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The coming of the Messiah.

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...ALL that I have to say to thee, my venerable friend Christophilus, reduces itself to the serious and formal examination of one single point; which, in the present constitution or system of the church and the world, appears to me of the highest importance; viz. Whether the ideas which we entertain concerning t...

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...IN GLORY AND MAJESTY BY JUAN JOSAFAT BEN-EZRA, A CONVERTED JEW TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH, WITH A PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE, BY THE REV. ... ...LORY AND MAJESTY BY JUAN JOSAFAT BEN-EZRA, A CONVERTED JEW TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH, WITH A PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE, BY THE REV. EDWAR... ...ge of a book, written in the Spanish tongue, which clearly sets forth, and demonstrates from Holy Scripture, the erroneous-ness of the opinion, almos... ...ntention of the dispensation itself, as it hath been understood and is expressed by all orthodox divines; who have agreed in holding that the idea o... ...ness and peace harmonized, and goodness reigning universally. Fye, oh, fye upon it! ye Christians have fathered upon the scriptures the optimism of ... ... bring in all nations to the Church, and bind the whole world in one great community of Christians, acknowledging the Son of God, as the Lord of all... ...the more I discovered its great weight and value, as an all-sufficient argument for the orthodoxy of the ancient system, and the heterodoxy of the c... ... of its place to make room for the parallel succession of the trumpets which affect the eastern as the seals do the western half of the fourth empir... ...that killeth with the sword shall be killed with the sword.” But, for as much as in the eastern half of the church, the visitation of Mahomedanism wa...

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... The First Book of Factoids First Published on the Links and Factoids Study List http://groups.yahoo.com/group... ...art thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit... ...e her his consort by changing the law to allow for a morganatic marriage (of people from different classes, with no rights of inheritance). Simpson ... ... Towards the end of the 19th century, the Armenians formed guerrilla movements in eastern Van (the Armenakans, in 1885) and in Russia. Radical nat... ...ment in their Bible. The factoids below relate to the version of the Bible used by Christians everywhere: Old (39 books) and New Testament. Altoget... ...a compilation of the words and names in the Bible - cats are not mentioned at all. Christians appear only 3 times (Acts 11:26; 26:28; 1 Peter 4:16)... ...http://www.obgyn.net/displayarticle.asp?page=/urogyn/murphy- book/cover Calendars Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas on January 7. Their "old... ... one. Sweden adopted the Gregorian Calendar in 1753, Japan in 1873, Egypt in 1875, Eastern Europe between 1912 to 1919 and Turkey in 1927. In Russi... ...mas Day to January 1, effective from 1911 onwards. All that time, the Christian Orthodox continued to observe the Julian calendar. In 1923, a Co...

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...Introduction: In 1828, three years after graduating from Bowdoin College, Hawthorne published his first romance, ?Fanshawe.? It was issued at Boston by Marsh & Capen, but made little or no impression on the public. The motto on the title-page of the original was from Southey: ...

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...cs Series Publication Fanshawe by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...NO Y NO Y NO Y NO Y NOTE TE TE TE TE In 1828, three years after graduating from Bowdoin College, Hawthorne published his first romance, “Fanshawe.” It... ... impression on the public. The motto on the title-page of the original was from Southey: “Wilt thou go on with me?” Afterwards, when he had struck int... ...ot very populous settlement, in a retired corner of one of the New England States, arise the walls of a seminary of learning, which, for the con- veni... ...ttering. At the head of the institution, at this period, was a learned and Orthodox divine, whose fame was in all the churches. He was the author of s... ...lties of the road had been so much increased by the storm, that the purple eastern clouds gave notice of the near approach of the sun just as the trav... ...s fearfully; and I cannot endure to watch alone by her bedside. If you are Christians, come in with me.” Ellen’s companion leaped hastily from his hor... ... was not till four years after Fanshawe’s death, that Ed- ward Walcott was united to Ellen Langton. Their future lives were uncommonly happy. Ellen’s ...

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Excerpt: The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells.

