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• Relevance
  :b : [[practical]] and especially [[social]] applicability : pertinence <giving relevance to [[college]] courses> ...f corporate law, were not worthwhile because they did not address pressing social issues.
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• Peer pressure
  ...parties] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_union trade unions]), or social [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clique cliques] in which membership is not c ...h popularity, deviant behavior is often only mild to moderate. Regardless, social [[acceptance]] provides more overall protective factors than risk factor.[h
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• 99:3 Religion and the Religionist
  ...alized Christianity] become an [[organic]] part of the [[political]] and [[social]] [[structure]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occident Occidental civil ...dividuals]]. True, such a [[brotherhood]] is in itself a new and amazing [[social]] [[phenomenon]] attended by astounding [[political]] and [[economic]] [[re
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• Social
  ...ue, suggesting that it is a [[fuzzy concept]]. An added difficulty is that social attributes or relationships may not be directly observable and visible, and ...ly beyond what an individual can empirically observe in order to grasp the social domain in all its dimensions &mdash; connecting, for example, "private trou
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• Merit
  ...t). In a meritocracy, [[society]] rewards (via [[wealth]], position, and [[social status]]) those who show talent and competence as demonstrated by past [[ac ...ontocracy), popularity ([[democracy]]) or other historical determinants of social position and [[political]] [[power]].
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• Psychotic
  ...German source), French psychose (1859). Compare also ancient [[Greek]] [[fact]] or [[action]] of giving [[soul]] or life to, animation, principle of life ...of delusions and hallucinations) and deterioration of [[intellectual]] and social functioning, occurring as a primary disorder or secondary to other diseases
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• 83:1 Marriage as a Societal Institution
  ...] those many [[human]] [[relations]] which arise out of the [[physical]] [[fact]] of [[bisexuality]]. As such an [[institution]], marriage [[functions]] in *2. In the regulation of descent, [[inheritance]], [[succession]], and [[social]] order, this being its older and [[original]] [[function]].
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• Agency
  ...nct concept. In sociology, an agent is an [[individual]] engaging with the social [[structure]]; '''''the structure and agency debate''''' concerning the lev .... Human agency entails the uncontroversial, weaker claim that humans do in fact make decisions and enact them on the world. How humans come to make decisio
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• 103:3 Religion and the Human Race
  ...s://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_86 early religion], the [[fact]] remains that the true religious [[impulse]] has its [[origin]] in [[genui ...al]] should make some [[personal]] [[sacrifice]] for the [[good]] of his [[social]] [[group]], should do something to make other people [[happier]] and bette
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• Manner
  ...]], occasion, and other factors. That manners matter is evidenced by the [[fact]] that large [[books]] have been written on the subject, advice columns fre ...hough these terms are also often used for members of a particular [[status|social class]].
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• Personality disorder
  ...nflexible and pervasive across many situations, due in large part to the [[fact]] that such behavior may be [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego-syntonic ego ...the theory and diagnosis of personality disorders are based strictly on [[social]], or even sociopolitical and [[economic]] considerations.[https://en.wikip
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• Bullying
  ..., [[gender]], [[sexuality]], or ability. The "imbalance of power" may be [[social]] power and/or [[physical]] power. The victim of bullying is sometimes refe ...en countries (see [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingoism jingoism]). In [[fact]], on an international scale, [[perceived]] or real imbalances of [[power]]
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• Tribalism
  *1: the state or [[fact]] of being organized in a [[tribe]] or tribes. ...nd [[attitudes]] that stem from strong [[loyalty]] to one's own tribe or [[social]] [[group]]: a society [[motivated]] by cultural tribalism.
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• 102:3 Knowledge, Wisdom, and Insight
  ...ons]], lead directly to [[religious]] [[actions]], [[unselfish]] acts of [[social]] [[service]] and altruistic [[benevolence]]. ...to refresh and ennoble his fellows. Real [[religion]] leads to increased [[social]] [[service]].
