Appendices 1-8
Originally the back of Character
Counts, placed here to save space,
and these together constitute a book themselves—
here for the world to see—for more light
Appendix 1. Freemason Internet Sites
Appendix 2. Character—the Sum of Virtues – 30 Lists
Appendix 3. George Bush’s Presidential
Proclamation
Appendix 4. James L. Holly’s Anti-Mason Efforts
Appendix 5 Founding Fathers in More Light:
Barton, LeHaye, & History
Introduction to Founding Father Analysis
Chart 8. Barton’s Founding Fathers in More Light
A. Founding Era – 1760-1805 – Men 16 Years Old+ in
1776
B. Founding Era – 1760-1805 – Men 16 Years Old+ by
1789
C. Founding Era – 1760-1805 –Younger than 16 Years Old
by 1789
D. Founding Era – 1760-1805 –NOT Founders or New
Residents
E. Outside Founding Era – Born Before 1760
F. Outside Founding Era – Born After 1773,
Children <16 Years 1789
G. Clergymen = 48 in Barton
H. Tim LaHaye’s 54 Founding Fathers
I. 33 Freemason Generals in Continental Army
J. 85 More Freemason Founding Fathers Not in Barton or
LeHaye
Appendix 6. E-Mails to Paige Patterson & SBC
Experts
Appendix 7. Gary Leazer’s Fundamentalism &
Freemasonry
Appendix 8. Teeny-Tiny Applications of 8 Groups
of 8 Proofs
Little Bibliography in 8 Sets a Little Annotated
The order is, roughly, from information
to history to Grand Lodges.
On “What is Freemasonry?” the following is the text of
a leaflet published by the Board of General Purposes of the United Grand Lodge
of England in 1984:
http://web.mit.edu/dryfoo/Masonry/Essays/ugl-whatis.html
Macoy Publishing & Masonic Supply, www.macoy.com, the oldest
Freemasonry publishing and supply company, since 1849.
Freemasons-Freemasonry.com, a huge premier site with many of the classic works
available to read on-line, including Albert Pike, A. G. Mackey.
Masonic Service Association of North America, www.msana.com, pamphlets, masons in congress, medal
of honor recipients, source of many popular brochures and well-organized lists,
including the following:
U.S. Grand
Lodges – www.msana.com/linksus.htm
International
Grand Lodges – www.msana.com/linksintl.htm
Links to other Masonic related sites – www.msana.com/linksother.htm
Freemason.org,
www.freemasonry.org, a web portal to Masonic
sites around the world and home of the
Philalethes Society, the world’s oldest Masonic Research Society
Masonic Info.com, www.masonicinfo.com , has a huge list of famous masons and
info on anti-Masonry. Even includes falsely attributed and infamous masons.
Freemasonry.net,
www.freemasonry.net/links.asp , huge list of Lodge web sites
Freemasonry Today, www.freemasonrytoday.com leading magazine, with links around the
world
Order of Eastern Star, www.easternstar.org with links around the world
Scottish Rite, Northern U.S.,
www.supremecouncil.org, in the 1730’s many Scottish, Irish, and English
Masons moved to the Bordeaux region of France to escape the civil strife in
England. They became known as the “Ecossais” or Scottish Masons, and in 1801
the Supreme Council of 33° was established in Charleston.
York Rite, http://yorkrite.com
World’s Oldest web portal: http://web.mit.edu/dryfoo/Masonry — dubbed the
“world’s oldest Masonic web site”
George
Washington Masonic Memorial, www.gwmemorial.org
Library, Supreme
Council 33rd Degree, www.srmason-sj.org/library.htm
National
Masonic Foundation for Children www.masonicmodel.org,
presents and supports a student assistance program, the Masonic Model Student
Assistance Training (MMSAT) program.
International
Association Legions of Honor is a Shriners
Association consisting of 156 Legion of Honor Units within the Shrine.
Membership requirements are being a Mason, a member of the Shrine and also a
Veteran of the Armed forces. For more information you can access the
International Association Legions of Honor web page at http://ialoh.org.
London
Museum of Freemasonry, www.freemasonry.london.museum, The Library and Museum of Freemasonry is a
registered museum housing one of the finest publicly available collections of
Masonic material in the world.
