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    The Vice of Imposing Virtue

    The human feeling strongly hates who tries to advocate virtue with vice, like who forcefully imposes virtue on others. The first requirement of virtue is that it has to be freely chosen. Who imposes virtue on others doesn’t give them a chance to choose good. The strong hatred we feel toward who...
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    How Can We Know God?

    The devil tries to make us occupied with questions about God, like: how is He like? How does He do what He does? What does He look like? Why does He do this? etc…, more than he tries to get us occupied with ourselves and our flaws. Many thoughts occur to us about these issues, and sometimes...
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    The Authenticity of our Conscience, and the Weakness of Evil

    If conscience was man-made, why do humans feel mercy? Why do they give up rights, out of forgiveness, mercy and tolerance, even though they could've taken them? Were they seeking others' attention and acknowledgement by doing so? There are people who had given up their rights with no one to...
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    A Criticism of Aristotle's View on Virtue

    Aristotle holds the view that moral virtues lie at the mean between extremes of excess and deficiency. For example, if courage taken to excess would manifest as recklessness and if deficient as cowardice. Thus, virtue is in the middle of two vices, that is called "the golden mean". However...
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    Our True Identity

    There is no true identity for man without religion. Actually, what is identity? All the things humans attach themselves to such as nation, country or tribe etc.., are all superficial. True identity lies in the deep connections and attachments. We all know that those attachments are shallow and...
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    Can We Live a Good Life?

    Is it true that no one can live a good life in this world? So that the life of the believer will only be patience with this life and its tests? My feeling tells me that God doesn't abandon his slaves. Who is walking on the path of God and surrendered themselves to Him, God will be with them...
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