Self Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/self/ Vincent Ryan Ruggiero - Author of books and essays Sat, 24 Aug 2024 14:13:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://mind-at-work.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-open-book-32x32.png Self Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/self/ 32 32 Whatever Happened to Wisdom? https://mind-at-work.com/whatever-happened-to-wisdom/ Sat, 24 Aug 2024 14:13:38 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=5979 Why have many people abandoned religion? Why do many young people do much worse in school than their parents and grandparents did? Why does virtually everyone claim innumerable rights but far fewer accept personal responsibility? Why do many news media ignore the ethical codes their predecessors honored? Why do increasing numbers of people disparage fellow [...]

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]]> Changing Perceptions of God and Self https://mind-at-work.com/changing-perceptions-of-god-and-self/ Sat, 02 Jul 2022 17:50:16 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=4922 If members of my generation were asked the following questions when they were in their 20s, here is how I believe most of them would have answered: Do you believe in God? Yes                                                                    What do you believe about God? That He created me to know, love, and serve Him in this world and be happy [...]

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]]> The Consequence of Ignoring Consequences https://mind-at-work.com/the-consequence-of-ignoring-consequences/ Sat, 18 Dec 2021 15:11:30 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=4714 An idea prompts an action, which in turn suggests another idea, which leads to yet another action, and so on. That has been the pattern for as long as human beings have existed. The results of the pattern are known as consequences—some good some bad; some intended, others unexpected. History has shown that individuals who achieve [...]

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]]> The Roots of Mass Murder https://mind-at-work.com/the-roots-of-mass-murder/ Wed, 28 Feb 2018 21:53:46 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=2589 Since the beginning of this century, 36 mass shootings in 22 states have claimed the lives of 388 people. Although this number is less than the number of murders in the City of Chicago alone—500 every year—the randomness of mass shootings makes them more frightening and puzzling. The roots of mass murder, like those of a [...]

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]]> A Christian View of Self https://mind-at-work.com/christian-view-self/ Thu, 18 Sep 2014 16:59:25 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=1136 “That I feed the hungry, that I forgive an insult, that I love my enemy in the name of Christ—all these are undoubtedly great virtues . . . But what if I should discover that the least among them all, the poorest of all the beggars, the most impudent of all the offenders, the very [...]

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