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Tapsearch Com Editor and Artist Ray Tapajna is now moderator for EthicsBox.com - fostering a dedicated study of Personality and Character. It's mission is to probe ways for a new "Solidarity" for self, others and society under the guiding thought that each of us want to feel all together in one place at one time. It is also obvious that workers have no voice in the process of Globalization and Free Trade and hopefully the EthicsBox will prompt a change.
See a review at http://unnettedjourneys.filetap.com which spotlights the unnetted and communications by rank.
"How could anyone every tell you that you are less than beautiful " ( Title to a song, that all should hear. )
Lyrics of the song............
You are beautiful...
24.08.2004 - ..sang fra Angsbacka.. 
How could anyone ever tell you
You were anything less than beautiful
How could anyone ever tell you
You were less than whole
How could anyone fail to notice
That your loving is a miracle
How deeply you're connected to my soul. ( and God's Grace )
We have an article about - The Promise - by Father Jonathan Morris at The Rationale Com site - Father Jonathan Morris prescription for suffering Note the comments at bottom of this site too.
and see also The Rationale Com site - suffering - is life worth living and what top sportswriter says
We note it here because we think it is also appropriate for exploring personality and character as we do at the Ethics Box.
How could anyone ever tell you - you are less than beautiful
( Father Jonathan Morris is also a commentator for FOX News and did an excellent job covering the Pope's visit in April. )
Steve McEveety, producer of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ:
"The Promise will be for the book world what The Passion was for film--a watershed moment of inspired creativity capable of transforming lives from the inside out. Don't believe me? Ask my wife, she read it too and is already passing it on to family and friends."
Chris Wyatt, Founder and CEO of GodTube:
"The Promise is a must read for those experiencing life's difficult trials. Clearly, Father Jonathan is fast establishing himself as one of the most respected religious figures of our times."
Human nature calls us to happiness. Happiness is defined as a state of general well being, and it is obvious this state of well being must assume a balanced personality and well ordered character. Education has to include a development of both the body and the soul. Something seriously is missing if the soul is ignored. The lower appetites must be balanced with the soul. A certain amount of sense satisfaction is necessary for well being , but if one forgets the dual nature of man and woman to the extent of neglecting the higher intellectual power that governs choices, true happiness will never be reached.
The true, the good, the beautiful, for example are the three fundamental objects of the higher intellectual appetite nature of mankind. The natural cursiosity of man is a hunger for truth and it will be restless until truth is obtained. The will wants to choose good and the it will be restless until a certain amount of good is obtained. A certain amount of order, harmony and beauty must enlighted every happy life.
Knowing we are finite creatures, we must pursue some form of religion due to the reality of our temporary status on earth. The intellect wants all the truth there is and not just a partial taste of it. The will wants good things to choose that are identified my the intellect. Neither of these natural powers will be satisfied as long as there is more to obtain. The person who says they know all that they wish to know , or has all he or she wishes to have is a game they play in their imagination.
The only way to pursue happiness is to pursue infinite truth and infinite good. And the end can be only in God who created us from form and matter. Religion is actually the sum total of all our relationships with our Creator.
Any effort to improve your personality and character without the above being a priority will just take us on detours away from the real road to happiness. As a child we found we needed nurturing and not much changes as adults. Our Creator will always know more about us than anyone else including ourselves. It is a haunting reality of life. False philosphers deny this fact and tell us we are on our own. Some say we were born perfect and society leads us to imperfection but deep down we know how foolish this is. Happiness is about going home or going back to the source of our existence. We are wanders from another place and nothing will satisfy us until we accept this fact.
Happiness rides on this acceptance.
( by Ray Tapajna from Personality and Character notes by Father McQuade - JCU
It is obvious, human beings have all the basic capacities of lower forms of life and there are two activities that distinquishes them from other life forms. These two activities are intelligence and volition.
We find first of all that man can form abstract ideas, that he can know immaterial things, such as honor, beauty, goodness and the like; he can recognize relations between things; he can make judgements on the affairs of life; he can reason from the unknown; he can become arware of and study his own activity; he has a special kind of knowlege that is beyond the mere sense of knowlege of animals.
We have defintions and terms of things we will never experience but know these things exist. For example, we can never experience perfect love because we know we are imperfect beings. This drives us to find out what it is all about and we look to places where this perfect love may exist.
Which brings us to our power to choose and we know something that is called a conscience tells us what is the best way - the right way and the wrong way to search for perfect love.
