Towards Acceptance: Some Thoughts: Pain, Suffering, Death, and Immortality |
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... believe that the quiet , undemanding occupant of their motel unit was dangerous , much less the Most Wanted criminal of the day . His conscience may have been malformed and his sensitivity blunted by heredity or environment , but he ...
... believe that the quiet , undemanding occupant of their motel unit was dangerous , much less the Most Wanted criminal of the day . His conscience may have been malformed and his sensitivity blunted by heredity or environment , but he ...
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... believe them to be , worse in any case than the epics , the tragedies , lives of the saints have shown them to us . A lengthy quotation , I confess guiltily ; for by nature I have learned not to explain a joke . One should recognize a ...
... believe them to be , worse in any case than the epics , the tragedies , lives of the saints have shown them to us . A lengthy quotation , I confess guiltily ; for by nature I have learned not to explain a joke . One should recognize a ...
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... believe in the on - going process of becoming and eternal life . The already disciplined naturalist of the Beagle is as bug - eyed as a child wit- nessing the unloading of Noah's Ark . As any great mind , he is ready and willing to be ...
... believe in the on - going process of becoming and eternal life . The already disciplined naturalist of the Beagle is as bug - eyed as a child wit- nessing the unloading of Noah's Ark . As any great mind , he is ready and willing to be ...
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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