In her poem "Ego Tripping" Nikki Giovanni is referring to herself as a supernatural being by referring to explaining her affiliation with Jesus, Allah, and perfect divinity Nikki Giovanni claimed herself to be Jesus after a self-transformation. ... Nikki Giovanni is trying to explain herself as a modern day martyr that has been blessed with a spiritual gift. ... She is stating that the original creation is so perfect, others can't compare. ... In her poem "Ego Tripping" Nikki Giovanni is referring to herself as a supernatural being by referring to ex...

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The perfect government is one in which people understand why they must not kill, and so will not kill. ... From the dawn of mankind up to the modern world, humans have been trying to become civilized. ...

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He has perfect goodness and He has no badness. ... He only does perfect goodness and never bad. ... I feel that really the problems for a modern day Christian cant really be resolved due to the fact that all these attributes are written in the Bible aswell as the explanations. ... I feel that modern day Christians should just be able to take these attributes as any other Christian has done in the thousand years before them. ...

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The creation demonstrates the rites of passage because the world was not always as perfect (even though it isn't) as it is now. ... People have to understand that part of becoming a man is realizing that you can learn from your mistakes and grow stronger from them, rather then pretending your perfect and not growing as a person. ... Most modern religions have roots from primal religions in one way or another. ...

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While in the case of myths and religious stories the hero is clearly associated with gods or God; this fact is not the case with modern literature because the idea of gods has been disguised into value of things---freedom, wealth, success, acceptance etc. ... For Budda, this iniation involves his quest to reach Perfect Enlightenment. ... His desire to attain Perfect Enlightenment comes through meditation. ... He achieves omniscient vision, perfect understanding in the chain of causation, and the origin of Evil Dexaiah. ... His death provides for his victory, which comes through achi...

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I believe sin is more than a Godly creation; it is a human invention that was created to keep the human species in line previous to modern law. ... If the punishment is directly decided by the sin then all these are perfect because they have to do with not be...

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While most modern religions tend to be a little of both, those that encourage natural gender roles tend to be more fundamental in belief while those that seek to control these natural tendencies tend to be more modern (or "western"). ... Although this type of ritual may seem primitive to the modern western world, it is very advantageous to reproduction and favors evolution. ... While this religion may seem to be a little more modern than that of the Tiwi Aborigines, it is still very fundamental in form. ... Either they must adjust their policy (and therefore their religion) to be able to cont...

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Ellen Weis, San Francisco's Museum of Modern Mythology Consumerism fuels the capitalist fire. ... For women, the smoker typically has long blonde hair, a beautiful smile, and perfect, white teeth. ... While they themselves seem less than perfect, they can always look to this image of kindness and project onto it their fears of their race being a total abomination of God and be reassured by it. ... The perfect marriage between consumerism and religion can be found in the myth of Santa Claus. ...

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Ellen Weis, San Francisco's Museum of Modern Mythology Consumerism fuels the capitalist fire. ... For women, the smoker typically has long blonde hair, a beautiful smile, and perfect, white teeth. ... While they themselves seem less than perfect, they can always look to this image of kindness and project onto it their fears of their race being a total abomination of God and be reassured by it. ... The perfect marriage between consumerism and religion can be found in the myth of Santa Claus. ...

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To most people religion offers salvation, enlightenment, and a place in heaven. Religion identifies a way of life. It tells one a complete code of life. Religion emphasizes the importance of being good and of being right. It condemns those who are bad and those who are wrong. Those who practice...

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Still, today philosophers are uncovering new theories about modern society. ... Free will is really not a perfect idea when considering what could happen in the long run of things, of course being told "no" is never easy to hear to any person, but everyone should keep in mind that whoever said "no" has thought through the long-term consequences, and has your interest at heart. ... Two things, modern society and how my parents raised me, and mostly Epicureanism would influence most of my thoughts on philosophy. ... Early Roman philosophy is still used in modern society, and ...

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Hinduism is an ancient religion of people looking for explanations for the things that are beyond human power. Hinduism has many gods/goddess, scriptures that they hold to be true, rules they live by, belief in an afterlife, and rituals they perform whenever the time is right. Hindus follow the re...

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People are becoming more and more devoid of morals Just about all of us have a set of rules that we live by, a personal list of do's and don'ts that is based on our own belief system. These sets of rules are what make us unique and set us apart from the animals. However, now, more than eve...

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Her opinion of white people changing the bible is a very modern view for that time period and shows the depth of Shug's insight and wisdom. ... "all that Joseph said made perfect sense to me" (pg 160). ...

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Numerous experts in modern time regard Plato as the first genuine political philosopher and Aristotle as the first political scientist. ... Typically, sacred texts tell us too much and too little: too much, because they often contain contradictory statements; too little, because they are often not specific enough The main objective in Plato's philosophy is a creation of a perfect society. ...

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Powell, "The author notes that the perfect, beautiful, symmetrical, work of art (the tyger) is such a destructive animal: here Blake is identifying the idea that there, in fact, is evil in such a beautiful world but he cannot understand why". ...

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