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| Articles about Conscience |
| Religion & The Secular Conscience | | 2008-07-01 00:38:21 | | By Austin DaceyIn On Faith We often hear that some new scientific discovery has confirmed ancient religious teaching. It now appears that this hearkening back has gone full circle, and modern religion is coming around to ancient secular wisdom.At the recent "Seeds of Compassion" event in Seattle, the Dalai Lama spoke of three paths to compassion and moral development in children: the theistic path of the Abrahamic faiths, the non-theistic religious path of Buddhism, and the "secular, scientific" approach. Surrounded by brain researchers and empirical psychologists, he recommended this secular way as the most promising. For some time he has held that if any tenet of Buddhism contradicts contemporary science, science must trump.Meanwhile, during his first papal visit to the United States, Benedict XVI stressed the coequal roles of reason and faith in the religious life, and urged Catholics to translate their contributions to public life into a "public theology" accessible to all. At the | | By: Spiritual Village | | |
| | When Conscience and Closet Collide | | 2008-06-12 02:45:45 | | By RUTH LA FERLA
REVIEWING her wardrobe earlier this season, Elizabeth Marvin had a moment of reckoning. “How did this closet become so massively overstuffed?” she mused, disconcerted by the sight of so many Marni jackets, Chloé bags and Jimmy Choo shoes jostling for space on the racks. “From my green perspective, part of me feels [...] | | By: ArticlesModern | | |
| | No Shame, No Conscience | | 2008-03-30 23:01:00 | | I picked up Sunday's New York newspapers and to my utter chagrin I discovered not one, but two separate stories about two different men who were caught in two 9/11 scams.It's really disturbing to hear that this sort of thing goes on. Granted, in many tragic situations, like Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq war, there are going to be those types who feel they can make money off of the heartache and disasters that many people have gone through and continue to go through. But hearing two separate stories about 9/11 scammers, it makes me wonder how people like these can sleep at night.One guy claimed to be a New York City cop who rescued thousands at the World Trade Center, was arrested in New Jersey on charges unrelated to the 9/11 disaster, that he looted from a woodworking company he founded. Fred Parisi claimed to be a cop but was not at the WTC the day of the disaster. He had been at the Police Academy in 2001 but never graduated to join the force.His impersonation of a 9/11 hero encour | | By: The Mighty Quinn Media Machine | | |
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| Those Who Are Without a Conscience | | 2008-03-30 22:21:21 | | PSYCHOPATHS ARE VERY REAL“…"Psychopaths
are social predators who charm, manipulate and ruthlessly plow their
way through life, leaving a broad trail of broken hearts, shattered
expectations without the slightest sense of guilt or regret. Their
bewildered victims desperately ask, 'Who are these people?'"We
often think of psychopaths as the disturbed criminals who capture
headlines and crowd the nation's prisons. But not all psychopaths are
killers. They are more likely to be men and women you know who move
through life with supreme self-confidence -- but without a
conscience….” Robert D. Hare, Ph. D. I’ve been reading a chilling ... | | By: The Pink Flamingo | | |
| | Pondering a computer with a conscience | | 2008-01-17 14:18:41 | | Do we “know anything about the makeup of an electron? Does it possess its own consciousness or does it not?” Eliezer J. Sternberg ponders questions like the one above posed by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Norman Mailer just before his recent death -- the possibility posed by some of a future when computers might attain consciousness and actually meld with humans.
read more | | By: Machines Like Us - Science and Technology News | | |
| | When Conservatives had a Conscience | | 2007-11-12 00:18:07 | | When it wasn't just about grabbing and holding onto power, it was about principles. It was about honoring core beliefs. In 1960, Barry Goldwater took up in his hands the remnants of America's original and long lost tradition when he wrote:"I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution, or that have failed in their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is 'needed' before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents' 'interests', I shall reply that I was informed their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the v | | By: Republican Renaissance | | |
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| | | The Conscience of a Hacker | | 2007-07-31 03:36:13 | | I read this last year somewhere in orkut.com and did publish it in my old blog (no more in use). Today I read it in Google Blogoscoped and so here it is for those who haven't read it till date. A MUST READ for anyone who knows English and has even very little knowledge about hackers. The Conscience of a Hacker, also called the Hacker Manifesto, was published in 1986. Loyd Blankenship aka The Mentor wrote it after his arrest and it got picked up by Phrack, and achieved fame since then. (Text republished here courtesy of Phrack.)Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers. "TeenagerArrested in Computer Crime Scandal", "Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering"... Damn kids. They're all alike. But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950's technobrain,ever take a look behind the eyes of the hacker? Did you ever wonder whatmade him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him? I am a hacker, enter my world... Mine is a world that | | By: CompuWorld | | |
| | | | Order of the Day: Dining with a Conscience in Southeast Asia | | 2007-05-16 10:17:09 | |
At a first glance you may think the topic "Dining with a Conscience"
here is all about health foods and how they are environmentally or
eco-responsible. Many restaurants today prepare and serve you meals
with a more awareness in improving the world or societies' health and
environment. "Enjoy your meal, but think about what you're doing to
your body and the earth" is the concept of this kind of restaurants.
In this article, the story is about how some of these restaurants in
Southeast Asia are managed with socially- responsible manner. Guess
what they have done. Exotissimo Travel is proud to present, so next
time if you have chance to travel to Vietnam, Siem Reap or Thailand, you may find some time to visit them. In a region famous for its delectable cuisine, several Southeast Asian
restaurants are now also dishing up opportunities for the local
community with their socially responsible policies and vocational
training programs. In Siem Reap, Le Jardin des Delices is the
training restaurant of the famous Paul Dubrule Hospitality &
Tourism School and was established to provide young, underprivileged
Cambodians with an opportunity to train in the skills of the hotel,
restaurant and tourism industry.
