Towards Acceptance: Some Thoughts: Pain, Suffering, Death, and Immortality |
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... fact . Pangloss is a fraud but a friend , however dependent . Cunegonde is an unsightly bitch , but a passable laun- dress . Paquette and Girolamo make reasonably good cooks in the ménage on the Bosphorus . Even Martin is occasionally ...
... fact . Pangloss is a fraud but a friend , however dependent . Cunegonde is an unsightly bitch , but a passable laun- dress . Paquette and Girolamo make reasonably good cooks in the ménage on the Bosphorus . Even Martin is occasionally ...
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... fact that they are dying . They do not shrink from the fact . If only from exhaustion , they may even welcome it for themselves and for their beloved . For neither experience nor instinct has blinded them to the fact that death is ...
... fact that they are dying . They do not shrink from the fact . If only from exhaustion , they may even welcome it for themselves and for their beloved . For neither experience nor instinct has blinded them to the fact that death is ...
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... fact that room rents skyrocket and spatial accom- modations ( almost as tight as in Bethlehem during a Roman census ) limit admissions and expedite check - outs . To be fair , we must admit that policies , like inventions , are often ...
... fact that room rents skyrocket and spatial accom- modations ( almost as tight as in Bethlehem during a Roman census ) limit admissions and expedite check - outs . To be fair , we must admit that policies , like inventions , are often ...
Contents
Preface Foreword Poem Sonnet to Death Chapter I The Ferries at Bayhead Death as Natural Transition | 1 |
Last Things First Necessity of a Point of View | 11 |
God on Trial The Problem of Evil | 19 |
Copyright | |
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