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To Edward 1 ,loved your third paragraph,cannot comment on the rest.

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I hope that I get to run away...from my job that tests my ethical stands. We'll see!

Thank You

The following anonymous quote is a case of the freethinking tenets of Random Thoughts meeting the ethical concerns of Random Ruminations:"Work rivals religion for the #1 spot in mind control techniques."

Based on your research, experiences and observations, using APA format please compose and submit to RR a ten page, single-spaced essay discussing the above quote.

OK, OK, if you are of an ethical mind to do it, one or two lines in any format will suffice!

Psychotronics

Run Connie Run !!!

Thanks Burt--says Connie, running as fast as she can!

What minority belief systems are the following renowned Western philosophers are said to have been adherents of?: Arthur Schopenhauer; Herbert Spencer; Simone de Beauvoir: Denis Diderot; Karl Marx; Eric Hoffer; Jeremy Bentham; William Godwin; John Dewey; Friedrich Nietzsche; John Stuart Mill; Jean-Paul Sartre; Ayn Rand; John Rawls; Bertrand Russell and George Santayana.

The above listing is just a small sampling of the historically well-recognized Western philosophers that are acknowledged as leaning towards either atheism or agnosticism.

According to the well-respected PhilPapers 2009 report, 73% of U.S. philosophy faculty surveyed accepted or leaned toward atheism, while only 15% accepted or leaned toward theism (12% were in the "other" category). Moreover, among philosophy graduate students, 64% accepted or leaned toward atheism, while 21% accepted or leaned toward theism (with 15% in the "other" category). Additionally, the numbers were about the same for undergraduates.

A good working definition of philosophy is the rational investigation of the truths and principles of being/existence, knowledge, or conduct/morality.

So, why do you think that similar to the field of science that the quite different "humanities" discipline of philosophy is/has been disproportionately represented by atheists and agnostics?

I meant to reply earlier to the reference to work and mind control. I worked for major corporations for many years, one of which I spent 10 years of my precious life. The brainwashing in this one place was excessive. We were treated like children, not rational adults. There were role plays every morning and so many rules and regulations to remember every day. There was always a script or play book to go by. Then sell, sell, sell, to the customers. It would turn my stomach. I was under a great deal of stress that went away when I quit, right after a manager thought he was Mr. Big Cheese by insulting me in front of my subordinates, for no good reason. That was when I said to myself "no more". I will do all I can to stay away from employers like this. People can't do their best or even want to do their best when they are treated this way.

Thanks Debbie for your perspective and actions regarding "mind control" in the workplace.

Here is what some of the more famous of the atheistic leaning philosophers had to say about integrity/morality; not surprisingly coming from freethinkers, not all are in agreement with the other:

"What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs."
John Stuart Mill

"There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses."
Eric Hoffer

“Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

"He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn."
Jeremy Bentham

"Compassion is the basis of all morality."
Arthur Schopenhauer

"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people."
Arthur Schopenhauer