Towards Acceptance: Some Thoughts: Pain, Suffering, Death, and Immortality |
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... remain there , only his remains . Like the trail of smoke issuing initially from the iron mask , he ascended elsewhere for a higher , and assuredly less harsh , judgment . Whatever , he had passed the trials and the test well ...
... remain there , only his remains . Like the trail of smoke issuing initially from the iron mask , he ascended elsewhere for a higher , and assuredly less harsh , judgment . Whatever , he had passed the trials and the test well ...
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... remain truths in metaphor if not in literal fact . This concerns people qua people most expecting , with the scientist , some basis for reassuring order . Details as details change , but remain accidental variants of the foundation of ...
... remain truths in metaphor if not in literal fact . This concerns people qua people most expecting , with the scientist , some basis for reassuring order . Details as details change , but remain accidental variants of the foundation of ...
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... remains of the dead Polynices precipitates the tragedy in Antigone . The single exception of the aboriginal Ik tribe's taunting of their weak and dead members is in perverse contrast to the customs of the pygmies of the Congo or the ...
... remains of the dead Polynices precipitates the tragedy in Antigone . The single exception of the aboriginal Ik tribe's taunting of their weak and dead members is in perverse contrast to the customs of the pygmies of the Congo or the ...
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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