### activity | practice | pluralism:

Political pluralism
* allows for the pursuit of interests and causes.
* is an essential component of democracy, as is the right to dissent
  - another of the principles to which the new nation is committed

Religious pluralism
* is in vogue today
  - indeed fundamental to the concept of Israel as a Jewish democratic state
  - the state in which many different faiths are represented in a country
* leads eventually to the admission that everything is permissible, nothing true.

Private practice
* involves attorneys working in law firms and solo practice for profit.
* is practice.
* tend to be concentrated in centres of large urban population.

Psychological test
* are practice.
* measure or evaluate abilities, general or specific, or personality traits.
* show no significant difference between fat and thin people.

Reflective practice
* involves examining beliefs.
* is the mindful review of one's actions specifically, one's professional actions
  - used to maximize effectiveness

Regular practice
* detoxifies the body, mind and soul, and gives enhanced physical energy.
* leads to physiological homeostasis - a state of energy balance within the body.
* relaxes muscles and the nervous system eventually enhancing the immune system.

Religious practice
* consists of acts of worship, rituals and devotional behaviour.
* enhances spiritual growth.
* includes praying for spiritual and material welfare.
* is free from political or social discrimination.
* vary widely within each religion.

Routine practice
* reduces stress and promotes integration of mind, body and spirit.
* refers to a group or institution's habit.

Shamanic practice
* continue in present-day Mongolian culture.
* vary by tribe and country, but the basic ideas remain the same.

Shamanistic practice
* Some shamanistic practices involve the use of a power animal or a second soul.
* can be traces back to Paleolithic hunters.

Social practice
* describe the way people behave toward one another.
* differ greatly, as do customs.

Spiritual practice
* Many spiritual practices aim at helping practitioners to let go.
* can also be a valuable way of dealing with mystery, and so can theology
  - contribute to an ethical vision
  - reduce stress, blood pressure, and cholesterol levels
* goes beyond ideas about spiritual practice, beyond specific activities.
* have a strong social aspect.
* is about seeing Reality just as it is, including our own self-deception
  - effort at fixity of consciousness
  - essentially prayer

Unethical practice
* can lower stock prices when publicized.
* undermine the system of trust that is the backbone of online auctioning.

Unwritten law
* are a races most important laws.
* is practice

### activity:

Precession
* causes electron transfer which is the basis of all chemical reactions in the body
  - the axis to drift slowly
* change in the orientation of the rotational axis of a rotating body.
* changes the pole star as seen from Earth.
* has a profound effect on the earth's climate.
* is a. the accuracy with which numbers are given in astronomy
  - activities
  - caused by the constant pull of the sun and moon on the bulge of the Earth s equator
  - motion like that experienced by a top as it spins
  - rotation about another axis
  - spinnings
* is the Earth's slow wobble as it spins on axis
  - change in azimuth of Earth's tilt axis relative to the ecliptic plane
  - clockwise wobbling of Earth's axis of rotation
* is the effect of bodies in motion on other bodies in motion
  - motion upon other bodies in motion
  - wobble of the Earth 's axis
  - turning
+ Milankovich cycle, The cycles, Axial precession: Earth :: Climate :: Celestial mechanics
  * Precession is the wobble of the Earth's axis. This gyroscopic motion is due to the tidal forces exerted by the sun and the moon on the solid Earth, which has the shape of an oblate spheroid rather than a sphere. The sun and moon contribute roughly equally to this effect.