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The Religious Dimension

By: Donald Broadribb

...ELIGIOUS DIMENSION by DONALD BROADRIBB With contributions by Marilyn Holly and Norma Lyons Second Edition Published by the Author York, Western Austra... ... Ltd.] in 1995. This second edition, with text reset, various emendations, and new index, is published by the Author, Donald Broadribb, owner of the p... ...uthor, Donald Broadribb, owner of the publication rights. Copyright © 1995 and 2006 by Donald Broadribb. Typeset in Times New Roman and Futura, using ... ... Of Buddhism The Concept Of The Buddha Buddhist Yoga Zen Buddhism And Jung Christianity 59 Origins How Much Does Historical Truth Matter? Centrality O... ...59 Origins How Much Does Historical Truth Matter? Centrality Of Beliefs In Christianity Christian Belief Before The Nicaean Council The Centrality Of ... ...tion. Whether as children we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or we absorbed simple social assumptions from ... ... fill the gap within me and then be able to convey spiritual assistance to others. The historical and philosophical studies I undertook at Union Theol... ...nary (UTS) left me confused. I had failed to find anything similar to what others called God and had lost all faith in organized religion, though I st... ... the time when, according to Christian teaching, it had been superseded by Christianity. Many of the basic religious concepts of India had THE RELIGIO...

...Most readers of this book will have had some type of religious instruction. 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 satisfi...

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Modelling of Rationality...and Beyond the Physics

By: Gh. C. Dinulescu

...GH. C. DINULESCU–CÂMPINA MODELLING OF RATIONALITY … … … … AND BEYOND THE PHYSICS sup(T)+sup(I)+sup(F) [ 3 + sup(T)+sup(I)... ... 2 GH. C. DINULESCU–CÂMPINA MODELLING OF RATIONALITY … … … … AND BEYOND THE PHYSICS ... ... 3 This book can be ordered in microfilm format from: Bell and Howell Co. (University of Microfilm International) 300 N. Zeeb ... ...will understand any entity capable of reflecting on its own condition, on other entities and on their relationships and, in addition, being endowed w... ...or example, corresponds to the intellectual affective activity, while the other one represents the physical activity, one can assume that in the cas... ...wouldn′t it seem natural that the correspondent of material reality on the other ″page″ of the spatiotemporality be the anti-material reality? Accor... ...ly to confer a character of science even to religion, more precisely, to Christianity, the MESER concept brings forth logical arguments that foresha... ...which a character of divine revelation is attributed, and included by the Christianity in the system of the Ten Commandments, are most likely, the c... ... to be counterbalance. Even the text of one of the fundamental prayers of Christianity, ″Our Father″, states: «…and do not lead us into temptation», ...

...t should be mentioned that Descartes – the founder of modern rationalism – issued the thesis of ?the right of rationality to re-examine all knowledge and to accept as truth only what appears as obvious in itself, through the angle of reason?. The Cartesian thesis has a testimonial deed in the Socratic assertion on ?the identity between the moral and the rational?....

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...THE HATCHET BURIED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 and 1910 End of the March J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches... ...s of the Four Orators on the Old Campus When the four olnsseB joined hands and oiroled around the bon- fire on the old OHinpuH Saturday night and sang... ...aturday night and sang " TheMountains, " all enmity between tliesophomores and freshnien was buried. The oolebration itself wns entirely suo- oessful,... ...e came to Florence while still o youth; and here, under the influ- ence of other artists, he devoted his efforts to Madonnas. In this work the refinem... ... which will be held in .Harmony hall, will be followed by a dance. Several other concerts, to be given after that in Troy, are under consider- ation. ... ... also to Amherst, Princetoo, Columbia, Dart- mouth, Harvard, V'ale and the others. COTRELL & LEONARD 47J-478 Broadway, Albany, N. Y. Correct Hoods for... ...l, by his assistance ill a great drought, he won over the entire island to Christianity. Wars gave way to peace, resulting in increased prosperity, th... ...sting of the moral tend- encies, best brought about by the introduction of Christianity and the moral influences which mis- sions disseminate. Mission... ...aedic facts, and with great felicity of expression reflects-upon spiritual Christianity and mysticism. If he had given us a little more of the tangibl...

...nning independent newspaper at Williams is the Williams Record, a weekly broadsheet paper published on Wednesdays. The newspaper was founded in 1885, and now has a weekly circulation of 3,000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the student ...

