Tag: conscience
member name: Sylvester Steffen
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August 27, 2006 06:03 AM EDT --
In the face of doubt it is sometimes said, "I am of two minds on this". The recognition of two minds makes communication and the discovery of newness possible. With respect . . . more
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March 16, 2007 12:45 PM EDT --
“Absolute" truth is an understanding I would think people might apply, and properly so, to the sanctity of life and the obligation of everyone to be “pro-life”. Commonsense would . . . more
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September 30, 2006 04:59 AM EDT --
As an involved observer I've come to believe that institutional education like institutional food is commercial, bland and unhealthy. Kids deserve better than canned education and . . . more
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December 27, 2006 03:29 PM EST --
To the article “AXIOMS OF EVOLUTION: Where Conscience comes from”, which I published at this site, December 16, 2006, Jerome K. writes: “Ah, but will it make ice-cream? Sorry, but it . . . more
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January 03, 2007 11:04 AM EST --
If the many crises of our time can be conflated into a single phrase it is the phrase “crisis of conscience”. Because of universal ecological/environmental degradations, the global . . . more
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July 11, 2006 04:31 AM EDT --
From personal experience we know that life originates within and is sustained in the continuum of cosmic energy. At the same time we experience . . . more
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January 18, 2007 10:38 AM EST --
Religion and politics are not above the unseemly usage of orthodoxy in litmus-testing. Purity of orthodoxy can be a deceptive measure that bedevils popes and presidents alike. Pope John Paul II’s . . . more
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September 02, 2007 07:38 AM EDT --
Walter Brueggemann has made the connection of ecological wasting (sin against the God/ Land/ Human Covenant) and the exploitation of women:
“…Adam, that is, mankind, has a partner and mate, . . . more
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October 07, 2007 10:54 AM EDT --
The dominant ethics/politics in American culture, which came from Europe, have brought about the dead-end wasting of the global ecology/environment. American ecologies were pristine 600 years ago, not . . . more
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July 30, 2006 05:31 PM EDT --
The politicized use of guilt and fear for purposes of manipulation is wrongheaded and morally reprehensible. "Justified living", . . . more
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November 22, 2006 05:08 AM EST --
In re: overpopulation, moral proportionality and Original Sin
The Fathers of the Second Vatican Council arrived at an overwhelming consensus with respect to moral choice and the . . . more
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June 14, 2006 03:04 AM EDT --
Conscience Seeking Expression
I come from the Roman Catholic Tradition of Faith, but I am not imprisoned by the Roman Tradition. I am a Catholic not only in the sense of being hearer . . . more
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March 21, 2008 04:01 AM EDT --
Pope John XXIII and the Second Vatican Council recognized that humankind suffers spiritually and culturally from profound depression and a destructive social disorder, what I call the RELIGIOUS PARALYSIS . . . more
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May 19, 2006 03:50 AM EDT --
panic tubaing
in frantic wilderness - moose
calls the rising sun
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September 17, 2006 07:03 PM EDT --
The ambivalent experience of transformation burdens even the gradual unfolding of life's mysteries. Experiences of good and evil implicate the unfolding of the mystery and the plan of nature. Natural . . . more
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December 16, 2006 07:05 AM EST --
At the beginning of the book RELIGION & CIVILITY (Sylvester L Steffen, 2004, third book of the Second Enlightenment Trilogy) is an Overview with 10 axioms (modified below), corollaries that derive . . . more
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February 18, 2007 02:57 AM EST --
Analogies are important tools of learning; they reveal the likenesses and connections of things. By way of analogies we come to enlightenment. By understanding likenesses and connections, knowledge enlarges . . . more
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April 13, 2007 10:01 AM EDT --
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think all CHRISTIAN DENOMINATIONS NOT ONLY DO NOT ACTIVELY EMBRACE EVOLUTION BUT THEY ACTUALLY DISDAIN IT, as evidenced in their total unwillingness to confront . . . more
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May 21, 2007 05:48 AM EDT --
In his great little big book “Evening Thoughts” (2006, Sierra Club Books) Thomas Berry exposes “six transcendences” which have put humankind and Earth-life in epochal crisis. . . . more
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July 18, 2007 10:48 AM EDT --
The Knights Templar was the pope’s army, which fought the wars of the Crusades. This episode in history is with profound repercussions to global civilizations and the Roman Catholic Church, even . . . more
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