ellauri092.html on line 157: In matters of sexuality, several Baptist churches are promoting the virginity pledge to young Baptist Christians, who are invited to engage in a public ceremony at sexual abstinence until Christian marriage. This pact is often symbolized by a purity ring. Programs like True Love Waits, founded in 1993 by the Southern Baptist Convention have been developed to support the commitments.
ellauri097.html on line 420: Kant held that all rational persons have an a priori understanding of the basic principles of morality. These consist of duties, both to oneself and to others, and above all the duty to respect rational agents. Most persons, however, do not understand that morality is a priori, and their moral commitments are therefore vulnerable to corrosive skeptical criticism. In The Metaphysics of Morals Kant formulates the ultimate standard for moral judgment, namely universalizability, and establishes the rational necessity of morality.
ellauri142.html on line 145: Rituals help us physicalize our beliefs, desires, and commitments. For many, performing a weekly or monthly ritual is a profound physical, psychological or emotional workout. Rituals help people connect to themselves, their chosen communities, and their Gods.
ellauri217.html on line 641: The five precepts (Sanskrit: pañcaśīla; Pali: pañcasīla) or five rules of training (Sanskrit: pañcaśikṣapada; Pali: pañcasikkhapada) is the most important system of morality for Buddhist lay people. They constitute the basic code of ethics to be respected by lay followers of Buddhism. The precepts are commitments to abstain from killing living beings, stealing, sexual misconduct, lying and intoxication.
ellauri346.html on line 256: American promise to deliver M1A1 Abrams tanks at the beginning of the year coincided with commitments from European countries to supply 2 German Leopard tanks. But it was the United Kingdom that was the first country to agree to send Western tanks to Ukraine,turning over its 2 Challenger tanks in January of this year. These performed excellently in battle, the Ukrainians praise them highly. Just like the Leopards, which dominate over the Russian machines. And let's not even start on the Abrams, considered the best heavy tanks in the world.
ellauri476.html on line 141: Negatives of gooning? It sounds like you’re asking about the potential downsides or drawbacks of ‘gooning,’ a slang term often used to describe getting deeply fixated or aroused by porn. If that interpretation is correct, here are some concerns and considerations to be aware of. Excessive focus on porn can steal time from school, work, relationships, and self-care, leading to lower productivity and missed commitments. Heavy porn use can distort expectations about sex, bodies, and intimate encounters, making real-life experiences feel less satisfying or accurate. In some cases, intense porn use may contribute to issues like hirsute palms, desensitization, difficulty becoming aroused with a partner, or dependency on specific stimuli. For some, high porn usage can be associated with guilt, shame, anxiety, or depression, especially if it conflicts with personal or cultural values. If porn use becomes secretive or interferes with dating, intimacy, or trust, it can harm relationships with partners or peers. Late-night or binge consumption can disrupt sleep, affecting mood, concentration, and overall health. Repeated exposure to idealized bodies can lead to negative self- and other-image or body dissatisfaction.
ellauri480.html on line 129: But vows were then, as now, often broken or were made in advance of a payment which had to be decided somehow. Bob Deffinbaugh calls religious vows “credit card worship, [...] a promise to worship God with a certain offering in the future, motivated by gratitude for God’s grace in the life of the offerer.” The person might not be in a position to pay now, but he would do it when he was able. However, God knew that “costly commitments are often hastily made and shamelessly broken,” so he provided laws about how to pay when one wanted to get out of a commitment.
xxx/ellauri123.html on line 523: Duck out of commitments Duck into commitments
xxx/ellauri200.html on line 165: I have made my commitments now.
xxx/ellauri436.html on line 249: Nussbaum (2001) explains that the “social-democratic liberalism” that is the basis of her politics is a liberalism that holds similar commitments to the Christian liberalism of Jacques Maritain, the social liberalism of T. H. Green, and the individual liberalism of Ernest Barker. Liberal socialism is a political philosophy that incorporates liberal principles to socialism. This synthesis sees liberalism as the political theory that takes the inner freedom of the human spirit as a given and adopts liberty as the goal, means and rule of shared human life. Socialism is seen as the method to realize this recognition of liberty through political and economic autonomy and emancipation from the grip of pressing material necessity. Liberal socialism opposes abolishing certain components of capitalism and supports something approximating a mixed economy that includes both social ownership and private property in capital goods. Let oligarchs own the profitable businesses while the people hold the sticks that do not pay.
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