Sarbajit, I looked at your pointers to your religion's beliefs and rules.
The "Articles of Faith <http://brahmo.org/brahmo-articles-faith.html>" seem fairly non-controversial. I wouldn't think of them as requiring faith in the sense that most religions use that term--belief in something that without faith would be difficult to believe. I doubt that you would find many people on this list -- or many most secular westerners in general -- who would disagree with them, even though they are not members of your religion. When I looked at the home page <http://brahmo.org/>, though, I was surprised to see that the first heading was "One God." Given the articles of faith, I didn't expect to find "God" playing such a major role. I had a difficult time with the "Prime Principles<http://brahmo.org/brahmo-prime-principles.html>" and was not able to attach any coherent semantics to most of what was written. -- Russ *-- Russ Abbott* *_____________________________________________* *** Professor, Computer Science* * California State University, Los Angeles* * My paper on how the Fed can fix the economy: ssrn.com/abstract=1977688* * Google voice: 747-*999-5105 Google+: plus.google.com/114865618166480775623/ * vita: *sites.google.com/site/russabbott/ CS Wiki <http://cs.calstatela.edu/wiki/> and the courses I teach *_____________________________________________* On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Prof David West <[email protected]>wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012, at 10:24 AM, glen wrote: > > > > > Here's an honest and personal question to make the ethics concrete: > > Should I have intervened? > > > clearly a tough question - given the state of society, the prevalence of > guns and predisposition to use them, and the potential for alcohol or > other substance abuse - not an easy decision. The "official" response > is no, report it to someone who has the "authority" to intervene. I > would have made my silent presence as witness obvious - but would not > have actively intervened. > > dave > > > > > ============================================================ > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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