Technology has made our society about feeling good; everything is adapted to make sure people feel good, altruism is an extension of this. Technology teaches us to do what feels good, and helping people feels good. ... Good morals can be useful in a number of areas including, to help one make decisions. ... "Forgiveness and how the turning the other cheek is a universally appreciated gesture" (De Waal 663) are used as methods to be moral while living on earth. ... The use of technology was not created from the earth; instead it was created from the evolution of the human mind. ...

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Technology has made our society about feeling good; everything is adapted to make sure people feel good, altruism is an extension of this. Technology teaches us to do what feels good, and helping people feels good. ... Good morals can be useful in a number of areas including, to help one make decisions. ... "Forgiveness and how the turning the other cheek is a universally appreciated gesture" (De Waal 663) are used as methods to be moral while living on earth. ... The use of technology was not created from the earth; instead it was created from the evolution of the human mind. ...

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Epicureans believe the highest good in life is pleasure: a peace of mind, or freedom from anxiety. ... Being an ethical person is to have good morals and know what is wrong from right. ... The soul of the deceased lives through the living, and stays here on earth with the ones they spend their past life with. ... If a person associates themselves with good people, with good intentions they tend to act as rational as those people around them. Stoicism states that the Earth is made of a fiery spirit, consisting of rationality, nature, fate, and god. ...

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Plato was supposedly a pupil of Socrates, and it therefore has to be kept in mind that he would have been biased for Socrates and would have wanted to portray Socrates in a good light. ... In this speech, Socrates gives the jury the picture of himself that is normally portrayed others who are ignorant of his thinking, saying that he is known as a "wise man" who "ponders everything about the earth and investigates everything beneath it, and turns the weaker argument into the stronger" (18b-c, page 28, Defence of Socrates, Oxford World Classics, Plato). ... He insists that the picture of him "tr...

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God created us, the heavens, the earth, and everything in between. ... I know in the long run, these skills can only do good and benefit me, despite the current hardships. ... But our minds are perhaps the most important of these, because that is what separates us from other creatures on this earth- we are able to think and comprehend and make decisions based on them, not just on our instinct. With God's blessing, we become the most capable beings on this earth, and we should be thankful to God for it. ... Jesus will return to this earth and reward the righteous, and punish the unsave...

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Not only do these two beings help me live my life they are the reason that I am on the Earth today. ... This guy has not only become a good friend of mine, but my best friend and I think I have learned more from him that I could begin to teach. ... I believe very strongly that everyone should have someone to admire if not someone to call his or her hero for the simple fact that everyone is on this Earth to become a better person. ...

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Moreover, his visit to the Central station, manifests the idea about that the deeper Marlow goes into the dark forest, the deeper does he travel into his own mind: The earth seemed unearthly. ... Kurtz who he had so high thoughts about turns out to be a greedy person who is nearly dead when he meets him: I had turned to the wilderness really, not to Mr Kurtz, who, I was ready to admit, was as good as buried. ... I felt an intolerable weight oppressing my breast, the smell of the damp earth, the unseen presence of victorious corruption, the darkness of an impenetrable night .(101) ...

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This tragic hero, a figure of royalty and braveness, is predominantly good but falls from his prominence due to the flaws in his personality. ... By allowing his fears and doubts to control him, Macbeth isolates himself from every good aspect that should accompany a man at old age. ... Who can impress the forest, bid the tree Unfix his earth bound-root? ... Good! ... In this play, there exists a substantial emphasy on the balance of good and evil, blood and light, or life and death. ...

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We are just beginning to find out what stress does to our bodies and minds, and most of it is not good. Some other components I will discuss are having a good self-concept and everything that encompasses self . ... On the other hand if you are not a psychologically hardy person you will have a very good idea of what stress is. ... A lot of people would add in a catastrophizing thought like "that job was everything to me" or "I'll never find a job as good as that one". ... And those feelings develop into beliefs that she is better than everyone else and the most beautiful person on earth. ...

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"At the end of those five days, not a trace of the shelter remained, and I felt good, very smug in fact, about returning the White Pass meadow to it's "original" state." ... If society says it's right, then most likely we will feel good that we are doing what society tells us is good, just like what Owens does and feels. ... In his final statements, he influences us with a bang by stating at what extremes the European way of thinking will lead us to: Unless Americans, and all human beings, can learn to imagine themselves as intimately and inextricably related to every aspect of th...

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"At the end of those five days, not a trace of the shelter remained, and I felt good, very smug in fact, about returning the White Pass meadow to it's "original" state." ... If society says it's right, then most likely we will feel good that we are doing what society tells us is good, just like what Owens does and feels. ... In his final statements, he influences us with a bang by stating at what extremes the European way of thinking will lead us to: Unless Americans, and all human beings, can learn to imagine themselves as intimately and inextricably related to every aspect of th...

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But both agreeably interact complimenting each other developing good sets of thought for the better person. ... One should have faith in strangers believing that they are good people and with reasoning, one will know if the stranger is a good person. ...

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Since the birth of man we have searched the Earth for the reasons of life and the pursuit of tranquillity. ... And by saying this wonderful state of being I mean an all around good feeling about the way your life is going and being able to be free from all that mentally holds us down. ... After a leader is chosen the members will vote on the original written rules for the society whether the rule is good or bad to nullify a rule eighty-five percent must agree. ...

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The philosophies of the two minds constantly concern themselves with the ethereal, the things not of the Earth. ... He goes on to explain this idea by making an example of the sun: "For instance, the sun appears a good across, even though we are convinced that it is bigger than the inhabited world."" ...

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Can I affect a change during my time here Earth? ... Particularly taken back by these accusations from men who King thought were of a like mind, the good doctor wrote an eloquent response defending his actions. ...

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Day shifts to night, the moon walks on earth, and candles chase people. ... That obviously doesn't sound much like a good plot, although that summary, even along with the stills, cannot ever do justice to the actual film. ...

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The techniques an author employs, and the way in which they are manipulated, often determine the reader's response towards a novel's themes. The Collector, written by John Fowles is broken into three sections. The first and third sections, narrated by the character of Clegg, and the middle, narrate...

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The one single truth of reality is not measured or distinguished -- it is the ultimate paradox. The journey by which one achieves this truth can be a journey of increasing realizations of paradoxes, and finally, freedom from the bubble of limitation of a mind that would perceive such paradoxes as pa...

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