Osiris, god of the dead, gave the Egyptians this knowledge, as well as agriculture, religion and law. ... While Osiris is immortality, as he is the eternal god of the dead, Gilgamesh is an entirely different story about the same yearning for eternal life. ... The key to Gilgamesh's success is a small plant he traveled long and hard for, eventually swimming (more like sinking really) to the bottom of a forbidden sea to get, only to have it eaten by a snake on the way back to land. ... Both the Palette and the Victory Stele both seem to convey the message that the king is the ultimate po...

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Whatever he was doing, the Lord appeared to him and told Abraham that he was going to have a great nation, many descendants, and protection throughout the years-as long as he packed up all of his belongings and go to a foreign land. ... There was a famine in the land where Abram was dwelling so he and Sarai travelled down to Egypt. ... He first has to separate with Abram because their shepherds were constantly arguing over land. ...

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He basically says, "Give me now the part of the estate I will get anyway when you are dead, and let me get out of this."" ... "And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in the land; and he began to be in want."" ... After everything has pointed to him being dead, he still has hope that one day his son will return. ...

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The god arrived at by arguments on the one-way street of effect to the cause is dead; we should never have allowed him to live. In Section XI of the Enquiry, and throughout the Dialogues Hume subjects the Argument from Design to searching and searing philosophical analysis, to the point in his mind that it is forever dead, and to the point in our minds that we wonder why the world has not yet received the obituary. ...

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Throughout the ages, humankind has been deeply troubled by the existence of evil. We have often wondered: what is evil? Simply stated, evil is the infliction of pain upon sentient beings. Evil, however, is much more complicated than that definition suggests. It is a complex synthesis of moral, natural, and metaphysical evils (Russell 1986, 18) that varies in its interpretation across time and cultures. ...

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What is the American family? This question was answered by John de Crevecoeur, in "what is the American?" (1782), when he said: "I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an Englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a French woman, and whose present four sons have four wives of different nations."1 In fact, Crevecoeur summarized the history of the American family, in particular, and the American man, in general. There are many kinds of family systems in the world; the English family is but one of them. ...

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God, Morality, and Meaning in Cormac McCarthy's The Road Erik J. Wielenberg Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road is, among other things, a meditation on morality, what makes human life meaningful, and the relationship between these things and God. While the novel is rife with religious imagery and ideas...

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