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• 68:1 Protective Socialization
  ...with the [[spirit]] of [[brotherly]] [[feeling]] and the [[desire]] for [[social]] [[contact]] with his fellows. Rather did the [https://nordan.daynal.org/w ...re [[potent]] and [[powerful]] [[organizations]] and [[associations]] of [[social]] [[progression]]. These backward and suspicious antisocial races that spea
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• 99:5 Social Aspects of Religion
  ...becomes a matter of [[social]] [[service]] or [[group]] adjustment. The [[fact]] of man's gregariousness perforce determines that religious [[groups]] wil ...]] until the religious group becomes separated from all other groups—the [[social]] [[association]] of the [[spiritual]] membership of the kingdom of [[heave
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• Mathematical model
  ...meteorology, and electrical engineering) but also in the [[Social Sciences|social science]]s (such as [[economics]], [[psychology]], [[sociology]] and [[poli ...show existence and Pareto optimality of economic equilibria. However, the fact that this particular formulation assigns ''numerical values'' to levels of
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• 83:0 The Marriage Institution
  ...onogamy|one man and one woman]] to [[establish]] a [[home]] of the highest social order. ...arriage and the resultant [[family]] is the simple and innate [[biologic]] fact that [[men]] and [[women]] positively will not live without each other, be
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• Wisdom
  There are just three elements in universal reality: fact, idea, and relation. The religious consciousness identifies these realities ...ued in life (spiritual or materialistic for example), perspective on life, social attitudes, etc.
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• 2012-07-09-Revenge versus Justice
  ...ars to share some aspects with justice, like retribution or punishment. In fact, revenge has nothing to do with Justice, because the former seeks to make t ...w allows society to punish by committing the same violence, it’s a sign of social primitivism. Furthermore, the desire for revenge comes from an immature and
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• 16:9 Reality of Human Consciousness
  ...reality]]. The [[will]] [[creature]] is thus equipped to [[discern]] the [[fact]], the [[law]], and the [[love]] of [[God]]. Aside from these three inalien ...n of the reality of the [[presence]] of [[God]] that lives within you. The social [[consciousness]] is not inalienable like the [[God-consciousness]]; it is
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• 195:5 The Modern Problem
  ...raced]] in wholeness and as a living [[spiritual]] [[reality]], not as a [[fact]] of [[material]] [[science]] or an [[inspiration]] of intervening [[art]]. *3. 195:5.6 Man's [[ethical]] [[recognition]] of [[social]] [[obligations]] and [[political]] [[duty]].
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• 2014-01-03-Social Life
  ===Topic: ''Social Life''=== The entire scheme of mortal progression considers this as a fundamental fact. The experiences accumulating in the Supreme Being are the patrimony of all
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• 102:8 The Evidences of Religion
  ...this watchcare and final [[salvation]], no two [[religions]] [[agree]]; in fact, they all more or less disagree. ..., the more it [[encourages]] and is encouraged by a constantly improving [[social]] [[morality]] and [[ethical]] [[culture]]. We cannot [[judge]] [[religion]
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• 2012-08-29-About the Value of Each Person
  ...[[Creator]]. These conditions are entirely material and transitory. The [[fact]] of one being rich or poor does not affect one’s [[spiritual progress]]. ...ortune they don’t possess to solve the problems of the world — [[hunger]], social inequality, [[wars]], and more. Still, not one person can solve these probl
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• Insult
  ...xample of the latter is a well-intended simple [[explanation]], which in [[fact]] is superfluous, but is given due to underestimating the [[intelligence]] ...and bones, caused by various traumatic [[events]]. In [[speech]] and in [[social]] settings, insults are [[words]] which tend to injure or damage the [[psyc
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• Revenge
  ...confounds the concepts of "[[justice]]" and "revenge," and disregards the fact that "eye for an eye"[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_o ...and by the [[desire]] for [[status]]. They don't want to lose face," says Social psychologist Ian McKee.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenge]
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• Solitude
  .... He also offers an evolutionary rationale for why the subjective sense of social isolation--loneliness--is so profoundly disruptive to human physiology that ...ype of isolation created in tests. This can usually be classified by the [[fact]] that one can opt out of the [[experiment]], or the isolation. It can ofte
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• Error
  ...for certain instances of this kind of error. More serious departures from social norms carry labels such as misbehavior and labels from the [[Law|legal]] [[ ...d to as errors. However in light of the role of language usage in everyday social class distinctions, many feel that [[linguistics]] should be descriptive ra
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• 170:5 Later Ideas of the Kingdom
  ...ristianity#Jesus_as_messiah Redeemer of the church], a [[religious]] and [[social]] [[organization]] growing out of the [[activities]] of [[Paul, the Apostle 170:5.7 The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_church church], as a [[social]] outgrowth of the kingdom, would have been wholly [[natural]] and even des
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• Urban
  ...h commuting, with the urban core city being the primary labor market. In [[fact]], urbanized areas agglomerate and [[grow]] as the core population/economic ...able political boundaries; [[economists]] prefer to work with economic and social [[statistics]] based on metropolitan areas. Urbanized areas are a more rele
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• 2008-09-23-When Will You Make It Right
  “I bring to you a message of peace. I bring to you the fact that by far the greater majority of all His creatures, living and residing ...ts, your councils, your elders, for them to not default in executing their social mandates.
