Introduction Perhaps it would be appropriate to ask oneself on how much do we know God. ... 2) How should we communicate God as a reality? ... Some thinkers taught that God can be proven by reason alone. ... Anselm understands God as "id quo maius cogitari nequit" (than that which nothing greater can be thought). ... Hence it is thought that the first cause of the universe can be apprehended by faith alone....

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He begins to think of how an animal is provided with life. ... After seeing his creature Victor says, "How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe?"... Victor thinks of how his friends and family are dead and how he lives, and their murderer lives. He thinks that he alone can destroy the demon. ... From the time Frankenstein was written, until modern times, much has changed, but it is almost identical to the thoughts that Mary Shelley put down on paper. ...

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There is a branch of sociology that focuses on the question, how do we know what we know and what do we know? The sociology of knowledge questions the ideas and thoughts that we know on a regular basis. ... Knowledge and society can both change the way in which we know things. ... Also, society can change how history is written creating false truths. ... This is how we know what we know. ...

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Even if we found the answer to reality, how much would it change our everyday lives? The question that we so longed for the answer to wouldnt even make a mark on how we live our lives and the person who found this answer would have committed his entire life to find this now insignificant answer. ... For example we believe we landed on the moon while people in other countries might think it is a hoax for fame. The area we grow up in, our parents, and even things such as what we look like can affect our ideas of reality. ... I have no problem with a new religion but I think that we should keep s...

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Women will not be able to take a full and equal part in the society when we can all decide for ourselves whether and when to have children." ... We think there will probably always be a certain number unplanned pregnancies and that the mother concerned should have the complete choice of either complete abortion, or keeping the baby." ... How could the doctor prove that the decision made had a sound reason to it? ... If she thinks that it is religiously wrong then it is between her and her God. ... How can people be expected to live their lives like this? ...

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When we got there and I went to Sunday school, that day we were learning about how Jesus came back from the dead. I can remember feeling a sense that I didn't really belong there. ... Reflection I believe my paper is better than my rough draft since I changed topics. ... I thought about each topic and decided if I had anything to say about any of them . ... I could branch off to all sorts of ideas even if I didn't use them, it helped me think. ...

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Everybody has one, it guilds your decision making, your thoughts, ideas, and dreams. You may think something is terrible while someone else does not even care and yet another person may laugh, why? ... Their aspirations and values will change, causing their identities to change with it. ... Identity can be seen in even the youngest of children as soon a a child is ready to make their own decision, no matter how trivial the decision might be, the child is starting to create his or her own identity and define their own nature. ... Also it is in the mentality of the person who is making the compa...

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Everybody has one, it guilds your decision making, your thoughts, ideas, and dreams. You may think something is terrible while someone else does not even care and yet another person may laugh, why? ... Their aspirations and values will change, causing their identities to change with it. ... Identity can be seen in even the youngest of children as soon a a child is ready to make their own decision, no matter how trivial the decision might be, the child is starting to create his or her own identity and define their own nature. ... Also it is in the mentality of the person who is making the compa...

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I think that it is interesting that a religion can just be based on other religions and ways of others think and feel. ... How interesting is that, what one could not accomplish in one lifetime he or she can be born again and finish, This would ultimately change the world, if this happens to someone that may have the cure for cancer or something, and that person has not completed the mission, they have almost eternity to do so. ... Through pure acts, thought and devotion one can be reborn at a higher level. ... Bad deeds can cause a person to be reborn as a lower lever, or even as an animal, I...

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Even today in modern times we are embracing these materialistic thoughts. ... The story Oedipus the king was somewhat of a warning of how people were beginning to think about religion and science. ... These men were all great thinkers and all of them had a big impact on the way people thought. ... In modern time we have a great thinker named J. ... As deep as our society is in Materialistic thoughts it is hard for me to imagine us ever changing our ways. ...

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The question then is, how do we inform the world regarding this. ... According to one school of thought, we ought to promote our values, humanity, our love for peace, and all those things that are treasured by us by speaking about them. ... Then there are those, we try to portray themselves as being great people so that the world would think that they are great and would eventually think of their religion to be good. ... How does one portray the positive face of Islam. ... Normalcy by Muslims is the only effective medium through which we can portray the positive face of Islam. ...

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In other words, do you think there is a contradiction between being a subject of god and at the same time being a free man? ... You can analyze the words of god and think about it but this comes after you believe. ... To clarify and explain this more let me make a small historic preview on how religions had limited man's freedom and this can be by talking about: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Even before religions existed, when there was many gods people didn't have religions in the meaning of what we know today about religions but they use to have some "taboos" which are th...

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Although he does think that religion has changed and that the media has had an impact on it. ... As far as how his favorite sports have changed he feels that they are too many teams which causes the dilution of talent. ... I think that religion and the subject of religion have changed greatly. Three generations ago you couldn't even speak of religion and now we can choose our own religion and act, speak on it freely, which is a big change. ... I have never realized how much it h...

