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10 – Behavior | Essays, The Book
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Essays, The Book. 10 – Behavior. October 12, 2009 at 12:32 am Posted in 10 - Behavior. Over my years of living I learned to behave in those ways I found most beneficial and satisfying. I emulated the ways my parents behaved, the ways people I admired behaved, and I made use of those qualities and characteristics that I came by naturally. Before I knew it, with no conscious effort on my part, I evolved this me-ness , my way of doing things, my behavior. All behavior is unique en toto, yet it fits patterns...
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06-Human Growth | Essays, The Book
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Essays, The Book. October 12, 2009 at 12:21 am Posted in 06 - Human Growth. Older people have more experience with the ups and downs of satisfaction and happiness. They settle rather than struggle. They gain in judgement and invulnerability, even as they lose measure and quality of physical energy. The young have more natural passion, more enthusiasm, and more energy for adventure and experimentation. Commonly, the young search for meaning, purpose and identity. Older people have usually found as muc...
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02-Death | Essays, The Book
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Essays, The Book. October 12, 2009 at 12:13 am Posted in 02 - Death. We really don’t know what death will be like. All the faith in the world will not guarantee that what you believe death will be is what it actually is. That’s a fact. People die, and you can think about death from waking til sleep. But those who die never come back to tell you what it was like. We arrive in life to our surprise. Then we leave life begging for more time, not fully accepting ashes to ashes and dust to dust, the end. The b...
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05-Justice | Essays, The Book
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Essays, The Book. October 12, 2009 at 12:18 am Posted in 05 - Justice. The theory of justice aside, we expect our institutions of justice to apply justice fairly and equally throughout society. Unfortunately, since members of society are not perfectly equal, some people receive fairer justice than others. People who best understand the system, who know how to manipulate it, who obtain position and power, can get a better response from the system. This will probably always be true. Not Guilty, Your Honor.
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04-Truth | Essays, The Book
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Essays, The Book. October 12, 2009 at 12:16 am Posted in 04 - Truth. There is partisan truth, that is, things which are true for some but not for others. Various religious, ethical and political beliefs become absolute truth in the minds of their believers. Others deny such truths, or declare them relative, not absolute. The passion and commitment some hold toward their beliefs can become a threat to non-believers, as believers attempt to actually enforce these beliefs. And that’s the truth!
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07 – Religion | Essays, The Book
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Essays, The Book. 07 – Religion. October 12, 2009 at 12:23 am Posted in 07 - Religion. My choices in this essay involving capitalization of the word God/god, were in subtle ways politically motivated. And the fact that my positions about religion are philosophical, objective and investigatory, casts me as non-believer in the eyes of believers, and as believer in the eyes of some non-believers. In life, we spend a majority of our time dealing with the reality we see — mundane reality with no visible.
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08 – Courage and Fear | Essays, The Book
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Essays, The Book. 08 – Courage and Fear. October 12, 2009 at 12:25 am Posted in 08 - Courage and Fear. 8 courage and fear. It’s not clear why courage is one of life’s realities. The powers that be could have made courage irrelevant. Then, perhaps more importantly, we would no longer have to tolerate our fears. In this way, fear is ultimately irrational, and Mr. Roosevelt’s maxim holds true. Fear invariably exaggerates, and almost always disappears once we envision possible continuations....You are com...
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03-Love | Essays, The Book
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Essays, The Book. October 12, 2009 at 12:15 am Posted in 03 - Love. We love our children, we love our parents, we love our friends. Love is the substance of our relationships. Our happiness is directly related to the love we give and receive. Love is human togetherness. On one level, we love everyone. But we give love in degrees. We love some more than others, and we love some romantically, suspending those criteria by which we assess the humanity of others. Throughout most of the world, peop...Yet even ...