Each culture has its system whereby that normalized sex." ... There are taboos about sex, food, and clothing. ... If we focus on taboos about women, we do have different concepts and ideas based on sex, menstruation or postpartum. ... But the most interesting facts are that talking about sex is a taboo. ... If a man has touched a 'Notorious by Day' Untouchable, a menstruating woman, anyone who has fallen (from his caste), a woman who has just given birth, a corpse, or anyone who has touched any of these objects, he can be cleaned by a bath (Manu 5.85). ...

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It controls the desire to eat, drink, attack, or engage in sex, with sexuality and pleasure as its utmost concern (Joseph 112). ... Consequently, the perception of certain objects often results in feelings of "fear, foreboding, or religious awe," since the limbic system is also known to be active during hallucinations, an infused image is also likely to appear during a vision (Joseph 110). ...

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Such projection onto material objects seems almost a religious necessity. ... Although we seek love and sex, these are harder to obtain, so we settle for a handheld computer that's been visually associated with these desires yet have nothing to do with them. ... Finally, although religion does tend to portray sex as taboo, consumerism tends to cash in ...

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Such projection onto material objects seems almost a religious necessity. ... Although we seek love and sex, these are harder to obtain, so we settle for a handheld computer that's been visually associated with these desires yet have nothing to do with them. ... Finally, although religion does tend to portray sex as taboo, consumerism tends to cash in ...

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Chimpanzees create tools using "stems, twigs, branches, leaves, and rocks- in nine different ways to accomplish tasks associate with feeding, drinking, cleaning themselves, investigating out-of-reach objects, and as weapons.... Though we do not know of any who appreciate beauty, we do know dolphins are one of the few creatures known to mankind to have sex for the pleasure.16 Humans believe that this is an act of beauty, but dolphins most likely do not see it in those terms. ...

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In order to live in a society that works efficiently one does not have to follow religious guidelines, instead I propose a series of standards of behavior, a better "10 Commandments ", things that all living creatures have the innate ability to accomplish without reading the Bible: thou shalt not put objects above life, thou shalt not condemn others on the basis of their ethnicity or color, thou shalt not ever think of another as personal property, thou shalt not condemn others for their inborn nature, thou shalt respect and protect human life, thou shalt form independent opinions on the basis...

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Now when we talk of spirituality in particular, there is a long path that lies between the stage of a woman's spiritual novice and the ultimate state of transcendence where all boundaries of caste, class and sex get eroded. ... " - Dasimayya The composition, like that of Basavanna's as well upholds the philosophy of transcendence of social constructs such as that of gender, to finally unite with the higher being, the object of love and worship, the God. ...

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America's Other Government Religion has reappeared as a factor in American political and social arenas. "When does the instrument of religious freedom become a weapon of religious intolerance? Why do we so frequently read about some aspect of the unlawful wedding of politics and religion? Can we as a society defend ourselves against the onslaught of "holly terror-?- (Conway and Sieglman, Holy Cover Page). ...

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These are: Consciousness of objects and events around us and also within us we should have the ability to feel pain: Reasoning, the ability to solve new and complex problems Be able to Self-motivate activity Be able to communicate Be aware of self-concepts and self-awareness, Because a foetus doesn't hold these five characters, it is not entitled to full moral status, and can be terminated during any stage of pregnancy. ... However in cases of consensual sex the potential mother is in some way responsible for the foetus. ...

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It is logical to conclude that if animals do suffer, then they are indeed an object of our moral concern. ... It is a common idea that the foundation of human sentience and thus their acknowledgement for a moral status is based on many characteristics - sex for pleasure, ability to communicate within the species, and family ties, to name a few, however none of these seem independent to human beings. ...

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