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My Beliefs Do you ever wonder why we do the things the way we do? All of our thoughts, words, and actions revolve around a certain belief system. ... One can easily see how these beliefs change from culture to culture by looking at the difference in ideals of a third-world country, such as India, compared to the highly developed country that we live in. By this comparison we can see how cultural heritage does in fact play an important role in the development of our own belief system. ... Everyone has their own set of values and other ways of thought that can be called their own belief sys...

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Johnson stated " We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it." ... Even after knowing her for such a long time we had never talked about real issues besides what had changed since the last appointment. ... I thought of my family's busy schedule and how we only talk when we have time. ... When we do find time, we either talk on the phone or e-mail each other, which seems to work enough to have people comment and even envy. ... We acknowledge that money has become the central role in a family and even kids seem to measure their happiness with how much money their parents...

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When some people think of New Age, they think of acceptance. ... As a young girl she was thought to be immensely spiritual and incredibly bright. ... They believe that people can change themselves by changing their thinking. Basically, they are what they think they are. ... They feel they can change the world, not by changing others, but by changing themselves. ...

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In the story, Fast uses the symbol of the ant to express how physical appearances and human impulses can lead people to act on their instincts when faced with sudden confrontation. ... The fear of the unknown, as represented by the ant, can make humans do things based purely on instinct, and not based on rational thoughts. ... We know why he killed it. ... I didn't think or decide. ... When he sees the ant, subconsciously, he decides that the thing to do is to kill it, before he even had a chance to consciously think about what the right thing to do is. ...

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However, even if we do, we are still capable of feeling and displaying love. ... Humans can develop intense, complicated emotions, and think beyond our basic instincts. ... The first sign of humanity that the monster develops is the ability to think on a high level and articulate his thoughts. ... Yet, we see this monster speaking fluently and telling a gripping story of how he came to live in a world that had only been cruel and inhospitable. ... Therefore, Frankenstein's monster is not a human by definition, but can be considered a human by his capacity for thought, morality, and his e...

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"It's 1997, I"m sitting in my room asking myself the question that will change my life. ... Well that week God changed my life. ... Let's think about this, shouldn't Man be I complete submission so that God can work in his life. Well of course, if man is not in complete obedience to God, then how can he fulfil God's will in his life? ... Even though He doesn't all ways make it so clear to people. ...

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As for as the human race, have we come to the point where the norm is pretty much whatever we can afford? ... News and World Report, I thought that the articles on genetic research stated facts and only facts. ... Many people think they were created that why so that humans can study them to better themselves. ... In fact if we could change the way that we are genetically made-up, but that doesn't mean that we will be physical the way that we wanted to be created. We can change the way that we are genetically made-up but the environment we live in plays a big role in the phenotype, th...

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Perhaps the extensive theme of religion in most of his poems can be attributed to this fact. ... The poem raises an innovative question that if God is responsible for creating both the good things in life (the lamb) and the evil things (the tyger), how can God be good and moral? ... It is through Imagination that we can hear the promptings of God- intuition or as Blake calls it "spiritual sensation". ... In accordance with political changes, there were religious changes as well. ... So when his songs tells of god's love and power and care we must think them as qualities which ...

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You share everything, or so you think. ... At nine years old, I never really thought about religion before. I guess I just thought everyone was Catholic. ... She said we can all learn from each other, "whatever our faith "be it Christian or Jewish, Muslim, Buddhists, Hindu or Sikh." ... Even within a religion, values have been distorted and changed from their initial form. ...

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Many think that no matter what killing, even during war is morally wrong. ... He goes on to explain how we try to justify our actions by saying we"re defending our country. " We claim that we are doing all of this as a humanitarian gesture. How can we proclaim ourselves the saviors of some people when we kill so many others? ... War is always the last resort to a bad situation, and even though it's horrible and so many people die it is necessary for change to happen. ... "More thoughts on War, Religion and Corporate America...

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Religion in China Try to think for a few moments about differing cultures from your own. ... Possibly you even think initially about language barriers. ... We don't even consider the fact that eighty percent of the world has to worship in private just to avoid persecution. ... Interestingly, it was amazing to learn how quickly Muslims became part of Chinese culture. One such way can be found in the process they used to change their names. ...

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We therefore begin with what the word 'soul' meant to speakers of Classical Greek, and what it would have been natural to think about and associate with the soul. ... How far does Tennyson's "In Memoriam" reflect the spirit of the Victorian Age? ... But in the following lines, the poet contradicts what he had said before in the first stanza, "we have but faith" and he writes that it is just for knowledge and trust that we believe in things we see "it comes from thee", moreover in line 22 when man has no fear, "we mock thee". ... As we can see in section 13 the poet is confu...

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