“You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence”. (John Green, 2017) Life is the biological development of every creature that can breathe and act (Tom Baranski, Somerset, New Jersey). It is a mirror that reflects our behavior, so we…
Essays on Religious Concepts
What happens after we perish into the light? Is there an afterlife, can we still see the world or is it just a bright white light. No one truly knows what happens as soon as we leave this world. But some doctors and spiritualists have…
A Novel of Reincarnation, a historical fictional romance novel by Samyann, is a story of self-discovery and deliverance from doubt and fear. We follow the main character Amanda Parker who, by a chance encounter, meets and saves the life of a Chicago Mounted police officer,…
Social Institution is very important within any society. Social Institution establishes norms and rules that people follow. Not everyone follows these rules, but most do and their everyday actions are influenced by them. Now when it comes to religion it can be very diverse. This…
What is faith? To find that out, we must go on our journey together with beliefs that come along with us and try to implement themselves in our heads. Meanwhile, to survive your journey, you will have to have courage, hope, support, accountability, and wisdom….
Determining the relationship between mental and bodily states represents what philosophers have known as the mind-body problem. Its resolution has been one of the main knots of philosophy, which, even today has not been unleashed. This problem appeared in ancient times when the mind was…
The story of Paolo and Francesca, star-crossed lovers doomed to the second circle of hell, raises interesting questions. However, there is an argument to be made on behalf of the validity in Francesca’s actions. Although infidelity is regarded as a condemnable act, the two are…
In the beginning of the nine circles of hell Dante seems sympathetic towards the shades that are in the first few circles of hell, but in this scene as he gets deeper into hell, we see a completely different side of Dante. Instead of using…
In Dante’s Inferno, people’s souls are being punished due to their sins committed on Earth. Each individual soul has committed similar and different types of sins, but they all have one thing in common and that is that they all deserve punishment no matter if…
Throughout Dante’s Inferno, Dante documents the various sins he witnesses in hell, and the punishments the sinners receive for their crimes against God. The Inferno is the first book in a trilogy of epics that include Purgatorio, and Paradiso that depict Dante’s journey through hell,…
Dated as far back as the sixteenth century, letters composed by European Christian settlers were detailed with descriptions of gender-crossing individuals among indigenous Americans. Although modern anthropologists would consider these depictions to be a direct form of ethnocentric bias because of their etic, or observer…
In this study, various beliefs on death and reincarnation in which many believed in were looked into. The study showed three various reactions to death and reincarnation. There are three main views: The animalism, personism, and mindism. The Animalism stated by Snowdon says that we…
As mentioned by Kowalewski, “Bhutan is an outpost of Tantric Buddhism” which means Bhutan is the only remote state that follow Tantric practice which is a part of Mahayana Buddhism. The reason for the author to state this quote is because of the people of…
Throughout the course of this essay, I will show that Simone de Beauvoir’s response to the advocate of the claim that morality requires the existence of God is defective. To do so, I will first consider de Beauvoir’s argument to theistic claim that if God…
Surfing and Christianity go together more than most people might realize. The common phrases pray for surf and soul surfing have always had a deeper, more profound meaning than I first thought. For a Christian surfer, sitting on your surfboard, feeling the churning of the…
