When Bad Things Happen to Good People When someone does something good‚ great‚ amazing; however it is said‚ a reward is expected. That’s just the way the human brain has been trained in many cultures. People think just that with every good deed that is done. Movies have taught us that the “bad guy” never wins and that a hero will always triumph in the end. Not so much in the real world. Religious views‚ daily decisions‚ and just pure coincidence‚ if you will‚ all influence the outcome of a good
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Why good people do bad things? “Doing bad is easy but doing well is not”. Yes‚ that saying is the most concrete explanation why good people do bad things. Good people do bad things with good intentions. We‚ humans‚ are all sinful by nature. No one of us can behave perfectly and sinless. But we have the capacity to avoid temptations and to distinguish what’s right from wrong. Good intentions cause most of the world’s great evils. There are many things that happened in the past that can construe
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Why Bad Things Happen to Good People? A belief by definition is a confidence in the truth or proof of existence. Your beliefs determine the meaning you assign to any event in life. No event is either "good" or "bad" until you decide then assignment is given. This is your reality. Whatever the hardships or challenges you face‚ it can be interrupted as an opportunity for spiritual growth. The knowledge can be used to evolve as a person. Our desire to assign meaning to
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Good and Bad Things about Phnom Penh Phnom Penh is the capital city of Cambodia and has a nickname called “The Charming City”. The total area of the city is 678.46 km2 and the total population is 1‚501‚725. Eventhough this beautiful city is well-known in South East Asia‚ she also has good and bad thing that people should know. As I notice‚ the good thing about Phnom Penh is culture‚ nightlife‚ sightseeing‚ and people whereas the bad thing about Phnom Penh is traffic‚ food‚ and dirty. The first
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Good or Bad? Do you ever wonder if you are good or bad? The potential for evil scares many people. Most people these days strive to be the best they can be. They want to have excellence and do the best to their ability‚ but they do evil acts that make them the total opposite. Throughout history humans have shown that they can be evil; however‚ there are more people that possess a trait of being good. There are many ways people can be depicted as being “good”. One of those ways would be someone
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Good Action/Good Person I consider a good action to be something that helps others and is unselfish. Within the last year I have helped my Grandma through her cancer treatments. I believe that this is a good action because it was helping my Grandma in a time of need when she needed an extra hand. I took time out of my school schedule in order to help her get to and from the treatments‚ helped her around the house and visited with her giving moral support. I would get up early and drive her to the
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"Why do bad things happen to good people?" the young and naive Chanyeol in third grade would ask his father when he spotted a teenager being dragged by his collar to a dark alley before being pushed against the wall. That teenager was his neighbor‚ the guy that would tell him good morning everyday while pushing his glasses up‚ or walk across the street while reading his book‚ and sometimes offer Chanyeol candy whenever he see him playing outside. "Keep walking and don’t stare at them‚ buddy." Pulling
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Pei Ou Theo 279 20 September 2013 When Bad Things Happen to Good People The author Harold Kushner wrote this book because his spent a life to search what puzzled him for a long time. He experienced tragedy in his early life. His son was found afflicted with progeria that is a kind of the fatal illness of pre-mature aging. He fall into hopelessness‚ and then started to question God. Why bad things often happen to good people? Many people may confuse this question too. If God really exists
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It’s easy to blame individuals for engaging in illegal or unethical activities by assuming bad behaviour is an inherent personality trait. "Only shady people do shady things‚" right? We assume the CFO who reports false financial data and the hedge fund manager who commits insider trading do so because they are inherently "bad people." The maxim of individual responsibility is comforting because it implies that‚ to eradicate criminal or unethical behaviour‚ all we need to do is identify and weed
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The Good‚ The Bad‚ The Wal-Mart Wal-Mart is one of the largest companies in the U.S. is Wal-Mart really what we need? Wal-Mart is a discount store that is bad for America and the economy and other smaller company that may be competition for Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart is a big company and offers people discounts for the same products another companies may be charging higher for. So of course you would rather buy it cheaper‚ which now is putting the other business out of business and also people that
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