Towards Acceptance: Some Thoughts: Pain, Suffering, Death, and Immortality |
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... head winds are far more prevalent than winds from astern . . . the commodore on the quar- terdeck gets his atmosphere as secondhand . He thinks he breathes it first ; but not so . In much the same way do the commonality lead their ...
... head winds are far more prevalent than winds from astern . . . the commodore on the quar- terdeck gets his atmosphere as secondhand . He thinks he breathes it first ; but not so . In much the same way do the commonality lead their ...
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... head of any Minerva . He had an ancestry that included alienists , pseudo - scientists like the mes- merists and phrenologists ; but , most of all , the more truly scientific neurologists who , building on the foundations of their own ...
... head of any Minerva . He had an ancestry that included alienists , pseudo - scientists like the mes- merists and phrenologists ; but , most of all , the more truly scientific neurologists who , building on the foundations of their own ...
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... head and heart in integrating truth . But its inten- tions , as distinguished from any excesses natural to reactions , are to cure or alleviate by community or individual love manifested through group solidarity or the laying on of ...
... head and heart in integrating truth . But its inten- tions , as distinguished from any excesses natural to reactions , are to cure or alleviate by community or individual love manifested through group solidarity or the laying on of ...
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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