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Moral deliberations and philosophical dimensions in thirteen modern films.

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... The Silver Lining Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema 3 rd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. ... ...the Matrix - hence the need to obliterate Zion, the seat of malcontents and rebels, periodically. God appears to be unaware of the work of an import... ...e were to reappear 50 years after he "vanished"? What if he were to reappear for a period of 90 days - only to "vanish" again? And what is Dan's ro... ... consistent intentional (i.e., willed) patterns ("memory") in doing (b) for a long period of time. It seems that we accept that we have a self-iden... ...ent should be either in kind (as in more ancient justice systems) or in cash (as in modern Western civilization). The product called "Titanic" to... ...ly, not even necessary: simultaneous causation and backwards causation are part of modern physics, for instance. Time seems to be irrelevant to t... ...ikely that our reputation precedes us. Luckily for us, we are virtual unknowns. As early as 1960, the implications of an encounter with an ETI were...

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...al, or do they have fundamentally different visions of Dhamma? This work assesses the claims of the traditions, and takes into account to findings of modern scholarship. It pays special attention to the origins of the monastic orders. If we are to understand the differences, and sometimes tensions, between the schools of Buddhism today, we must examine more closely the for...

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...Foreword Abstract 0.1 The Early Period (BCE) 0.2 The Middle Period (CE) 0.3 Comparing pre-CE & post-CE evidence 0.4 The Mahāvihāravāsins 0.5 The Dharmaguptakas 0.6 The Mūlasarvāstivādins Chapter 1 The ‘Unity Edicts’ 1.1 Schism & unity 1....

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...ad in these ancient memorials of any league of mutual benefit entered into between the merely human party, and his or her supernatural assistant. But modern times have amply supplied this defect. The witch or sorcerer could not secure the assistance of the demon but by a sure and faithful compact, by which the human party obtained the industrious and vigilant service of hi...

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...l still runs riot over all Christendom, and will do so until the coming of that period yet hidden in the womb of time. We have ample evidence to... ... we may recollect the case of witchcraft, which occurs oftener, particularly in modern times, than any other alleged mode of changing by supernatural... ...resembling her than as called by the same name, either existed at a more recent period, or were liable to the same capital punishment, for a very dif... ...into between the merely human party, and his or her supernatural assistant. But modern times have amply supplied this defect. The witch or sorcerer ... ...ikewise, Livy i. 20, and Strabo, lib. vi. It is impossible to point to any period when the belief in witchcraft and necromancy was perfectly ob... ...of witchcraft, unquestionably is in the Bible. The Egyptians and Chaldeans were early distinguished for their supposed proficiency in magic, in the p... ...ld acknowledge no other God. It is on this principal that it is made one of his early commands to them, ―There shall not be found among you any one ... ...e of the women, named Anne West, he was surprised to find her door open at that early hour, and looking in he saw three or four things like black ra... ...lants at certain periods during the waxing and waning of the Moon; but the more modern professors of the art, for the most part reject these formulas...

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...The Guru Granth Sahib, or Adi Granth, is the religious text of Sikhism. It is a voluminous text of 1430 angs, compiled and composed during the period of Sikh gurus, from 1469 to 1708. It is a collection of hymns (shabda) or baani describing the qualities of God and why one should meditate on God's name. Guru Gobind Singh (1666–1708), the tenth guru, affirmed the sac...

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...on to the successor for sharing with the congregations. Guru Angad, whose period of Guruship lasted from 1539 to 1552, added some compositions of h... ...n and that too why it is the most appealing to non-Sikhs as well. It is as modern as any other cosmos invention by the world Scientists. About five... ...krqw isrTI kau swjy Awpy jwxY soeI ] 21 ] “No one knows the time, date, period, day, or season or month of the year when this Universe came into ... ... upon the practical needs of the human body. There is something strangely modern about these scriptures and this puzzled me until I learned that th... ...es and this puzzled me until I learned that they are in fact comparatively modern, compiled as late as the 16 th century, when explorers were begi... ...u Granth Sahib”, is kept open in the main Congregation Hall every day from early in the morning. The Gurduara Sahib is used for daily congregation ...

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...The great Kabbalists, Rav Yehuda Ashlag, and his son and successor, Rav Baruch Ashlag, offer modern readers valid answers to life's most vital question: What is the meaning of my life? Their interpretations of The Book of Zohar and The Tree of Life explain how we can benefit by using the ancient wisdom of Kabbalah on...

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... A revelation of Godliness does not appear at once, but gradually, over a period of time, depending on the cleansing of the attaining, until one disc... ... not a one- time disclosure, but an ongoing matter that is revealed over a period of time, sufficient for the disclosure of all the great degrees tha... ... Accordingly, the question arises, “Why was The Zohar not revealed to the early generations, whose merit was undoubtedly greater than the latter one... ...seems to be a contradiction between this and the Tanah (great sage in the early CE years) Debei Eliyahu, who said, “Even a gentile, even a slave, an... ... to refrain from open study in the wisdom of truth was only for a limited period, until the end of 1490. But from then on the prohibition has been l... ... Pshischa, A Torah of Joy, p 57 Know that the previous generations and the early days, those of the fifth millennium, are not as these generations an...