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• Slavery
  *3. The condition of a slave; the [[fact]] of being a slave; servitude; bondage. :b. fig. The condition or [[fact]] of being entirely subject to, or under the domination of, some [[power]]
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• Interdependence
  The fact or condition of depending each upon the other; mutual dependence. ...life-long interdependence. 1825 {emem} Aids Refl. (1858) I. App. C. 412 In social and political life this acme is inter-dependence; in moral life it is indep
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• 2012-09-19-Limited Teachings
  ...ve started to enjoy a closer [[relationship]] with [[divinity]] you are in fact accomplishing the [[purpose]] for which you came into this world. ...hey themselves [[desire]] to be treated would promote [[civilization]] and social [[development]].
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• Gift
  ...of mutually exchanging [[money]], [[things|goods]], etc. may contribute to social cohesion. Economists have elaborated the [[economics]] of gift-giving into essential part of giving; in [[fact]], it is the part that makes [[sharing]] possible, the
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• Secondary Corpus
  === [[Social Sciences]][https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Social_S A holistic discipline studying the integration of different aspects of the [[Social Sciences]], [[Humanities]], and [[Human biology|Human Biology]].
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• 102:7 The Certitude of the Divine
  ...lutely unchanging [[laws]], the [[habits]] of an unchanging [[God]]. The [[fact]] of [[God]], the [[divine]] [[law]], is changeless; the [[truth]] of [[God ...have [[effects]] without [[causes]]; only the [[I AM]] is causeless. The [[fact]] of [[religious]] [[experience]] implies [[God]], and such a [[God]] of [[
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• 2016-08-14-Always in Training
  ...lapses in life when nothing seems to happen whilst you [[humans]] are in [[fact]] constantly in [[training]] for [[soul]]-[[progress]], in stagnation or ev ...who stepped ahead of the ‘pack’ to help, warn and lead [[the masses]], so social progress could make its way across the globe to ensure that [[equality]] wo
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• 92:3 The Nature of Evolutionary Religion
  ...] [[practices]] [[persist]] alongside newer [[economic]] [[customs]] and [[social]] evolutions and, of course, appear grossly inconsistent. The remnants of t ...eligion, be careful. Remember, that is what happened; it is a historical [[fact]]. And further recall that the [[power]] of any [[idea]] lies, not in its c
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• Sanity
  ...acking in sanity". Fromm argued that one of the most deceptive features of social life involves consensual validation[1]: ...ey share so many errors does not make the errors to be [[truth]]s, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not ma
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• Panopticon
  ...lly impossible for the single watchman to observe all cells at once, the [[fact]] that the inmates cannot know when they are being watched means that all i ...ed Bentham's mechanism of [[surveillance]] as a tool of [[oppression]] and social [[control]]. Parallel [[arguments]] were put forward by French psychoanalys
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• Maturity
  However, maturity need not [[reflect]] one's [[actions]] in a social situation among well-known peers, as in these situations there is no need t ...en a person's true ability to react to a situation can be seen. Artificial social interactions are often misjudged as many people rely on outward [[appearanc
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• 69:5 The Beginnings of Capital
  *4. 69:5.7 ''[[Social Status|Position]]'' —[[eagerness]] to buy [[social]] and [[political]] [[prestige]]. There early sprang up a [[commercial]]ize 69:5.13 Accumulations of [[wealth]] early became the badge of [[social]] [[Prestige|distinction]]. [[Individuals]] in certain [[tribes]] would acc
