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- 4731: Antony Flew: The Existence and Belief of God
- ... don't seem to make sense. How can one confuse the idea of a sexual behavior with Aphrodite? He also points out the fact that "a fine brash hypothesis may be killed by inches, the death of a thousand qualifications". A good example of this is when he said that "God loves us as a father loves his children". He states that when we see a child dying of cancer, his ... human love
" Also this new, complex thought, have started even more questions about that nature of God's love, "what is this assurance of God's love worth
" This is what Flew was talking about, "death of a thousand qualification", something that is simple, is turned into a complex idea that needs more answering. Flew also talks about other assertions such as "God has a plan", "God created the world". He ...
- 4732: Symbolism In Dreams, From The
- ... qualities of the river show Tony s desire to put the tragic happenings of his life behind him, and begin anew. His desire is to be washed clean from the haunting memories if Lupito s death. Another reference to water is the waters of baptism. In Tony s dream his parents argue about what water he was baptized in. Oh please tell me which is the water that runs through my ... 244) This dream shows how the carp represents gods. During this dream Florence tells Tony that all the gods are dying. Tony had this dream because his faith in religion was dying. After all the death he had seen he can t really trust the gods because they continue to let people that are close to him die. Tony s belief in the power of the carp is beginning to fade ...
- 4733: Reincarnation
- ... soul lives without the body and can live for an immeasurable time. (5)Conservation. The hypothesis is not consistent with well-founded beliefs. Many people believe that the soul goes to heaven or hell after death and many believe that the soul ends along with the body at death. Hypothesis 2: Some people think they have experienced reincarnation, but in fact these such people are mentally insane. The evidence used to back this hypothesis is the common knowledge that insane people create elaborate stories ...
- 4734: Symbloism In The Stone Angel
- ... angel is not intended for Mrs. Currie, but in fact, represents the materialistic and egotistical values that characterizes Jason and later, Hagar. Jason purchases the stone angel in pride and not in grief over the death of this wife: "bought in pride to mark her bones and proclaim his dynasty, as he fancied, forever and a day." (Laurence 3) Jason s strong ego is emplasized when, at this death, he leaves money to the town for a memorial park that would continue his family name. 2 The angel is symbolic of Hagar s pride. Hagar seems to be madeof stone, like the angel. Hagar ...
- 4735: Oran: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- ... not see the plague as unjust, but rather as merely God's will. He demands his congregation accept and embrace the plague as an unexplainable curse. In the end, he seems to will his own death in order to join the ranks of the victims. He seeks not to identify with the victims to better understand their plight, but rather to become a martyr and saint. Camus saw organized religion as ... narrow-minded interpretation of the plague as God's punishment for man's indiscretions is typical of organized religion's strong-arm control of the population. Paneloux was changed emotionally following Othan's son's death, but his sermon demonstrated that his religious beliefs still directed his vision for his congregation. Raymond Rambert comes to Oran an egotistical, self-centered hackneyed journalist. He attempts to leave the city by any means ...
- 4736: Sybolism In White Fang
- ... ever-growing underground slavery prison camps. The greed for money and profit is the only need for this prison camp ; the dog-fighting gambling is their prison cell. A comparison between the bulldog Cherokee and death itself can be made. Once death has you, there is no way of escaping. When Cherokee had White Fang gripped between his jaws, There was no escaping that grip. It was like Fate itself, and was inexorable, (London 139). Surely enough ...
- 4737: Existence of Man
- ... In other words, what we believe other people think of us. Most people participate in many groups friends, school, family, jobs, clubs, churches and more each contributing to our identity. We have to accept the death of the superman who is alone needing no one, inner directed and indifferent to his surroundings. We see in Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment that when Raskolnkov separates himself from humanity by committing murder ... kept Estelle from being more than mere a boy toy. The fear of dying kept Garcin from being a great pacifist journalist. If a Congressional Medal of Honor winner had not conquered his fear of death, to jump out of a trench to save his buddy, his friend would be dead. If Moses had not conquered his fear of losing a comfortable life, Israel would still be slaves to Egypt. If ...
- 4738: Dualism
- ... with the physical body. These difficulties provided a motive for the move to popular substance dualism. The first major argument for substance dualism is religion. Each of the major religions place belief in life after death; that there is an immortal soul that will survive death. This very closely resembles substance dualism. The mind can be substituted for the immortal soul. In fact the two are almost interchangeable. This argument is primarily the basis for my own belief in substance dualism ...
- 4739: Transcendentalism and A Belief In A "Higher Power"
- ... been "touched" by a higher power. Because of this direct contact, we must believe in the existence of a transcendental being. Many people have very similar stories of walking into a bright light in near-death experiences. With all of these occurrences, supporters argue, we must be able to see the existence of a god. The response to both of these arguments is that there is not one bit of concrete ... miracle, such as the Shroud of Turin, they have not lived up to their claim. We also cannot prove through any scientific method that anyone has ever been touched by a transcendental force. These near-death experiences are probably a simple lack of blood to the brain. The only tools that we have to prove or disprove the existence of a transcendental power are our senses, the scientific method, and logic ...
- 4740: Compare Happiness and Life Between D. H. Lawrence's "You Touched Me" and Friedrich Nietzche's "The Use and Abuse of History Taken From The Twilight Of the Idols."
- ... forgets what he wants to say and what he said. This behaviour is also called forgetfulness. He (Nietzshe) claims that [life in any true sense is absolutely impossible without forgetfulness]. He also says something about death. [And when death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that "being" is merely a continual "has been", a thing that lives by denying and destroying ...
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