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Sri Guru Granth Sahib

By: Guru Arjan Dev

...46 12. Free Meals for all: Guru Ka Langar 51 13. Gurpurbs and Guru Khalsa Panth 52 14. Sikh Population ... ...f Sikhs is much more than a sacred Scripture to Sikhs. It is their Eternal and Spiritual Living Guru. Sikhism originated in Punjab State (now in In... ...Sikhism originated in Punjab State (now in India) in the fifteenth century and is now the fifth largest religion spread all over the world. Guru... ...hib as their Spiritual Guru. It will be pertinent to note here that unlike other religions, Sikhism does not derive its name from its originator. In... ... their Spiritual Guru. It will be pertinent to note here that unlike other religions, Sikhism does not derive its name from its originator. Instead,... ... a light, which removes darkness from all human minds. Perhaps there is no other Scripture in the world, which takes the common man to the realm of ... ...lling manner. It does not prescribe any rituals to be observed, but on the other hand, it urges us to abdicate all rituals. It teaches the devotees ... ...im Centres and exchanged his views with the eminent personalities of other religions, and convinced them that there is only One Almighty God lookin... ...he detailed the principles of his moral and social system. The Founder of Christianity did not reduce his doctrines to writing, and for them we are...

...The Guru Granth Sahib, or Adi Granth, is the religious text of Sikhism. It is a voluminous text of 1430 angs, compiled and composed during the period of Sikh gurus, from 1469 to 1708. It is a collection of hymns (shabda) or baani describing the qualities of God and why one should meditate on God's name. Guru Gobind Singh (1666–1708), the tent...

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From Chaos to Harmony

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...ditor: Claire Gerus Layout: Baruch Khovov Cover Design: Richard Aquan Printing and Post Production: Uri Laitman Executive Editor: Oren Levi Laitman Ka... ...e Collective .....................................................55 Helping Others ................................................................... ...s .............................................................86 A Long Way and a Short Way .......................................................... .................................................88 CHANGING OUR ATTITUDE TOWARD OTHERS BRINGS ALL OF NATURE INTO BALANCE .............................. ...E ROAD TO FREEDOM .............................................. 97 Pleasure and Pain ................................................................. ...ly follow the rules imbued within them, in harmony with Nature and with each other. However, if we observe man’s nature, we will find that it is es... ...there is another recent phenomenon that is strongly affecting our situation: Christianity is surrendering its domination to funda- Israel’s Role 1... ...k of the forces of the right and the left in the human society are Islam and Christianity, respectively. Israel’s Role 181 The left and right line... ...ountries, and so on. Hence, since the time of Israel’s exile, the left Klipa, Christianity, dominated our world. It took the place of Athens and Ro...

...Laitman's new book not only demonstrates with examples from science and Kabbalah that the ego stands behind all human suffering, but also shows how we can use it to our benefit. With clear analyses of the human soul and its problems, the book provides a 'roadmap' indicating how we can achieve...

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Universal Relevance of Guru Granth Sahib

By: Col (Dr) Dalvinder Singh Grewal

...bande Eik noor te sab jag upjeya kaun bhale ko mande. (1349) (From the One and the same Light, the entire universe came into existence. How can there... ...there be good or bad among them?) “I have studied the scriptures of great religions, but I do not find elsewhere the same power of appeal to the hea... ...igions, but I do not find elsewhere the same power of appeal to the heart and mind as I find in these volumes (of Sri Guru Granth Sahib ).” - Pearl ... ...S. Buck, Noble Laureate “In the coming religious debate, the Sikh religion and its scripture, Guru Granth, will have something special of value to sa... ... Arnold Toynbee, historian “It would rank almost first in the world. Of no other religion can it be said that it has made a nation in so short a time... ...airi nahi bigaana sagal sang ham ko ban aayee (1299) (There is no enemy or other one as I have equal affection for all.) Those who were administering... ... Pearl S. Buck in following words: “I have studied the scriptures of great religions, but I do not find elsewhere the same power of appeal to the hea... ... distance constantly. That beehive gave three times the honey compared to other beehives. Universality of God and monotheism Guru Granth Sahib's tota... ...e detailed the principles of his moral and social system. The founder of Christianity did not reduce his doctrines to writings and for them we are ...