National Heritage Museum: www.monh.org - click on exhibits —
long-term exhibit entitled “To Build and Sustain: Freemasons in American
Community,” an extraordinary collection, even George Washington’s role in laying the U.S. Capitol’s corner stone.
Washington’s
First Inaugural Speech in New York,
April 30, 1789: see the entire speech at www.ku.edu/carrie/docs/texts/01wash1.htm or at, www.pbs.org/georgewashington/milestones/inaugural_address_read.html
Grand
Lodges
Grand Lodge of England, www.grandLodge-england.org - first
record of the ‘making’ of an English Freemason is Elias Ashmole, the antiquarian and herald, whose collections formed
the basis of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. He
recorded in his diary that a Lodge met at his father-in-law’s house in
Warrington, Cheshire, on 16 October 1646, to make him a Mason. None were
stonemasons. Speculative Freemasonry established on 24 June 1717 when four
London Lodges came together at the Goose and Gridiron Ale House, St Paul’s Churchyard, formed themselves into a Grand
Lodge and elected Anthony Sayer as their Grand
Master—first Grand Lodge in the world.
Grand Lodge
of Ireland, www.irish-freemasons.org - is the
second oldest in the world and the first evidence for its existence comes from
the Dublin Weekly Journal of June 26th 1725.
Grand Lodge
of Israel, www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/9991
Grand Lodge
of Scotland, www.grandLodgescotland.com –
Founded in 1736
Grand Lodge
of Texas: www.grandlodgeoftexas.org
- with one of the largest memberships in the world. Site has a large number of
resources. Charles McKay has taken several of Masonic Education lessons by Mike
Wiggins and the Grand Lodge Masonic Education Committee and converted them into
audio lesions. See,
www.grandlodgeoftexas.org/2004-educational-programs.php
Below are a few good ones: mp3 files of higher
quality and may not stream well in slower dial-up connections, but smaller wma
files will play almost immediately.
The
Five Points of Fellowship:
www.grandlodgeoftexas.org/audio/five_points_of_fellowship.mp3
www.grandlodgeoftexas.org/audio/five_points_of_fellowship.wma
The
Equilateral Triangle
www.grandlodgeoftexas.org/audio/equilateral_triangle.mp3
www.grandlodgeoftexas.org/audio/equilateral_triangle.wma
The
Great Light of Freemasonry
www.grandlodgeoftexas.org/audio/great_light.mp3
www.grandlodgeoftexas.org/audio/great_light.wma
The
Square and Compasses
www.grandlodgeoftexas.org/audio/square_and_compasses.mp3
www.grandlodgeoftexas.org/audio/square_and_compasses.wma
Masonic
Presidents of the United States
www.grandlodgeoftexas.org/audio/masonic_presidents.mp3
www.grandlodgeoftexas.org/audio/masonic_presidents.wma
Grand Lodge
of New York, www.nymasons.org
Grand Lodge
of Washington D.C., www.dcgrandLodge.org
Prince Hall
Grand Lodges; Massachuetts, 1776 1st
Lodge, 1791 Grand Lodge, www.princehall.org — has good list of other 31 other Prince Hall
Grand Lodges in U.S. & beyond; in Texas, 1875, www.mwphglotx.org
Famous
Freemasons
www.masonicinfo.com/famous1.htm — A through L
www.masonicinfo.com/famous2.htm — M through Z
^— This site
also has lists of infamous Masons and falsely attributed Masons
www.phmainstreet.com/suncoast/famous.htm
www.co-masonry.org/language/english/history/famous.asp
Appendix 2. Character—the
Sum of Virtues
Freemasonry is all about
Character Counting, to God and to each other. Freemasonry is less about
Religious Righteousness and more about helping, more about growth than
judgment, more about truth than about finding fault, more about tolerance than
difference, and more about agreement than finding points of disagreement. And
so I add this piece, which was developed for my ethics book, Would You Lie
to Save a Life?.
Today, character can
mean a lot of things, but for the most part it means the total collection of
virtues or vices that make up a person. We intuitively know the difference between the person
with the bad or good character, between the good citizen and the
criminal (even the sane and insane, mature and immature, moral and immoral).
Likewise we know that birds of a feather flock together: people with like character
tend to associate together. And with that, we know that unique personalities
and even unique temperaments are found among those with similar character
where such is a near synonym for reputation.
