The lessons I learned trying to teach my child generosity

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2015/11/23/the-lessons-i-learned-trying-to-teach-my-child-generosity/?tid=hybrid_content_3_na:  Research by Netta Weinstein and Richard Ryan found that college students reported higher levels of happiness on days that they had done something helpful or kind for others, but only when those actions felt self-chosen. Such self-chosen prosocial acts can even be seen in brain scans, according to a study at the University of Oregon; the reward centers of the brain were activated during the act of giving money, but turned out to be considerably greater when the person giving viewed the act as a choice rather than a mandatory charitable action.

THE RECONTEXTUALIZATION OF KING SOLOMON: A DRUG INTERVENTION FIASCO

Subject:	Re: Your blog
From:	Janet Gary (jgary@LearnLink.Emory.Edu)
To:	jimedavery@att.net;
Date:	Thursday, October 21, 2010 5:45 PM

James Avery <jimedavery@att.net> writes:

Barrel'>http://anattemptathumility.blogspot.com/2010/10/halloween-every-2-years.html">Barrel

1) I can't answer the question you asked about God with "yes" or "no."

2) I suppose you know your yard and blog will either bring you negative response or no response at all, with the exception of your close friends.

3) What kind of response do you expect from me?

Subject:	Re: Your blog
From:	James Avery (jimedavery@att.net)
To:	jgary@LearnLink.Emory.Edu;
Date:	Thursday, October 21, 2010 8:57 PM

was not really expecting a response. 

but it was nice of you to do so.

jim ed.

Subject:	Re: Your blog
From:	James Avery (jimedavery@att.net)
To:	jgary@LearnLink.Emory.Edu;
Date:	Thursday, October 21, 2010 10:00 PM

after giving it more thought. 

like to add:

"A truly virtuous man would come to the aid of a complete stranger equally as he would a "close friend."
Then again, a truly virtuous man would have no friends."

Not claiming to be anywhere close to virtuous; nor is my intent making friends. 

"Doing the right thing for the wrong reason has no morale worth."

Negative response not always a bad thing.  Where would Christians be without Jesus Cruxifixion.

Would call that a "negative response"  to his message.

Truly, I have nothing against the man.  Stripped of all the divinity stuff,  nothing really unique about his teachings.

Subject:	Re: Your blog
From:	Janet Gary (jgary@LearnLink.Emory.Edu)
To:	jimedavery@att.net;
Date:	Friday, October 22, 2010 4:50 AM

Confirmation or rebuttal is futile to one who asks for none.

Subject:	Re: Your blog
From:	James Avery (jimedavery@att.net)
To:	jgary@LearnLink.Emory.Edu;
Date:	Friday, October 22, 2010 4:24 PM

"There is a need to maintain a kind of balance of intellectual power. If no atheist philosophers engaged with the issue of God's existence, then the field would be left to the believers. We would then have the impression that only the religious deal with these issues with intelligence and sophistication. That would give succour to the legions of believers who have no interest in theology, but like to know others are taking care of it for them. We need books like this, therefore, not to win the battle–-for it can't be won-–but simply to show the enemy isn't off the hook."

The word "enemy" bit strong of a word.   I do not consider people of faith my enemy; nor do I believe it was "Muslim who killed us on 9/11,"  as O'Reilly said it on much talked about episode of  The View.

From a homosexual's point of view, the Bible or the Quran, same as "six and half a dozen."

If right is right, and wrong is wrong; then anything not quite right nor completely wrong has to fall somewhere in between.  Believe most would agree a non-believer, who's also a homosexual, automatically gets placed the closest to wrong. But where does one view themselves on that line in relation with people like Rev. Phelps, Bishop Long, Brother Ted?  Oh what  the hell; let's put The Cheney Family on there, as well?

The only way I can relate to this question is the fact, that out of three children, two sons who were hearing impaired that did not have a good relationship with, much respect for their father; the daughter, in every sense normal, who right up to his death, despite his seeming indifferent,  wanted her father proud, always seeking his approval.

Probably should add, my brother , 5 years older than me,  an alcoholic who until very recently, lived at home.

Yet in the end, in the Will,  everything was split evenly three ways.  And my sister gave him 2 granddaughters as well.

Whatever it was in the beginning.......it's neutral. 

No one is going anywhere without anybody.

Simply Jim

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William Blake's

The Judgement of Solomon

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"Mother.  

