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Sri Guru Granth Sahib

By: Guru Arjan Dev

... 54 15. Main Features of the Sikh Religion 54 4 GURU GRANTH SAHIB – Sacred Scripture o... ...o Sikhs. It is their Eternal and Spiritual Living Guru. Sikhism originated in Punjab State (now in India) in the fifteenth century and is now the fi... ...tate (now in India) in the fifteenth century and is now the fifth largest religion spread all over the world. Guru Nanak (1469–1539 CE) was the ... ... over the world. Guru Nanak (1469–1539 CE) was the Founder of the Sikh Religion, who was born in the village Talwandi, now called “Nankana Sahib... ...ru Nanak (1469–1539 CE) was the Founder of the Sikh Religion, who was born in the village Talwandi, now called “Nankana Sahib”, situated near Lahore... ...od, he started questioning the meaningless rituals and practices prevalent in both the main societies of Hindus and Muslims. He preached that there ... ..., east, south and west but also far beyond into Afghanistan, Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Burma, Sri Lanka, Tibet, and including Pakistan & Bangladesh. D... ...ries such as UK, Canada, USA, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, East Africa, Iran, Afghanistan, France, Germany, Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, where t...

...mains the holy scripture of the Sikhs, regarded as the teachings of the Ten Gurus. The role of Adi Granth, as a source or guide of prayer, is pivotal in worship in Sikhism. The Adi Granth was first compiled by the fifth Sikh guru, Guru Arjan Dev (1563–1606), from hymns of the first five Sikh gurus and other great saints, or bhagats, including those of the Hindu and Muslim ...

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Corpus of a Siam Mosquito

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...that she was the god he prayed to before all the others. She put strength in his shoulders and knees, and set in his heart the daring of a mosquito, ... ...1 They, with their driver, went down Ramkhamhaeng Road singularly in the scope of their thoughts but conditioned into repudiating their alone... ...ier one the way dogs on the Bangkok sidewalks were walked on. It was early in the relationship of the two passengers and this nascent association cont... ...nalin of bravado. He wanted to confront his fears. Trying to reach for a religion to formulate a rational perspective in the irrational, he argued t... ...s. Good men are distorted into Gods, and philosophy is made into a sordid religion. Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism-it is all a perversion of... ...." "There are too many to count." "Mention one." "All right-religion. My parents are Christians. The servants are Christians. When I ... ... people to die from malnutrition. America financially backed Iraq against Iran in that war and the Taliban against the Soviet Union and now those reg... ...e even though those governments are not democracies. They've made Iraq and Iran as strong as America." The senator knew that this was a good unde...

This book is about an individual in dire poverty who makes his way in Bangkok from a sidewalk restaurant worker to a famous prostitute painter

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The Mystery of Jamieson Stone

By: Jonathan Cross

...ights focused on where Jamieson Stone would do his nightly news; the same seat he had sat in for more than twenty years. Jane Simmons, the head ass... ...tiently for Alex Trent to retire. Even though her salary was almost double of anyone else in her position at the other networks, being the head prod... ...hind a bank of video screens. “Have you seen Stone?” The director replied, “Not a sign,” in between punching up several shots of the set, still not... ...angels.” - J.Cross/Stone 110 “I was raised as a Baptist. Angels were not a part of my religion.” “This is all that I will say to you about the s... ...hat the President of the United States has been excluded from covert operations. Remember Iran/Contra? If I were you, Mr. President, I’d take this ve... ...waiter a substantial tip, and started back into the room. “Sir,” the waiter said with an Iranian accent, “you’ve got to sign.” Kidd scribbled somet... ...her two agents slid into the rear of the cab. “Where to?” the driver asked with a thick Iranian accent. - J.Cross/Stone 318 “The Vatican Emba...

