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...Foreword: The essence of human nature is its perpetually evolving desire for pleasure. To realize this desire, we feel compelled to discover, invent, and improve our reality. The gradual intensification of the desire for pleasure has been the force b...

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..........................................220 9 F O R E WO R D T he essence of human nature is its perpetually evolving desire for pleasure. To reali... ... gradual intensification of the desire for pleasure has been the force behind human evolu- tion throughout our history. The desire for pleasure evolv... ...wer, and fame. Development of these three stages had lead to major changes in human society—it became a diversified, multi- class society. The fourth... ...quires that we understand our surroundings. To understand the present state of humanity and its pros- pects, we must build a bridge connecting several... ...g those realities that are hidden from our perception. Everyone believed that humanity had discov- ered the necessary measures to know the world as i... ...the Upper Light occurs through five degrees of concealment, five worlds whose names are Adam Kadmon, Atzilut, Beria, Yetzira, and Assiya. In the pro... ...tructure of letters HaVaYaH. We also assign these five stages five respective names: Keter, Hochma, Bina, Zeir Anpin, and Malchut. The tip of the Yo... ...ation, their wives had the same name, they had given their children the same names, and they even lived in houses with the same street number. Matt... ... will happen to us in each of the states we will experience in life. Kabbalah names these internal prearrangements that guide one’s course in life, ...

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...“The Odyssey is not an adventure story. It is, rather, a book of wisdom that explains the art of humanity’s journey toward becoming artists of life and of the life of the universe. It tells the tale of a love story that is based on love as a decision and as a project. It is not a tale of love based on falling in love or,...

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...reation of secondary beauty, which is the result of a fusion of cosmic and human forces. The Odyssey is the greatest love story that has ever been... .................................... 163 CHAPTER XXXI: GREED AS THE CAUSE OF HUMANITY’S SUFFERING ........................................... 168 CHAP... ...l divinities. Rather, they are only symbolic representations of cosmic and human spiritual forces, and the meaning of a human life lies in the abilit... ...y that can help illuminate Homer’s thought: a. This fusion of cosmic and human forces can create a truly immortal beauty, a beauty so great that t... ...ion of the gods. b. The meaning of life - the life of the cosmos and of human beings - is found in the creation of this supreme type of beauty, a... ...omer’s time. This is no longer true today and I have translated both their names with the name of Personal SELF. The line of communication between t...

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...Obsession with genetic engineering segregated humanity into the perfected and defective. Dictated by science and technology, the search for immortality near destroyed the human race. What remains of mankind, struggles to survive in barbaric clans suppressed by Masters an...

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...permission in writing from the copyright owner. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the auth... ...erence, yet retained his hold. Genetic engineering had once perfected the human body. Compulsory intervention on Mother Nature was a way of life for ... ...belled Defects. Since the early twentieth century they went under various names. In addition, those considered aggressors, naturalists, intellectual... ...ddressed him. "Excuse Shaun's sense of humour, genetics never did consume human flesh, as taught in the Clans. Our diet consists of what we grow, su... ...ed it the unwritten history, buried truths that would one day surface and humanity would know their shame. He was once sympathetic to the plight of ... ...t and although the man received the odd glance from below, he was another human being, not a captive exhibit to be stared at. Shaun informed the new... ...ever stayed long in a Clan preferring to wander in solitude. Listing off names of known Masters, he then gave over the one who in his opinion was t... ...e. Defect labour transformed the old system into what they were today. The names Genetic and Defect were terms not used in the complex as all were th... ...rn to the surface; their New World Order would be unlike anything seen in human history. Although simplistic, the complex had fully equipped medical...

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... What is the source of our personal suffering and the suffering of humanity? The vicious circle of human suffering has been idly turning for thousands of years as if without cause, and with no escape. Is this really so? Today we are learning that the wisdom of Kabbalah offers both the answer...

