Towards Acceptance: Some Thoughts: Pain, Suffering, Death, and Immortality |
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... whole for better or worse . It may distort or confirm your importance and , therefore , your responsibilities to self or to society or the nihilistic rejection of all meaning to life . You may never consciously think about it or you may ...
... whole for better or worse . It may distort or confirm your importance and , therefore , your responsibilities to self or to society or the nihilistic rejection of all meaning to life . You may never consciously think about it or you may ...
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... Whole Universe . Is it intelligently ordered ? Is it benevolently directed ? Is it just ? Let us listen again to his discourse on the necessity of perspective for any correct judgment . Whether he speaks as literary critic , or artist ...
... Whole Universe . Is it intelligently ordered ? Is it benevolently directed ? Is it just ? Let us listen again to his discourse on the necessity of perspective for any correct judgment . Whether he speaks as literary critic , or artist ...
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... whole body . The belly answer'd -... Your most grave belly was deliberate , Not rash like his accusers , and thus answer'd : " True is it , my incorporate friends , " quoth he , " That I receive the general food at first , Which you do ...
... whole body . The belly answer'd -... Your most grave belly was deliberate , Not rash like his accusers , and thus answer'd : " True is it , my incorporate friends , " quoth he , " That I receive the general food at first , Which you do ...
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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