Character building is
not new, but has a long history. As seen in the bibliography, there was a great
interest before and after WWI, and character building has taken off in the last
twenty years. Character building has been important to every culture we know
anything about. In the U.S., the Josephson Institute of Ethics has led the way,
and its Character Counts programs have been started in many schools across the country.
In these mostly secular
venues, often mirroring the religious, the meaning of character building
always refers to the building of a good character, and without exception the
building of a good character includes the development of several
virtues.
These character building
enterprises and initiatives strengthened and refined the definition of character.
A person who has a strong character has mastered several virtues and good
habits and noble social skills. We shall look at a few of these collections of
virtues after we distinguish between character and temperament.
Outside the religious
worlds, even preceding the secular work on character building, a large amount
of work has been done in psychology on distinguishing temperaments. One the
most popular and well-developed is Isabel Briggs Myers’s Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Every
one should take the Myers-Briggs, if even just for fun. There are many, and
these help us understand each other, respect differences, and help us to
communicate with each other. The Myers-Briggs asks several hundred questions,
and places the person in one of four quadrants, with each quadrant having four
sub-groups. There is hardly a person who has taken that survey who has not been
amazed at their own description after the survey results.
Based upon the MBTI,
David Keirsey has brought
this to life in his Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character,
Intelligence. He has taken the classical four dimensions of
character, meshed them with the MBTI, and interpreted them into our
contemporary settings.
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Rationals: engineers (architects like Albert Einstein and
Marie Curie, and inventors like Walt Disney and Camille Paglia) and
coordinators (masterminds like Dwight Eisenhower and Ayn Rand, and field
marshals like Bill Gates and Margaret Thatcher)
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Idealists:
advocates (healers like Albert Schweitzer and Anne Lingbergh, and champions
like Bill Moyers and Molly Brown) and mentors (counselors like Mohandas
Gandhi and Eleanor Roosevelt, and teachers like Mikhael Gorbachev and
Margaret Mead)
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Artisans:
entertainers (composers like Johnny Carson and Barbra Streisand, and
performers like Elvis Presley and Elisabeth Taylor), and operators (crafters
like Clint Eastwood and Amelia Earhart, and promoters like Franklin Roosevelt
and Madonna)
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Guardians: administrators (inspectors like Harry Truman and
Elizabeth II, and supervisors like Colin Powell and Elizabeth I) and
conservators (protectors like Jimmy Stewart and Mother
Teresa, and providers like George Washington and Martha
Stewart)
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Along with the insightful contributions of the MBTI, Keirsey and others
helped us accept the natural differences between temperament: you could say
Keirsey has helped us understand the application of unconditional Love. Under a
sensitive section in Please Understand Me called “Different Drummers”
Keirsey dramatizes:
If I do not want what you
want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong.
Or if I believe other
than you, at least pause before you correct my view.
Or if my emotion is less
than yours, or more, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel
more strongly or weakly.
Or yet if I act, or fail
to act, in the manner of your design for action, let me be.
I do not, for the moment
at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to
give up changing me into a copy of you.
I may be your spouse,
your parent, your offspring, your friend, or your colleague. If you will allow
me any of my own wants, or emotions, or beliefs, or actions, then you open
yourself, so that some day these ways of mine might not seem so wrong, and
might finally appear to you as right—for me. To put up with me is the first
step to understanding me. Not that you embrace my ways as right for you, but
that you are no longer irritated or disappointed with me for my seeming
waywardness. And in understanding me you might come to prize my differences
from you, and, far from seeking to change me, preserve and even nurture those
differences.
Hear the courageous
plea for caring empathy resident in these statements. One does not need to
agree with the ethics or actions of the person in order to respect their
differences, and in Christian ethics there is certainly a difference between
ethically neutral temperaments and unethical behavior. Truly, it is a
no-brainer that we find all kinds of temperaments in all levels of morality and
immorality. As true—certainly—Jesus found a way to relate and Love all in a way
that the loved person felt loved, no matter their temperament or morals.
Personality is another
way of looking at temperament (or vice versa). Douglas Jackson developed the
Six-Factor Personality Questionnaire (SFPQ) that measures personality
dimensions with each three-facet scales.