...ective discovers that Stone was murdered, but the reason behind his death is a mystery. Brand uncovers information pointing to Jamieson’s involvement in arming the international space station. As rogue generals from Russia, China and the U.S. try to install a mind-control weapon designed to divide the world into three parts, Brand tries to stop them. Enlisting the help...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

... 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... ... another's right - should never be confused with one SHOULD or OUGHT to do morally (in the absence of a right). The right to life has eight distinc... ...n future, we were be able to identify the chosen one and eliminate only it? In many religions (Catholicism) contraception is murder. In Judaism, mas... ...y say "I am an Israeli". Affiliation - to a community, fraternity, nation, state, religion, or team - is really a positive statement of self- defin... ...of "laissez faire, laissez passer" - the hands-off battle cry. Theirs was a natural religion. The market, as an agglomeration of individuals, they ... .... People power - mass street demonstrations - toppled obnoxious dictatorships from Iran to the Philippines and from Peru to Indonesia. But once t...

...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....

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The Religious Dimension

By: Donald Broadribb

...horus by Millennium Books [an imprint of E.J. Dwyer (Australia) Pty. Ltd.] in 1995. This second edition, with text reset, various emendations, and new... ...publication rights. Copyright © 1995 and 2006 by Donald Broadribb. Typeset in Times New Roman and Futura, using the program Mellel, with an Apple iMac... ...mpathy of All Things” is based on a lecture given at the Eranos Conference in Ascona in 1955 and was published in Eranos 24-1955, © Eranos Foundation,... ... also are quotations from Plato. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction i What Is Religion? 1 Definitions Of Religion The Spiritual And Material Worlds Relig... ...terial Worlds Religious Belief Systems Versus An Emotional Response To God Religion As An Organized System An Example Of Interrelated Religious System... ...le Of Interrelated Religious Systems The Connection Between Psychology And Religion Buddhism 16 Hindu Beliefs The Establishment Of Buddhism The Nature... ...er was first formulated, nine years of war had just ended between Iraq and Iran which, among other causes, found a basis in conflicting views on how t... ...nted out, Zoroastrianism was a religion which originated in Persia (modern Iran) some five to six cen- turies BC. It began as a series of revelations ...

...ildren 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 satisfied with the religious culture which went hand in hand with their social structure. It has been...

...What Is Religion? 1Buddhism 16Christianity 59Mysticism 118A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 238Conclusion 277References 293The Collected Works Of Carl Jung 299...

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The Vatican Conspiracy

By: Jonathan Cross

...e gently entwined the ebony rosary beads between his fingers, crossed himself in the supplicant tradition, and kissed the crucifix as he closed his ... ...e Vatican, the spiritual responsibility of guiding over one-billion Catholics in the area of faith and morals. This was his time to commune with his... ... with his own spirituality, to harmonize his soul with the peace of his Father in Heaven. He rolled the rosary beads, one by one, through his finge... ...nio," Gallucci said, disbelieving his own ears." "Pope Francis respects all religions." 209 J.Cross/Artemis "Aah," Gallucci grumbled. "Don't... ...16 J.Cross/Artemis Antonio responded, "Heaven does not distinguish between religions, it only distinguishes good from evil." "What if the Yakuz... ...is destiny. His hate for the Americans and the Israelis had not only become a religion for him, but a commitment to death. His attacks on their milit... ...ir own mosques, synagogues, and churches for centuries . When the Iraqi and Iranian war broke out, he had been in France on business. He had been ... ...hich he shared with his family. He had not taken sides during the Iraqi and Iranian war for two simple reasons: he was a Muslim, and his family wa... ...tant asset; so the Iraqis protected his family during the eight-year war. The Iranians, without the Iraqis knowing, had hired him to discover more c...

...y before it; his white cassock cascaded across the red, soft cushion. He gently entwined the ebony rosary beads between his fingers, crossed himself in the supplicant tradition, and kissed the crucifix as he closed his eyes and began to recite out-loud the Five Holy Mysteries of the Rosary. His nightly reverie, before bed, calmed him and connected his soul to the subl...