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...Bishop by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...d. They spread out into a pattern. They were like the little monks who run from St. Jerome’s lion in the picture by Carpaccio. Then one zealot rushed ... ...ere had been a Third Person in the Trinity at all. He suggested a reaction from a too-Manichaean dualism at some date after the time of St. John’s Gos... ...imize the importance of all dated and explicit evidences and arguments for orthodox beliefs, and to resort to vague symbolic and liberal interpretatio... ...y, of the former work that an elderly colonel, a Wombash parishio- ner, an orthodox Layman of the most virulent type, had sent him. He perceived that ... ... incidental of observations. “What puzzles me,” he said, “is why the early Christians identified the Spermaticos Logos of the Stoics with the sec- ond... ...ty we ever ceased to be friends,” he said. “You Englishmen aren’t like our Christians,” he went on. The Engiishmen wanted to know why. “You haven’t pr... ...y to attend to it. It’s well we’re through with Easter. Bishop Buncombe of Eastern Blowdesia was coming here anyhow. And there is Canon Bliss. There’s...

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Excerpt: The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna, A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper.

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...THE PIONEERS OR, THE SOURCES OF THE SUSQUEHANNA A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper A Penn State El... ...heir passage. The Otsego is about nine miles in length, varying in breadth from half a mile to a mile and a half. The water is of great depth, limpid,... ...le to a mile and a half. The water is of great depth, limpid, and supplied from a thousand springs. At its foot the banks are rather less than thirty ... ...ense—he knew that the mild prin- ciples of this little nation of practical Christians would be disregarded by their subtle and malignant enemies; and ... ...plant had taken root, were both larger and more numerous than those on its eastern, and one in particu- lar thrust itself forward in such a manner as ... ...mself, in this heavy undertaking, of the experience of a certain wandering eastern mechanic, who, by exhibiting a few soiled plates of English archite... ....” —Freneau. BEFORE THE EUROPEANS, or, to use a more significant term, the Christians, dispossessed the original owners of the soil, all that section ... ...d his only auditor was Ben Pump, who had all the obstinate and enlightened orthodoxy of a high churchman. Before the war of the Revolution, the Englis... ...s better reason taught him it was the most prudent to attempt to lead, His orthodoxy had no dependence on his cassock; he could pray with fervor and w...

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...SERIES PUBLICATION A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... humanely great—great, I mean, as affecting a whole mass of lives—has come from reflection. On the other hand, you cannot fail to see the power of mer... ...eserved for the edification of posterity. Among other sayings—I am quoting from memory—I remember this solemn admonition: “Let all thy words have the ... ...t of success, is but the regard for one’s own dignity which is inseparably united with the dignity of one’s work. And then—it is very difficult to be ... ... a setting of light music. I could recall no more the hallucination of the Eastern Archi- pelago which I certainly hoped to see again. The story of “A... ...had had the man and his surroundings with me ever since my return from the eastern waters—some four years before the day of which I speak. It was in t... ...d the letter went on to tell me how all the bereaved poor of the district, Christians and Jews alike, had mobbed the good 41 Joseph Conrad doctor’s c... ... a few women among them. He was glad to observe the village priest (of the Orthodox Church) coming up the drive. The good man in his haste had tucked ...

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...ERIES PUBLICATION Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... humanely great—great, I mean, as affecting a whole mass of lives—has come from reflection. On the other hand, you cannot fail to see the power of mer... ...d for the edifica- tion of posterity. Amongst other sayings—I am quot- ing from memory—I remember this solemn admo- nition: “Let all thy words have th... ...t of success, is but the regard for one’s own dignity which is inseparably united with the dignity of one’s work. And then—it is very difficult to be ... ...had had the man and his surroundings with me ever since my return from the eastern waters, some four years before the day of which I speak. It was in ... ...d the letter went on to tell me how all the bereaved poor of the district, Christians and Jews alike, had mobbed the good doctor’s coffin with sobs an... ... few women amongst them. He was glad to observe the village priest (of the Orthodox Church) coming up the drive. The good man in his haste had tucked ... ...the dawn, only the steady little draught got a more keen edge on it as the eastern sky became bright and glassy with a clean, colourless light. It was...

