The second biblical phrase is from Acts 28:22 This phrase is a quotation of a Jew in Rome with whom Paul was talking: We desire to hear from you what your views are: for with regard to this sect we know that everywhere it is spoken against. (Italics added) According to Catholic theologians and ecclesiologists like Charles Journet and Kenneth D. Whitehead in One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic: The Early Church was the Catholic C ...

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Sign of contradiction, Sign of contradiction - Jesus Christ as sign of contradiction, Sign of contradiction - The Eucharist as a sign of contradiction, Sign of contradiction - The Church and Christians as signs of contradiction, Sign of contradiction - The early Church and the Roman Empire, Sign of contradiction - Early Church Fathers, Sign of contradiction - Black legends and the Church's contributions to civilization, Sign of contradiction - Pius VII and Napoleon Bonaparte, Sign of contradiction - The Society of Jesus and the Suppression, Sign of contradiction - John Paul II, Sign of contradiction - Prelature of Opus Dei and the Holy Cross, Sign of contradiction - Catholic Martyrs of the 20th Century, Sign of contradiction - Human beings as signs of contradiction, Sign of contradiction - Sacred things as signs of contradiction, Sign of contradiction - Sign of Contradiction by John Paul II

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While prostitutes and their clients represent all sexes and all sexual orientations, the majority of clients are male. Prostitution is rejected by most modern religions as being improper or sinful, and prostitutes are considered to be shameful or individuals of low standing in most societies; in some cultures, their customers are typically also looked down upon but are usually tolerated to a greater degree than the prostitute. The English word whore, referring to (female) prostitutes, is taken from the Old English word hōra ...

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Prostitution, Prostitution - Overview and definitions, Prostitution - Types of prostitution, Prostitution - Street prostitution, Prostitution - Escort/Out-call Prostitution, Prostitution - Socio-economic and legal status of prostitution, Prostitution - Legality of selling sex, Prostitution - Advertising prostitution, Prostitution - Regulated prostitution, Prostitution - Prostitution of children, Prostitution - Prostitution and illegal immigration, Prostitution - Sex tourism, Prostitution - Violence against prostitutes, Prostitution - Human or sex trafficking, Prostitution - Medical situation, Prostitution - How common is prostitution?, Prostitution - Politics, Prostitution - Legal issues, Prostitution - Feminism, Prostitution - History

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While prostitutes and their clients represent all sexes and all sexual orientations, the overwhelming majority of clients are male. Prostitution is rejected by most modern religions as being improper or sinful, and prostitutes are considered to be shameful or individuals of low standing in most societies; in some cultures, their customers are typically also looked down upon but are usually tolerated to a greater degree than the prostitute. The English word whore, referring to (female) prostitutes, is taken from the Old English ...

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Prostitution, Prostitution - Overview and definitions, Prostitution - Types of prostitution, Prostitution - Street prostitution, Prostitution - Escort/Out-call Prostitution, Prostitution - Socio-economic and legal status of prostitution, Prostitution - Legality of selling sex, Prostitution - Advertising prostitution, Prostitution - Regulated prostitution, Prostitution - Prostitution of children, Prostitution - Prostitution and illegal immigration, Prostitution - Sex tourism, Prostitution - Violence against prostitutes, Prostitution - Human or sex trafficking, Prostitution - Medical situation, Prostitution - How common is prostitution?, Prostitution - Politics, Prostitution - Legal issues, Prostitution - Feminism, Prostitution - History

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The goal of Gestalt therapy is to facilitate the removal of obstacles that lie between a person and the utilization of their full potential. Gestalt therapy's techniques and attitude create a space in which the patient can recover his or her capacity for living. In this way a person can learn to be aware of the self and aware of his or her interactions with others, living in the moment and assuming responsibility for their actions. For Perls, the appropriate experience, further on from the whole explanation or possible ...

