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80Ancient Greek Sorcerers
According to Hellenic sources, Greek sorcerers of the ancient world manipulated their souls by separating it from the body in order to set out on journeys of discovery that might involve temporary death, or bilocation. They did this to cure the sick, receive prophetic visions or chase away ghosts.
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79Free Will Or Free Won't? What Is Bereitschaftspotential And Do We Really Have Control Over Our Actions?
Man is a self-deceiving robot controlled by his subconscious programming. We think we act out of free will, but the truth is, scientists have already shown that this is probably not the case. Fortunately for us, and despite the so-called readiness potential, we still seem to have some hope in the form of a veto, sometimes called the "free won't."
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76How To Taste Spirits For Maximum Enjoyment
You don't taste spirits the same way you taste wine. There are major differences, which, if not taken into account, will ruin the whole experience. Here is the process of the 4 S's for spirits as well as some essential tip and tricks on how to taste spirits for maximum enjoyment.
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77Human Evil in Greek Philosophy: Plato and Aristotle
For Plato, evil is the symptom of a metaphysical revolt against the conditions of one's creation. Humans are quite elevated in whom evil must be fixable in some way. If we should design our social order in a way which is not rendering us susceptible to evil, we might overcome it. For Aristotle, evil is a mundane challenge of organizing our relatively messed-up natures. People are composed of mind and flesh in whom evil occurs naturally.
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75The Faces of Evil in Ancient Greek Tragedy, and in Thucydides's the Peloponnesian War
The Greek worldview about evil suggests that there exists no straightforward moral order in the world. All human acts are subject to dramatic reversal, deformation, and there are no guarantees that a person's moral sincerity will not turn out to be destructive. No matter if you blame the Gods for the evils of the world in the vein of Sophocles and the Greek tragedians or you blame this lack of a moral order in the cosmos as Thucydides did, you will notice a constant...
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77The Part of Evil in the Enuma Elish and the Epic of Gilgamesh
The Enuma Elish is the creation myth of Babylon, the oldest cosmogony we have. It is a classic case of a combat myth. The Epic of Gilgamesh tells the story of a proud and brave man who is tormented by human suffering in a way that overcomes him. Both these stories come from the Ancient Near East, from Sumero-Akkadian tradition. They express the idea that evil is somehow larger than individual decisions to be bad. Evil precedes human malice. It is a force, or a power, or a person.
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66What is The Nature of Evil?
Evil could be defined as an act that is intentionally, willfully, and rebelliously against the moral order. But what causes it, what is its function and how can we confront it? Throughout history, thinkers have viewed the nature of evil in three fundamentally different ways.
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81American Foursquare House Style
The American foursquare house is present in almost every urban neighborhood developed in the first half of the 20th century. Due to its inexpensive, yet practical, spacious, and attractive design, the American foursquare became the dwelling of choice for families looking to buy or build new homes at a reasonable price across the United States.
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71Camels: Ships of the Arabian Deserts
Would you believe me if I said that camels come from America and they can dance?
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