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Narcissistic and Psychopathic Leaders

By: Sam Vaknin

...abulated Life The Cult of the Narcissist Bibliography The Narcissist in the Workplace The Narcissist in the Workplace Narcissism in the... ...ssism in the Boardroom The Professions of the Narcissist Narcissists in Positions of Authority Narcissistic Leaders Narcissists in Positi... ...g Celebrities – An Interview Granted to Superinteressante Magazine in Brazil Acquired Situational Narcissism Narcissists and God – Th... ...d encourages a personality cult with all the hallmarks of an institutional religion: priesthood, rites, rituals, temples, worship, catechism, mytho... ... rites, rituals, temples, worship, catechism, mythology. The leader is this religion's ascetic saint. He monastically denies himself earthly pleasu... ...ld ways": against the hegemonic culture, the upper classes, the established religions, the superpowers, the corrupt order. Narcissistic movements ar... ...ople (e.g., Communists during the Cold war, Arabs, or failed states such as Iran). Even global warming is a symptom of such exclusionary thinking: t...

...Narcissistic and psychopathic leaders come in all shapes and degrees of virulence. Learn to recognize them in various settings (the workplace, religion, politics) and to cope with the toxic fallout of their "leadership"....

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

... 0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Sea... ...ychological Motivations 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Sea... ...UERING .............................................................................................................................. 45 POWER IN SPO... .... 51 POWER, SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND ABUSE IN SPORT ............................................................................... 53 POWER AND RELIGI... ................................................................................................... 54 POWER THRU SOCIAL TRADITIONS SANCTIFIED BY RELIGI... ... POWER THRU SOCIAL TRADITIONS SANCTIFIED BY RELIGIONS................................................................... 56 GAINING POWER THRU RELIGI... ...rius, bin Laidin. These people go far beyond their borders to conquer others. Minor warlords are with us eternally—many in Africa, Khomeini in Iran, ... ...ack to the religious power in societies. There‘s no doubt that in some nations the religious power supersedes that of the elected legislators. Iran i...

...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...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VII : Book 7 Visit to Indus

By: Bob Oconnor

...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... ...r © 2008 ISBN 978-0-9823076-6-3 Table of Contents Arriving in Indus ..................................................................... ......................................................................... 38 RELIGION AND POPULATION REDUCTION ............................................ ............................................................... 38 THE HINDU RELIGION AND POPULATION CONTROL .............................................. ..., you are a neighbor to India on the sub-continent. You share their major religion. But your economic status is far behind India‘s. How do you see y... ...on family planning, so they will not follow the grand plan. But some will. Iran has cut its population growth in half by providing condoms, birth con... ... from their families. And I‘m sure you remember the case of the beautiful Iranian woman whose face was turned into a pumpkin-like pulp as she was bl...

...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 ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ... ... Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gul... ... ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL ................................................................. ......................................................... 245 OFFICIAL STATE RELIGION ..................................................................... ...e world through our own eyes—our own points of view. Whether based on our religion, the tradition of our society, our independent thinking or our sel... ...eaten them. Someone else had a different color skin, followed a different religion, was a homosexual, or wore a different identifying gang color—all ... ...s kill the infidels, do it. 125 ―Some Moslem states, such as Iran and Saudi Arabia, still have a strong God basis for their Qur‘an base... ...norant of many important things that have happened. For example, when the Iranian president Ahmadinejad convened a conference on whether or not the ... ... And what we call democracies may choose to be totally religious. Look at Iran and Iraq. And certainly the deistic and theistic philosophies of the ...

...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 ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book I : Touchdown

By: Bob Oconnor

... “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book One Touch Down Return to Earth “... ... Return to Earth “. . . And Gulliver Returns” 2 --In Search of Utopia— “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search ... ................................................................... 12 A MORE IN DEPTH LOOK AT THE PROBLEMS .............................................. ... population with space age communication, a global economy, and a myriad of religions and philosophies that divide our human brotherhood into millio... ...philosophers and saints who have preceded us. “But I want to see how religions that are often violently competitive live in peace when I visi... ...stems can be made more user friendly. Obviously today not everyone looks to religion for their values. Religions can give us a certainty that we all... ... Sixteenth, George W. Bush in the United States and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran, not to mention Osama bin Laden, have championed earlier visions of... ...d obtaining military bases in the Mid-East. Ahmadinejad ran for president of Iran as an idealist, but once elected he quickly moved to put Iran on a ...