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• 94:8 The Buddhist Faith
  ...the [[doctrine]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana Nirvana]. The [[fact]] that it could [[theoretically]] be experienced during [[mortal]] [[existe ...[[attainment]] is distasteful and painful. His followers overlooked the [[fact]] that the highest [[happiness]] is linked with the [[intelligent]] and [[e
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• Tribe
  ...ing to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livy Livy], the three tribes were in fact squadrons of knights, rather than ethnic divisions. *1 a : a [[social]] [[group]] comprising numerous [[families]], [[clans]], or [[generations]]
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• 5:5 The Consciousness of God
  ...n's [[physical]] [[environment]] entails the battle for [[existence]]; the social surroundings necessitate [[ethical]] adjustments; the moral situations requ ...owship]]: the [[physical]] or [[material]] level of self-preservation; the social or [[emotional]] level of fellowship; the moral or [[duty]] level of [[reas
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• 74:7 Life in the Garden
  ...rnoon periods to [[competitive]] [[play]]. The evenings were employed in [[social]] [[intercourse]] and the cultivation of [[personal]] [[friendships]]. [[Re *2. The [[golden rule]], the [[standard]] of [[social]] [[intercourse]].
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• Realism
  *1: concern for [[fact]] or [[reality]] and [[rejection]] of the impractical and [[visionary]] ...national]] interest and security over [[ideology]], [[moral]] concerns and social reconstructions. In [[ethics]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_realism
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• 141:5 Spiritual Unity
  ...e heavenly Father]]. Your apostolic [[harmony]] must [[grow]] out of the [[fact]] that the [[spirit]] [[hope]] of each of you is [[identical]] in [[origin] ...s]] of [[intellectual]] [[thinking]], [[temperamental]] [[feeling]], and [[social]] [[conduct]]. Your [[personalities]] may be refreshingly [[diverse]] and m
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• Freedom
  *I. The [[state]] or [[fact]] of being free from servitude, constraint, inhibition, etc.; ([[liberty]]- :3. The state or fact of not being subject to despotic or [[autocratic]] control, or to a foreign
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• 84:4 Woman's Status in Early Society
  ...fair criterion of the [[evolutionary]] [[progress]] of [[marriage]] as a [[social]] [[institution]], while the [[progress]] of [[marriage]] itself is a reaso 84:4.2 [[Woman]]'s [[status]] has always been a [[social]] [[paradox]]; she has always been a shrewd [[manager]] of [[men]]; she has
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• Popular
  ...ty''' is the [[quality]] of being well-liked or common, or having a high [[social status]]. Popularity figures are an important part of many people's [[perso ...mmon or "being well-liked". The use of the [[word]] popular to mean the "[[fact]] or condition of being well liked by [[the people]]" is seen originally in
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• 196:1 Jesus-The Man
  ...to such an unreserved [[bestowal]] of [[love]]. No matter how great the [[fact]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:3._LOC ...tal]] men as the [[ideal]] of [[personal]] religious living? Indeed, the [[social]] readjustments, the [[economic]] [[transformations]], the [[moral]] rejuve
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• Subjectivity
  ...fer to unsubstantiated personal opinions, in contrast to [[knowledge]] and fact-based [[belief]]s. In [[philosophy]], the term is often contrasted with [[o ...operty of being a subject) is an effect of relations of [[power]]. Similar social configurations create similar [[perception]]s, experiences and interpretati
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• 2019-01-13-The Heart Jerk Reflex
  ...ender with a heartfelt ‘Thank You Note’ — not by mere [[adherence]] to the social [[etiquette]]. “Dear ones, [[believe]] in the [[fact]] that you are dearly loved. [[Absorb]] this love, and let it infuse all th
