Towards Acceptance: Some Thoughts: Pain, Suffering, Death, and Immortality |
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... keep the community together . A sort of an inverse Utopia where , at the expense of a daring aspiration to lord it over others or even express one's uniqueness , a total work - society is accepted from sheer exhaustion . Now Candide was ...
... keep the community together . A sort of an inverse Utopia where , at the expense of a daring aspiration to lord it over others or even express one's uniqueness , a total work - society is accepted from sheer exhaustion . Now Candide was ...
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... keep flying in the blitz - bombed windows of your sickroom . Honestly , you won't read much . Between interns ' rehearsals and nurses ' performances it will be hard to settle down with a book . An X - ray appointment can short- circuit ...
... keep flying in the blitz - bombed windows of your sickroom . Honestly , you won't read much . Between interns ' rehearsals and nurses ' performances it will be hard to settle down with a book . An X - ray appointment can short- circuit ...
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... keep my fingers crossed against the hex of unforeseeable future contingencies and my own persistent fallibilities . I am grateful for my human vulnerability . It lightens any burden of dubious prophetic mission . - Although most doctors ...
... keep my fingers crossed against the hex of unforeseeable future contingencies and my own persistent fallibilities . I am grateful for my human vulnerability . It lightens any burden of dubious prophetic mission . - Although most doctors ...
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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