning.” “But Zenda, i want to go swim when we finish tanning. Can’t you wait like an hour and a half?” said Wendi “No, I didn’t eat before we came” said Zenda "Please??????" "No it's not my fault you didn't eat before you came. I told you to eat before we left." said Wendi “I know but i thought i could get away with it. But obviously not.” “You know sometimes i wish i could see thing from your point of view, but i can’t get my head that far up my ass.” Said Wendi “My head is not up my ass, but your head is up your ass.” said Zenda Wendi did NOT like that remark once so ever. “Can’t we just work this out the proper way and talk like normal human beings?” said Zenda “NO!!!!” said Wendi “I HATE YOU” “WHY JUST BECAUSE I WANT TO EAT BEFORE WE GO SWIMMING?” said Zenda “Why can’t we just be friends and work through this?” “NO, I’m going swimming.” “Fine then i’ll go get myself some food” said Zenda “Actually you know what, Zenda?” “What Wendi?” “Why don’t you go and your food and ill tan for a...
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...Trust Start with Why – Simon Sinek If a company mistreats their people, just watch how the employees treat their customers. Mud rolls down a hill, and if you’re the one standing at the bottom, you get hit with the full brunt. In a company, that’s usually the customer. EX: Continental Airlines -crummy place to work in 1994. “surly to costumers, surly to each other, and ashamed of their company. And you can’t have a good product without people who like coming to work. It just can’t be done,” he recounts. Continental going through hard time: Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection 2x in eight years. 1983 and 1991. 10 different CEOs. Lost 600 million and ranked last in every performance category. Bethune arrives and makes $250 million and was ranked as one of the best companies to work for in America. Made changes to improve operations, but biggest gain was impossible to measure: TRUST!!! Trust emerges because executive promises change. Trust is not a checklist. Fulfilling all your responsibilities does not create trust. Trust is a feeling, not a rational experience. Trust begins to emerge when we have a sense that another person or organization is driven by things other than their own self-gain. Trust - sense of value, real value Value is the transference of trust - Can’t convince someone you have value, just as you can’t convince someone to trust. - Have to earn trust by communicating and demonstrating that you share same values and beliefs. - WHY is just a belief ...
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...and Li Shang asked the king to spare her life for disguising herself as a soldier. In time, they fell in love with each other, got married and lived happily hereafter. Scene I Narrator: Long time age, ther was a war in China….. 德首: Get out. The land doesn’t belong to you. 土酋: Your land?……Hey , he says this is his land. 土酋: We just get our land back. 德首: Go to hell, you barbarians. 土酋: Attack! 德首: Fire! Kill them all. 德首: Just wait and see. My son, Li Shang, will revenge himeself on you. 路人甲: Your majesty, we are losing. What can we do? 陛下: Even if the odds are against us, we must keep going on. Now, what we can do is recruit soldiers. 使者: Pat…….Ouch, what are you doing? Are you Pat? Pat: Yes. 使者: O.K. I am the messenger from our great general, Li Shang. This letter is confidential. Please read it carefully. Mulan: What’s up? Daddy, you look so pale, Pat: Nothing…. Mulan: Look! Pat: What…… Mulan: My father is dying. My brother is too young. What can I do? 路人甲乙丙丁: What can she do? Mulan: What can I do? Voice: You can go to the army instead of your father. Mulan: But I’m a girl. Voice: Why not? You look like a man. Mulan:...
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...1 What would a good answer to this question - call it (WK) - look like? What I’m going to call the standard analytic approach (SA) says that: A) The way to answer WK is to analyse the concept of knowledge. B) To analyse the concept of knowledge is to come up with non-circular necessary and sufficient conditions for someone to know that something is the case. Is the standard analytic approach to WK the right approach? If not, what would be a better way of doing things? These are the questions I’m going to tackle here. I want to look at some criticisms of SA and consider the prospects for a different, non-standard analytic approach (NA) to WK. Here is one objection to SA: the concept of knowledge can’t be analysed, at least if analysis is understood in the way that (B) understands it.[i] (B) assumes a reductive conception of analysis, according to which analysing a concept is a matter of breaking it down into more basic concepts. Let’s say that a concept C1 is more basic than another concept C2 just if one can grasp C1 without grasping C2 but one can’t grasp C2 without grasping C1. Proponents of SA tend to assume that concepts like truth, belief, and justification are in this sense more basic than the concept knows and that that is why they can be used to specify non-circular necessary and sufficient conditions for knowing. If it turns out that such conditions can’t be given, and therefore that the concept of knowledge can’t be analysed, the net result...