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• 91:6 The Province of Prayer
  ...romotion of [[personal]] [[happiness]], [[individual]] [[self-control]], [[social]] [[harmony]], [[moral]] [[progress]], and [[spiritual]] [[attainment]]. ...s [[religious]] implications and its [[spiritual]] significance. It is a [[fact]] of [[human]] [[experience]] that most [[persons]], if sufficiently hard p
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• Renunciation
  There are a [[number]] of [[types]] of sannyasi in accordance with [[Social|socio]]-[[religious]] [[context]]. [[Traditionally]] there are four types o ==Legal and social status of renouncers==
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• 102:6 The Certainty of Religious Faith
  ...[[achieve]] [[harmony]] between [[infinite]] [[truth]] and [[universal]] [[fact]]. ...vincing [[evidence]] of this [[spiritual]] [[certainty]] consists in the [[social]] [[Fruits of the Spirit.|fruits of the spirit]] which such believers, fait
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• 2009-07-28-Communication Between Thought Adjusters
  ...eem and self image are definitely warped by materialistic addictions. The fact of addictions that are psychological in nature associated with the individ Many have addictive expectations which are unreal and lead to great social immaturity and lack of development on the individuals part. I am sure you
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• 95:7 The Salem Teachings in Arabia
  ...y been more [[gracious]] in that preaching, less stringent in collateral [[social]] requirements of their own devising, then many lands would gladly have rec ...was capable of producing a [[faith]] which, though less demanding in its [[social]] requirements, was nonetheless [[monotheistic]].
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• 83:8 The Idealization of Marriage
  ...thousands of years after [[Eden]], [[mating]] continued as a [[purely]] [[social]] and [[civil]] [[institution]]. ...of the circumstances or wishes of the contracting parties. But the very [[fact]] of marriage dissolution itself indicates that [[Deity]] is not a conjoini
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• 2006-01-14-We Recognize the Signs of Spring
  ...ancient by human standards, and well aware of the fact that spiritual and social changes in the vastly different Urantia populations occur only very slowly.
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• 2019-07-07-Is Urantia In for a New Great War
  ...al Revolution, which also needs relief, and if man does not apply peaceful social means to obtain it, a new Great War will surely do that.
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• 1997-01-12-Contact With ETs, Teacher Son
  ...years which, looking back, will seem to be watersheds, these changes and [[social movements]] are not necessarily evident for you who are passing through it. ...of the [[soul]] to respond to [[truth]], there is an [[acceleration]] of [[social]] and [[political]] change, and so in these times of [[wandering]] and sear
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• 82:3 Early Marriage Mores
  ...mating]] [[mores]], the [[genesis]] of the marital institution. Wherever [[social]] [[evolution]] has progressed to the [[stage]] at which mores are generate ...[[individual]] but is carried on by the [[group]]; self-perpetuation is [[social]] but is secured by [[individual]] impulse.[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/
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• Ostracism
  *2: exclusion by general [[consent]] from common [[privileges]] or [[social]] [[acceptance]] ...of [[justice]]. There was no charge or defense, and the exile was not in [[fact]] a penalty; it was simply a [[command]] from the Athenian people that one
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• Sui Generis
  ...meaning in that [[context]], it is one confined (or special) to its own [[fact]]s, and therefore may not be of broader application. This is also the moder ...reduced to [[psychology|psychological]] or [[biology|biological]] factors. Social facts have a meaning of their own, they are 'sui generis'.
