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Once upon a time two young crows, as they soured above the trees, spotted a field of grain. The stalks were tall and the grains were plump so the large crow said to the smaller “come let us go down to the field and eat our fill of grain.”

But the smaller balked at the idea stopping in mid air and replying. “I see a man among the grain. Surely the man is there watching...

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There are many different ways of viewing human existence as we know it but this view dramatically changes when we consider life after death. If we do in fact continue to live, in some form after death, then our whole idea of death itself changes. The religious view of death is that death is just a stage or state we pass through as we live, therefore it is not the “GRAND TRAGEDY” that we commonly view it here and now. Right now we view death as something to be avoided at all costs, the absolute evil,...

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Every now and then I run into someone claiming that there is no such thing as an un-selfish act. That at it’s base every action is essentially selfish. Now this idea is so peculiar that it momentarily stuns the listener, but after the initial pause it becomes apparent that the person really means that every conscious action is done with a motive to receive something good for ones self. Be it wealth, safety, food or simply a “good feeling”, all actions have a positive motive behind them that the...

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Every so often I hear someone say or make a comment alleging that theism and the various forms of it throughout the ages was man’s first attempts at explaining how the natural world came into being. This of course is a mistake and a common one for this day and age, for theism rarely if ever offers a “how” at all. In fact if the “how” forever remains a mystery theism suffers nothing and remains intact and unmoved. It seems to me obvious therefore the genesis and cause of theism is far removed from...

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