...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 ...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...elovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchi... ...dd Me to the List VII. The American Hostel VIII. The Semi-failed State The War in Afghanistan I. Afghan Myths II. Pakistan’s Nice Little War... ...ies regarded the conduct of the USA in Iraq as a greater threat to world peace that Iran's nuclear ambitions. The distinction formerly made between ... ...lated deaths. It is still engaged in atavistic debates about abortion, the role of religion, and whether to teach the theory of evolution. Accordin... ...s", both political and cultural. Read about American eschatology HERE. Americans' religion is a manifestation of their "Chosen People Syndrome". T... ...ncounter The Crescent and the Cross - The Communities of God Islam is not merely a religion. It is also - and perhaps, foremost - a state ideology.... .... People power - mass street demonstrations - toppled obnoxious dictatorships from Iran to the Philippines and from Peru to Indonesia. But once t... ... Unocal, contracted to lay a pipeline from Turkmenistan to Pakistan, circumventing Iran and crossing the Afghan territory that the Taliban had supp...

The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...or through liaison channels from the Central Intelligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense may obtain copies from: Defense Intelligence... ...shington, D.C. 20340-3344 Tel: (202) 373-3869 or Autovon 243-3869 Requesters in the Department of State may obtain copies from: Department of State IN... ...27 Requesters outside the US Government may .... ' purchase this publication in photocopy or micro- form from: National Technical Information Service ... ...s 107 Hong Kong 108 Hungary 110 iv Page Iceland 111 India 112 Indonesia 114 Iran 116 Iraq 117 Ireland 119 Israel (West Bank and Gaza Strip entry on p... ...Pushtunistan and Baluchistan questions with Pakistan; periodic disputes with Iran over Helmand water rights Climate: arid to semiarid; cold winters an... ...4%; these esti- mates include an adjustment for emigra- tion to Pakistan and Iran during recent years, but do not take into account other demographic ... ...zara; minor ethnic groups include Chahar Aimaks, Turkmen, Baluch, and others Religion: 74% Sunni Muslim, 25% Shi'a Muslim, 1% other Language: 50% Pash... ... Albanian; remain- ing 4% are Greeks, Vlachs, Gypsies, Serbs, and Bulgarians Religion: Albania claims to be the world's first atheist state; all churc... ...Algeria (continued) Ethnic divisions: 99% Arab-Berber, less than 1% European Religion: 99% Sunni Muslim (state reli- gion); 1% Christian and Jewish La...

...There have been some significant changes in this edition. A new Geography section has replaced the former Land and Water sections. Entries in the new section include area (total and land), comparative area, land boundaries, coastline, maritime claims, boundary disp...

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And Gulliver Returns Book V : My Visit to Singaling

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 5 Our Visit to Singaling The Pearl of S... ... 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 5 MY VISIT TO SINGALING by Lemuel Gull... ...arly Monday morning and were surprised to have the Prime Minister meet us in person. —“Mr. Yuen, good morning. I‟m delighted that you took you... ...rica and Asia, your country is busy antagonizing one of the world‟s major religions. We look to survive and prosper. Is that wrong Commander? ... ...ighly religious people, particularly those who believe they have the true religion and will try to convert our citizens or who will agitate to make ... ...ese values, have been called upon—just as your country‟s leaders bring up religion to make their points. But we don‟t accept the ancient values that ... ...lity in every area. And some want superiority.” —“I hear that in Iran women aren‟t even able to watch football games. I guess that‟s a way ... ...ado blankets their huge inferiority complexes. “The clerics in Iran blocked a Parliament passed acceptance of the United Nations Conventio...

...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 ...

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovsk... ...unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchi... ...Freedom Fighters "'Unbounded' morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of d... ... paranoia and siege mentality. Milosevic, visibly ill at ease, surfed this tide of religion-tinged nationalism straight into Kosovo, the historical... ...alism against utopian regionalism, fascism (really, opportunism) versus liberalism, religion- tinted traditionalism (the local moribund edition of c... ...lar opinion it was not a religious entity. The ruling elite included members of all religions. Thus, one could find Christian "askeri " (military or... ...ocracy pitted against the "Evil Empire" (USSR), or the "Axis of Evil" (North Korea, Iran, and Iraq). We-against-they. Every regime must find an ene...

