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... Book One: Sang Huin "It is probable, then, that if a man should arrive in our city, so clever as to be able to assume any character and imi... ... sacred, admirable, and charming personage, but we shall tell him that in our state there is no one like him, and that our law excludes suc... ...world's biggest dummy. Sang Huin gave his typical defense of "Miguk sarem" ("American") which would bring on a confused and critical look--in this cas... ...rica, and so existing as a Korean only by birth and race definitely made him American in every way but a legal one. Most persons under such a scenario... ...een his fingers. She could not shoo away the pesty fly that was as pesty as Mormon flies (those sententious dragon fly missionaries who had knocked o... ...he pesty fly that was as pesty as Mormon flies (those sententious dragon fly missionaries who had knocked on her door earlier that week--Nauvoo, Illin... ...ssionaries who had knocked on her door earlier that week--Nauvoo, Illinois, Mormon flies so succulent and "so fuckable," whom she had reluctantly rej... ... signs and the American navy ships. It is a choice like the people in Paris, France." Gabriele didn't think that there was much of a similarity betwee...
...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 ...
...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book7 Our Visit to Indus ... ... - “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia — 1 BOOK 7 OUR VISIT TO INDUS by Le... ...t isn’t fair. But then as my grand dad said, ‘things are never fair.’ Our American bodies are well fed, some of our minds are well read, we hold the ... ...ople in the world have access to only a total of a gallon of water a day. Americans use three gallons just to flush a toilet. Add in drinking and coo... ...y are married, the relationship should be solid. I know that in Sweden and France over 50% of babies are born to unmarried people. That seems to be a... ...uslim and Christian push for converts, have you experienced problems with missionaries or with terrorism?‖ 55 —―No. In Indus we are a Hin... ...rance of our religion we don‘t have problems. We have however discouraged missionaries of other religions. We sometimes refuse visas. In reality, s... ...llowing the true path of Jesus. Of course the Pentecostals, Evangelicals, Mormons and a number of other groups are certain that it is only they who ... ...to divide. We don‘t need this. So we keep out al Queda, and the Catholic, Mormon, Muslim, Lutheran and Evangelical missionaries. ―We saw that ...
...ine 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 Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search ...
... 0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Sea... ...ychological Motivations 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Sea... ...‘t be surprised when young Germans tortured and killed for Hitler, when young Chinese and Cambodians killed for Mao or Pol Pot, or even young Americ... ... in the vitamin D producing sun, could add the A and D to their skim milk. They don‘t, but are finally thinking about it—sixty years after the Americ... ... —―Then there is always a rationalization to justify people‘s behavior. For the soccer hooligans it might be that Britain is better than France... ...s. Have you ever heard of a club or bayonet having an orgasm? ―I‘m sure you are familiar with that polygamous sect that calls itself Mormon... ... you are familiar with that polygamous sect that calls itself Mormon, although it has long since been rebuked and excommunicated from the main Mormon... ...e of love a few minutes ago. Jesus may be said to have been such a person; Albert Schweitzer in his ministry in Africa might be another; some missio... ... another problem with distortions of reality. There may just be a misapprehension of the truth. Remember back in 2005 when there were riots in France...
...Table of Contents IN THE HOTEL 8 LOOKING FOR HAPPINESS 10 WE MUST THINK MORE DEEPLY—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING 20 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS 24 -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES -- 24 SELF-CENTEREDASSUMPTIONS 32 GODBASEDASSUMPTIONS 41 CONCEPTS OF G...
... Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not f... ...ed in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is ... ...ew lions? When there were millions of grazing animals? Why didn’t the North American natives colonize the land where millions of bison lived? It ... ...hapter Three: Summary of Hominid-Human development 205 The earliest North American cultures invented bone-tools and flint tools by themselves. B... ...ges down the throats of his subjects. When Napoleon single-handedly revamped France’s legal system; he threatened the old status quo of all Europe. ... ...rope. By arbitrarily and single-handedly changing the entire legal system of France: Napoleon threatened the entire Old European Social Order. By i... ...ttempts at alternative societies in America were attacked and corrupted. The Mormons had to flee to the deserts of Utah. The Quakers had to hold se... ...-off? What happens when they become too happy? Look at what happened to the Mormons of Illinois. Look how Harlem was systematically destroyed whe... ...nt and follow his corrupted sayings as interpreted by the corrupted Christian missionaries. The early Christian zealots, who overrode that grassroot...
... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ... and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download f... ...de and supersede one's moral obligations towards non- affiliated humans. Thus, an American's moral obligation to safeguard the lives of American f... ...igation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The larger the number of positive self-definitions I ... ... the epitome of Western civilization, have turned on the Jews, the self- proclaimed missionaries of Western civilization in the Levant and Arabia. I... ...ains, sometimes in cahoots with much despised colonial powers, such as Britain and France in 1956. The Anti-Israeli: This volatile mixture of ide... ... But while this malaise does not threaten the foundations of the United States and France - it does imperil the stability and future of the likes o... ...cular tribe at that particular time). Popularizers of modern science and religious missionaries are all first at doing their thing - but they are n... ...ter, the tone is different ("The World of Nations", 1973). The assimilation of the Mormons, he says, was "achieved by sacrificing whatever features...
Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.
...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....
...ennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file... ...e associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an el... ... person who has a tincture of one or two may risk, not without hope, an attempt upon the others. And again, not only is Polynesian easy to smatter, bu... ...there dwelt an old, melancholy, grizzled man of the name of Tari (Charlie) Coffin. He was a native of Oahu, in the Sandwich Islands; and had gone to s... ...ey of Hapaa, known to readers of Herman Melville under the grotesque misspell- ing of Hapar. There are but two writers who have touched the South Seas... ...y decent women of Samoa prostituted themselves in public to the French; and bear in mind how it was the custom of the adventurers, and we may almost s... ...Tai-o-hae (the chief port of the island), there were shown in to us an old, worn, purblind, ascetic-look- ing priest, and a lay brother, a type of all... ...to several, perhaps holds a stake and counts cousinship in half a score; and the inhabitants of Rotoava in particular, man, woman, and child, and from... ...inable legend, it equally depicts that something bitter and energetic which distinguishes Paumotuan man. The archipelago is divided between two main r...
Excerpt: In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson.
... Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document fil... ...ssoci- ated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material con- tained within the document or for the file as an e... ...g come but the jug of ale and the bread, you implore your waiter to ‘see after that cutlet, waiter; pray do!’ He cannot go at once, for he is carrying... ...he breaker of the broken stones, in a hard, hot, shin- ing hat, on which the sun played at a distance as on a burn- ing-glass, I felt that now, indeed... ... said I, scattering among them what small coin I had; ‘here comes Louis, and I am quite roused from my nap.’ We journeyed on again, and I welcomed eve... ...as already in the un- commercial line. This was a man who, though not more than thirty, had seen the world in divers irreconcilable capacities—had bee... ...e what Eight hundred Latter-day Saints were like, and I found them (to the rout and overthrow of all my expectations) like what I now describe with sc... ...of my Uncommercial individuality, and consequently of my im- mense Uncommercial importance. Uncommercial. These are a very fine set of people you have... ...good brave man found at least one tribe of blacks with a very strong sense of the ridiculous, insomuch that although an amiable and doc- ile people, t...
...harge 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 State... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Across the Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania... ...e land were soft and English. It was not quite England, neither was it quite France; yet like enough either to seem natural in my eyes. And it was in ... ... coffee was always exhausted before I could elbow my way to the counter. Our American sunrise had ushered in a noble summer’s day. There was not a clo... ...w, I consulted him upon a point of etiquette: if one should offer to tip the American waiter? Certainly not, he told me. Never. It would not do. They ... ...on and you a journeyman baker; but beyond that, whether you were Catholic or Mormon, dull or clever, fierce or friendly, was all one to them. Others w... ...D INDIANS THE HISTORY OF MONTEREY has yet to be written. Founded by Catholic missionaries, a place of wise beneficence to In- dians, a place of arms, ... ...ion, the painter of to-day continues to inhabit and to paint it. There is in France scenery incomparable for romance and harmony. 53 Robert Louis Ste...
...rge 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 State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...; and a rebellious girl is the spirit of that bewildered empire called the American Middlewest. II Blodgett College is on the edge of Minneapolis. It ... ...treet fervesced anew—over the Student Volunteers, who in- tended to become missionaries, over painting scenery for the dramatic club, over soliciting ... ...n pag- eants, girls’ clubs. It had pictures of greens and garden- walls in France, New England, Pennsylvania. She had picked it up carelessly, with a ... ...er steamers wrecked on sand-reefs sixty years ago. Along the decks she saw missionaries, gamblers in tall pot hats, and Dakota chiefs with scarlet bla... ...u recipes for curry, voyages to the Solomon Isles, theoso- phy with modern American improvements, treatises upon success in the real-estate business. ... ...to reason. It proved that the only problems which America had to face were Mormonism and Prohibition: “Don’t let any of these self-conceited fellows t... ...m is in eternal peril and, to return to this vital and terrible subject of Mormonism—and as I say, it is terrible to realize how little attention is g...
