In western society, spanking is often not seen as a suitable way to discipline youth. In fact, spanking is a good way to discipline by helping to build self-awareness and morality, it is beneficial to maintain order in society. ... In general, disciplining as an earlier age is beneficial to the society and the individual as they grow up. Morality and discipline that has already been established at a young age keeps society in order and well-organized. ... Discipline also maintains the order of society. ...

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Another issue I"m dealing with is my lack of spiritual discipline. In The Life You've Always Wanted, John Ortega tackles many of the areas we as Christians fail to discipline ourselves in. ... He knows that when I can discipline those areas, then, he can entrust me with greater tasks. So right now I"m realizing that God wants me to be spiritually disciplined in the little areas, most importantly my prayer time and devotions. ...

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Another important aspect that Mulholland talks about in his book, are classical spiritual disciplines. ... These classical spiritual disciplines tend to allow us to live and hold our lives in God's environment, so that our personal disciplines may be fully effective. ... This allows us to develop our own spiritual disciplines by renewing our relationship with God. ... The last spiritual discipline is liturgy. ...

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Religion is the practice of a set of disciplined actions rather than a belief in a god. People are able to find a value in their lives through those disciplined actions. ... Religion requires a hard, disciplined work rather than a set of teachings and knowledge. ... By understanding the three core principles and through he disciplined actions, religion is a way for people to "find value in their lives" (25)....

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Introduction In the period of documenting Christian scriptures and teachings, Tertullian works and theologies have a visible impact. He entered into Christianity before 197 and rendered his services for illustrating and defending the orthodox principles of the Christian faith. His works can be clas...

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The Father should love and discipline his children a. The Lord has to begin to teach a godly man how to love and discipline his children b. It is a discipline in love and not in anger! ... Traditionally, a lot of us were disciplined with a belt or other things until we could not breath 1 God does not want us to be like that 2. not a proper role model 1 Thess 2:11-12: As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children, 3. ...

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Philosophy, as a discipline, is something that we study. ... We could also say that a discipline is a branch of knowledge and learning. We study medicine to gain enough knowledge to become a doctor; this branch of learning is that person's discipline. ...

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Religion played an important role in Puritan life. Arthur Miller's, The Crucible, reflects how the Puritan lifestyle should be lead. However, some did not live up to those expectations and later suffered the consequences by either imprisonment or death. In the Puritan lifestyle every man, woman, a...

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There are many things happening in our lives, and it is hard to just have one sentence philosophy on life. There are many things I believe about life in general, and there are many things that I would like to do. But since I have to write a one sentence philosophy on life, this is what I shall do....

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In Everyman, a didactic medieval morality play, the protagonist, Everyman, a name used as an allegory to represent the common member or society, is being pulled in conflicting directions by two desires, one his desire for worldly possessions, and the other his desire for salvation. It is this confl...

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She felt that defying policy without discipline would be detrimental to their health, just as sin is bad for the spiritual health of a person. ... When her children disobeyed her, she scolded them, and then she disciplined them, just as a mother would do. ...

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Many people believe religion is the most sacred way of life, and to some it is their biggest obligation. A Buddhist once proclaimed in context to religion, "Many paths lead up the mountain, but the view from the top is the same." This quote, I believe contradicts religion in its entirety. However...

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In his book "The Craft of Theology," Avery Dulles (1992) starts chapter four; "Fundamental Theology and the Dynamics of Conversion," by making reference to one of the best known essays by Bernard Lonergan where he states that, Theology is entering a new age it is changing from a deductive science into an altogether empirical discipline. ... The linkage of fundamental theology with conversion does not mean a limit in the scope of the discipline so that it deals only with the initial approach to faith on the part of one who has previously been a nonbeliever. ... Fundamental theology is tradit...

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The Puritan's ethics were lead by self discipline in order to improve their spirituality. They imposed concrete belief in the Bible and lived by all measures of it. Maintaining your life based on the Bible sets valuable limits. Prior to following the Bible, the Puritans looked at laughter and ple...

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Religion and sports are major elements of culture all over the world .Sports are competitive, dynamic, and mostly a group activity. Religion, on the other hand, is a non-competitive, guiding force in people's lives mostly based on self experience. So, is there any relationship between sports and rel...

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Margery Kempe was born into a middle class family of Lynn, England in the late twelfth century. She married John Kempe, a merchant in Lynn. Margery is most famous for writing the first autobiography in English. Her work is a reflection of what was going on in the world of popular religion in...

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I grew up in a family and in a country where practicing our religion was one of the main facts of life. I was born in Iran and I was born in a Bahá'í family. The main religion of Iran is of course Islam and living over there as a Bahá'í is super hard but very interesting at the same time. It is ...

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Reading St. Athanasius" Vita Antonii on both the literal and tropological level of interpretation reveals the contrast between achieving life happiness through materialistic paradise or spiritualistic paradise. Furthermore, three major events in St. Antony's life, his relinquishment of material pos...

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Paganism Since the beginning of time, religion has been an important aspect of life. Some religions evolved and died out after a short period of time and some others are still around today. One of the religions that had a fall and almost died out when Christianity took over was Paganism. ...

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In "A Good Man Is hard to Find," Flannery O'Conner really puts the reader in the middle class mode and throws a little religion at us. By this I mean that she takes us to an important part of her mind and soul. One could even say that she lets the Devil come out in her own little way. In reading...

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A linkage to the past [is provided]. 2) Serves a disciplinary and preparatory function-imposes a self- discipline for social life. ... Cohesiveness and self-discipline is provided from central social activities which are primarily periodic worship serves. ...

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Violence touches all of us. Its roots are deep and entangled around issues related to race, gender, class, sexual orientation, religious beliefs and economics, among others. Violence pervades our past, shapes our present reality and threatens our future. Violence is not far removed from our li...

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Religion in an omnipotent and blinding power that pulls people into a false sense of secure unity and interdependence. In the early nineteenth century, many communities were created by a single religion where beliefs helped to answer many unknown questions. Such naivete resulted in the isolation ...

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This is done through self-discipline and meditation, the person must overcome their ego to gain a new understanding and by following Ik Onkar's divine word, you will be granted spiritual union through Jivanmukta, which is salvation. ...

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Machiavelli states a prince "must not have any other object nor any other thought, nor must he take anything as his profession but war, its institution, and its discipline, because that's the only profession that benefits the one that commands"(Machiavelli 36). ...

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