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...ication Lord Ormont and His Aminta by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...er nearing to pass, when the girl opened on him, as if lifting her eyelids from sleep to the window, a full side—look, like a throb, and no disguise—n... ...r heart came quietly out. The look was like the fall of light on the hills from the first of morning. It lasted half a minute, and left a ruffle for a... ...braltar or Malta, or com- mand of one of our military districts. The South-eastern ‘ll be vacant soon. He’d like to be Constable of the Castle, and ha... ...were?” “Not at all.” “You like the Jews?” “Those I know I like.” “Not many Christians have the good sense and the good heart of Arthur Abner. Now go a... ...ent of a Phoebus Apollo, with his golden bow and quiver off the fairest of Eastern horizon skies, followed suddenly by the sight of him toppling over ... ...to do habitually, to the chapel herself; but to denounce the ritual of the Orthodox Church under the de- nomination of ‘barbarous,’ to say of the invo... ...their history, but now they ‘re down I don’t side with the Philistines, or Christians. They ‘re good citizens, and they ‘ve got Samson in the brain, t...

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...AVELLI by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...to Vettori, and it seems to me, now that I have released myself altogether from his literary precedent, that he still has his use for me. In spite of ... ...s unfair. The old sort of Prince, the old little principality has vanished from the world. The commonweal is one man’s absolute es- tate and responsib... ...very much what one might expect from an aunt, that I used as Nero used his Christians to ornament my public buildings; and I finally melted some into ... ...l is the quality of most wooing, and presented himself as a very brisk and orthodox young man. I wonder why nearly all lovemaking has to be fraudulent... ... a place where I slept and read, and the mooning explorations of the south-eastern 51 H G Wells postal district which occupied the restless evenings ... ...o Republican and Democrat, for example, and you have the conditions in the United States. The Crown or a dethroned dynasty, the Estab- lished Church o... ...amatic distinction, and in spite of a certain faltering on the part of the orthodox Conservatives towards the bolder elements in our propaganda, I had...

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Excerpt: The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells.

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... (1915) (1915) (1915) A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...stocratic life.” But by “aristocratic” he meant something very differ- ent from the quality of a Russian prince, let us say, or an English peer. He me... ...ur sense of humour and congratulate ourselves on a certain amiable freedom from priggishness or presumption, but for Benham that easy de- clension to ... ... said Prothero softly. “Stew—ard !” “Your turn next, Benham,” whispered an orthodox con- troversialist. “Good Lord! I’ d like to see him,” said Benham... ...aped from the glowing lassitude of Venice for some days of climbing in the Eastern Alps. In January, in an outbreak of enquiry, he had gone with Lione... ...eople are dreadful people.” “But how?” “You’ve heard of the great Kent and Eastern Bank smash and the Marlborough Building Society frauds eight or nin... ...hometan districts they pelt men who do not wear fezzes, while occasionally Christians of the shawl-headed or skull- cap persuasions will pelt a fez. S... ...cularly upon the differences between men of the same race who were Hindus, Christians and Mahometans respectively. He could compare the Bengali Mahome...

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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very...

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...SICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...aching comedy of expectant youth. It is Carol Milford, fleeing for an hour from Blodgett College. The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, an... ...onsin, the Dakotas send their children thither, and Blodgett protects them from the wickedness of the universities. But it secretes friendly girls, yo... ...ir Lewis town exploded. Only at the annual balls of the Firemen and of the Eastern Star was there such prodigality of chif- fon scarfs and tangoing an... ...em. But rats, what do we care! This is an independent town, not like these Eastern holes where you have to watch your step all the time, and live up t... ...t it was their privilege as relatives to laugh at Carol, and their duty as Christians to let her know how absurd her “no- tions” were. They objected t... ...vious of their wives as they gave the social passwords of Main Street, the orthodox opin- ions on weather, crops, and motor cars, then flung away rest... ...would never, Carol fancied, be one of the town pillars, because he was not orthodox in hunting and motoring and poker. But he was winning approbation ... ...t speak so bitter about `pious’ people. There’s lots of sincere practising Christians that are real tolerant. Like the Champ Perrys.” “Yes. I know. Un...