...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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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

... 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... ... another's right - should never be confused with one SHOULD or OUGHT to do morally (in the absence of a right). The right to life has eight distinc... ...n future, we were be able to identify the chosen one and eliminate only it? In many religions (Catholicism) contraception is murder. In Judaism, mas... ...y say "I am an Israeli". Affiliation - to a community, fraternity, nation, state, religion, or team - is really a positive statement of self- defin... ...of "laissez faire, laissez passer" - the hands-off battle cry. Theirs was a natural religion. The market, as an agglomeration of individuals, they ... .... People power - mass street demonstrations - toppled obnoxious dictatorships from Iran to the Philippines and from Peru to Indonesia. But once t...

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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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

... Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make se... ...and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking... ...k Sea left tongue-prints in Albanian, Armenian, Balto-Slavic, Indian, and Iranian branches. To the west, Celtic, Hellenic, Italic, and Teutonic sibl... ...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... ... Years, Bernard Lewis seems to concur. He writes that the Mongol khans in Iran ―encouraged the reconstruction of town life, industry and trade, fost... ...o artists, diplomats, doctors, scholars, scientists, and priests from all religions, including Catholics, Nestorians, Armenians, Buddhists, and Musli...

...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 the best and most valuable books....

...In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘t a lesson about how to make a fire or fashion a needle, a knife, or a spear. He first blesses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name ev...

...From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. 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 cra...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...t Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make se... ...and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking... ...k Sea left tongue-prints in Albanian, Armenian, Balto-Slavic, Indian, and Iranian branches. To the west, Celtic, Hellenic, Italic, and Teutonic sibl... ...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... ... Years, Bernard Lewis seems to concur. He writes that the Mongol khans in Iran ―encouraged the reconstruction of town life, industry and trade, fost... ...o artists, diplomats, doctors, scholars, scientists, and priests from all religions, including Catholics, Nestorians, Armenians, Buddhists, and Musli...

...irst 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 the best and most valuable books. This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves ...

...Way back in the fifteenth century a man named Johann Gutenberg invented the ?printing press. More than 400 years passed before Ottmar Mergenthaler found a way in the late 1880s to mechanize that historic invention. Then, less than a ...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... 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 ... ...ng these elements together creates a larger context of awareness which result in a better understanding. For instance: what can you understand a... ...d Spirituality Pg 1476 The Reason Behind Culture Pg 1477 The Reason Behind Religion and Mysticism Pg 1479 Conclusion Pg 1483 The Alternative ... ...il Pg 1766 How the Undead Fool the Living Pg 1767 The Undead and the Jewish Religion Pg 1767 Flies on the Wall Pg 1768 Ritual Sacrifice and Mys... ...1825 The Killing of Able by Cain Pg 1827 Undead Spirits in Anthropology and Religion Pg 1830 The Undead and Love Pg 1832 The Undead Ruin and Po... ...pimple threatening to burst open at any time. The artificial States of Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Syria, Israel, Saudi Arabia, guarantee that there will ne... ...ina invaded Tibet. India invaded Pakistan. The entire war between Iraq, and Iran was funded on both sides by the U.S. Foreign policy decisions to w... ...d conquered 2 ½ thousand years ago. To whit: Egypt The Mid East, Iraq Iran Afghanistan Pakistan… And Northern India. Rose quickly overr...