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Agreeableness—Abasement, Even-Tempered, Good-Natured
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Extraversion—Affiliation, Dominance, Exhibition
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Independence—Autonomy, Individualism, Self-Reliance
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Industriousness—Achievement, Seriousness, Endurance
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Methodicalness—Cognitive Structure, Deliberateness, Order
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Openness
to Experience—Change, Understanding,
Breadth of Interest
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The Taylor-Johnson
Temperament Analysis (T-JTA) has
been used widely in marriage counseling. It graphs the person’s temperament
through a series of about 9 continuums, and between each of these 9 continuums
is a normal range for most of the population. Many good Christian counselors,
colleges, and seminaries use the T-JTA. Most persons spike outside of the
normal range in a few of the temperament continuums. This survey is usually done
by both spouses, then each spouse does one survey as they think and see
their spouse: revelations abound between how one spouse views the
other as opposed to how the spouse views his- or herself.
The main difference
between temperament and character revolves around ethics: temperament has
little-to-nothing to do with ethics (unless one is out of control), and
character is all about ethics. Temperament is about our individual and unique
collection of social and mental and emotional traits running the gamut between
carrying our feelings on our shoulder to the more cold-shouldered, from the
introvert to the extrovert, from the painter to the rock-climber. Character is
about growing in a collection of virtues—though unique—yet have common goals in
love, truth, justice, sacrifice, and service.
The following indicate
the many ways of categorizing the virtues, and we begin with some biblical
lists.
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1 Corinthians 12 and Roman 12 Combined
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1. Wisdom
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7. Discerning of Spirits
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13. Administration
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2. Knowledge
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8. Tongues
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14. Leadership/Ruleth
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3. Faith
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9. Interpretation Tongues
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15. Exhortation
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4. Healing
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10. Apostleship
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16. Giving
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5. Miracles
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11. Teaching
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17. Mercy
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6. Prophecy
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12. Helping
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18. Love w/out Dissimulation
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1. Love
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8. Forgiveness
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15. Hope
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2. Compassion
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9. Gratitutude
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16. Goodness
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3. Kindness
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10. Wisdom
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17. Faithfulness
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4. Humility
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11. Peace
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18. Self-Control
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5. Gentleness
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12. Righteousness
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19. Purity
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6. Patience
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13. Joy
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20. Understanding
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7. Tolerance
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14. Endurance
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Humility
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Purity of Heart
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Blessed – happy
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Meekness
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Peacemaking
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Mercy
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Suffering Persecution
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Four
Cardinal Virtues following Plato
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Wisdom (or prudence: docility, conscientiousness,
impartiality, tact)
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Courage (or fortitude: triumph in trials, glory in
affliction, moral courage, righteous indignation, industry, thoroughness)
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Temperance (or self-restraint: purity, humility, patience,
meekness, thrift)
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Justice (impartiality, devotion, obedience, gratitude to
God)
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Three
Theological Virtues from St. Paul
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Faith ~ Hope ~ Love
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Four
Cardinal Virtues
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Temperance ~ Fortitude ~
Prudence ~ Justice
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Three
Tenets
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Brotherly Love ~ Relief ~ Truth
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Three Values
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Liberty ~ Equality ~ Fraternity
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1. Self-Discipline
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6. Courage
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2. Compassion
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7. Perseverance
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3. Responsibility
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8. Honesty
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4. Friendship
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9. Loyalty
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5. Work
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10. Faith
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1. Humility
2. Meekness
3. Joyfulness
4. Generosity
5. Love
6. Responsibility
7. Self-Control
8. Truthfulness
9. Deference
10. Creativity
11. Sincerity
12. Faith
13. Thriftiness
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14. Initiative
15. Discernment
16. Discretion
17. Resourcefulness
18. Sensitivity
19. Decisiveness
20. Alertness
21. Compassion
22. Wisdom
23. Boldness
24. Attentiveness
25. Obedience
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26. Honor/Reverence
27. Virtue
28. Determination
29. Tolerance
30. Justice
31. Contentment
32. Forgiveness
33. Loyalty
34. Availability
35. Persuasiveness
36. Patience
37. Hospitality
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38. Gratefulness
39. Enthusiasm
40. Gentleness
41. Punctuality
42. Thoroughness
43. Security
44. Diligence
45. Endurance
46. Dependability
47. Cautiousness
48. Orderliness
49. Flexibility
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1. Joy—Love’s
Strength
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5. Goodness—Love’s Character
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2. Peace—Love’s Security
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6. Faithfulness—Love’s Confidence
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3. Patience—Love’s Endurance
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7. Gentleness—Love’s Humility
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4. Kindness—Love’s Conduct
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8. Self-Control—Love’s Victory
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Honor ~ Courage ~ Commitment
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Determinants: traits: 1. Courage & Strength, face
life-threatening or emotional strain; 2. Honesty, Honest Abe; 3. Kindness,
Loving, Generous; 4. Skill, Expertise, Intelligence; 5. Risk-taking; 6.