...From the One and the same Light, the entire universe came into existence. How can there be good or bad among them? Sri Guru Granth Sahib is a unique religious and philosophical treatise. It contains divinely revealed Word and is written ...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

... balance of power within major civilizations. BRAD BRADFORD Foreword and Epilogue By Michael S. Hart Dedication to CAROL For bec... ...Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparab... ...elf to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding, fun, and friendship. Also for her perceptive editing of my copy over many de... ...t you to remember one end and remember it well by the time you get to the other end. My own personal perspective ranges from the Gutenberg Press to... ...uage about fifty thousand years ago. That set Homo sapiens apart from all other species. Hummingbirds, songbirds, and parrots all produce learned ... ...o the hive, then dances on the wall in circles or straight lines to point others to where it‘s been. Other birds and beasts make sounds to attract... ...Both Hebrew and Islamic scripture had been written on parchment, and both religions hesitated to put scripture on anything so modest as paper despite... ... offense. Genghis Khan recognized the disruptive potential of competing religions and—more than five hundred years before the United States adopte... ...arriers between Europe and Asia that the religious feud between Islam and Christianity had erected. ―The effect in diffusing and broadening men‘s...

...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up...

...him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name every living creature. Adam immediately understands God‘s words and enunciates his own....

...h. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. -- 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake community flee a saltwater surge that filled the Black Sea and scatter its language west toward the Atlantic...

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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

...ää Pohjois-Thaimaan kylissä. Published by the Finnish Literature Society and the Finnish Anthropological Society 2004. ISBN 951-746-603-X (SKS) ;... ... This work may be freely quoted, copied, duplicated, printed, distributed and sold without permission or agreement of the author. However, the name ... ... Villages and houses ... ...bour... as if the Western reader only wants to know about the downside of other nations, as if the evil was spreading there from somewhere other than... ...centres of well-being. In Finland, for example, village schools, shops and other local structures have almost completely disappeared; culture is centr... ...right to take over the environment, exploit the new resources, subordinate other people. The real religion of modern society is development religion. ... ... school, to become passably literate and conversant with the principles of Christianity. The elementary education system maintained by the state and l... ... when their time comes. I don't think they should try to convert others to Christianity. If you really follow Buddhist teachings, you are sure to be a... ... you are sure to be a good person, but most only observe it superficially. Christianity is good, too, I think, but here neither Buddhists or Christian...

...The book is a descriptive overview of the culture of the villages. It contains material on the villagers' housing, rice farming and other means of livelihood, community life, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village Buddhism. The author draws surprising parallels between the worldviews of peoples of Thailand and Finland...

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Chicago Manual of Style

By: University of Chicago

...... ... works of literature, serials, bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works in a number of languages and countries around ... ...ks of literature, serials, bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works in a number of languages and countries around the ... ...untries around the world. Our mission is to serve the public, aid students and educators by providing public access to the world's most complete co... ...ission copies may be distributed so long as such copies (1) are for your or others personal use only, and (2) are not distributed or used commercial... ...ertain lines of work, which cannot bodily be carried over into the field of others. Thus, in the matter of literary references, for instance, genera... ...nventions, congresses, expositions, etc. : Council of Nicaea, Parliament of Religions, Fifteenth Inter- national Congress of Criminology, Westminste... ...or when the name is not correctly or fully quoted : the church (=organized Christianity), the Eastern (Greek Orthodox) church, the Roman Catholic c... ...agic word of the modem period;" "To be or not to be-that is the question;" "Christianity found in the Roman Empire a civic life which was implicated...

... Chicago Press prepared a single sheet of typographic fundamentals intended as a guide for the University community. That sheet grew into a pamphlet, and the pamphlet grew into a book--the first edition of the Manual of Style, published in 1906. Now in its fifteenth edition, The Chicago Manual of Style--the essential reference for authors, editors, proofreaders, indexers, ...

... composing room with experienced typesetters who were required to set complex scientific material as well as work in such then-exotic fonts as Hebrew and Ethiopic. Professors brought their handwritten manuscripts directly to the compositors, who did their best to decipher them. The compositors then passed the proofs to the “brainery”—the proofreaders who corrected typograp...

...tion The Use of Italics Quotations Spelling Punctuation Divisions Footnotes Tabular Work Technical Terms Appendix Hints to Authors and Editors Hints to Proofreaders Hints to Copyholders Proofreader’s Marks Index Specimens of Types in Use...