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...For example: a cub matures in a matter of weeks or a few months, while a human infant needs many years to grow. Only at the end of the process do y... ...lusion – that it is the cub that will become the Lord of Creation and the human will lead a bitter life and die. Hence, we do not understand the mea... ... other creatures. He acquires, or develops everything by himself, with a human, moral effort. It is precisely that sense that differentiates man fr... ...ifically, culturally, but not ethically. At a certain point in evolution, humanity must feel the need for spiritual development, or else it will not... ...e need for spiritual development, or else it will not endure. After that, humanity should feel an inner need to discover that extra, hidden sense. T... ...rrection of the situation in our world. Question: There are unfamiliar names in the book, such as, the world of Adam Kadmon, the world of Nekudi... ...the Creator. When one practices the wisdom of Kabbalah and expresses the names of the lights and the intents related to his soul, the surrounding l... ... that is not a consequence of the upper world. Therefore, Kabbalists use names taken from our world in order to describe spiritual objects, for the... ... the Torah, used a language named – The Language of the Branches. He used names of objects, feelings and actions of our world, but intended to point...

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...time lived both at that exact moment where my experiences could straddle working in print shops and in the current digital eBook era.. My degree in human-computer interfaces in 1973 led to my appointment as adjunct professor at Benedictine University, where I built the world‘s first electronic library in 1988. You could walk into that library, and the first thing you‘d ...

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... Islam‘s Great Gifts to the West One precept of the Koran states that the human world’s quest for knowledge leads to further knowing of Allah. Islam... ... history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking direct human contact between Europe and China just in time to let InfoTech wonder... ...rking in print shops and in the current digital eBook era.. My degree in human-computer interfaces in 1973 led to my appointment as adjunct profess... ...g were sweeping histories, such as The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community by William H. McNeill, Daniel L. Boorstin‘s The Discoverers... ...of miles or a sense of smell that penetrates a mile or more. But only we humans open our mouths and emit intelligible sounds that empower us to sha... ...printing as a ―black art‖ practiced by the devil. Also, the similarity of names—Fust and Faust—led some to connect Gutenberg‘s partner with the Germ...

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... and her little farm into spook central. Learn the secrets of the after life; you too may have many freeloaders at your address and not all were once human. Australian author Christine Jones writes for many genres from science fiction fantasy to humor. Though the characters in this book are fictitious, many of the incidents took place and by yours truly. The farm itself is...

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...ermission in writing from the copyright owner. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the auth... ...n skin, well he has had plenty of practice and I bet he’s picked up a few human bodies off the ground in his time. “You did alright for a first timer... ... you ever had that feeling like you might see something nasty, scary, not humanly possible, making you hold your breath? I look down. I woke up on th... ... hairdresser can go on holiday after each session. This poor excuse for a human being can only be summed up as follows. Sleazy, yellow-bellied, craw... ...a tug of war to get it back. Once retrieved, the bag rolls on its wheels, humanly unaided, to the car. The poor man was left paler than snow, which ... ... see my brother and sister are disappointed. The lounge is almost void of human life forms, which suits me just fine. Well, it’s only nine thirty an... ...of their life history and everyone else’s for that matter. I now know the names, addresses and occupations of all Michael’s ex girlfriends, his uncl... ...already scared the pants off them by being a cow. He rambled off some big names from the mainland, cattle having won prizes at the Melbourne show. I... ...hing. “Five.” His eyes have open widely. “Six…” I’m starting to count the names off in thought. “Seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, eleven, oh yeah, t...

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...ve novel in search of a feature-length, animated film, Fire and Fur might more properly be called "Smart Dragons, Dumb Choices.? It is set in the pre-human Gobi desert and draws on Chinese mythology. Its major characters are dragons and cats. Of course, the cats do speak (often caustically) since a few dragons are interesting enough (cats can still speak but no one is inte...

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...e properly be called "Smart Dragons, Dumb Choices.” It is set in the pre-human Gobi desert and draws on Chinese mythology. Its major characters ar... ...oned everything, but they couldn't speak or think; didn't have individual names. They infected dragons. I can't figure out how, but it wasn't nobl... ... the foul oceans from our mouths! We will melt stone! We will flame our names across the very center of the cosmos. Can we do it!" "YES!" "Wi... ...ike. 'Ao Rue' it is. We've got more important things to talk about than names." "OK, but what's your name? It would hardly be polite if I just c... ... are and where they belong. Plus I don't have to remember their silly names. "All right, children, now that everyone's in place, it's time. Wa...