Am I correct believing you to have spoken with Janet?"

"Yes I have. Him too!

She had nothing but nice things to say about you.  Was not impressed with him."

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From:	Janet Gary (jgary@LearnLink.Emory.Edu)
To:	jimedavery@att.net;
Date:	Saturday, January 30, 2010 9:33 AM

Jim Ed, you honor me to share yourself and your writing in this way.  I feel a bit daunted by your trust in me.  We really don't know each other that well. Salty language doesn't bother me in the least. I'm sorry you are feeling depressed.  I have experienced that a lot of my life, but am better thanks to some good meds and good therapy!  I have learned to accept myself more, "fleas and all."

I have read your blogs and found them quite interesting, a bit diaturbing, and mysterious.  At the risk of being one of those "fools (who) rush in where angels fear to tread" I am going to respond to several parts of your writing, blog by blog.

1) Barrell of Monkeys: "Genesis" in reverse"

I'm not sure I understand this one completely except  maybe to say the humans can evolve in reverse as well as forward from our ape beginnings  Just my humble opinion!

You gave an example of how painful it is to share yourself with people at work who don't share your political views.  The question is, does it really change anyone's mind when people have such opposite views?  Isn't there something in the Bible about not casting one's pearls among swine?

It has been my experience that some people can hear my deepest musings and others cannot.  I try to be selective, but I often find my mouth preceding my head!  That does not usually turn out well.  Only when I find someone who is open to differences can I really hear and be heard.

2) Pale Blue Dot

Carl Sagan is a wise man.

3) An Innocence lost.

Is that culte little boy you?  

We mothers have to be taught by our sons and daughters who they really are, since we often see our children as projections of ourselves and try to make them into who we wish we could be.  This is not fair to either one.  I am trying now to really show my grown  children who I am and get to know who they really are.  It is a daunting task, but very rewarding!

4) "H" is for.....

In the alphabet, G comes before H--

Gratitude

Goodness

Giving

Growing

GOD

...and F comes before G

Forgiving (oneself and others)  

HUMILITY is, indeed hard to come by.

POSTNOTE:

It is my belief that although each of us is unique--different from anyone else in the world--we are, as human beings, more alike that different--we all bleed, cry, laugh, hate, love, and need other people to hear and understand us.  It is my life-long mission to try to see myself and others as God the Creator intended us to be, to judge less and to love more.  I fall short more than not, but maintain hope.

Janet

GEORGE BOOLE - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Boole:  George Boole (/ˈbuːl/; 2 November 1815 – 8 December 1864) was an English mathematician, educator, philosopher and logician. He worked in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, and is best known as the author of The Laws of Thought (1854) which contains Boolean algebra. Boolean logic is credited with laying the foundations for the information age. Boole maintained that:

No general method for the solution of questions in the theory of probabilities can be established which does not explicitly recognise, not only the special numerical bases of the science, but also those universal laws of thought which are the basis of all reasoning, and which, whatever they may be as to their essence, are at least mathematical as to their form. 

Symbolic logic

Main article: Boolean algebra

In 1847 Boole published the pamphlet Mathematical Analysis of Logic. He later regarded it as a flawed exposition of his logical system, and wanted An Investigation of the Laws of Thought on Which are Founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities to be seen as the mature statement of his views. Contrary to widespread belief, Boole never intended to criticise or disagree with the main principles of Aristotle's logic. Rather he intended to systematise it, to provide it with a foundation, and to extend its range of applicability. Boole's initial involvement in logic was prompted by a current debate on quantification, between Sir William Hamilton who supported the theory of "quantification of the predicate", and Boole's supporter Augustus De Morgan who advanced a version of De Morgan duality, as it is now called. Boole's approach was ultimately much further reaching than either sides' in the controversy. It founded what was first known as the "algebra of logic" tradition.

Among his many innovations is his principle of wholistic reference, which was later, and probably independently, adopted by Gottlob Frege and by logicians who subscribe to standard first-order logic.

A 2003 article provides a systematic comparison and critical evaluation of Aristotelian logic and Boolean logic; it also reveals the centrality of wholistic reference in Boole's philosophy of logic.

Boole's 1854 definition of universe of discourse

In every discourse, whether of the mind conversing with its own thoughts, or of the individual in his intercourse with others, there is an assumed or expressed limit within which the subjects of its operation are confined. The most unfettered discourse is that in which the words we use are understood in the widest possible application, and for them the limits of discourse are co-extensive with those of the universe itself. But more usually we confine ourselves to a less spacious field.