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City of Dreams- an Extraordinary Journey, Inside the Heart of Indonesia's Capital- Jakarta

By: Mark W. Medley

...c, electronic, or mechanical- including photocopying, recording, taping or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the author and publis... ...g, taping or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the author and publisher. ISBN: 1449531385 Visit the “City of Dreams” eStore: ht... ...ace There is a city, that spreads from the edge of the Java Sea, and has grown through the ages to become one of Asia’s great mega cities... ...ome is. Enjoy your own personal journey inside the “City of Dreams,” and feel free to contact me. Email Mark at: cityofdreams2009@gmail.com V... ...ame ones produced in Hollywood. Both types of movies now compete with each other, for the millions of young Indonesians that regularly visit movie ... ...oung Indonesians that regularly visit movie theatres every weekend, leaving other movies, a poor third. Most Indonesian produced movies may never ... ... the nations Moslems. Indonesian Law respects the rights of all the major religions, represented in the country: Buddhism, Catholicism, Christiani... ...all the major religions, represented in the country: Buddhism, Catholicism, Christianity, Hinduism and Islam. Other lesser traditional tribal belief...

...The city of Jakarta is described as the "City of Dreams," by visitors usually overwhelmed by its sheer size, and the unique lifestyles of the people who live there. Discover a collection of true to life stories from the "City of Dreams," that can amaze, amuse, or simply confuse you. Find out what really can happen when East meet...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...uld arrive in our city, so clever as to be able to assume any character and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display ... ... object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a sacred, admirab... ...and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a sacred, admirable, and charming personage, but we shall tell him that in our state ther... ...fly, so he gradually went over there in a circuitous and jaunty stroll as if other things had gained his attention and only by accident was he moving ... ... had decomposed. He dreamed of those photographs of skeletal remains and the other photographs of more than a few bones that had gone off from the res... ...ad gone off from the rest. They were marred too but by the fangs of dogs or other beasts dragging them around before dumping them away from the rest ... ...d a child, she thought, she or he would not be allowed to be subject to this Christianity, which had the plagiarism of Ancient Egyptian Literature, th... ...you feel the need to follow the herd? In this country the herd eats from the Christianity trough-- the Bible is like ground up bone marrow and the lea... ...that justified one egregious proclivity or another in the natural state. In Christianity this was myriad: everything from manチOs god-given dominion ...

...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and less asphy...

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Theory of the Person

By: Antonio Mercurio

...rg/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ You are free: to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work. Under the following conditions: Attribution — You ... ........................ 13 CHAPTER II: THE PROBLEM OF GOOD AND EVIL AND THE DEFINITION OF HUMAN BEINGS AS PERSONS ..................... ............................................ 42 CHAPTER VI: THE I PERSON AND THE SELF ................................................................ ... deduce that a law exists that acts in a very peculiar way when compared to other evolutionary laws. I would like to call this “the law of the imposs... ...y immersed in its animal dimension. We could go on and make thousands of other examples of things that were once impossible and that have become p... ...ngs into Societies, or rather an affirmation of their being in relation to others and to the environment around them. 6 What is it that I am affi... ...hical level, and then the Jewish people developed it on a religious level. Christianity then fused these two ways of thinking and put them on Christ... .... Essentially, you are saying; “Love thy neighbor as thyself”; but all the religions in the world have already said this! The goal of these lessons,... ...h joy, and you can immediately see if it is valid, to the contrary of what religions promise, which put everything off to an unverifiable future. ...

...nts of the S.U.R. (Sophia University of Rome), the following answer: a PERSON is a spiritual, unifying principle that is endowed with its own freedom and its own identity, it is an end unto itself and unto no other, and its constituent elements are the ability to love oneself and to love others. The topics most debated in the book are: spirituality, freedom, the psychologi...

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

... And Freedom Fighters 2nd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ...LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Terrorists and Freedom Fighters II. Macedonia to the Macedonians III. The ... ... Fighters II. Macedonia to the Macedonians III. The Black Hand IV. The Insurgents and the Swastika V. KLA – The Army of Liberation VI. Appendix: ... ...sts and outcasts. The organization is criminalized. Drug dealing, bank robbing and other manner of organized and contumacious criminality become in... ...e as they unscrupulously pursue their self-aggrandizement, the ego trip of sending others to their death. They are the stuff martyrs are made of.... ...s weapon, and will not allow anybody to use its name and prestige for personal and other purposes. It has demonstrated till now and will prove in t... ...ns". To this very day, they hold all things Eastern (Serbs, the Orthodox version of Christianity, Belgrade, the Ottoman Empire, Macedonia) with unmi... ...igma. In this article, I will attempt to study two axes of friction: Islam versus Christianity and fascism and nationalism versus liberalism. It i... ... raised as Moslems). Perhaps this was because, in large swathes of the Balkan, Christianity never really took hold. It was adopted by the peasa...