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...in themselves or in their environment. We call these vectors "Negentropic Agents". Human Beings are Negentropic Agents gone awry. Now, through its ... ...aining the number of other Entropic Agents on Earth or by reducing the numbers of humans. To achieve the latter (which is the path of least resi... ...e path of least resistance and a typical self-regulatory mechanism), Nature causes humans to begin to internalize and assimilate the Entropy that t... ...rs, famine, diseases and to a decrease in the populace (and, thus, in the number of human Entropic Agents). The Assimilative Mechanism Diseases, ol... ...mena yield negative demographic effects directly related to the entropic actions of humans. Examples: excessive use of antibiotics leads to drug- re... ...nergy, the Cosmological Constant (Lambda) and quintessence fields are merely other names for entropy and are not related to vacuum energy. Thus, ... ...tion of "sense" is, well, senseless and utterly unnecessary: demonstratives, proper names, and natural-kind terms, for example, refer directly, thr...

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... when he spoke of changing one’s perception of the world, including all of humanity into a “Thou” instead of an “It.” This is a major theme which we w... ... sense of alienation that seems to be the price we pay for the legacy of a human world split apart and a physical world which we are slowly bringing t... ...N ix such study it would be possible to grasp the nature of religion as a human experience, so that, divested of its elaborations, the skeleton commo... ...ionship of Depth Psychology and religion, with a view to understanding the human side of the experience, was William James’s The Varieties of Religiou... ...g to draw together the strains of experience and thought that have gripped humankind for so many centuries and to help integrate them into our overall... ...ce, both natural and supernatural. The various aspects of God have various names. God is understood as being at the heart of every person and in that ... ...orm which the Brahman takes within the created world. All other “gods” are names used to personify the activities of this Supreme Godhead. Hindu theol... ...s,” “Jesus Christ,” and “Christ” came to be felt as interchangeable proper names. Of considerable importance in the narratives is a series of miracles... ...ion conventionally called “hell” in English (it may have a number of other names in other cultures) is sup- posed to be the spiritual realm in which t...

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...ermission in writing from the copyright owner. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the auth... ... and the Earth. He created the Garden of Eden, a national park beyond any human comprehension. This paradise had a brief moment in time and was soon... ...nd can be at 5 any given destination, ready to lock and load, before the human brain has told the eyelids to blink. On the other side of the spirit... ...hand are exceptionally fierce, cunning and very proficient in influencing humans. Though their rightful appearance is likened to imps, they were the... ...llumination was enough to put a demon out of commission for the term of a human’s natural life. The enemy’s glance alone had Snakelex nauseous and c... ... and making a rude finger gesture at his enemies. 10 CHAPTER 2 The first human dwelling Snakelex came across was a large, Victorian, two- story buil... ... enter in and out of these premises. Included in this report is a list of names and addresses that are already under our influence. Warning, those i... ...hilip rolled over with his wife fuming beside him. “By the way Philip, the names of the deacons, if your interested, are Fred Jones, Tom Hancock, Ala... ...ied with church business. Evidently exchanging ideas, Darcy dropped a few names, adding their personal titbits. Alan could not deny that what he alr...

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...als*. It is not moral, for example, that genetic engineering go as far as human cloning or that artificial intelligence become self-reproductive*. T... ... of turning of matter into anti-matter* should also be monitored. If the human race had the capability to accept the complementarity between science... ...y - a necessity legitimating philosophical anthropology as the science of humankind. This necessity was suggestively illustrated by Blaise Pascal in ... ...lustrated by Blaise Pascal in his reflection: <It is dangerous to show a human being how much he is like the beasts, without showing him his own gr... ...flection suggests, besides the justification of the need for a science on humankind, an open approach in respect to this range of problems. The vali... ... relates a story on an American locality whose streets are dubbed with the names of victimized children from a terrifying accident produced as a re... ... Hegel, invoking ″pro domo″ the spiritualistic orientation of some famous names, such as Bergson or Hasdeu. Without denying the spiritualistic affin...