Objects of Affection, heroes win hearts & mind
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Depth: timeless, mythical, almost otherworldly; even
diminutive seem larger than life
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Domain: where a hero makes his or her mark, and politics
rank 1st for most heroes, (though usually need to die first), 2nd is
entertainment, 3rd is family members, 4th religious figures, rest coming from
military, science, sports, and the arts
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Database: where we get our information: main sources are
television, radio, magazines; conspicuous by its absence is history class
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Distance: how close we are to our heroes; for most mom &
dad are the heroes
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1. Honest & Trustworthy
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5. Obedience
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2. Kindness
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6. Responsibility
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3. Consideration
& Concern for others
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7. Respect
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4. Compassion
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8. Duty
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1. Trust—birth to 1
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5. Identity—puberty to 18
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2. Autonomy—1 to 3
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6. Intimacy—18 to 25
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3. Initiative—3 to 6
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7. Generativity—25 to 50
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4. Competence—6 to puberty
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8. Ego Integrity—50 to death
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1. Accurate
perception of reality
2. Acceptance
of oneself
3. Spontaneity
4. Problem
centered
5. Need for privacy
6. Autonomous
7. Freshness of appreciation
8. Peak experiences
9. Human kinship
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10. Humility
& respect for others
11. Deep
interpersonal relationships with a select few people
12. Strong
but not necessarily conventional ethical standards
13. Focuses on ends rather than means
14. Nonhostile sense of humor
15. Creative
16. Resistance to
enculturation
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1. Wisdom & Knowledge—strengths to acquire and use knowledge
Creativity: Originality,
Ingenuity
Curiosity: Interest, Novelty-seeking, Openness to Experience
Open-mindedness: Judgment, Critical Thinking: examining all sides,
not jumping
Love
of Learning: ability to master new
skills
Perspective: Wisdom:
ability to look at world in ways that make sense
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2. Courage—strengths of will to meet goals in opposition, external or internal
Bravery:
Valor: not shrinking from threat, challenge, difficulty, or pain; speaking up
for what is right even in opposition; acting on convictions
Persistence: Perseverance,
Industriousness: finish what one starts even in obstacles
Integrity:
Authenticity, Honesty: speaking the truth—but more, with genuineness and
ability to be sincere; responsible for one’s own feelings and actions
Vitality:
Zest, Enthusiasm, Vigor, Energy: approaching life with excitement, not
halfway; living life as an adventure; feeling alive
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3. Humanity—interpersonal strengths involve tending & befriending others
Love: valuing close relations, especially those
reciprocated; being close to people
Kindness: Generosity, Nurturance, Care, Compassion,
Altruistic Love, Niceness
Social Intelligence: Emotional Intelligence, Personal Intelligence: aware
of motives, feelings of others and self; knowing how to fit in and what makes
others tick
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4. Justice—civic strengths that underlie healthy community life
Citizenship: Social Responsibility, Loyalty, Teamwork
Fairness: treat all the same with justice, not letting
feelings bias, fair chance
Leadership:
encouraging group keeping good relations
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5. Temperance—strengths that protect against excess
Forgiveness
& Mercy
Humility
& Modesty: not seeking
spotlight, no more important than others
Prudence: careful with choices, not taking undue risks
Self-regulation: Self-control: disciplined, controlling appetites & emotions
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6. Transcendence—strengths connect to larger world & provide
meaning
Appreciation
of Beauty & Excellence: Awe,
Wonder, Elevation
Gratitude
Hope: Optimism, Future-mindedness, Future Orientation:
expecting best & working
Humor: Playfulness: liking to laugh, bring smiles, seeing
light side
Spirituality: Religiousness, Faith, Purpose: having coherent
world beliefs; having beliefs on meaning of life that shape conduct and
provide comfort
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1. Right
Knowledge,
to supply you with the tools necessary
for your voyage.
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2. Wisdom,
to assure you that you are using
the accumulated knowledge of the past in a manner that will best serve the
discovery of your presence, your “now.”