Sometimes, in discoursing of men we imply (without expressing the limitation) that it is of men only under certain circumstances and conditions that we speak, as of civilised men, or of men in the vigour of life, or of men under some other condition or relation. Now, whatever may be the extent of the field within which all the objects of our discourse are found, that field may properly be termed the universe of discourse. Furthermore, this universe of discourse is in the strictest sense the ultimate subject of the discourse.

Treatment of addition in logic

Boole conceived of "elective symbols" of his kind as an algebraic structure. But this general concept was not available to him: he did not have the segregation standard in abstract algebra of postulated (axiomatic) properties of operations, and deduced properties. His work was a beginning to the algebra of sets, again not a concept available to Boole as a familiar model. His pioneering efforts encountered specific difficulties, and the treatment of addition was an obvious difficulty in the early days.

Boole replaced the operation of multiplication by the word 'and' and addition by the word 'or'. But in Boole's original system, + was a partial operation: in the language of set theory it would correspond only to disjoint union of subsets. Later authors changed the interpretation, commonly reading it as exclusive or, or in set theory terms symmetric difference; this step means that addition is always defined.

In fact there is the other possibility, that + should be read as disjunction, This other possibility extends from the disjoint union case, where exclusive or and non-exclusive or both give the same answer. Handling this ambiguity was an early problem of the theory, reflecting the modern use of both Boolean rings and Boolean algebras (which are simply different aspects of one type of structure). Boole and Jevons struggled over just this issue in 1863, in the form of the correct evaluation of x + x. Jevons argued for the result x, which is correct for + as disjunction. Boole kept the result as something undefined. He argued against the result 0, which is correct for exclusive or, because he saw the equation x + x = 0 as implying x = 0, a false analogy with ordinary algebra.

Probability theory

The second part of the Laws of Thought contained a corresponding attempt to discover a general method in probabilities. Here the goal was algorithmic: from the given probabilities of any system of events, to determine the consequent probability of any other event logically connected with those events.

Boole's Views

Boole's views were given in four published addresses: The Genius of Sir Isaac Newton; The Right Use of Leisure; The Claims of Science; and The Social Aspect of Intellectual Culture. The first of these was from 1835, when Charles Anderson-Pelham, 1st Earl of Yarborough gave a bust of Newton to the Mechanics' Institute in Lincoln. The second justified and celebrated in 1847 the outcome of the successful campaign for early closing in Lincoln, headed by Alexander Leslie-Melville, of Branston Hall. The Claims of Science was given in 1851 at Queen's College, Cork. The Social Aspect of Intellectual Culture was also given in Cork, in 1855 to the Cuvierian Society.

Though his biographer Des MacHale describes Boole as an "agnostic deist", Boole read a wide variety of Christian theology. Combining his interests in mathematics and theology, he compared the Christian trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost with the three dimensions of space, and was attracted to the Hebrew conception of God as an absolute unity. Boole considered converting to Judaism but in the end was said to have chosen Unitarianism. Boole came to speak against a what he saw as "prideful" scepticism, and instead, favoured the belief in a "Supreme Intelligent Cause", He also declared "I firmly believe, for the accomplishment of a purpose of the Divine Mind." In addition, he stated that he perceived "teeming evidences of surrounding design" and concluded that "the course of this world is not abandoned to chance and inexorable fate."

Two influences on Boole were later claimed by his wife, Mary Everest Boole: a universal mysticism tempered by Jewish thought, and Indian logic. Mary Boole stated that an adolescent mystical experience provided for his life's work:

My husband told me that when he was a lad of seventeen a thought struck him suddenly, which became the foundation of all his future discoveries. It was a flash of psychological insight into the conditions under which a mind most readily accumulates knowledge [...] For a few years he supposed himself to be convinced of the truth of "the Bible" as a whole, and even intended to take orders as a clergyman of the English Church. But by the help of a learned Jew in Lincoln he found out the true nature of the discovery which had dawned on him. This was that man's mind works by means of some mechanism which "functions normally towards Monism."