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...hus, all such groups are rebarbatively authoritarian, execrably violent, devoid of human empathy or emotions, suppressive, ostentatious, trenchant ... ...red in gulosity and superciliousness as they become. Inveterate violators of basic human rights, they often transform into the very demons they hel... ...who flee in terror at the sight of a stranger, crying 'Turks! Turks!' These are the human wreckage of the hurricane which usurps the functions of a ... ... authorities coerced the population to speak the Serb language, changed Macedonian names to Serb ones in brutally carried campaigns and imposed a c... ...nd the Serb state. To the generation of post-Yugoslavia It is a familiar story. In human affairs, the dream of a Greater Serbia is no less a recurr... ...True, the West conditioned the total removal of sanctions against Yugoslavia on its humane treatment of its Albanian citizens and encouraged the Alb... ... I think it is a bad habit, exercised by charlatans and dilettantes (even if their names are followed by a Psy.D.). Please do not forget that only ...

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...o do one, and only one, thing. It has a single purpose and a unitary function. We, humans, are more like computers than like television sets. Tr... ...r or trait. An array of coordinated genes is required to explain even the minutest human phenomenon. "Discoveries" of a "gambling gene" here and an... ...e latter. The narcissist is no exception. The narcissist has a dichotomous view of humanity: humans are either Sources of Narcissistic Supply (and,... ... fact is that the child is not sure that it exists. It avidly absorbs cues from its human environment. "Am I present?", "Am I separate?", "Am I bein... ...e in through the parental door. Biology converged with social injunctions to yield human values such as the nurturance of children. Horney's great ... ...rspace are mere representations - often nothing more than erotic photos and screen names. It is crucial to realize that pedophiles are not enticed ...

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...ook will not be published. Thus, I share my thoughts here. Speaking Their Names “We are here in the memory of those who have parted …” The lyrics flo... ...r songs, and several speeches. At one point, we are asked to call out the names of loved ones whose lives were taken by AIDS. I name Mat M. and Ric ... ...o help our loved ones. To my embarrassment, I draw a blank. Then, someone names Marianne. She recently retired as the director of the Neal Christie ... ... is so much more than that. Honestly, I think it’s because I, like so many humans around the world, find stories compelling. We learn things about ot... ...ut to be reached -- hopefully before I say something nasty myself. (Being human, I am not 100 percent successful.) I stopped listening to morning and...

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...Excerpt: But sooner or later everyone finds out that they can no longer deny reality. Humanity continuously seeks logical justification to our existence. Man has tried to inquire and interpret nature for thousands of years. Contemporary scientists have learned that the more they progress in their scientific re...

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...allow us to find the answer to the question about the essence of life and human suffering, and what our purpose is in this world. All those methods ... ... sooner or later everyone finds out that they can no longer deny reality. Humanity continuously seeks logical justification to our existence. Man ha... ... alone. Man diminishes his desires, he feels better and suffers less. But humanity does not stand still. With each passing generation the souls of p... ...he Creator, a process that does not exist in the other parts of creation. Human development is directed straight at increasing egoism and the cravin... ...ushed the souls to exit from that painful situation. The driving force in human development is in fact, the desire to be freed from pain. Over the n... ...andful of people, although the Torah itself says: “The whole Torah is the names of the Creator”. But what does that mean? We name an object accordin... ... of the Creator, His actions, His attributes, the Creator Himself, and he names what he feels. Only a person who can feel the Creator can name Him. ... ...anything in our world. That is why the expression: “The whole Torah is the names of the Creator” means that the revelation of the Torah is only for t... ...e signals as though they came from the actual source. They gave technical names to the experiments, you send this and that signal and get this and th...

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...superstition was a negative force that eclipsed the scientific development of human beings. The fear of snakes made them worship it with a superstit... ...assic Hinduism¸ the origin of the caste system is as old as the origin of the human race itself. The story of this cosmogonic myth regarding the cre... ... within a community as well as mark their identity. R 15 – Solace Any human follows a religion and worships a god mainly for solace and peac... ... inequality T 2 - Social discrimination T 3 - Absence of conscience and humaneness in caste-Hindus and Brahmins T 4 - Manu Dharma T 5 - ... ... society being contrasted with an egalitarian Dravidian society based on the humane traditions of the Tamils. The Congress Ministry in Madras and s... ...idar Kazhagam. Its members were required to drop the caste suffixes of their names. They were also asked to give up the posts, positions and titles... ...ce anything and not mind the aspersions cast on us by our enemies or mind our names getting spoilt or defamed by our enemies but work without fear.... ...an considered as one of the 63 Nayanmars into the temples, and to misuse the names of the Nayanmars and Nandan and Azhwars in order to eat tamarind... ...hown through symbols must be stopped. I want to abolish the practice of caste names, titles, symbols denoting particular sects, because in my opinio...

