A Near-Death Experience Breeds RebirthHow close have you come to dying? What value do you place on your own life? Mary Oliver poses these very deep and thought-provoking questions to the reader in her short poem‚ Alligator Poem.In the poem‚ the persona has an experience in which she comes very close to death: an alligator walks by her as she drank some water out of a river while sitting on a riverbank. Oliver describes it in this way: I didn ’t understand/I drank up to the very moment it came/crashing
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Once upon a time‚ God created a simulation video game based on evolution. It was a video game that gave the player (in this case God himself) many different ways on how to change the environment‚ along with other factors too. There were a type of species from the game’s selection of other species called Barbellus- which had an antennae and a fish tail. God decided to create a large number of these creatures that lived in the ocean of the video game. However‚ in this species’ early stages‚ both populations
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someone to simply show you the evidence for God’s existence? No arm-twisting. No statements of‚ "You just have to believe." Well‚ here is an attempt to candidly offer some of the reasons which suggest that God exists. But first consider this. If a person opposes even the possibility of there being a God‚ then any evidence can be rationalized or explained away. It is like if someone refuses to believe that people have walked on the moon‚ then no amount of information is going to change their thinking
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My Experience with God If you look closely at the world around you‚ you can see God in everything and everyone. Just recently‚ I had my very own personal experience with God. Even though I can see God through His creations‚ I finally found the place where I feel closest to God. Many people have told me it is easy to see God in life‚ but I just realized that God is everywhere. Some people have a harder time finding the right path to go down towards God. I happen to be one of those people. On the
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THE INTELLECTUAL FOUNDATIONS OF RELIGION HAKEEM KOLAPO FUJAH APPLIED THEORY OF PEACE AND PEACE EDUCATION SERIES DISCUSSION PAPER 1 IS IT LOGICAL TO BELIEVE IN GOD? Are these extraordinary times? To win the ideological war against terrorism and protect the minds of youth from radicalization is engaging enough. Equally worrying is mounting evidence that too many people across continents may be losing their minds. Alongside possible over-population‚ joblessness and emasculation
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instance‚ in The Odyssey gods have more power than mankind‚ but there are certain things even higher than that on the power scale‚ gods like Zeus and Hera who hold the most power‚ alphas as one might say. Although the power of gods and goddesses mighty and often impregnable as it may appear‚ has its limits to some yielding it and is often times crafted in a way you might not
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The movie " The Gods Must Be Crazy " describes a tribe from the people of the Calahari‚ a place in Africa‚ coming in contact with a coke bottle dropped from a plane. A tribesman is struck on the head and thinks it is a gift from the gods. Shortly the tribe discovers wonderful uses of the bottle‚ but they also find later on that there is anger and violence whenever one is using it while someone else needs it and wants to use it. So one bushman decides to walk to the end of the earth and return the
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The Messenger of the Gods Thieves‚ Merchants‚ and even sheep! These are all things that Hermes likes to hang around‚ as well as being the messenger of the gods. Big title‚ right? Let’s talk about that. Hermes‚ also known as Mercury in the Roman culture is the god of merchants‚ thievery‚ and shepherds. He also acting as the messenger of the gods. We was good friends with Zeus‚ his father‚ and Apollo‚ the sun god. He became friends with Apollo at a very early age. As the story goes‚ as an infant
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The thoughts of God that are presented by Leibniz and Spinoza are finished total inverses in idea. Spinozas god does not take after routine terminology for god as it has none of the attributes of the customary‚ individual god. Leibniz idea of god is a more relatable idea of a divine being that has a limit for thought‚ and has a request and motivation to the moves that it makes. Leibniz’s God is a humanized being that has the limit for thought and activity keeping in mind the end goal to settle on
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Is Belief in God Rational? I believe that God is good‚ the one Supreme Being‚ the creator and the ruler of the universe and belief in God is rational. God to me is a higher power and an entity that is above and beyond the universe. He created the universe and the physical laws that govern it. “The Lord made the earth by his power; by his wisdom he created the world and stretched out the heavens.” (Jeremiah 51:15) The verse tells us that the earth was made by His power‚ established by His
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