...The history of four terrorist organizations in the Balkans and a general introduction to terrorism and freedom fighting. Also includes essays about religious co-existence in the Balkans and about pathological narcissism as a precursor to terrorism....

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...09 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the titl... ...’ is used to describe two complimentary, simultaneous conditions: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this,... ...n, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. Is this boo... ...h a microscope? The answer is; very little. But if you plant an orange seed and wonder about it. If you care for the seedling, and study its grow... ...ys, continually experiencing new things, continually comparing things to each other, continually gaining a better perspective on the larger context,... ...s also Actually Infinite. Largeness is only ½ of the Condition of Size. The other half of this Condition is Smallness. It is the Condition of Size... ... The earliest symbol of Christianity also represents a Big Bang: it represents the huge expans... ...be sacred. Even if they detail a system that goes against the very ethics of Christianity these supposedly holy monks were supposed to believe-in, ... ...stitutionalized religions never ostracize the powers that keep them in power. Christianity is based upon the Myths of Instant Forgiveness. People a...

...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 aspects and dynamics of the Organic Universe and Organic Life. 3: The origins of modern humans going back 25 million years...

...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 Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics Pgs 223-266 Hum...

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Fuzzy and Neutrosophic Analysis of Periyar's Views on Untouchability

By: W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy and Florentin Smarandache

...amy e-mail: dr.k.kandasamy@gamil.com Translation of the speeches and writings of Periyar from Tamil by Meena Kandasamy ... ...//wwwlib.umi.com/bod/search/basic Peer reviewers: Dr. Larissa Borissova and Dmitri Rabounski, Sirenevi boulevard 69-1-65, Moscow 105484, Russi... ... Copyright 2005 by Hexis, W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy, Florentin Smarandache and K. Kandasamy Cover Design and Layout by Kama Kandasamy ... ...ollowing E-Library of Science: http://www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/eBooks-otherformats.htm ISBN: 1931233-00-4 Standard Address Num... ...ne an edge’s sign than its magnitude. Some experts may be more credible than others. We can weight each expert with non-negative credibility weight... ...ng and also the superior limit of the subsets sum 60 + 35 + 30 > 100 and in other cases one may have the inferior sum < 0, while in the classical ... ...us sect If anyone takes a statistics of the number of people converting to Christianity, Buddhism, Jainism or Islam from their native religion, D... ...choice, in practice this is not so straight or simple. Dalits who convert to Christianity or Islam lose the benefits of reservation in education an... ...hts is a very disgraceful thing. If there is such a necessity, one can go to Christianity or Islam; I do not have any liking in going to the Arya S...

...K.R.Narayanan was a lauded hero and a distinguished victim of his Dalit background. Even in an international platform when he was on an official visit to Paris, the media headlines blazed, ‘An Untouchable at Elysee’. He was visibly upset and it proved that ...

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Religion and Agriculture: Sustainability in Christianity and Buddhism

By: Lindsay Falvey

...ng the wisdom that Professor Falvey concludes is the essence of all sustainability. By bringing sustainability, agriculture, global issues, Buddhism, Christianity and a host of other factors into play, we see that our motivations belie our rhetoric – in environmental actions through to trade and aid. This open-spirited book contains a wealth of analysis and alternative log...

...Contents Page Introduction 1 Chapter 1 10 Seeking Agricultural Sustainability: Science and Spirituality Chapter 2 20 Immortality: Sustaining Ourselves? Chapter 3 31 Agricultural Theology: Why we are Fascinated with Sustainability Chapter 4 47 Literal and Historical Christianity and Agriculture: Our Manipu...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

... Cyclopedia Of Philosophy 4th EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ... – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Philosophical Essays and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining ... ...ations or duties of third parties towards the right-holder. One has a right AGAINST other people. The fact that one possesses a certain right - pres... ... AGAINST other people. The fact that one possesses a certain right - prescribes to others certain obligatory behaviours and proscribes certain acts... ... one possesses a certain right - prescribes to others certain obligatory behaviours and proscribes certain acts or omissions. This Janus-like nature... ...Life Maintained Does one have the right to maintain one's life and prolong them at other people's expense? Does one have the right to use other peo... ... in the Old Testament - but man-eating goes virtually unmentioned. The Eucharist in Christianity - when the believers consume the actual body and bl... ...munity and violates the property rights of God, the imputed owner of one's spirit. Christianity regards the immortal soul as a gift and, in Jewish ... ...munity and violates the property rights of God, the imputed owner of one's spirit. Christianity regards the immortal soul as a gift and, in Jewish ...

Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ... it is a task which I can perform with satisfaction either to myself or to others. It is a work which some man will do who has earned a right by educa... ...ul, have created laughter on one side of the Atlantic, and soreness on the other. if I could do anything to mitigate the soreness, if I could in any s... ...od feeling which should exist between two nations which ought to love each other so well, and which do hang upon each other so constantly, I should th... ...orough and efficient system of common schools throughout the State; but no religions or other sect or sects shall ever have any exclusive right or con... ...sumed that every man will worship a God, and no allu- sion is made even to Christianity. In Massachusetts they are again hardly honest. “It is the rig... ...sts, Pres- byterians, Methodists, Anabaptists, and every denomina- tion of Christianity; and the meeting-houses prepared for these sects are not, as w...

...?RHODE ISLAND ................................................................................................. 20 CHAPTER III: MAINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND VERMONT ............................................................................ 34 CHAPTER IV: LOWER CANADA ...............................................................................................................

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Autobiography

By: John Stuart Mill

...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...wledgment of the debts which my intellectual and moral development owes to other per sons; some of them of recognised eminence, others less known tha... ..., has only him self to blame if he reads farther, and I do not desire any other indulgence from him than that of bearing in mind that for him these p... ...und established by Lady Jane Stuart (the wife of Sir John Stuart) and some other ladies for educating young men for the Scot tish Church. He there we... ...benevolent maker and ruler of such a world as this, can say little against Christianity but what can, with at least equal force, be retorted against t... ... to be embodied in what is commonly presented to man kind as the creed of Christianity. Think (he used to say) of a being who would make a Hell—who w... ...radictions, and perverting to the moral sentiments, as any of the forms of Christianity, if only it is as completely realized. Yet very little, with a...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Childhood and early education it seems proper that I should prefix to the following biographical sketch some mention of the reasons which have made me think it desirable that I should leave behind me such a memorial of so uneventful a ...

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Crime Its Cause and Treatment

By: Clarence Darrow

...1922 A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Crime: Its Cause and Treatment by Clarence Darrow is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...he mind has generally been more closely associated with the brain than any other portion of the body. As a rule I have assumed that this view of mind ... ...ole field is a part of human behavior and should not be separated from the other manifestations of life. I have retained the words 5 because they hav... ...hing is intrinsically wrong because it is forbidden by a legislative body. Other more or less popular opinions of the way to deter- mine right or wron... ...ad, in order that this knowledge may be used to encourage people to accept Christianity. The request is granted and the dis- ciples are shown not only... ...her it was the theological systems of the an- cient world fighting to keep Christianity out, or Christian- ity fighting to preserve itself, the same c... ... governor, Pliny discovered that the conversion of many of his subjects to Christianity had resulted in a falling off of trade in the victims usually ...

...Preface: This book comes from the reflections and experience of more than forty years spent in court. Aside from the practice of my profession, the topics I have treated are such as have always held my interest and inspired a taste for books that discuss the human machin...

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Democracy and Education

By: John Dewey

... John Dewey A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy and Education by John Dewey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania S... ...greater than the force of the blow struck, it remains outwardly unchanged. Other- wise, it is shattered into smaller bits. Never does the stone attemp... ...ugates and controls for its own continued activity the energies that would other- wise use it up. Life is a self-renewing process through action upon ... ...n the prolongation of the existence of any one individual. Reproduction of other forms of life goes on in continuous sequence. And though, as the geol... ...ed. The intermingling in the school of youth of different races, differing religions, and unlike customs creates for all a new and broader environment... ...me ancient, there is great diversity of populations, of varying languages, religions, moral codes, and traditions. From this stand- point, many a mino... ... era, the influential moral systems of Sto- icism, of monastic and popular Christianity and other re- 356 Democracy & Education ligious movements of ...

...Excerpt: Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow struck, it remains outwardly unchanged. Otherwise, it is shattered i...

...tion as Growth ............................................................................................. 46 Chapter Five: Preparation, Unfolding, and Formal Discipline................................................... 58 Chapter Six: Education as Conservative and Progressive ........................................................... 74 Chapter Seven: The Democratic C...

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