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...owning him with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating ... ...re and less fascinating poet and legend-writer, who will imitate for us the style of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Tok... ...on ceremonies or reading their mandates became irrelevant. Yang Lin, parting from their movement toward the steps that led toward the Royal Museum, be... ...tely something that was not wanted. It stayed with him on the bus. On a ride from the Nambu Bus Terminal to Chongju, Sang Huin's sleep was spastic lik... ...f mortality could be eased. In the face of challenges from other ideologies, Christians protected their God and religion with defensive armament of an... ...er, which was becoming less odd annually, concerned her especially after the United Nations report that the world temperature would rise two degrees o... ...We go on occasion. We aren't believers. Catholic Mass is similar to Russian Orthodox services and it makes my sister feel like she is back in St. Pet... ...t contracts would have taken place in the 19th century when the deceased was united in the ultimate act of consummation: the decay into that plot of l... ...obiology emerged. --Wild wheat and barley live naturally in the area between Eastern Turkey and the Caspian Sea. Some time between 12,000 and 8,000 B...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Marseilles -- The Arrival. On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d?If...

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...ne by Alexandre Dumas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Count of Monte Cristo Volume One by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of... ...he Count of Monte Cristo Volume One by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, an... ...- pearance bespoke that calmness and resolution peculiar to men accustomed from their cradle to contend with danger. “Ah, is it you, Dantes?” cried th... ... allowed to perish of hunger in the midst of other men who call themselves Christians, is too horrible for belief. Oh, it is impossible — utterly impo... ...ir, of hunger,” said Caderousse. “I am as certain of it as that we two are Christians.” The abbe, with a shaking hand, seized a glass of water that wa... ...nd vivid to light the horizon with a glow equal to the soft twilight of an eastern clime. Scarcely, therefore, had the reflective Franz walked a hundr... ...g is utterly unknown to me, and up to the present time I have followed the Eastern customs, which are entirely in contrast to the Parisian. I beg you,... ...rry us.’ Marriage is a civil affair in France, and in order to marry in an orthodox manner you must have papers which undeniably establish your identi...

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...Table of Contents: Etymology, 1 -- Extracts, 3 -- 1 Loomings, 15 -- 2 The Carpet-Bag, 20 -- 3 The Spouter-Inn, 24 -- 4 The Counterpane, 36 -- 5 Breakfast, 40 -- 6 The Street, 42 -- 7 The Chapel, 45 -- 8 The Pulpit, 48 -- 9 The Sermon, 51 -- 10 A Bosom Friend, 59 -- 11 Nightgown, 63 -- 12 Biogra...

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...ES PUBLICATION A Little Tour in France by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ... for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...left vaguely unsatisfied by that epitome of civiliza- tion which stretches from the Arc de Triomphe to the Gymnase theatre. It had already been intima... ...one rainy morning in mid-September, for the charming little city of Tours, from which point it seemed possible to make a variety of fruit- ful excursi... ...We have entered the court, by the way, by jumping over the walls. The more orthodox method is to follow a mod- ern, terrace, which leads to the left, ... ...s which are only houses. The trouble with the domestic architecture of the United States is that it is not scenic, thank Heaven! and the good fortune ... ...al good faith which is not the commonest feature of French art, and which, united as it is in this case with exceeding knowledge and a remarkable sens... ...n she wore a toi- lette etudiee sported a Jewish turban ornamented with an Eastern brooch, a scarf of gauze, a necklace of cam- eos, and a robe of “pa... ...nant of the old pagan place of sepulture, which was afterwards used by the Christians, but has been for ages deserted, and now consists only of a mela...

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...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemu...