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... have the choice of not relying on antibiotics or steroids for treatment. As humans begin to build up resistance to common medications, including a... ...san Page 17 HOME REMEDIES FOR ACIDITY AND GAS The ideal pH range for the human body is between 6.0 and 6.8 (the human body is naturally mildly ... ...physical immortality. Understanding this, most researchers still believe that humans should live 120 years or more. Why then is the average life spa... ...itis is a prehistoric disease; archeologists have found skeletons of the first humans, with evident cases of arthritis. But modern medicine, has not ... ...more than 100 million people around the world. However, there is evidence that humans have been using Home Remedies for arthritis pain for thousands ... ...al cell carcinomas, Squamous cell carcinomas, and malignant melanomas. Their names reflect the fact that each starts in a different part of the epid...

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...ognition on the measure of his gift and originality? Perhaps because of these human (re)sentiments we have talked about above? Or according to the ne... ... by postmodernists, the homologation and the consideration of the exceptional human mind’s values are not considered compulsory anymore, everyone hav... ... the whole world are not enough for his flight. Modest nature, as all genuine human values, he is seized sometimes with an unmeasured vanity what mak... ... current. Some literary theorists (A. Marino, M. Cartarescu) noticed that the names of some literary currents (and not only!) don’t always cover the ... ...terminology used by the founder of paradoxism in titles of volumes and poems, names of characters, in the language of some commentaries etc 4) . An... ...ticipating to the fulfillment of the world’s harmonious image, become the new humanism” 6) . Thus, after the own Ion Barbu’s avowal the poetry has t... ...o continue Al. Cioranescu and Marian Barbu which talked about a “mathematical humanism” at Ion Barbu, in an interview with Ada Carstoiu, Florentin S... ...e the poet only from the paradoxism’s viewpoint. Moreover some of them -known names as Ion Rotaru, Gheorghe Tomozei, Doru Motoc etc.- have seen in S... ...ke in consideration the relative big number of parodied authors- a few, famous names of our literature: “Our father (...)/From literary/ Heavens/ unc...

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...rmation retrieval and storage system without permission of the publisher. Names, characters and incidents depicted in this book are products of t... ...er than a place of high importance. Your lesson today will be on the correct names for the different ranks of royalty.” Aislinn could tell that, al... ...eared and several of the pages grew rowdy and obnoxious. They called Aislinn names and spat on her and it took all of Aislinn’s self control to not ... ...other saw me with my hair uncovered, I wouldn’t have to worry about slugs and names, I’d be dead! She giggled. “What are you laughing about?” Geoff... ... Let there be no more senseless deaths.” “Aye.” The king nodded. “I’m only human. I make mistakes. Please forgive me.” Aislinn lowered her gaze... ...nd foolish. Am I truly that selfish, brother?” “Nay, sister. You are merely human. You have grown much these past years and I’m proud of you. So... ...dom of Heaven. All this is training for the battle in Heaven, the battle for humans and their souls. Fight hard, dear sister, but also pray often. ...

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...y worded statements. My truest desire was to manifest as a spiritualized human being. To achieve this, I fi rst had to learn what it meant to be hum... ... set the stage for learning to become a fully realized and spiritualized human being, becoming one with the All and being fully conscious of the pr... ...ting predominantly of the longest wavelengths of light discernible by the human eye, in the wavelength range of roughly 625–740 nm. [T is is what is... ...ting predominantly of the longest wavelengths of light discernible by the human eye, in the wavelength range of roughly 625–740 nm. Red is also one ... ...s The Super-conscious Realm T e super-conscious mind can be called by many names: God, universal intelligence, universal mind, higher self, the life ... ...aningful. If your desire is to manifest yourself as a truly spiritualized human being and responsible citizen of the universe, you will have to dete...