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Fourth International Anthology on Paradoxism

By: Florentin Smarandache

...noredactare computerizat ă: MIRELA BOLDEANU 5 Preface PARADOXISM USED IN SCIENCE AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES pARadOXisM is an avant-garde... ...CIENCE AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES pARadOXisM is an avant-garde movement in literature, art, philosophy, science, based on excessive use of anti... ...ive use of antitheses, antinomies, contradictions, parables, odds, paradoxes in creations. It was set up by the editor since 1980’s and promulgates ... ...fested to be male chauvinism 66 LALEH FARABI and MOHAMMAD KHOSHNEVISAN (Iran) 67 68 69 70 ADA AHARONI (Israel) THE MARRIAGE O... ...y reference to paradoxical antithetical theories. For example, monotheistic religionists maintain the existence of one ultimate principle, but in r... ...ner lost in Hawaii: Sumptuous mustard, lightly breaded cold meatballs. Fuck religion, try this!! Savory moo shu ziti cakes: Persuasively fried u... ... Freezing in Burning ice ATHLETICS The losing runner run-s-miles. RELIGION Church burns down Holy smoke. NON BE-LIE-VERS Atheist... ...… Prasannanshu ………………………………………………... B. Venkateswara Rao ………………………………………... IRAN Laleh Farabi and Mohammad Khoshnevisan………………... ISRAEL Ada ...

...Paradoxism is an avant-garde movement in literature, art, philosophy, science, based on excessive use of antitheses, antinomies, contradictions, parables, odds, paradoxes in creations. It was set up by the editor since 1980’s and promulgates a counter-time/ count...

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Frate Cu Meridianele Si Paralelele, Vol. 1

By: Florentin Smarandache

...ours & cris” (1990), închinate sexului slab (“Femme,/Ton temple/Est ma seule/Religion”) şi revoltei... “Clubul poe ţilor” Roger Gaillard mi-a... ...u). Claudine ţinea mor ţi ş s ă-mi arate minun ăţiile Parisului. Treisprezece in şi st ăteau la mese. Jean-Pierre Rosnay, director al revistei trime... ...-se din r ăzboi (al doilea mondial) n-au unde locui, n-au servicii… Şi-mi vin in minte versuri din Alecsandri “ şi vezi cer şind eroii României” (... ...ia Sunt ner ăbd ător s ă-i v ăd pe francezul Jean Dezert de la ONERA şi pe iranianul Mohammad Khoshnevisan de la Universitatea “Griffith” din Aus... ...” din Australia. Mohammad a avut o odisee comparabil ă cu a mea. A plecat din Iran în Turcia la 15 ani. A vrut, şi înc ă vrea!, s ă emigreze în Amer... ...r!” (Asta, apropo de noile ţări care vor fi probabil atacate de SUA: Siria şi Iran). Spun şi eu gluma ”Vinul ro şu e bun pentru doamne când îl beau...

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The Soul Bearer

By: Jonathan Cross

...serials, bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works in a number of languages and countries around the world. Our missio... ...ludes any service that offers this file for download or commercial distribution in any form, (See complete disclaimer http://WorldLibrary.net/Copyri... ...ios All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means-el... .... Confused, Aaron chose the only possible path he saw, he became an atheist. If religions, he concluded, created so much hatred, then it was better ... ...embers of the 'Nuclear Club'. We know that China has sold nuclear technology to Iran; and Russia is selling it to the highest bidder. The CIA has st... ...nd Russia is selling it to the highest bidder. The CIA has strong evidence that Iran is selling enriched uranium to radical groups whose stock-in-tr... ...this information will have political con­ sequences that would make Watergate or Iran/Contra seem like tabloid news. You're a Democrat. You have a po...

A One man's quest for truth, freedom and pure spirituality in a world without.

...Beside a riverbed, an old man sits lost in his thoughts; he is SEATTLE, Chief of the Suqamish Indians. He remembers his boyhood when his grandfather foretold him of his destiny, when he was told of the Web Of Life and his duties as it's protector. The Web of Life, ...

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Ode, An

By: Táhirih ; Edward Granville Browne

...– 1852), also known by the titles of Táhirih (Arabic for “The Pure One”) and Qurratu’l-‘Ayn (Arabic for “Consolation of the Eyes”) was an influential Iranian poet and Bábí heroine from the town of Qazvín. Her legacy is important to Bahá’ís, as well as supporters of women’s rights in Iran. In 1844, she became the seventeenth disciple or “Letter of the Living” of the Báb (18...

