I would like to know if taking an obligation to do something in "Good Faith" should be interpreted as requiring a higher than "reasonable" amount of effort to accomplish the task.
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I wouldn't have thought so as it is too vague a concept.  I think on the contrary the assumption is 'good faith' with mis-representation and due-diligence being the test against.
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Due diligence (also known as due care) is the effort made by an ordinarily prudent or reasonable party to avoid harm to another party or himself. Failure to make this effort is considered negligence. Quite often a contract will specify that a party is required to provide due diligence
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That is relative, I've done more things in my life than most people are willing to believe. By my standards, were I to tell someone to get a life, it would involve lofty goals. In my opinion, because of my background, I think that it is a phrase meant to offend rather than to be taken literally, in that case whoever told you that, you tell them I am telling them to get a life.
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I believe that we should live our lives now, not for some indeterminant reward when we die.  And part of living that life means doing good works, not for the goodies but because that's what good people do.
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That is a very beautiful quote....\nIt is fine just the way you typed it, but, yes, the source should go first...not that it matters, it is the substance of the quote that is important.\nThank you for posting this great Bible quote...\nI really needed it this morning!
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Actually that should read "God helps those who help themselves to everything they can," got it yet. Not a bible quote or a very deep philosophical point. It is more Machiavellian than Christian.
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Words are powerful.  Yet without the intention being at least efforted, they are meaningless.\n\nDoing what you say you are going to do means you have integrity.  Integrity is a GREAT and honorable quality to have.  It is a quality that is very highly sought after, but so little pursued as it is a difficult path to walk.\n\nPat yourself on the back....You are doing it.  Remind others that intent is everything and action is what makes intent known.  \n\nA person's words are their wand......what they do with them is what makes the magick happen.
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I was thinking about the same thing the other day. It's funny how we hear phrases so much we know what they mean, but sometimes don't stop to think about it literally. I think it means to take something as if it will always be granted to you, as if you won't have to work hard for it in the future.
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It depends on the individual's point of view as well as the religious faith.  If shall your intentions be serious and true: Shall it harms None, do what Ye will.
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In the example, various degrees of misconduct cannot always be quantified. Generally, validation and justification of a viable nature, are both required. These are for the purpose of running and proliferating healthy societies, and also for ensuring clean individual conscience and morals. Any ONE ensures BOTH!
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T.S. Eliot said mankind cannot bear very much reality.  Faith is a psychological crutch, the thing that keeps you from going mad every time you remember that you, too, are going to die and there's nothing to be done about it and it's just so massively unfair.  Naturally nobody would ever admit this.  When getting an education and applying logic and reason are so very difficult and frightening, it's "only human" to take the easy way out.\n\nWhich means, come to think of it, that faith isn't really a virtue! Virtue is supposed to be a matter of making hard choices -- otherwise it's valueless.\n\nI suppose the reason why people value faith (despite all of this) is that they have nothing better to put in its place -- after all, they've already given up on reality.  When you've chosen to discard the very best thing going, what the hell else is there except a fantasy.
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Many religions have the concept of proselytising, which means it is their religious duty to 'save' or convert others to their faith. It doesn't matter if outside people are interested in their beliefs or not, or if in fact, they have their own code of morals or ethics. It's just part of the faitholder's religious duties. It does tend to numb the brain though, doesn't it?
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YES.  I BELIEVE ENOUGH TO FOLLOW.\n\nTHERE IS A DIFFERENCE OF SIMPLY BELIEVING, AND BELIEVING ENOUGH TO FOLLOW.\n\n\n.
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I think a certain amount of leeway is a good thing, but if a relgious practice presents a danger, or is disruptive, or interferes with the performance of a job, then the person needs to decide how important that practice is.\n\nFor example, the ceremonial dagger thing presents a real danger in school and simply should not be allowed.
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It is the responsibility of everyone who is a believer to pray for those who govern over us. Th bible states that there is no authority in existence that is not placed there by God. There are multiple insights in how God works through government in the first and second book of Kings. It is important to have our trust in God since the outcome of our prayers "let it be thy will" will result in just that. The right decisions are not always aligned with our expectations and this is where we must increase in faith, by knowing that God is in Control and utilizes even evil acts by humans towards the good of those who trust in him.
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Many people don't see religion as casting all humans as inherently bad.  For some of us, for example, our belief in a higher power incentivizes us to do good even when society would permit us not to.  In my own personal conduct, integrity is the hallmark of everything that I do and say.  I trace that integrity to a belief that at some point in the future I will have to answer for (i.e. justify) my every choice, word, and action.  In other words, even when it appears that no one is observing my conduct, I behave because I believe that Someone is.  It has become fashionable in political circles to mention one's religion, and particularly one's fundamentalism, much in the same vein as one lists other credentials (i.e. education, business experience, and political involvement to date).  I am tremendously skeptical that many if any of our political leaders truly believe the faith they profess.  I am convinced that if more of them anticipated justifying their conduct to a higher power, the world would automatically be better and, for example, the war in Iraq might never have begun under such false pretenses.
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Dear brothers and sisters, what's the use of saying you have faith if you don't prove it by your actions? That kind of faith can't save anyone. Suppose you see a brother or sister who needs food or clothing,  and you say, "Well, good-bye and God bless you; stay warm and eat well" - but then you don't give that person any food or clothing. What good does that do? So you see, it isn't enough just to have faith. Faith that doesn't show itself by good deeds is no faith at all - it is dead and useless. - James chapter 2\n\nIf you think is wrong you won't do it. You do it because you don't think it is wrong.