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Gestalt therapy, Gestalt therapy - General description, Gestalt therapy - Principal influences, Gestalt therapy - Being human, Gestalt therapy - The human being seen as a whole, Gestalt therapy - Formation of Gestalt, Gestalt therapy - Contact boundaries, Gestalt therapy - Organismic self-regulation, Gestalt therapy - Psychotherapeutic bases, Gestalt therapy - Actuality, Gestalt therapy - Attention, Gestalt therapy - Responsibility, Gestalt therapy - Wider influence of Gestalt therapy on other schools, Gestalt therapy - Moral injunctions of Gestalt therapy, Gestalt therapy - Suggested sections

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While Maslow's theory was regarded as an improvement over previous theories of personality and motivation, it has its detractors. For example, in their extensive review of research that is dependent on Maslow's theory, Wabha and Bridwell (1976) found little evidence for the ranking of needs that Maslow described, or even for the existence of a definite hierarchy at all. The concept of self-actualization is considered vague and psychobabble by some behaviourist psychologists. The concept is based on an aristotelian notion of human natu ...

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Maslow's hierarchy of needs, Maslow's hierarchy of needs - Deficiency needs, Maslow's hierarchy of needs - Being needs, Maslow's hierarchy of needs - Counterpositions

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The author of the primary article about each challenge is also listed The experts started with ten challenges and several "opportunities" within each: Climate change (William R. Cline) Communicable diseases (Anne Mills) Conflicts (Paul Collier) Education (Lant Pritchett) Financial instability (Barry Eichengreen) Government and corruption (Susan Rose-Ackerman) Malnutrition and hunger (Jere Behrman) Population: migration (Phillip L. Martin) Sanitation and water (Frank Rijsberman)

The Copenhagen Consensus project has been widely criticised. Some critics, including economists (Sachs, 2004) have questioned the validity of its cost-benefit approach to extremely complex and scientifically uncertain situations, its use of particular discount rates to generate current and future values, its assumptions about the availability of aid and, more broadly, the competence of a panel consisting exclusively of professional economists to make assessments across such a wide range of subject matter. Other critics may be sceptical of th ...

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Copenhagen Consensus, Copenhagen Consensus - Process, Copenhagen Consensus - Experts, Copenhagen Consensus - Challenges, Copenhagen Consensus - Criticisms, Copenhagen Consensus - Issues not considered

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Most armorial achievements include charges, but a few only have a plain tincture (what would be called "colour" in layman's terms, though the word has a different meaning in heraldry) without any device, or a simple division or pattern of the field. The charges are either in one or more of the tinctures, or umbrated, supposedly represented as a shadow, though the representation is closest to an outline alone (an example of similar terminology applied to the "shadows" of a charge are the arms of Risoul, Hautes Alpes, France). Even thou ...

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Charge heraldry, Charge heraldry - Tinctures, Charge heraldry - Proper charges, Charge heraldry - Honourable Ordinaries, Charge heraldry - Sub-Ordinaries, Charge heraldry - Diminutives, Charge heraldry - Common charges, Charge heraldry - Supernatural or Divine beings, Charge heraldry - Humans, Charge heraldry - Animals, Charge heraldry - Plants, Charge heraldry - Inanimate charges

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Heraldic writers have, somewhat arbitrarily, distinguished between "honourable ordinaries" and "sub-ordinaries". It is often said that only nine charges are "honourable ordinaries", but exactly which nine fit into this category is a subject of disagreement. It is sometimes said that only those ordinaries each of whose widths is one-fifth or more of the total width of the escutcheon is "honourable". Narrower or smaller versions of these ordinaries are called "diminutives". Many have two diminutives, the first with half the width of the original, and the second with quarter the width of the original. < ...

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Charge heraldry, Charge heraldry - Tinctures, Charge heraldry - Proper charges, Charge heraldry - Honourable Ordinaries, Charge heraldry - Sub-Ordinaries, Charge heraldry - Diminutives, Charge heraldry - Common charges, Charge heraldry - Supernatural or Divine beings, Charge heraldry - Humans, Charge heraldry - Animals, Charge heraldry - Plants, Charge heraldry - Inanimate charges

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However, this demonstrates two central problems with theories of 'uneconomic growth' - first, they are necessarily global in scope while nations are not - and second, typically they rely on long-term longitudinal studies that can be performed only looking backwards across relatively long spans of time, while a political decision must typically be made without time to gather data, and of course must look forward not backward. This issue has been extant sinc ...

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Uneconomic growth, Uneconomic growth - Good vs. bad growth, Uneconomic growth - Difficult to detect, Uneconomic growth - Underlying theories of value, Uneconomic growth - Hopelessly political?