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3. Compassion,
to help you accept others whose
ways may be different from yours, with gentleness & understanding, as you
move with, through, or around them on your own way.
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4. Harmony,
to be able to accept the natural
flow of life.
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5. Creativity,
to help you realize new
alternatives & unchartered paths along the way.
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6. Strength,
to stand up against fear and move
forward in spite of uncertainty, without guarantee or payment.
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7. Peace,
to keep you centered.
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8. Joy,
to keep you songful, and laughing
and dancing all along the way.
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9. Love,
to be your continual guide towards
the highest level of consciousness.
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10. Unity,
which brings us back to where we
started—the place where we are at one with ourselves and with all things.
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“To
live in Love is to live in life…. To me, life is God’s gift to you. How you
live your life is your gift to God. Make it a fantastic one.”
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Plato’s List from the Republic (427-347 BC)
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Wisdom
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Self-Restraint or Temperance
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Courage
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Justice
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Aristotle Added to
Plato these in his Nicomachean Ethics (384-322 BC)
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Generosity
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Truthfulness
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Wit
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Magnificence
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Friendliness
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Greatness of soul
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Neuroticism—Worried, Nervous, Emotional
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Extroversion—Sociable, Fun-Loving, Active
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Openness—Imaginative, Creative, Artistic
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Agreeableness—Good-natured, Softhearted, Sympathetic
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Conscientiousness—Reliable, Hardworking, Punctual
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Courage—character in crisis
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Honesty—character and truth
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Loyalty—character in community
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Meekness—character and power
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Diligence—character in action
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Reverence—character and the sacred
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Modesty—character as simplicity
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Gratitude—character in celebration
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Frugality—character and prosperity
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Responsibility—being accountable in word and deed. Having a sense
of duty to fulfill tasks with reliability, dependability and commitment.
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Perseverance—pursuing worthy objectives with determination and
patience while exhibiting fortitude when confronted with failure.
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Caring—showing understanding of others by treating them
with kindness, compassion, generosity and a forgiving spirit.
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Self-discipline—demonstrating hard work controlling your emotions,
words, actions, impulses and desires. Giving your best in all situations.
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Citizenship—being law abiding and involved in service to school,
community and country.
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Honesty—telling the truth, admitting wrongdoing. Being
trustworthy & acting with integrity.
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Courage—doing the right thing in face of difficulty,
following conscience instead of crowd.
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Fairness—practicing justice, equity and equality.
Cooperating with one another. Recognizing the uniqueness and value of each
individual within our diverse society.
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Respect—show high regard for authority, other people, self
& country. Treating others as you would want to be treated. Understanding
that all people have value as human beings.
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Trustworthiness: Be honest • Be reliable — do what you say you’ll do
• Have the courage to do the right thing • Be loyal — stand by your family,
friends and country
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Respect: Treat others with respect; follow the Golden Rule •
Be tolerant of differences • Use good manners, not bad language • Be
considerate of the feelings of others • Don’t threaten, hit or hurt anyone •
Deal peacefully with anger, insults and disagreements
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Responsibility: Do what you are supposed to do • Persevere: keep on
trying! • Always do your best • Use self-control • Be self-disciplined •
Think before you act — consider the consequences • Be accountable for your
choices
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Fairness: Play by the rules • Take turns and share • Be
open-minded; listen to others
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Caring: Be kind, compassionate, show you care, gratitude •
Forgive others • Help needy
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Citizenship:
Cooperate, Get in community affairs
• Stay informed; vote • Be a good neighbor • Obey laws and rules • Respect
authority • Protect the environment
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1. Temperance: Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
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2. Silence: Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself;
avoid trifling conversation.
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3. Order: Let all your things have their places; let each
part of your business have its time.
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4. Resolution: Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without
fail what you resolve.
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5. Frugality: Make no expense but to do good to others or
yourself; i.e., waste nothing.
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6. Industry: Lose no time; be employed in something useful; cut
off unnecessary actions.
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7. Sincerity: Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly.
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8. Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the
benefits that are your duty.
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9. Moderation: Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much
as you think they deserve.
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10. Cleanliness: Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, cloths, or
habitation.
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11. Tranquility: Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common
or unavoidable.
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12. Chastity: Rarely use venery but for health or offspring,
never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another’s peace or
reputation.
