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VATICAN CITY – The Vatican issued new psychological screening guidelines for seminarians Thursday — the latest effort by the Roman Catholic Church to be more selective about its priesthood candidates following a series of sex abuse scandals.
The church said it issued the new guidelines to help church leaders weed out candidates with "psychopathic disturbances." The scandals have rocked the church in recent years, triggering lawsuits that have cost hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements.
"(The guidelines) became ever more urgent because of the sexual scandals," Monsignor Jean-Louis Brugues told reporters. He stressed, however, that psychological testing was used in some seminaries as far back as the 1960s — or at least a decade before the sexual abuse scandals exploded in public.
"In all too many cases, psychological defects, sometimes of a pathological kind, reveal themselves only after ordination to the priesthood," the guidelines said. "Detecting defects earlier would help avoid many [...]

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Birth of Consciousness
Many non human creatures have emotions—“human emotions however have evolved to making connections to complex ideas, values, principles, and judgments”—thus human emotion is special—the impact of feelings on humans is the result of consciousness—a distinct difference between feeling and knowing a feeling—“neither the emotion or the feeling caused by the emotion is conscious”—these things happen in a biological state—there are three stages here; emotion, feeling, and consciousness of feeling—consciousness must be present if feelings have an influence beyond the here and the now—consciousness is tooted in the representation of the body.
We need not be conscious of the emotion or the inducer of the emotion—we are about as effective in stopping an emotion as in stopping a sneeze.
“Emotions are about the life of an organism, its body to be precise, and their role is to assist the organism in maintaining life…emotions are biologically determined processes, depending upon innately set [...]

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Originally Posted by President Grover Cleveland
Christians must vote for onest men and take consistent ground in politics, or the Lord will curse them…God cannot sustain this free and blessed country, which we love and pray, unless the Church will take right ground. Politics are a part of religion in a country such as this, and Christians must do their duty to the country as a part of their duty to God.

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The government sent out more than $1 billion in fraudulent refunds last year and offered this explanation Thursday for the bad checks in the mail: The Internal Revenue Service has too few resources to pursue every tax fraud case.
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This. Fucking. Election.

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If you had a choice - an Obama victory in California or Prop. 8 failing, which would you take? I ask this because there is going to be a large turnout of black voters for Obama, and black voters do not, as a majority, favor same sex marriage.

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I’m not to happy about the way the last two elections went, and am very concerned about the upcoming election. Was happy that my favorite radio show (The Joan Kenley Show, online) did an episode about voting fraud and how to make sure your vote counts. Here’s the episode: The Joan Kenley Show - Every Vote Must Count and here’s an emergency #: For any problems voting - call 866 Our Vote - for Election Protection!

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