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• 2018-12-21-More On Urantia's Magisterial Mission
  ...c]] Fraternity of Man and Women on Urantia, and to finally [[reverse]] the social and political effects of [[Lucifer Rebellion]] which installed such a detri ...tarting point on the inter-nations [[markets]] recently created, and the [[social]] aspect (one language) also is promising since the best candidate for that
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• 2013-05-15-Prometheus' Treasures - XIII
  ...precipitates learning via choice-making. Parents must be cognizant of the fact that they are members of a community, which supports the family, and theref ...ment of the mind, the physical vehicle and the emotional-psychological and social needs of the child. The child’s sense of self is but the seed of consciou
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• Human Condition
  ...die? The human struggle to find answers to these questions — and the very fact that we can conceive them and ask them — is what defines the human condit ...g these [[land]] struggles. The [[land]]-[[man]] [[ratio]] underlies all [[social]] [[civilization]]. [[68:6|68:6.1]]
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• Society
  ...ner." The Latin word was derived from the Greek socus locus, and implied a social contract between members of the community. Implicit in the meaning of socie ...ct|date=February 2007}}to mean a group of people that form a semi-closed [[social system]], in which most interactions are with other individuals belonging t
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• 94:4 The Hindu Religion
  ...lly been a [[tolerant]] [[religion]]. Its great [[strength]] lies in the [[fact]] that it has proved to be the most [[adaptive]], amorphic religion to appe ...[[survived]] because it is [[essentially]] an integral part of the basic [[social]] fabric of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India India]. It has no great [[
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• 103:2 Religion and the Individual
  ...rminates is the [[moral]] [[nature]] that so early gives [[origin]] to a [[social]] [[consciousness]]. The first promptings of a child's [[moral]] [[nature]] ...] of religious [[consciousness]], toward [[moral]] [[righteousness]] and [[social]] [[ministry]], rather than [[negatively]], away from [[sin]] and [[guilt]]
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• 2012-02-26-Abraham
  It is a fact that if you find not meaning within some situation, then it is easy to forg ...oundation. If the spiritual life is your foundation, how will you perceive social aspects within the community, for example, politics? How different are the
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• 167:5 On the Way to Bethany
  ...]], [[Jesus]] skillfully avoided clashing with his questioners about the [[social]] [[practices]] [[represented]] by either their written [[laws]] or their m ...ctance]] to make positive [[pronouncements]] relative to [[scientific]], [[social]], [[economic]], and [[political]] [[problems]]. They did not fully [[reali
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• Evolution and Religion, M. Ruse
  ...selection, it is convenient to make a three-fold distinction between the [[fact]] of evolution, the path of evolution, and the theory or mechanism of evolu ==The fact of evolution==
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• Barbarism
  *1 a : a barbarian or barbarous [[social]] or [[intellectual]] condition : backwardness ...ans], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthage Carthaginians]. It, in [[fact]], became a common term to refer to all foreigners. However in various occa
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• Acceptance
  ...rson feels disturbed by a "person, place, [[thing]] or situation -- some [[fact]] of my life -- [which is] unacceptable to me". It claims that an alcoholic ===Social acceptance===
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• Social Status
  ...the stratification system, can be determined two ways. One can earn their social status by their own achievements, which is known as achieved status, or one ...come along with it: achieved, and ascribed. The [[word]] status refers to social stratification on a vertical scale.
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• 160:2 The Art of Living
  ...[[meanings]] that constitutes human [[culture]] and enables man, through [[social]] [[associations]], to build [[civilizations]]. [[Knowledge]] and [[wisdom] ...he bringing into [[existence]] of social groups. The most effective of all social [[groups]] is the [[family]], more particularly the [[two]] [[parents]]. Pe
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• Persona
  A '''persona''', in the [[word]] everyday usage, is a social role or a character played by an [[actor]]. This is an Italian word that de ...eople. Therefore, personae presented to other people vary according to the social environment the person is engaged in, in particular the persona presented b
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• 2007-07-02-Abraham & Mary
  ...o use our talents. In such a diverse world we can find ourselves with many social frustrations. Man is still learning how to relate. As he evolves, behavior ...blame at their intolerance. Somebody must start. Somebody must accept the fact that we are all related--soul-wise.
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• Mentifact
  ...n words" and "Do as I say not as I do" are commonplace recognitions of the fact that actions, values, and words do not always coincide. . . ...], [[family|kinship]]: and other associations. These sociofacts define the social organization of a culture. They regulate how the [[individual]] functions r
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• Smile
  ==Social behavior== ...y does increase [[attractiveness]] and likability between [[humans]]. In [[fact]], people who tend to smile produce what is called the [[halo]] effect, whi
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• 2021-03-12-Freelance with the Spirit
  ...ft of the heavenly Father]]. Your apostolic harmony must grow out of the [[fact]] that the spirit hope of each of you is identical in [[origin]], [[nature] ...entrenched [[theories]] and [[opinions]] abound, generating a problematic social climate.
