The poem ‘The Planners’ by Boey Kim Cheng mentions the city structure and shows that perfection‚ uniformity and control over nature are the main concepts in this city plan. The wish for perfection and uniformity of the planners in the poem highlights another theme which is the control over nature. The aim of the powerful planners is to change the country they live in the way they want. Therfore‚ they want to have the power and potential to control the thoughts of people. The planners referred in
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The idea of “sufficiency” is speculative and dependent upon the context in which it is presented. The Paradise of Adam and Eve was sufficient because it served its purpose fully. It had more than enough amenities to sustain the two of them and had more than they could ever use within their lifetime. And Adam and Eve in their time in Paradise were immortal‚ to say that Paradise for them was sufficient is beyond comprehension compared to the current world of scarce resources. For example‚ when Eve
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De Jong makes a similar argument regarding this. She claims that in 822‚ Louis “acted from a position of strength‚ and this was exactly the quality that his behavior must have conveyed to those present-certainly to the clerics. Instead of forcing him into obedience‚ the bishops followed his ‘most salubrious example.’” While these are all equally important arguments‚ it is hard to actually grasp the mind of Louis at this point in time. Yes‚ from the sources it appears that he really strove to be
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truth‚ accepting the sum of present consciousness which ultimately allows an evolutionary transition‚ transcending the Cartesian Dilemma‚ aka‚ Descartes’ Mind/Body dualism. Although we are each a single individual‚ our minds and our bodies seem to exist in two separate worlds which operate on separate rules. The dilemma is unifying the two‚ made possible by transcending the duality entirely. This allows the emergence of de-limited spirit which then provides the world with a third path‚ the Path of
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Fallen is a thought-provoking -person narrative film that begins and ends with the voice of the film’s narrator and protagonist‚ Azazel. The movie‚ which is based on his personal story‚ opens with an intriguing self-introduction that snares the audience’s attention from the outset: “I want to tell you about the time I almost died.” As the movie proceeds‚ Azazel reveals that he is responsible for killings‚ as well as the false indictment and subsequent suicide of a detective named John Hobbes. Azazel
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There have been an innumerable amount of arguments for the existence of God for hundreds of years. Some have become much more popular due to their merit‚ and their ability to stay relevant through changing times. Two arguments in particular that have been discussed for a very long time are the ontological and cosmological arguments. Each was proposed in the period of the high middle ages by members of the Roman Catholic Church. They each have been used extensively by many since their introduction
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Evil‚ how did it happen and why is it still here on this earth? There is this belief that the Christian God is good and all-powerful. He has the power to create worlds and beings‚ yet there is still evil in the world. Both Pierre Bayle and Voltaire address these questions in their works “Paulicians” and Candide (respectively). They both believe the Manichean philosophy as a more rational thought process than the contemporaneous Christian view. This belief is that there is not one‚ but two gods in
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2.5. The original sin “Deliver us from evil" (Mt 6: 13) A light on the question of evil‚ so often obscured today‚ comes from the truth of the faith on original sin: man‚ departing from God by his own free will‚ experiences internal disruption‚ because the separation from the Father who gives life condemns him for this very fact to death. This is what the Second Vatican Council teaches us in this regard: «What divine revelation makes known to us agrees with experience. Examining his heart‚ man finds
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Comfort in atheism‚ McCloskey states people are happier in the knowledge there is no God‚ allowing them to find comfort from self and the good will of others. McCloskey says if God were to exist then He would be responsible for the things which cause man to need comfort‚ calling it “cold comfort from religion” with God as the responsible party for any and all evil. Continuing with this line of reason‚ he advocates many different forms of terminating life as a means to avoid the need for comfort‚
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St Anselm was impressed by Gaunilo’s objections and wrote a careful reply to him. The crux of Anselm’s response was that his argument only applies to the greatest possible being: it is part of the essence of the greatest possible being that it must exist. It is not part of the essence of the greatest possible island that it must exist (islands can exist or not)‚ but it is part of the greatest possible being that it must exist. So whether an atheist thinks Gaunilo’s Lost Island objection is decisive
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