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... ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL .................................................................... ............................................. 230 The Welfare State is moral from a self-centered point of view ........................................... ...elf-centered point of view .......................................... 232 From a self centered point of view it is immoral ............................. ...father, should he have been honored as the commandment requires? Are most Christians dishonoring the code by keeping Sunday rather than Saturday, th... ...to face their beliefs by thinking deeply about them. ―Few Jews, Christians, Hindus or Muslims change their religions. Few democrats want a ... ...e chosen group can be rewarded. But is that chosen group Sunni, Catholic, Orthodox, Methodist, Shi‘ite, evangelical, conservative or some other sec... ...ce of panenthism, with a God that is the force behind all nature, in early orthodox writings and in later Reformed and Conservative Jewry. But we als... ...a number of Christian mystics in the West. Panentheism is more common in Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Here God is both the creator and the creati... ...slims and a couple billion Christians believing in their own brands of Mid-Eastern monotheism. Then we have Judaism, Sikhism, Bahai, Shinto and other...

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...nstruction. Whether as children we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture which went hand in hand with their soci...

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...THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION by DONALD BROADRIBB With contributions by Marilyn H... .... ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors are grateful for permission to use material from the following: Joseph Epes Brown (ed.), The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk’s ... ...in Eranos 24-1955, © Eranos Foundation, Ascona, Switzerland. The quotation from this paper that appears in the text is reprinted with kind permission ... ...erners were well acquainted with the existence of Judaism, though very few Christians had much conception of why and how Judaism continued to exist tw... ...tern religious writers was to divide the world’s religions into two camps: Christians and Jews on the one hand, and “pagans” or “heathens” on the othe... ...organized, and much else. Small groups such as the Old Order Amish, in the eastern United States, are striking examples of Christian traditions which ... ...emergence and development of Christianity. 17 Within a very few centuries, eastern Christianity—in both an ideological, and to some degree organizatio... ...d Eastern parts took place. Eastern Chris- tianity came to consist of the “Orthodox Churches,” a name still in use. Western Christianity was centered ... ...e its administrative and theological centers are in Rome. The Catholic and Orthodox Churches together account for about two thirds of Christians at pr...

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.............................................................. 3 RECOGNIZING THE WORLD’S PROBLEMS ......................................................... ...CTION ................................................................ 38 THE HINDU RELIGION AND POPULATION CONTROL .................................... ... Arriving in Indus It was not far from Singaling to Indus. Just a five hour flight on Singapore Airlines, st... ... the Southeast Asian part of the world--but what a universe of difference. From one of the three most advanced countries on the planet to a Third Wor... ...ion likely to work is to pay people to not reproduce. ―I know that Eastern Europe is reducing its population. Even the Catholic countries, li... ... expect a population drop of 13% in Hungary by 2060, and a drop of 18% in Eastern Europe by that time. And of course the number of people over 65 wi... ... The Koran and its commentators speak of good and bad jinns. The Jews and Christians have their witches. 45 We can point to Deuteronomy 18:10 ‗T... ...rmed in heaven, why wouldn‘t God accept the truth of a proposition if two Christians today agreed to it? Was Jesus only talking about those in his a... ...the same religion. Both the Sunnis and the Shia claim the real truth. The orthodox Jew upholds the true religion, the Reformed Jews are really misgu...

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...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic ...

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...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans ...

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...ht January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and ... ... Chapter 5: Modern Humans: Pgs 267-299 The Transition from Hunter-gatherers to Settlements ... ...nce Pg 265 Memory and Wisdom Chapter Five: Modern Humans: The Transition from Hunter-gatherers to Settlements. Pg 267 Modern Humans before C... ...ism may mark the similarity between what I have written here, and the ancient Eastern teachings of Dualism, or Daoism. However: the ancient teachin... ...ed. Climates of the world became drier: trees began slowly disappearing. In Eastern Africa, this change of weather patterns was magnified by the R... ...o be published unless it has already been censored and weeded to fit whatever orthodox belief the orthodox scientific establishment holds. This cons... ...e, because I am possessed of the Holy Spirit.’ Why do you think born-again Christians are so despised, and shunned by other religious people? Why... ... no sense of humor about their own sacred beliefs. Others see how born-again Christians are blind to their own silliness and their stupidities. Sim... ...ess institution? What do your personal morals and ethics have to do with any orthodoxy? Why do people need the sanctity of some religious rubber st...