Sunday, September 04, 2005
Guilty Conscience
I have been feeling a little down with various things including the news from US after Hurricane Katrina and particularly the discussion I have had about race, religion and culture but I found out about this news which made me laugh and brought me to today's subject title.
A thief stole cash from a post office. The pensioners would have not been able to collect their pensions with this happening but the robber returned and handed back the money! He then ran off of course.
What made him do that? Did he feel guilty? Did his guilty conscience made him do the right thing? What actually is a conscience? Where does it come from? Not everyone has the same extent of conscience so who is right?
We know that guilty conscience makes us put the wrong doing to right and if we don't it makes us unhappy. Conscience influences us to be good to the others and show remorse if we have hurt someone. If it is so then why do the hardened criminals not feel it or not feel it as much as normal people?
Is conscience a social, cultural teaching or is it a religious, spiritual learning? Do we obey our conscience to feel good for doing the right thing or we obey it be good in the creator's eyes?
Can we cheat our own conscience? Can we control it? Can we retrain it? I have heard of people asking for forgiveness for something on their death bed so it means that we cannot completely erase our conscience. In that case is its entity bigger than love, religion or even God?
A thief stole cash from a post office. The pensioners would have not been able to collect their pensions with this happening but the robber returned and handed back the money! He then ran off of course.
What made him do that? Did he feel guilty? Did his guilty conscience made him do the right thing? What actually is a conscience? Where does it come from? Not everyone has the same extent of conscience so who is right?
We know that guilty conscience makes us put the wrong doing to right and if we don't it makes us unhappy. Conscience influences us to be good to the others and show remorse if we have hurt someone. If it is so then why do the hardened criminals not feel it or not feel it as much as normal people?
Is conscience a social, cultural teaching or is it a religious, spiritual learning? Do we obey our conscience to feel good for doing the right thing or we obey it be good in the creator's eyes?
Can we cheat our own conscience? Can we control it? Can we retrain it? I have heard of people asking for forgiveness for something on their death bed so it means that we cannot completely erase our conscience. In that case is its entity bigger than love, religion or even God?
# posted by butterflyuk : 9/04/2005 11:54:00 pm
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Well, it's good to see at least one of us is blogging, here.
I'd like to say, just for the record, the word is "conscience". And nothing is bigger than God.
I'd say more, but I'm really starting to feel the effect of these daydweller's hours. Honestly, what nocturnalist in his right mind should be feeling tired at midnight?
I'd like to say, just for the record, the word is "conscience". And nothing is bigger than God.
I'd say more, but I'm really starting to feel the effect of these daydweller's hours. Honestly, what nocturnalist in his right mind should be feeling tired at midnight?
Appreciated. Thank you Iszi, I stand corrected. I must read what I write and so much for the spell checker!
We'll talk again on this when we have more time.
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We'll talk again on this when we have more time.
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