We find our human nature a crippled one and conclude there is a certain duality in human nature. Altough human nature is in reality one nature, it has different facilities to distinguish
levels in human nature. Man can know things somewhat as animals do by sensation: he can also know them in a higher way by intelligence. Man can desire things as animals do but he can desire things in a higher way. Man therefore has a higher and lower cognition, a higher and lower volition. Man is said to have a higher nature: intellectual knowlege and rational will; and a lower nature: sense knowlege and sense attraction. Human nature is wonderful composite of all that is best in the universe of visible natures.
The sense appetite tends towards the pleasant. The rational appetite tends toward the truly good. What is pleasant is not always something that is good and something that is good is not always pleasant. Sleep is both pleasant and good. But in many things, the sense appetite seeks things the intellect knows as bad. Doing drugs can be very pleasant but the intellect knows it is a destructive habit to avoid. Thus there is occasionally a direct conflict between the two levels of appetite in the human being. This conflict can lead to a life of detours.
In the pursuit of bettering the personality and character, this conflict must be kept in mind . The higher must rule the lower, not the lower rule the higher. After all, we are aimed at happiness and we must know how to make the right choices to reach this state. To ignore these facts, just takes us on a very long detour. The more detours we take the more difficult it is to find our way back. We can never attain perfection in this life but at least we can find as many way as possible to keep on the right path in pursuing it. Love endures. All outside of love does not. The biblical passage applys - do unto others has you would have them do to you. It is not only biblical but practical too.
( In the above, we are riding the wave between philosophy and religion - see The Rationale to explore philosophy and religion in respect to personality and character in other ways. See also unnettedjourneys.filetap.com - about the voids in education and securing a populist voice for the people
Resources: Based on Personality and Character notes from Father McQuade JCU
In any formation of personality and character, we need to identify cause and effect about who we are and who we want to be. Our biological background does play a big part and science is always researching this part. We do see traits in ourselves and others that suggest that we do inherits certain traits but science is still studying this part too . We do know environment plays a big role too but we know that this part can be altered even though the circumstances seem to say it is impossible.
In the global economic arena today, we find we need to quickly decide what ethical road we want to take. Raw Capitalism calls for a gladiator type existence. We need to ask if we want to surrender to this condition or take the higher ground no matter what. Do we do it to others before they do it to us or do we do to others as we would want them to do to us? This is the question of our times. To be or not to be rests on our response
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Here's another exercise for you. View the image and let the imagination take over. Take in the words and imagine growing better and better in everyway.
Imagination Tune Up:
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This follows our last post about a "friendly imagination".
The imagination is a powerful gift. It is a creative tool you can use in many ways for yourself and others. Children have a great insight into this power and use it in play and story telling. As adults we tend to neglect it. We could use it in a "friendly imagination" way just observing others in those quiet waiting times in dentist or doctor's office or in our commuting back and forth from work on the transit system. You can use it prior to a major sales call or meeting to just relax into the possible sequence of events. The imagination can be supplied with plenty of material and background triggers. The imagination is primarily reproductive and therefore it must have something to reproduce. A person developing a "friendly imagination" must have an awareness of what affects other people and also police what affects oneself. Being aware of the triggers, makes it easier to add a positive spin to most anything. The habit of attention, observation, concentration must be cultivated so that the imagination can draw , either to reproduce or to recreate
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Imagine you and me and what we can do together for the common good
In exploring personality and character, the imagination plays a very important part. Of all the four internal senses, imagination seems to have most to do with personality. Imagination is the faculty that gives us life and color, variety and resource not only in our mental life but in the operation of divine influences. Even our abstract thoughts depend on our imagination. Low intelligence is often the basis of a dull imagination. The good thing about imagination, is that you can stimulate and grow it. In fact it is sometime said that the large part of the science of mental hygiene is connected with the management of the imagination.
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All anyone wants is to have a feeling of being all together in one place at one time. Time tells us we are here on earth on a temporary basis but still we yearn for more. We want to know where we were and where we are going.
One must know the basic facts of his life's progress in order to direct it. We are the director of our life ideal. We also know we are finite and limited in many ways and look for other entities that are not. We need to trust and cooperate with our creator and hopefully receive grace or something extra we do not have in the process
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Ethics Box is supposed to be about exploring personality and character but frankly it is difficult knowing where to start. If we start with the Dale Carnegie approach on how win friends and influence people, the question of motivation remains. If we go into a similar approach with the bibilical approach - "do unto others has you would have them do to you" as in the Gabriel Richard courses, the question still remains.
In attempting to get started, I re-read parts of Jacque Maritain, Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, Mother Theresa and the Life Ideal course by Father McQuade. They all are very good but how do we relate this to living in a very competitive world. A boss will tell you, all that idealism is great but it does not put bread on the table. I read a study early on in my work career that 70 percent say they can not connect their workday with their spirituality. I am ending my workdays knowing it is true
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