In Ch. 13 of Laws of Thought Boole used examples of propositions from Baruch Spinoza and Samuel Clarke. The work contains some remarks on the relationship of logic to religion, but they are slight and cryptic. Boole was apparently disconcerted at the book's reception just as a mathematical toolset:

George afterwards learned, to his great joy, that the same conception of the basis of Logic was held by Leibnitz, the contemporary of Newton. De Morgan, of course, understood the formula in its true sense; he was Boole's collaborator all along. Herbert Spencer, Jowett, and Robert Leslie Ellis understood, I feel sure; and a few others, but nearly all the logicians and mathematicians ignored [953] the statement that the book was meant to throw light on the nature of the human mind; and treated the formula entirely as a wonderful new method of reducing to logical order masses of evidence about external fact.

Mary Boole claimed that there was profound influence — via her uncle George Everest — of Indian thought on George Boole, as well as on Augustus De Morgan and Charles Babbage:

Think what must have been the effect of the intense Hinduizing of three such men as Babbage, De Morgan, and George Boole on the mathematical atmosphere of 1830–65. What share had it in generating the Vector Analysis and the mathematics by which investigations in physical science are now conducted?

Heroin, Survivor of War on Drugs, Returns With New Face

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/23/us/heroin-survivor-of-war-on-drugs-returns-with-new-face.html?_r=0:  The crisis today is markedly different from its predecessors. It has settled not so much in large cities as in suburbs and rural America. New users are mostly white. Indeed, a study last year for JAMA Psychiatry, a journal published by the American Medical Association, found that in the last decade whites accounted for 90 percent of those who tried heroin for the first time. Typically, they were young people who initially got hooked on OxyContin, Percocet or other widely prescribed pain relievers belonging to a class of drugs known as opioids. Heroin, also an opioid, became desirable because it is a lot cheaper than those medications, and readily available. Its users are estimated at 330,000, triple the number a decade ago.

Something else is different about this crisis: In and out of government, among Republicans as well as Democrats, the pendulum has swung from the “lock-’em-up” ethos that long prevailed. The emphasis now is more ontreating addiction as a disease, not a police matter.

But compassion is the ascendant spirit. One reflection of this is a spate of state laws enabling relatives of addicts and other nonmedical people to administer the drug naloxone, known by its brand name, Narcan. It rapidly reverses an opioid overdose, and is a proven lifesaver. On Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration approved a nasal spray to go along with injectable versions of Narcan already in use.  

Is it purely a coincidence that the pendulum swung from punishment to caring at the same time that heroin abuse became a crisis largely affecting whites, not blacks? Perhaps, although many would doubt it.

Might a strongly punitive approach make a comeback? It is always possible. Pendulums, by their nature, swing. But even if that were to happen, narcotics seem unlikely to disappear.

That was the sense of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a four-term United States senator from New York. Mr. Moynihan, who died in 2003, wrote an essay in 1998 on the 100th anniversary of heroin’s introduction that offered this observation: “Since the desire of man to alter his state of consciousness is as old as human history, and technology continues to provide a breathtaking array of drugs capable of producing everything from oblivion to nirvana, I think it safe to assume that we may never win a ‘war’ against drugs.”

A Baby Dies at Day Care, and a Mother Asks Why She Had to Leave Him So Soon - The New York Times

A Baby Dies at Day Care, and a Mother Asks Why She Had to Leave Him So Soon - The New York Times: As he did most mornings of the 117 days of his life, the first thing Karl did that Monday morning in July was to give me a smile like sunlight. He lay in the bed for a while, between his dad and me, looking from one of us to the other, working himself up with gurgles of delight. That morning, which started the same as all his others, would be a little different, however: it was his mommy’s first day back at work.

This article isn’t about day-care safety. This isn’t an indictment of the company I work for; I had one of the better parental leave policies of anyone I know. What this article is about is that my infant died in the care of a stranger, when he should have been with me. Our culture demanded it.

I wasn’t just up against the end of my parental leave. I was up against an entire culture that places very little value on caring for infants and small children. Parental leave reduces infant death, gives us healthier, more well-adjusted adults and helps women stay in the workforce. If we truly valued the 47 percent of the work force who are women, and the value of our families, things would look different. Mothers could go back to work after taking time off to recover physically from birth and bond with their young children. Health care could be available to bridge that return to work so that our children could get their wellness checkups and vaccinations.

Yes, it’s possible that even in a different system, Karl still might not have lived a day longer, but had he had been with me, where I wanted him, I wouldn’t be sitting here, living with the nearly incapacitating anguish of a question that has no answer.

