Life is all about being happy. Happiness is the highest and final good at which all our actions are aimed. As mill claimed, to achieve this happiness we should balance between tranquillity and excitement, affection from others and for others, and a well-cultivated mind. All of us do different things in our lives but for the same ending result, self-satisfaction and happiness. We are all aiming for a good happy life in which pleasures outweigh the pain. But first we have to change what is inside us
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concerned, not only religion but also morality plays an important role in community. In the early primitive community initial stage when real religion system has not yet formed, morality had been existed and been widely used in gregarious life of human beings, such as primitive men gave
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Humans. The inhabitants of planet Earth. Such incredible creatures with a great thirst for knowledge. What it means to be a human being is not just having a face, eyes, heart, or being able to drive a car, or to own a house. Being a human is much more than that, much more deeper and passionate. It means to have the ability to know what is right and wrong, having rational thought and being able to change the course of reality with just a simple idea. Humans are the only creatures that know who
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too, as we humans are more evolved than the creatures we eat. But this argument implies that if you have physical power over someone or something then you should be allowed to do what you want. If this was the case, it would be perfectly acceptable for me to torture an infant, purely because I have the physical capacity to do so and if an alien race should happen to invade Earth with the intention and power to kill and eat us, they should also be allowed to do so. Being human beings, we
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intent on practicing how to best bend my knees to the correct position and ultimately improve my game. How do you know when you are ‘too tense’? Within this chapter, Gelb discusses that concept of ‘sensory appreciation’ and synthesizes that humans do not intuitively know what is best for themselves, but have the remarkable ability to learn. For instance a person may feel more enjoyable while being slumped in a chair, but that position and feeling of enjoyment may also be causing unnecessary
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being cloned. Soon primates and Humans could be cloned. I think we should further investigate human cloning for research on the parenting process and other physiological experiments that can only be used now on identical twins separated at birth. These experiments when used could be used to gain insight on what our genes determine in our personalities. I also think that the achievement of us humans cloning ourselves would be a great achievement for the entire human race such as it was when we landed
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the nations. God Himself new Jeremiah as a human being before birth and considered him to live in order to carry out His mission. God could not have allowed Jeremiah to die. Biblically it is immoral to kill. However, the scientific view on abortion may be different from the biblical view. The scientists have argued that although abortion termed immorally; the criticism is not evidence based. Their view is that, however much a fetus is considered a human being; it may not be true. The reason is that
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personally, but culturally as well (Shelley & Miller, 2006). Many components make up worldviews and different theories and suggestions as well. Things such as spirituality, pluralism, scientism, postmodernism, prime reality, human personhood, death and afterlife, epistemology, ethics, and human history all play important parts in a person or culture’s worldview. Spirituality often plays a big role in our worldview and can have many different meanings as well. One way to define spirituality would be to say
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FIRST CHILD Ryan Reavis Grantham University First Child It was 5 a.m. on the 10th of September 2004 and I thought I was dreaming that somebody was screaming my name, but it was actually my wife, Lindsay, yelling at me to wake up. You see she was at the end of the third trimester of pregnancy and we were sleeping in separate bedrooms so we could both be comfortable. At that time I worked nights so it was probably really late by the time I had went to bed, so getting woke up by somebody yelling
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In the world we live in today, it is safe to say that we as human beings have become so dependent on technology that sometimes we even forget what life was like before computers and smartphones. To some of us, the thought of even going to the library to look up information in a book is tedious and makes us cringe. Technology has hindered the education learning process, at least for the children growing up in the school system now. The kids of today are accustomed to everything being so fast paced
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