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The question of economic versus uneconomic growth is, as this example shows, hopelessly 'political' in that it cannot be separated from the basic beliefs about market systems that different factions have. A larger discussion of these definitions and decisions is in the article political economy, which focuses on challenges to the assumptions of dominant technical paradigms in economics, including that of 'growth'. A closely related question is whether there can be such a thing as full cost accounting - since people vary ...

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Uneconomic growth, Uneconomic growth - Good vs. bad growth, Uneconomic growth - Difficult to detect, Uneconomic growth - Underlying theories of value, Uneconomic growth - Hopelessly political?

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Critics of the idea of uneconomic growth argue that, whether well-being is increasing or decreasing, people must take deliberate steps to accelerate its increase or limit its decline (in the long run, everyone's quality of life must decline to zero - death). These steps lead to remediation, medical, or other expenditure that shows up as economic growth legitimately. Life causes harm and economies can mediate that if individuals have freedom to choose their own remedies. Whether growth has caused harms of its own, they say, is not the same qu ...

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Uneconomic growth, Uneconomic growth - Good vs. bad growth, Uneconomic growth - Difficult to detect, Uneconomic growth - Underlying theories of value, Uneconomic growth - Hopelessly political?

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Federal law prohibits American citizens to engage in international travel with the purpose of having sex with a person under the age of 18, even if the age of consent in the target country is below 18. Prosecutions under this law are very rare. As of 2005, there has been one effort to go after a sex tour operator: Big Apple Oriental Tours of New York was prosecuted for "promotion of prostitution" by the New York State Attorney General aft ...

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Sex tourism, Sex tourism - Motivation, Sex tourism - Destinations, Sex tourism - Tourism involving sex with minors, Sex tourism - Legal issues in the United States, Sex tourism - Terms used for sex tourists

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The term itself is controversial as present techniques of managing money supply and setting reserve policy at most central banks assumes that "all growth is good" and "all inflation is bad". Under these assumptions, policies that many consider ecologically or socially nonsensical can be defended politically as making "economic sense" - a term that can be considered just as nonsensical, since an economy cannot exist with ...

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Uneconomic growth, Uneconomic growth - Good vs. bad growth, Uneconomic growth - Difficult to detect, Uneconomic growth - Underlying theories of value, Uneconomic growth - Hopelessly political?

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The mythological literature relates the legends of heroes and kings, as well as supernatural creatures. These clan and kingdom founding figures possessed great importance as illustrations of proper action or national origins. The heroic literature may have fulfilled the same function as the national epic in other European literatures, or it may have been more nearly related to tribal identity. Many of the legendary figures probably existed, and generations of Scandinavian scholars h ...

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Norse mythology, Norse mythology - Sources, Norse mythology - Cosmology, Norse mythology - Supernatural beings, Norse mythology - Völuspá: the origin and end of the world, Norse mythology - Kings and heroes, Norse mythology - Norse worship, Norse mythology - Centres of faith, Norse mythology - Priests, Norse mythology - Human sacrifice, Norse mythology - Interactions with Christianity, Norse mythology - Modern influences, Norse mythology - Bibliography

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The Germanic gods have left traces in modern vocabulary. An example of this is some of the names of the days of the week: modelled after the names of the days of the week in Latin (named after Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn), the names for Tuesday through to Friday were replaced with Germanic equivalents of the Roman gods. In English, Saturn was not replaced, while Saturday is named after the sabbath in German, and is called "washing ...

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Norse mythology, Norse mythology - Sources, Norse mythology - Cosmology, Norse mythology - Supernatural beings, Norse mythology - Völuspá: the origin and end of the world, Norse mythology - Kings and heroes, Norse mythology - Norse worship, Norse mythology - Centres of faith, Norse mythology - Priests, Norse mythology - Human sacrifice, Norse mythology - Interactions with Christianity, Norse mythology - Modern influences, Norse mythology - Bibliography

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Norse mythology was a collection of beliefs and stories shared by Northern Germanic tribes. It was not a revealed religion, in that it was not a truth handed down from the divine to the mortal (although it does have tales of normal persons learning the stories of the gods from a visit to or from the gods), and it had no scripture. The mythology was orally transmitted in the form of long, regular poetry. Oral transmission continued through the Viking Age, and our knowledge about it is mainly based on the Eddas and other medieval texts wri ...

