Towards Acceptance: Some Thoughts: Pain, Suffering, Death, and Immortality |
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... social point of view this is welcome to expectancy , if only harder to verify . The order of the day is still " Order . " But where ? How ? And does personal significance diminish or develop in its compass ? What a pretty picture ...
... social point of view this is welcome to expectancy , if only harder to verify . The order of the day is still " Order . " But where ? How ? And does personal significance diminish or develop in its compass ? What a pretty picture ...
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... social obligations in his sparse woodland hut and in his frequent hikes to Concord Village , he would not risk forfeiting his precious solitude . So he wrote : When our life ceases to be inward and private , conversation degenerates ...
... social obligations in his sparse woodland hut and in his frequent hikes to Concord Village , he would not risk forfeiting his precious solitude . So he wrote : When our life ceases to be inward and private , conversation degenerates ...
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... social role playing whether worn hypocritically or so rigidly imposed by social function that it becomes indistinguishable from the wearer to the point of concealing the real person even from himself . Awkward or frustrating as it may ...
... social role playing whether worn hypocritically or so rigidly imposed by social function that it becomes indistinguishable from the wearer to the point of concealing the real person even from himself . Awkward or frustrating as it may ...
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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