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...Master Marner: as,if them above had done the right thing by you, They’d never ha’let you b turned out for a wicked thief when you was innocent. Chapter 16. -Dolly was talking to Silas how this and she was wondering why do bad things happen to good people. -in the novel we see how a lot of bad things happened to Silas on top of each of other but a good thing came along as well -molly Answers her question about evil by saying that we must trust in the Lord and everything happens for a reason…we can’t really ask God why certain things happen to us in our lives. -if slias didn’t get blamed….. - I agree with Dolly and I have always wondered why Christians suffer more than non-Christians -we see this in the World today everywhere- All the disciples suffered painful deaths. -In the Middle East we see how they are killing many Christians. In Africa we see how Christians are being attacked, kidnapped by their non-Christians neighbours. -but we see how people who curse God everyday live a prosper life. Why does this happen!!!? 1 john 1:13 (don’t be surprised if the World hates you) A roman 8 – For the suffering of this present time is not even worth comparing to the glory that is to be revealed to us. Why me?? What is God doing? We can’t ask God why! We are the clay and the lord is the...
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... How Good is Good? Little Johnny was the terror of the neighborhood. In one day, he broke the neighbor’s window with a baseball; slid a tree limb alongside Dad’s new car, scratching the paint; spilled Kool-Aid on Mom’s new sofa, redesigning the floral pattern; and shattered that crystal lamp in the den as he tripped over the cord, chasing the dog to put it in the washing machine. Exasperated, his Mom cried out... “Johnny, why can’t you be good?” Johnny, eyes tearing up, face downcast, whimpered. “Mommy,” he answered, “if I break one less thing tomorrow, will I be gooder?” Do we know what good means to us ? Are you only “good” when you’re perfect? How good do you have to be, not to be bad? Or how bad do you have to be, not to be good? And where is the justice in it all? Why are some criminals in jail for stealing a car, while others are Scot free, who murdered and raped? When is good, good enough? Who knows what good is? Do you? We say a meal is “good” when it tastes good, but someone else may hate it. We say a ball game is “good” when our team wins, but it wasn’t “good” for the other guys. We say a car is “good” when it doesn’t break down. We say a book is “good” when it keeps our attention. We say it’s been a “good” day, when not too many catastrophes have occurred or we haven’t received the 10th phone call or facebook message from a guy or girl who likes us but we don’t like them. The goodness of God In Matthew chapter 19, verses 16-17, we read: “Another...
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...The Hike to $15 America, the land of freedom and opportunity they say. I think that saying might just be false with the way our nation is today. The main reason I believe being that the federal minimum wage is too low. Minimum wage should be $15 in every state. If we want people to experience the freedom and opportunity, it can’t be done off $7.25. People have kids to provide for, colleges to attend, families to support, and so many more things. The luxury to afford to have all the “freedom” or “opportunity” the rich may have isn’t plausible for minimum wage workers. Every morning these people wake up and questions whether they have enough money for food or housing for example. Robert Reich, an American political economist, professor, author, and political commentator, made some good points on this issue. Reich also believes that the minimum wage should be $15 an hour. We both agree with federal minimum wage being hiked to $15 an hour. My reason as to why I agree with him being that Reich gives 7 very valid reasons as to why the raise should occur. The benefit over time would be well worth it. Congress instituted the minimum wage in 1938 as part of the Fair Labor Standards Act (DOL). The first minimum wage that was established was 25 cents an hour (James). The last minimum wage increase occurred in 2009, when Congress raised the rate to $7.25 an hour (AFL). The District of Columbia and 19 states have also established local minimum wages higher than the federal rate (AFL)...
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