The difference between conscience, intution, and "inner voice"

By Richele Skelton <skelton@emeraldis.com>

Everyone is born with something within that lets you know the difference between right and wrong. You can call it your inner voice, conscience, or intution. They are all interelated, but actually different.
The inner voice can be looked at in many different aspects. A 'normal' person sees it as the little voice deep within that keeps them on track. Whereas a person suffering from depression sees it as a critic pointing out every flaw. When you are alone and thinking about what to cook for dinner, and you think pasta sounds good that is the inner voice. It happens to us everyday.
Your conscience is the voice of the Self which says 'yes' or 'no' when you are involved in a moral struggle. It is the guiding voice within, it is how you distinguish from right or wrong. Conscience tells you to behave in the right manner, and reminds you of the consequences.
Intution is defined as immediate apprehension by the mind without reasoning. Your intution works from the moment that you confront a situation. You must then take the intution for what it is worth or toss it to the side.
I believe that even though these three terms are closely realted, they are different in the aspect of reasoning.

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Dowd <rdowd@student.lander.edu>

We wrote about the same topic, but I noticed we said some different things, and I realized that I didn't look at the negative side of the inner voice. Something to think about, for sure.


Will Mulkey <wrmulkey@hotmail.com>

Good paper. It does seem difficult to distinguish the three from each other.


Scott Elingburg <kehoutek@hotmail.com>

I must not have an inner voice because I don't cook. It was still a good paper though. I could have benefitted from a little more detail on the relation between the three.


Peter Rutanga <wung32@hotmail.com>

I'm impressed that you wrote such a good essay on a this rather hard topic. I believe that these three concepts are more than interrelated. They are realy a single entity; a little bit like solid, gases and liquid propertries in physics. Depending on the outside temprature our "soul" solidifies the information from intuition to inner-voice, which then sublimates into conscience which condensates it back into intuition, and so on so forth.


travis Galloway <hyperdedo@hotmail.com>

Nice paper, good points-but.. it seemed more like a definition than an opinion,,, hehe anyways... i was really interested in how you saw the differences... good work ace,,,


Fran Sanders <FranSanders@hotmail.com>

You had a very interesting paper. You pointed out some great ideas.


Eric Howell <grayghost13@hotmail.com>

A good paper, but could have used a little more comparing. But still good work.


Christa Ryan <christaryan@yahoo.com>

This paper was great. It was well written, to the point, and easy to understand. The examples helped the reader understand the point and allowed the reader to relate.


shaun cutler <cutlershaun@hotmail.com>

you used a different approach which i liked.


J.W. Preston <Wednesday@emeraldis.com>

A very well written paper. I feel the essay was right to the point.


Anna C. Nance <eirendel@yahoo.com>

I'm impressed with how you took a difficult topic and made it a little more understandable.


BRIAN NETTLES <NED _ CREEPER>

EXCELLANT PAPER ON A RATHER DIFFICULT SUBJECT.


Tiffany Norton <TiffNorton@Hotmail.com>

I liked your comparison between a normal person's conscience and a depressed person's conscience.


Woody Moore <wouldhe@inetgenesis.com>

Good paper, injoyed reading it. I liked the examples you used.


Will Bond <wbond@student.lander.edu>

Your paper brings up views that I have never even considered before. IT was very insightful.