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• Language
  ...e specific language variety that people acquire as children depends on the social [[context]] within which they are enculturated. ...nguage (psycholinguistics), language variation across [[space]] or between social [[groups]] (dialectology), and language variation through [[time]] (histori
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• 2012-03-22-The Great Struggle
  ...ion and in a certain sense I would have to agree with that except for that fact that there are many that are slacking, that can actually do this work. They ...e into reality, to bring this positive yet neutral stance to bear upon the social fabric of mankind.
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• 2018-07-01-N. Idaho TeaM
  ...to act in which you did not, in fact the universe looks favorably upon the fact that you had the impulse at all, that you were stirred towards service. Tha And so the very fact that you are feeling these things is a success. Act on as many of them as y
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• 2005-02-01-On Creativity
  ...hare with other children. Growing up is a co-creative process to learn the social skills so necessary in adult life. ...or has given you a Fragment of Himself, so you are literally, in truth and fact, co-creators with Him. Your personal will and decision making process shal
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• 98:6 Mithraism and Christianity
  ...] has usually detracted from its [[spiritual]] [[quality]], it is also a [[fact]] that no [[religion]] has thus far succeeded in [[surviving]] without the ...]], as such, the [[technique]] for the [[conservation]] of [[moral]] and [[social]] [[values]].
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• 102:4 The Fact of Experience
  ...wing]] any other [[mind]], [[human]] or [[superhuman]]. [[Religion]] and [[social]] [[consciousness]] have this in common: They are predicated on the [[consc ...covery]] of the external [[qualities]] of [[contacted]] [[reality]]. The [[fact]] of [[experience]] is found in [[self-consciousness]] plus [[other]]-[[exi
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• Art of Living
  ...sonality, is only acquired by converting the natural urge of life into the social '''art of living''', by transforming present desires into those higher long ...fficult will become the '''art of living'''. The more rapid the changes in social usage, the more complicated will become the task of character development.
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• 1999-02-04-Scribbles from Lytske
  ...nk you,’ let us say ninety-nine percent of the time, as a [[formality]], a social nicety. Think of how often this is [[heart]]-felt, with a true gratefulnes ...e [[recognition]] of the soul of its Source of [[growth]], and signals the fact that a human is [[waking]] up to his or her [[cosmic]] [[status]] in [[eter
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• 2011-02-06-Urantia Poses Challenge and Difficulty
  ...on of the social and personal status of the individuals on the planet, the fact that all of you are Adjuster indwelt and all of you are in Agondonter statu ...e no plans to change anything. We will continue to allow the expression of social evolution to develop on your world.
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• Obedience
  ...e [[action]] or [[practice]] of obeying or doing what one is bidden; the [[fact]] or [[quality]] of being obedient; submission to the rule or [[authority]] ::b. The action or fact of yielding to some actuating [[force]] or [[agency]]. Freq. in in obedienc
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• 2016-05-22-Connecting with Seraphic Planetary Corps
  ...to move the circuits of CHANGE to the various institutions conducting the social order upon Urantia. We will engage in this manner today. However, as we h ...keep in mind when you become impatient with what you see occurring in your social institutions, particularly in the areas of political unrest.
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• 101:2 The Fact of Religion
  ...evelation is revelation is this same [[fact]] of human [[experience]]: the fact that revelation does [[synthesize]] the apparently [[divergent]] [[sciences ...mpt to [[study]] the [[phenomena]] of [[religious]] [[reactions]] to the [[social]] [[environment]], but never can it [[hope]] to penetrate to the real and i
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• 102:2 Religion and Reality
  ...its of the Spirit.|spiritual fruits]]. And this all [[grows]] out of the [[fact]] that [[religion]] is the [[property]] of the [[human]] race; it is not a ...l]] [[growth]], [[intellectual]] expansion, [[factual]] enlargement, and [[social]] [[service]]. There is no real [[religion]] apart from a highly [[active]]
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• 2003-11-18-Your Electro-Chemical Make-Up
  This is a good point for me to bring to your attention: the fact of your electro-chemical makeup. Your electro-chemical makeup is a bit like ...ack," the hum of a well-modulated electro-chemical system gives off charm, social fragrance, and a spiritual aura.
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