There are plenty of good examples of how to create a national parental leave system that works. Our children can’t afford lobbyists. It’s up to us parents to demand more.

A MAN DANCING FLAGS ON MASON MILL RD

Published on Sep 1, 2015

I have seen this guy dancing with flags in front of many hand written signs on his front yard on my way home almost every afternoon. I took this video looking backwards, and I don't think he knew I was videotaping him. I wish I know what his intention is, entertaining us drivers!

Jim Ed Avery 1 second ago

A lot of people have videotaped me and I keep yelling for them to send me a link. So far I have only come across two uploads, yours included, through the use of Google searches. The other one was just a picture that had been uploaded to reddit. It's a complicated story having many layers that's been buildiing up and becoming even more difficult explaining since having had to perform my own crystal meths addiction intervention Thanksgiving 2010. And I began my intervention by telling the only friendly neighbor I thought I had, an old woman by the name of Janet Claire Segers Gary who is the wife of George Robert Gary, Sr. MDiv, ThD retired from Emory's Candler School of Theology but still working just down the street at (Pastoral) Care and Counseling Center of Georgia; both formerly living in the house directly across the street from mine. Although claiming to Justin Gray on Fox New Channel Five to having moved out in part because of my bizzare behavior, they didn't move far; stiil living in same neighborhood. "By extention, my Arkansan family doesn't care how educated a gay man is either. He still a "FAGGOT!" Although radical atheist as an adult, I still consider myself very much so a Methodist due to my Methodist upbringing first 18 years of my life small town of Prescott, Arkansas population 4000. As my mother is still a member of this church, let's make this 53 years upbringing with this small town Methodist church. And this family of Methodist ministers once living in the house directly across the street from me, (they also have a son who is pastor at Owl Rock Methodist Church and a daughter who is senior pastor at Mt. Zion Methodist Church), have managed to completely destroy any respect having for the Methodist Church. "Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops." - Maya Angelou Every sign in my yard has a story behind it. For example, the one that says: PERNICIOUS "He was so big." ROSEWOOD MASSACRE "He's so black that boy!" PREVARICATION Just my crafty C.racked O.ut W.hore way of competing, best I'm able figuring out all by my lonesome, up against Rev. Dr. (Bob) Gary, Senior's years of "Thou Artful Dodger Ways" experience in the use of emotive/loaded language and the manipulation of congenially bias, calling, the wife of a nationally known pastoral consultant nothing but just another PERNICiOUS PREVARICATING CUNT! "Why did the Rev. pervert, ThD. cross the road? His D**K was stuck in that chicken. Why did chicken cross the road? That COCK was bigger." My God! When listening to their version of our story, you would have thought I'd raped this old woman who in the beginning was the first crossing over to my side of street ; THE HOSEA JOKE BETWEEN ME AND HER HUSBAND BOB! In an attempt keeping brief my story which has no short version, I'm trying to embarrass Emory University into a Methodist tribunal; helping me tell our story. "Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see." - Martin Luther King, Jr. And it helps, I hoping at least anyway, that the "Free From Love of Money" Presbyterian Elder President of our secular Methodist liberal arts and science campus of Emory University having a "Happy Black History Month" problem I'm believing I could help with if they just give the chance, unconditionally, hearing what this handicapped person, a hearing impairment classified as "moderately severe" and getting worse, wanting to share. Even our ex-president Jimmy Carter had a "Happy Black History Month" problem, most people unaware, I'm not covinced has been epiated appropriately yet.

Society of Jesus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Jesus:  The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu, S.J., SJ or SI) is a male religious congregation of the Catholic Church. The members are called Jesuits. The society is engaged in evangelization and apostolic ministry in 112 nations on six continents. Jesuits work in education (founding schools, colleges, universities and seminaries), intellectual research, and cultural pursuits. Jesuits also give retreats, minister in hospitals and parishes, and promote social justice and ecumenical dialogue.

Ignatius of Loyola founded the society after being wounded in battle and experiencing a religious conversion. He composed the Spiritual Exercises to help others follow the teachings of Jesus Christ. In 1534, Ignatius and six other young men, including Francis Xavier and Peter Faber, gathered and professed vows of poverty, chastity, and later obedience, including a special vow of obedience to the Pope in matters of mission direction and assignment. Ignatius's plan of the order's organization was approved by Pope Paul III in 1540 by a bull containing the "Formula of the Institute".

