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The Longest Day
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 658.... something else in space.
Using computers, scientists can tell the exact location of the planets and their
moons for years into the future. By the same means, they have been able to
backtrack and determine these specific locations in the past. It was during one
such search that the extra day appeared.
From various accounts of the incident, it appears that something "did not
compute." The extra day was just there. There was no computer malfunction; there
was no explanation for the interruption of normal time patterns.
When this apparent error appeared and no explanati .....
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The Existence Of God
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1557.... developed what we have learned to be the ontological argument. He began his argument by saying that even a fool can grasp or understand the concept of “a being than of which nothing greater can be conceived.” He continues to state that a fool would say that the concept of this being’s existence is only in his mind and in the mind of others but not in reality. However he also admits to the possibility of this being existing in reality. Whatever is understood by the fool is argued that than which nothing is greater can be conceived cannot solely exist in the mind but also .....
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God’s Expectations
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 569.... was when the serpent, woman, and man were given different punishments, because of the woman. The serpent would have to crawl on his belly, be enemies with mankind, and always have to fight with humans. The woman would have to bear children in pain, and man will dominate women. The man would have to work for a living and be no longer immortal.
There were also people who did live up to ; they were usually rewarded and lived happily. Noah, Abraham, and Daniel are three examples of them. Noah was the only good person in the world, so God did not kill him, his wife, and two of .....
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Why Is Vatican II So Significant In The Modern Church?
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 517.... significance as it made the church more reasonable and realistic. The
Church, after the council, was much more down-to-earth and open-minded.
One of Vatican II's changes that took place was that Mass became
vernacular. This change was very important because it made people feel more at a
personal level when mass was held seeing as though the priest was speaking their
language. It made them feel more at home and increased their understanding and
ability to respond.
Another very major and important change that took place due to Vatican
II was the relationship with the Chu .....
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The History Of Religion
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 1939.... the events that took place at Ruby Ridge, and Waco. Each of these events has several things in common. In both instances, there were references to secret societies, a religious belief that deviated from the accepted norm, and a strong authority figure at the head. All this has seemed strange to some people, but this type of situation has been going on since before the inception of this country. Today's modern cults have simply borrowed some of their ideas from the past. Society has tended to forget the past, and has oftentimes labeled these "cultists" insane.
Webs .....
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The Opening Of The Crusades: Pope Urban II
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1022.... to the Church, the lord pope went
forth into a certain spacious plain, for no building was large enough to
hold all the people. The pope then, with sweet and persuasive eloquence,
addressed those present in words something like the following saying: "Oh,
race of Franks, race from across the mountains, race beloved and chosen by
God, as is clear from many of your works, set apart from all other nations
by the situation of your country as well as by your Catholic faith and the
honor which you render to the holy Church: to you our discourse is
addressed, and for you our exhortati .....
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Hinduism And Buddhism
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 615.... Vedas contains eternal thruths that
were reveiled to the wise men. The Upanishads helped to explain the ideas
that occured in the Vedas. This is somewhat similar to Buddhism being that
the Buddah taught others what he learned as he sat under the tree. He
called those ideas the four noble truths. The first truth was that
suffering was universal. The second was that suffering is caused by desire.
The third is that the only way to stop suffering is to crush desire. The
fourth is that the only way to end desire was to follow the noble Eightfold
path.
Hindusworship thousnads of .....
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Eve And The Apple
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 779.... would be a sin.
The main reason Eve eats the apple is because she wants to become a
Goddess. The serpent said that he was a beast and after eating the fruit
from the tree of knowledge of good and evil he became more human like. Eve
was enticed by the words of the serpent who said that "If the fruit makes a
serpent like a man, it should make men like gods." (Line 710: "That ye
should be as Gods, since I as man, Internal Man, is but proportion meet; I,
of brute, human; ye, of human, Gods.)
Other arguments that the serpent used to manipulate Eve included;
1,) You shall n .....
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