...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 Ohi...
...ge 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 State U... ...ained within the docu ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. What Is Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens... ...the highest limit of T urkish influ ences, associations, and training. In France he would have produced something better—something up to the highest ... ...f duty, would not have been troubled by the pagan mother’s distress—Jesuit missionaries in Canada in the early French times, for instance; see episode... ... and the Zoroastrians Christian Scientists, and the Christian Scien tists Mormons—and so on? Y.M. You may answer your question yourself. O.M. That li... ...rotestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so o... ...ns, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Hindus, the ... ...ed many misfortunes and humiliations. Also two great disas ters: he lost France to Joan of Arc and he lost the throne and ended the dynasty which He... ...lf. Charlemagne was that kind of a walking delegate. Yes, there were great missionaries in those days, for the methods were sure and the rewards great...
...rge 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 State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville, the Pennsylvania State U... ...o, quadroon; modish young Spanish Creoles, and old- fashioned French Jews; Mormons and Papists; Dives and Lazarus; jesters and mourners, teetotalers a... ...ction than to be a snow-flake in a snow-squall. What are a score or two of missionaries to such a people? A pinch of snuff to the kraken. I am for sen... ...ch a people? A pinch of snuff to the kraken. I am for sending ten thousand missionaries in a body and converting the Chinese en masse within six month... ... to Show Him to Be One of the Most Logical of Optimists YEARS AGO, a grave American savan, being in London, ob- served at an evening party there, a ce... ...sustained throughout an almost entire sitting; that they may not, like the American savan, be thereupon be- trayed into any surprise incompatible with... ... Melville him with maxims smacking of my Lord Chesterfield, with maxims of France, with maxims of Italy.” “No, no, be charitable, not that. Why, does ... ... a loss for answers, replied that he had spent nine years in Marseilles in France, and there ac- quiring a second fortune, had returned with it, a man...
...Excerpt: At sunrise on a first of April there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca, a man in cream-colors, at the water-side in the city of St. Louis. His cheek was fair, his chin downy, his hair flaxen, his hat a white fur one, with a long fleecy nap. He had neither trunk, valise, carpet-bag, nor parcel. No porte...
...The Varieties of Religious Experience A Study in Human Nature by William James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PU... ...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ... I take my place behind this desk, and face this learned au- dience. To us Americans, the experience of receiving instruction from the living voice, a... ...uous an act. Particularly must this be the case on a soil as sacred to the American imagination as that of Edinburgh. The glories of the philosophic c... ... puberty and adolescence. The mac- erations of saints, and the devotion of missionaries, are only instances of the parental instinct of self-sac- rifi... ... ridiculous as my indecision. Now marriage, now solitude; now Germany, now France hesitation upon hesitation, and all because at bottom I am un- able ... ...is mailed against every weakness; and the whole historic array of martyrs, missionaries, and religious reformers is there to prove the tranquil- minde... ...es, the ston- ing of Quakers and ducking of Methodists, the mur- dering of Mormons and the massacring of Armenians, express much rather that aborigina... ...he re- vealed translation of the gold plates which resulted in the Book of Mormon), although there may have been a motor element, the inspiration seem...
Excerpt: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James.
.... Any Any Any Any Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or person using this document file, for any pur... ... way does so at his or person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or person using this document file, for any pur... ...untry , whenever it feels called on to notice the remarkable phenom enon of Mormonism. Much might be said on the unexpected and instructive fact, tha... ...em by force to conform to the opinions of other people. The ar ticle of the Mormonite doctrine which is the chief provocative to the antipathy which ... ...nt, who have no part or concern On Liberty — Mill 109 in it. Let them send missionaries, if they please, to preach against it; and let them, by any ... ...le is exhibited among a people accustomed to transact their own business. In France, a large part of the people having been engaged in military servic... ... some tolerable plan of action. What the French are in military affairs, the Americans are in every kind of civil business; let them be left without a... ...nd of civil business; let them be left without a govern ment, every body of Americans is able to improvise one, and to carry on that or any other pub...
...ture and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual. A question seldom stated, and hardly ever discussed, in general terms, but which profoundly influences the practical controversies of the age by its latent presence, and is likely soon to make itself recognized as the vital question of the future. It is so far from being new, t...