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Ed Searl's Journal: In My Estimation: September 2012
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Ed Searl's Journal: In My Estimation. Posted on this site are current events that relate to contemporary religion, especially of the American experience. Monday, September 17, 2012. The Meaning of a Marriage. Eight years ago I presided over my daughter’s wedding in California. I wrote the following “Introduction” for the occasion, something of a summary of my understanding of marriage’s meaning. Katie and Mike, this is your day. A marriage is a sacred undertaking. It is the means to a new courage, a ...
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Ed Searl's Journal: In My Estimation: October 2013
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Ed Searl's Journal: In My Estimation. Posted on this site are current events that relate to contemporary religion, especially of the American experience. Saturday, October 19, 2013. From Wisdom for the Ages: A Season with Ecclesiastes. Available as a kindle or soft cover book. Do you have a WISE ELDER in your life? There’s no better means to discover and cultivate your inner wisdom. Has long served as a surrogate. For me. But I had a flesh and blood. I nearly dropped it, because I’d expected it to ...
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Ethics for Postmoderns: Truth and Reconciliation
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Saturday, December 12, 2009. From " Speech: Acceptance of Truth and Reconciliation Report.". October 29, 1998. South Africa is no longer the country it was when we adopted the Interim Constitution in 1993, when together we resolved to overcome the legacy of our violent and inhuman past. Out of that negotiation process emerged a pact to uncover the truth, the better to build a bright future for our children and grandchildren, without regard to race, culture, religion or language. Many of us will have rese...
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Ethics for Postmoderns: February 2012
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012. An Ethic of Service and a Principle of Individualism. From a book, American Individualism. 1922, Herbert Hoover. Nor is individualism merely a stimulus to production and the road to liberty; it alone admits universal divine inspiration of every human soul. Our individualism insists upon the divine spark in each human being. What we need today is steady devotion to a better, wider, broader individualism – and to the individualism that carries increasing responsibility and...
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Ethics for Postmoderns: A Moral Order of Human Freedom and Rights
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009. A Moral Order of Human Freedom and Rights. The Four Freedoms," Franklin Delano Roosevelt. 6 January, 1941. The basic things expected by our people of their political and economic systems are simple. They are:. Equality of opportunity for youth and for others. Jobs for those who can work. Security for those who need it. The ending of special privilege for the few. The preservation of civil liberties for all. The fourth is freedom from fear, which, translated into world terms,...
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Ethics for Postmoderns: An Ethic of Service and a Principle of Individualism
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012. An Ethic of Service and a Principle of Individualism. From a book, American Individualism. 1922, Herbert Hoover. Nor is individualism merely a stimulus to production and the road to liberty; it alone admits universal divine inspiration of every human soul. Our individualism insists upon the divine spark in each human being. What we need today is steady devotion to a better, wider, broader individualism – and to the individualism that carries increasing responsibility and...
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Ethics for Postmoderns: September 2009
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009. Moral Choice in Public and Private Life. Any awareness of how lies spread must. Generate a real sensitivity to the fact that. Most lies be. To be "white" are unnecessary if not downright undesirable. Many are not as harmless as liars take them. To be And even those lies which would generally be ac cepted. As harmless are not needed whenever their goals. Can be achieved through completely honest means. …. I would not wish to argue that all white lies should be. Icy, but only.
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Ethics for Postmoderns: December 2009
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Saturday, December 12, 2009. From " Speech: Acceptance of Truth and Reconciliation Report.". October 29, 1998. South Africa is no longer the country it was when we adopted the Interim Constitution in 1993, when together we resolved to overcome the legacy of our violent and inhuman past. Out of that negotiation process emerged a pact to uncover the truth, the better to build a bright future for our children and grandchildren, without regard to race, culture, religion or language. Many of us will have rese...
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Ethics for Postmoderns: October 2009
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Friday, October 30, 2009. Self -Transcendence: The Will-to-Meaning. From Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy. We stumbled on in the darkness, over big stones and through large puddles, along the one road leading from the camp. The accom. Guards kept shouting at us and driving us with the butts of their rifles. Anyone with very sore feet supported himself on his neigh bor's. Arm Hardly a word was spoken; the icy wind. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still ma...
