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(Applause and cheers) Growing up in Missouri, they would kind of take us out into the woods, and they would give you a map, and they would give you a compass, and you had to find your way home.
And without the compass, you can't even read the map.
The compass is the key.
A compass is most simply a piece of metal that has been magnetized, so that it will turn towards the Earth's magnetic pole.
The one that we all think of is the pocket compass.
Magnetism is still a pretty mysterious force to physicists, but what we do know for sure is that a compass works because the Earth is this giant magnet.
And when you use a compass, you are in touch with the very center of our planet, where this kind of roiling ball of molten iron is spinning around and creating a magnetic field.
The earliest known compass comes from about 200 BC in China.
Now, much later, the Europeans are the ones who innovate and come up with the compass rose.
The compass with a map is like a superpower.
Everything that we think of as world history would not have taken place without the compass: the age of exploration, Magellan circumnavigating the globe, even the fact that we know it is a globe.
The compass ends up getting embedded in all these other tools, because it is such a functional object.
The compass is everywhere, because it's literally how we find our way across the face of the Earth.
We don't have any very clear maps, any compass to guide us.
And, you know, I'm happy to say, I think there's really evidence that this non-zero-sum kind of connection can expand the moral compass.
And I think that is an expansion of your moral compass when you manage to do that.
Samuel Pisar, an Auschwitz survivor, said, and I'll quote him, "The Holocaust teaches us that nature, even in its cruelest moments, is benign in comparison with man, when he loses his moral compass and his reason."
There's a metaphor which I love: living like a drawing compass.
As you know, one leg of the compass is static, rooted in a place.
Well, this is from "The Purpose Driven Life": "The Bible must become the authoritative standard for my life: the compass I rely on for direction, the counsel I listen to for making wise decisions, and the benchmark I use for evaluating everything."
The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass.
Not surprisingly, the driver's compass ends up not working, and they find themselves way off course, coming to a stop at a deserted ghost-town that had been a barracks during the fighting in WWII.
Can somebody please explain the plot of this movie to me? Yes, I know the bus ran out of gas in the middle of the desert, after the driver never noticed that his compass wasn't functioning, but what then?
Hollywood 2005 derives their moral compass from too much cocaine and too much commitment to the wacky left.
From the opening sequence of Bo and Luke Duke making a moonshine run for Uncle Jesse (no shine running in the show because it would put the boys back in jail as a parole violation) to the closing sequence of Uncle Jesse smoking weed with the Governor of Georgia (Uncle Jesse was the moral compass despite his previous moonshining ways) this disappointing waste of film is an open faced insult.
They explain nothing at the end of the mysterious compass looking thing.
And she carries around a "sleuth kit" complete with fingerprinting dust, flashlight, compass, and magnifying glass.
In a mysterious forest in Thailand, many suicidal youths disappear and rescue teams can not find the way out even with compass.
The perfect complement to the current news stories about pedophile priests -Brian Cox as the sympathetic pederast!! Apparently, writer/director Michael Cuesta checked his moral compass at the bath house door.
I'm sure the writer and director thought they were being edgy, but the end result is a morbid stew of violence, rape, and the vapid emptiness of modern teens who have no moral compass at all.
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