Religion, Poetry

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Universal Religion: Bahaism - Its Rise and Social Import, The

By: Hippolyte Dreyfus-Barney

...“Bahaism is not a new religion,” writes Hippolyte Dreyfus-Barney, “It is religion renewed… it does not pretend to represent the whole Truth; on the contrary, it recognises Truth in fundamental principles which are the basis of all former dispensat...

Religion, Politics

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Year Amongst the Persians, A

By: Edward Granville Browne

...Edward Granville Browne (1862 – 1926), born in Stouts Hill, Uley, Gloucestershire, England, was a British orientalist who published numerous articles and books of academic value, mainly in the areas of history and literature. His works are respected for their scholarsh...

Travel, Religion, Philosophy

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Ode to Bahá'u'lláh, An

By: Nabíl-i-A'zam

...ensive accounts of the ministry of the Báb. Besides writing a lengthy history of the Bahá'í Faith, he wrote poetry about the historical events of the religion, which he would send to the Bahá'ís of Iran. He learned about the Bábí Faith at the age of 16 and met Bahá'u'lláh in 1851. He made several journeys on behalf of Bahá'u'lláh, was imprisoned in Egypt and is the only pe...

Religion, Poetry

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Mysterious Forces of Civilization, The

By: ‘Abdu’l-Bahá ‘Abbás

...ih) is a work written before 1875 by ‘Abbás Effendí, known as ‘Abdu’l-Bahá (the Servant of Bahá) (1844-1921). The Persian text was first lithographed in Bombay in 1882 and printed in Cairo in 1911. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá was the eldest son and appointed successor of Bahá’u’lláh, the Founder of the Bahá’í Faith. The original text of this work was written and published anonymously, an...

Religion, Politics

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Theological Essays and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...TER TER, ET , ET , ET , ET , ETC. ET C. ET C. ET C. ET C. ETC. C. C. C. C. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION... ...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. Theological Essays and Other Papers: Volume One by Thomas de Qu... ...n with this question:—What do people mean in a Christian land by the word ‘religion?’ My purpose is not to propound any metaphysical problem; I wish o... ...answer, upon this one point—how much is understood by that obscure term,* ‘religion,’ when used by a Christian? Only I am punc- tilious upon one deman... ...nder what aspect, or relation, to the field which it concerns did the term religion originally come forward? The general field, overlooked by religion... ...a. A Persian ambassador to London or Paris might boast that, in his native Iran, no such spectacles existed of hunger- bitten myriads as may be seen e...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...HE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992... ...Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From t... ...First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation—and Nonadaptation— ...in the Law Enforcement Community 73 3.3 . . . and in the Federal Aviation... ...e Sunni became (and remain) the major- ity sect. (The Shia are dominant in Iran.) The Caliphate—the institutionalized leadership of the Ummah—thus was... ... mean that some Muslims tend to be uncomfortable with distinctions between religion and state, though Muslim rulers throughout history have readily se... ...n age on the rulers and people who turned away from the true path of their religion, thereby leaving Islam vulnerable to encroaching foreign powers ea... ...on, forcing their critics to choose silence, exile, or violent opposition. Iran’s 1979 revolution swept a Shia theocracy into power. Its success encou... ... In the 1980s, awash in sudden oil wealth, Saudi Arabia competed with Shia Iran to promote its Sunni fundamentalist interpretation of Islam,Wahhabism.... ...xtreme,fundamentalist traditions as his match.All these elements—including religion—combined in an explosive compound. Other extremists had, and have,...

... a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERR...

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Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from George Washington to Bill Clinton

...arge 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 Stat... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES , ... ... ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...ies, academies, and every institution for propagating knowledge, virtue, and religion among all classes of the people, not only for their benign in f... ...th humble reverence, I feel it to be my duty to add, if a veneration for the religion of a people who profess and call themselves Christians, and a fi... ...E PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 18 sense of them; enlightened by a benign religion, pro fessed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of... ...nauguration day, Ameri can hostages held by the revolutionary government of Iran were released. SENATOR H ATFIELD, M R. C HIEF J USTICE, Mr. Presiden...

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