Ignatius was a nobleman who had a military background, and the members of the society were supposed to accept orders anywhere in the world, where they might be required to live in extreme conditions. Accordingly, the opening lines of the founding document declared that the Society was founded for "whoever desires to serve as a soldier of God (Spanish: "todo el que quiera militar para Dios"), to strive especially for the defense and propagation of the faith and for the progress of souls in Christian life and doctrine." Jesuits are thus sometimes referred to colloquially as "God's Soldiers", "God's Marines", or "the Company", references to Ignatius' history as a soldier and the society's commitment to accepting orders anywhere and to endure any conditions. The Society participated in the Counter-Reformation and, later, in the implementation of the Second Vatican Council in the Catholic Church.

The Society of Jesus is consecrated under the patronage of Madonna Della Strada, a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and it is led by a Superior General, currently Adolfo Nicolás.

The headquarters of the society, its General Curia, is in Rome. The historic curia of St. Ignatius is now part of the Collegio del Gesù attached to the Church of the Gesù, the Jesuit Mother Church.

In 2013, Jorge Mario Bergoglio became the first Jesuit Pope, taking the name Pope Francis.

Ignatius laid out his original vision for the new order in the "Formula of the Institute of the Society of Jesus", which is "the fundamental charter of the order, of which all subsequent official documents were elaborations and to which they had to conform." He ensured that his formula was contained in two papal bulls signed by Pope Paul III in 1540 and by Pope Julius III in 1550. The formula expressed the nature, spirituality, community life and apostolate of the new religious order. Its famous opening statement echoed Ignatius' military background:

Whoever desires to serve as a soldier of God beneath the banner of the Cross in our Society, which we desire to be designated by the Name of Jesus, and to serve the Lord alone and the Church, his spouse, under the Roman Pontiff, the Vicar of Christ on earth, should, after a solemn vow of perpetual chastity, poverty and obedience, keep what follows in mind. He is a member of a Society founded chiefly for this purpose: to strive especially for the defence and propagation of the faith and for the progress of souls in Christian life and doctrine, by means of public preaching, lectures and any other ministration whatsoever of the Word of God, and further by means of retreats, the education of children and unlettered persons in Christianity, and the spiritual consolation of Christ's faithful through hearing confessions and administering the other sacraments. Moreover, he should show himself ready to reconcile the estranged, compassionately assist and serve those who are in prisons or hospitals, and indeed, to perform any other works of charity, according to what will seem expedient for the glory of God and the common good.

 Pierre-Jean De Smet was a Belgian Roman Catholic priest and Jesuit, active in missionary work among the Native Americans of the Midwestern United States and Western United States in the mid-19th century. His extensive travels as a missionary were said to total 180,000 miles. He was known as the "Friend of Sitting Bull" because he persuaded the Sioux war chief to participate in negotiations with the United States government for the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie.

Jesuits have been accused of using casuistry to obtain justifications for unjustifiable actions. (cf. formulary controversy and Lettres Provinciales, by Blaise Pascal). Hence, the Concise Oxford Dictionary of the English language, records "equivocating" as a secondary denotation of the word "Jesuit".

Although in the first 30 years of the existence of the Society of Jesus there were many Jesuit conversos (Catholic-convert Jews) including the second Father General Diego Lainez, an anti-converso faction led to the Decree de genere (1593), which proclaimed that either Jewish or Muslim ancestry, no matter how distant, was an insurmountable impediment for admission to the Society of Jesus. This new rule was contrary to the original wishes of Ignatius who "said that he would take it as a special grace from our Lord to come from Jewish lineage." The 16th-century Decree de genere remained in exclusive force until the 20th century, when it was repealed in 1946.

Within the Roman Catholic Church, there has existed a sometimes tense relationship between Jesuits and the Holy See due to questioning of official Church teaching and papal directives, such as those on abortion, birth control, women deacons, homosexuality, and liberation theology. Usually, this theological free thinking is academically oriented, being prevalent at the university level. From this standpoint, the function of this debate is less to challenge the magisterium than to illustrate the church's ability to compromise in a pluralist society based on shared values that do not always align with religious teachings. The previous two Popes have appointed Jesuits to powerful positions in the Church; John Paul II appointed Roberto Tucci, S.J., to the College of Cardinals, after serving as the chief organizer of papal trips and public events. Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI have appointed ten Jesuit Cardinals to notable jobs. Benedict XVI appointed Jesuits to notable positions in his curia, such as Archbishop Luis Ladaria Ferrer, S.J., as Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and Rev. Federico Lombardi, S.J., Vatican Press Secretary. Pope Francis, elected in 2013, has become the first Jesuit Pope and is initiating discussions on social matters.