Delicious Khmer and European fusion cuisine is served on a terrace
fronting a lush exotic garden. But the tastiest aspect of all is that
while you enjoy the savoir faire of the students, you are also
contributing to the sustainability of a vital educational project.
In just five years, the Hanoi based KOTO (Know One, Teach One) has
grown from a small sandwich shop to a 120-seat restaurant and an
internationally accredited hospitality program that is breaking the
cycle of poverty amongst street and disadvantaged youth in Vietnam.
The young people in the KOTO program study hospitality skills and
English, while gaining practical skills working at the KOTO Restaurant.
Indeed, KOTO boasts a 100 percent success rate in pla | | By: Exotissimo Cycling Trip: Zen and the Art of Cyclin | | |
| | Order of the Day: Dining with a Conscience in Se.a | | 2007-05-15 23:28:33 | | At a first glance you may think the topic "Dining with a Conscience" here is all about health foods and how they are environmentally or eco-responsible. Many restaurants today prepare and serve you meals with a more awareness in improving the world or societies' health and environment. "Enjoy your meal, but think about what you're doing to your body and the earth" is the concept of this kind of restaurants. In this article, the story is about how some of these restaurants in Southeast Asia ... | | By: Road Trips and Me | | |
| | Order of the Day - Dining with a Conscience in Southeast Asia | | 2007-05-15 20:59:00 | | In a region famous for its delectable cuisine, several Southeast Asian restaurants are now also dishing up opportunities for the local community with their socially responsible policies and vocational training programs. In Siem Reap, Le Jardin des Delices is the training restaurant of the famous Paul Dubrule Hospitality & Tourism School and was established to provide young, underprivileged Cambodians with an opportunity to train in the skills of the hotel, restaurant and tourism industry. Delicious Khmer and European fusion cuisine is served on a terrace fronting a lush exotic garden. But the tastiest aspect of all is that while you enjoy the savoir faire of the students, you are also contributing to the sustainability of a vital educational project. In just five years, the Hanoi based KOTO (Know One, Teach One) has grown from a small sandwich shop to a 120-seat restaurant and an internationally accredited hospitality program that is breaking the cycle of poverty amongst street and disadvantaged youth in Vietnam. The young people in the KOTO program study hospitality skills and English, while gaining practical skills working at the KOTO restaurant. Indeed, KOTO boasts a 100 percent success rate in placing its graduates in their first job in the hospitality industry. In Thailand, the popular restaurant chain Cabbages and Condoms was founded by the kingdom’s leading philanthropist and former Minister of Health, Meechai Viravaidya, in an effort to make condoms as common - and as accepted - as cabbages. The food is consistently delicious (and ‘guaranteed not to cause pregnancy!’) and all proceeds from the restaurants are used to fund the social programs of the Population and Community Development Association (PDA), a non-profit organization founded in 1974 by Meechai himself.Choosing to eat at socially responsible restaurants such as these can make a big difference to the most vulnerable sectors of the local community. In a region that traditio | | By: Travel to Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Tha | | |
| | The Primacy of Conscience: <i>Sola Conscientia</i>? | | 2007-03-26 13:34:48 | | I think it’s an interesting time to live in America (although I might not choose it for my children). Catholics in the US seem to be going through a spiritual upheaval that has the majority of our fellow Catholics drifting toward a ritualized religion that resembles American Protestantism more than Roman Catholicism.
The central argument continues to be the primacy of conscience. I often hear this notion that our conscience is our primary guide to right and wrong. And there is a strong belief that our conscience can never be wrong. Martin Luther ripped the Catholic Church in half on the basis of sola scriptura and sola fides, two classic misunderstandings of Scripture and Faith. The American Church is being torn asunder by sola conscientia or the primacy of conscience. And just like its predecessor’s misunderstanding of the Bible and Faith, sola conscientia misunderstands our conscience and overstates its abilities.
Ultimately, there is little difference between asserting prima | | By: Living Catholicism | | |
| | Sliver of a Conscience | | 2006-02-15 16:37:00 | | I am compelled to write how I feel because I am just an insignificant person in this huge world. I have no money, nor power, I'm down to earth, traditional, and I don't waste time on politics. Politics and organized religion, which is almost the same thing, bring people stress, wrinkles, heartburn and disappointment. For me to get involved within the ranks of politics would be like joining some of the greediest and power hungry people on the planet. Notice how I said "some of the greediest." I didn’t say, "all of the greediest." Now whether I disagree with the political agenda's or not, the little person of my means cannot change how the majority feels, or I cannot change what they do in their spare time. But I can certainly be aware of what's happening in the world so I can protect myself, family, and loved ones, right?In today's society every end to a purpose is not without lusting after greed and power. I'm not debating about fighting for a cause. I believe people should "go after" what they believe in, non-violently, as long as it doesn't hurt another human being in any way! Funding abortion clinics, and passing out hate literature hurts other people, and that to me is not Christian thinking that leads to good Christian actions but those things that adulterate society even more. If an individual has even a sliver of a conscience, then they would know that sucking out babies from the womb is morally and ethically wrong. They would know that fighting in wars; deceiving young men into thinking they are fighting for their country, while murdering others is wrong. They would know, that passing ridiculous laws that compel others to do things against their spiritual conscience is wrong. Is there anything right about the political agendas that face the individual today? Or that face society in general?We can further state that most of the political and religious agendas of the world are morally, ethically and spiritually wrong. What does this mean? It brings mo | | By: Write Passion | | |
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