Towards Acceptance: Some Thoughts: Pain, Suffering, Death, and Immortality |
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... pain . Pain insists that it , like the self , be always taken seriously . But never solemnly as if it were a halo of divine predilection or a curse of ennobling tragedy . Today's " D.P.'s , " confused about the very meaning of their ...
... pain . Pain insists that it , like the self , be always taken seriously . But never solemnly as if it were a halo of divine predilection or a curse of ennobling tragedy . Today's " D.P.'s , " confused about the very meaning of their ...
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Some Thoughts: Pain, Suffering, Death, and Immortality Henry George Fairbanks. XVII . Fear , Pain , and Death There are millions of Americans still alive who , having survived the Great Depression , can yet thrill to " F.D.R. " ' s voice ...
Some Thoughts: Pain, Suffering, Death, and Immortality Henry George Fairbanks. XVII . Fear , Pain , and Death There are millions of Americans still alive who , having survived the Great Depression , can yet thrill to " F.D.R. " ' s voice ...
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... pain is unique . Some degree of pain may be exceptional . That will soon be ascertained and remedied , if not immediately cured . But membership accepted into the communion of sufferers has its own palliatives . We distance ourselves ...
... pain is unique . Some degree of pain may be exceptional . That will soon be ascertained and remedied , if not immediately cured . But membership accepted into the communion of sufferers has its own palliatives . We distance ourselves ...
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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