"HER SON'S A DRUG DEALER!": SHOOTOUT AT GOLDEN CORRAL : "WELL HE'S GOT TO HAVE A JOB!!!"

Janine Brown for Georgia District 59

November 2 at 5:33pm · 

More positive change for people with criminal records. President Obama is "banning the box" for federal job applications. Proud of the work that I did with ABLE and other community allies to push this issue and win at the local and state level. http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/obama-bans-the-box

Obama bans the box

The president is announcing a new order to reduce potential discrimination against former convicts in the hiring process.

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AJ Lostintvv Because that's what we want, more criminals working for our government. If they really want to prove they've changed and got their sh*t together then have them struggle like others before them. It's B.S. to believe they couldn't get a job due to a criminal record, it actually depends on the record and the worse it is should make it difficult. I have 2 felonies from 30+ yrs ago and I struggled for about 5 yrs so once I found a job I stayed there and after that people became more willing to listen how and why I have the felonies. Now I manage businesses with no problems finding jobs.

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Bryan Nimmo You just said "I struggled for about 5 yrs" and don't believe that people can't get a job due to their records?

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AJ Lostintvv Bryan Nimmo Yes I did struggle but I did find a job. I don't believe they can't find one and need to have that box removed. If I wasn't clear I apologize but I see nothing wrong with the question on an application. Most jobs now do background checks anyhow and it will be found so nothing will really change just by removing the box. I just think this is B.S.

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AJ Lostintvv You do get whatever you bring forward. Commit a crime then work 3x harder to prove you deserve another shot to be trusted.

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James Avery Think ...MASS INCARCERATION. Now think. automatic rejection on a massive scale... INDIFFERENCE ... due to this box having been checked. "THOSE WITH A SURPLUS ARE BETTER ABLE CONTROLLING THEIR CIRCUMSTANCES. THOSE WITHOUT A SURPLUS ARE CONTROLLED BY THOSE WITH THE SURPLUS. ONE IS NOT ALWAYS ABLE EXCERCISING GOOD JUDGEMENT." And...STILL... this new order being announced by...OUR...current president..!BARRACK HUSSEIN OBAMA!.. will only get some of these..!CRIMINALS!..having records past round one. Coworker #1 (white woman married no children who didn't have to work but just wanting to keep busy): "HER SON'S A DRUG DEALER!" Coworker #2 (black woman having been relocated from Chicago to Atlanta with her large family in exchange for her husband, once a gang member, testifying as an eyewitness.): "WELL HE'S...!!!GOT!!!... TO HAVE A... JOB!!!" In the end, after all is said and done, the sad fact remains that these...!CRIMINALS!... have got to have jobs; ALL OF THEM. If there are none, then it's wrong of us expecting of them remaining on the sideline watching life continuing to...STILL... just pass them on by. This is asking too much of anyone. Just not going to happen.

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Steve McCann Does this mean that Secret Service Agents, those who are protecting the president can be ex cons?

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Obama bans the box

While the rule was once seen as a common sense way for employers to screen for criminal backgrounds, it has been increasingly criticized as a hurdle that fosters employment discrimination against former inmates, regardless of the severity of their offense or how long ago it occurred. Banning the box delays when employers learn of an applicant’s record.

About 60-to-75% of former inmates cannot find work within their first year out of jail, according to the Justice Department, a huge impediment to re-entering society.

Research shows the existence of a criminal record can reduce an employer’s interest in applicant by about 50%, and that when white and black applicants both have records, employers are far less likely to call back a black applicant than a white one. As a 2009 re-entry study in New York city found, “the criminal record penalty suffered by white applicants (30%) is roughly half the size of the penalty for blacks with a record (60%).”

On Monday, Legend told MSNBC, “We applaud the President’s decision to end this unfair bias against people who have served their time and paid their debt to society. We hope that Congress and state legislatures across the country will follow suit.”

The President announced several other measures Monday, including public housing and money for re-entry programs, and he spoke about prison reform in a speech and an exclusive interview with NBC Nightly News Anchor Lester Holt. 

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/obama-bans-the-box

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