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Norse mythology, Norse mythology - Overview, Norse mythology - Sources, Norse mythology - Cosmology, Norse mythology - Supernatural beings, Norse mythology - Völuspá: the origin and end of the world, Norse mythology - Kings and heroes, Norse mythology - Norse worship, Norse mythology - Centres of faith, Norse mythology - Priests, Norse mythology - Human sacrifice, Norse mythology - Interactions with Christianity, Norse mythology - Modern influences, Norse mythology - Bibliography

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The mythological literature relates the legends of heroes and kings, as well as supernatural creatures. These clan and kingdom founding figures possessed great importance as illustrations of proper action or national origins. The heroic literature may have fulfilled the same function as the national epic in other European literatures, or it may have been more nearly related to tribal identity. Many of the legendary figures probably existed, and generations of Scandinavian scholars h ...

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Norse mythology, Norse mythology - Overview, Norse mythology - Sources, Norse mythology - Cosmology, Norse mythology - Supernatural beings, Norse mythology - Völuspá: the origin and end of the world, Norse mythology - Kings and heroes, Norse mythology - Norse worship, Norse mythology - Centres of faith, Norse mythology - Priests, Norse mythology - Human sacrifice, Norse mythology - Interactions with Christianity, Norse mythology - Modern influences, Norse mythology - Bibliography

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Main articles: Norse paganism and Blót Norse mythology - Centres of faith. The Germanic tribes rarely or never had temples in a modern sense. The Blót, the form of worship practiced by the ancient Germanic and Scandinavian people resembled that of the Celts and Balts : it could occur in sacred groves. It could also take place at home and/or at a simple altar of piled stones known as a "horgr". However, there seems to have been a few more important c ...

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Norse mythology, Norse mythology - Overview, Norse mythology - Sources, Norse mythology - Cosmology, Norse mythology - Supernatural beings, Norse mythology - Völuspá: the origin and end of the world, Norse mythology - Kings and heroes, Norse mythology - Norse worship, Norse mythology - Centres of faith, Norse mythology - Priests, Norse mythology - Human sacrifice, Norse mythology - Interactions with Christianity, Norse mythology - Modern influences, Norse mythology - Bibliography

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The Germanic gods have left traces in modern vocabulary. An example of this is some of the names of the days of the week: modelled after the names of the days of the week in Latin (named after Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn), the names for Tuesday through to Friday were replaced with Germanic equivalents of the Roman gods. In English, Saturn was not replaced, while Saturday is named after the sabbath in German, and is called "washing day" in Scandinavia. Norse mythology also influenced Richard Wagner's use of literary themes from it to compose the four operas that comprise Der Ring ...

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Norse mythology, Norse mythology - Overview, Norse mythology - Sources, Norse mythology - Cosmology, Norse mythology - Supernatural beings, Norse mythology - Völuspá: the origin and end of the world, Norse mythology - Kings and heroes, Norse mythology - Norse worship, Norse mythology - Centres of faith, Norse mythology - Priests, Norse mythology - Human sacrifice, Norse mythology - Interactions with Christianity, Norse mythology - Modern influences, Norse mythology - Bibliography

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A term that sex tourists oftentimes use to describe themselves is "mongerers," and traveling for sex as "mongering." This apparently derives from the word "warmonger" or "whoremongerer." One term sometimes used for a sex tourist is "sexpat". Its derivation is from expat and did not originally refer to tourists per se, but rather those with similar motivations who have actually relocated to such a location, either as workers or as retirees. The word has ...

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Sex tourism, Sex tourism - Motivation, Sex tourism - Destinations, Sex tourism - Tourism involving sex with minors, Sex tourism - Legal issues in the United States, Sex tourism - Terms used for sex tourists

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While most sex tourists only engage in this activity with other adults, a small percentage actively look for adolescent or even younger prostitutes, while others are not very selective either way, regarding age. Several countries have severe laws making sex with children (see pedophilia and ephebophilia) a serious offense, for their nationals or inhabitants even if practiced abroad and even if it is not forbidden by ...

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Sex tourism, Sex tourism - Motivation, Sex tourism - Destinations, Sex tourism - Tourism involving sex with minors, Sex tourism - Legal issues in the United States, Sex tourism - Terms used for sex tourists

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