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13. Humility: Imitate Jesus and Socrates.
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Trustworthy: tells the truth, keeps promises, honesty; can depend
on him.
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Loyal: true to his family, Scout leaders, friends, school,
and nation.
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Helpful: is concerned about people & does things
willingly for others without pay or reward.
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Friendly: is a friend to all and a brother to other Scouts,
seeks to understand others, and respects those with ideas and customs other
than his own.
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Courteous: is polite to everyone regardless of age or position
and knows good manners.
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Kind: understands there is strength in being gentle,
treats others as he wants to be treated, and does not hurt or kill harmless
things without reason.
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Obedient: follows the rules of his family, school, and troop,
obeys the laws of his community and country; if he thinks these rules are
unfair, he tries to have them changed in an orderly manner rather than
disobey them.
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Cheerful: looks for the bright side of things and cheerfully
does tasks that come his way; he tries to make others happy.
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Thrifty: works to pay his way and to help others, saves for
unforeseen needs, protects and conserves natural resources, and carefully
uses time and property.
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Brave: can face danger even if he is afraid, has the
courage to stand for what he thinks is right even if others laugh at or
threaten him.
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Clean: keeps his body and mind fit and clean, goes around
with those who believe in living by these same ideals, and helps keep his
home and community clean.
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Reverent: is reverent to God, faithful
in religious duties, & respects beliefs of others.
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Contentment
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Respect
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Dependability
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Attentiveness
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Kindness
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Self-Control
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Truthfulness
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Patience
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Perseverance
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Thankfulness
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Obedience
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Goodness
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1. Be Proactive is the endowment of self-knowledge or
self-awareness an ability to choose your response (response-ability).
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2. Begin With the End In Mind is the endowment of imagination and
conscience.
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3. Put First Things First is the endowment of willpower.
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4. Think Win-Win is the endowment of an abundance mentality.
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5. Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood is the endowment of courage
balanced with consideration.
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6. Synergize is the endowment of creativity
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7. Sharpen
the Saw the endowment of continuous
improvement to overcome entropy.
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There are no limits to the ways one looks as virtues and personality and
the general ability to communicate. As the following indicates, sometimes we
must stress our English language to look at the purpose itself of the
communication or the personal abilities in order draw up some meaningful
characteristics for those special abilities. Two more areas of huge
significance to our personal lives come into play (to toss a pun) in the areas
of match-making and general leadership. All of the above will be great, but
when I am searching for a spouse—oh my!—there are characteristics that defy all
of the above and that are extremely important and uniquely important. See
e-harmony’s info below.
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Character
& Constitution
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Good Character
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Dominance vs.
Submissiveness
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Curiosity
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Industry
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Vitality & Security
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Intellect
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Appearance
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Sexual Passion
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Artistic Passion
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Adaptability
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Personality
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Obstreperousness
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Sense of Humor
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Sociability
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Energy
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Ambition
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Emotional
Makeup & Skills
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Emotional Health
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Quality of Self
Conception
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Anger Management
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Mood Management
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Communication
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Conflict Resolution
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Kindness
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Autonomy vs. Closeness
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Family
Values
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Family Background
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Feelings about Children
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Education
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Spirituality
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Traditionalism
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Values Orientation
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Neil Clark Warren developed and wrote a very popular work, Finding
the Love of Your Life, and since then it has blossomed into a full-fledged
match-making service broadcasted nationally as www.eharmony.com. The above are only a portion of one section of the
survey’s inventory to help with match-making; clearly, there are elements of
“character” here we would desire or want to know about in a mate but that as
clearly do not fit into any of the traditional categories. One starts the
survey by answering over 500 questions designed to profile the 29 dimensions
that scientific research has shown are crucial to long-term success in
relationships. The resulting profile and matching claims to eliminate 99.7% of
the people who are not right for you. At the start, you grade yourself on each
of 87 different points of self-acceptance. E-harmony’s extensive personality inventory is
certainly a key to its and Warren’s success, and this is probably the most
successful match-making service to date.
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5 Leadership
Practices in 10 Leader Commitments
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Challenging the
Process
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1. Search for Opportunities: Confronting & Changing the Status Quo
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2. Experiment
and Take Risks: Learning from
Mistakes & Success
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Inspiring a
Shared Vision
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3. Envision the Future: Imagining Ideal Scenarios
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4. Enlist |