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...tice board is also clearly visible from here. I think, let’s move towards that hut, to check, if that hermit is still using that hutment even after a period of fifty five years has gone by.” He looks undecided, but his wife almost drags him towards that sign-board. It reads the same contents. The door seems to have been bolted from inside. They move away awfully, lest they...

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...e millennium, and what you call the last day, meaning thereby the instant or very small period preceding the conflagration and annihilation of this ... ...s wholly at an end, men will still be in the flesh and heirs of death, during the whole period of the millennial kingdom. And therefore they will ne... ... to be present under some form or other, in every part, or rather I should say in every period, of divine revelation, unfolding itself more and more... ...ul; and I have now to treat and enlarge upon the two other provinces thereof, which our modern theology, though making such a parade of the written ... ... duty to make known these great results to the Christian churches, which I have thus so early an opportunity of addressing; seeing, moreover, it is t... ...g. The object of our morning diet, to which we assembled at eight o’clock precisely, as early as we could well see, was two-fold; first, to seek the ... ...spelt their moss-grown monuments, and do now delight to remember those the haunts of my early youth, upon this lonely watch tower where the Lord hat... ...oly Scriptures: seeing it is honestly confessed by all interpreters, ancient as well as modern, that in the scriptures themselves, especially in the... ...places ‘our allegorist’), but by ecclesiastical writers of every name, both ancient and modern; which interpretations of theirs, most frequently leav...

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...Policy Advisor for Special Programs, provided research and analysis in the early stages of this project. Todd Schnitzer, Sharmili Hazra and Chris St... ...it written comments on the problem to the Office during an initial 60-day period, followed by a 45- day period for reply comments. The Office receiv... ...Paramount; Universal now owns most of the Paramount library from the time period, but the parties dispute ownership of the specific work in question)... ...ht Entries (CCE), which listed all registrations made during a particular period of time. After 1982, the CCE was discontinued, and all registratio... ...ed, because other comments suggest that for many searches abandoned at an early stage, the user would have found the right-holder with slightly more... ...s “no formalities” requirement has been incorporated by reference into the modern treaties addressing copyright. See Agreement on Trade-Related Aspe... .... 98 The orphan works problem is thus a by-product of the United States’ modern copyright system, and has been with us since at least the day the 1... ...e for us to get over once we went back and considered that Congress in an early 1990's amendment had made it clear that the fact that a work is unpub... ...geles County Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Museum of Modern Art; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation; Spencer Museum of Art; U...

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...Policy Advisor for Special Programs, provided research and analysis in the early stages of this project. Todd Schnitzer, Sharmili Hazra and Chris St... ...it written comments on the problem to the Office during an initial 60-day period, followed by a 45- day period for reply comments. The Office receiv... ...Paramount; Universal now owns most of the Paramount library from the time period, but the parties dispute ownership of the specific work in question)... ...ht Entries (CCE), which listed all registrations made during a particular period of time. After 1982, the CCE was discontinued, and all registratio... ...ed, because other comments suggest that for many searches abandoned at an early stage, the user would have found the right-holder with slightly more... ...s “no formalities” requirement has been incorporated by reference into the modern treaties addressing copyright. See Agreement on Trade-Related Aspe... .... 98 The orphan works problem is thus a by-product of the United States’ modern copyright system, and has been with us since at least the day the 1... ...e for us to get over once we went back and considered that Congress in an early 1990's amendment had made it clear that the fact that a work is unpub... ...geles County Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Museum of Modern Art; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation; Spencer Museum of Art; U...

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...erpetrators fled the country only to return, triumphant, after the establishment of modern Turkey in 1923. The Turkish government today denies that ... ...1910. http://www.armenian-genocide.org/ http://www.cilicia.com/armo10.html Art, Modern We are all acquainted with the tales - many apocryphal,... ...ediscovered in 1915. Henri Matisse is revered as the father of Fauvism and of modern painting in general. Yet, one of his more famous tableaux... ...e Gibraltar Straits?). It was not, therefore, a part of the known geography of the period. An earthquake was said to have submerged it in the ocean... ...the lands of antiquity, bar Athens (which only came into existence in the Neolithic period, about 3000 years later). Arab geographers propagated... ...s? Woody Hastings, a microbiologist at the University of Illinois, noticed in the early 1960s that though the bacterial population doubles every 2... ...f-cocaine.htm Columbus, Christopher Columbus was an Italian and lived most of his early life in Portugal, not in Spain. He was born in Genoa, Ital... ...s as maintaining a 43 centimeters waistline with the aid of whalebone corsets. But period advertisements for corsets cater to waistlines of up to 1... ...nder. This system was developed by the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) in the early 1990s. UTAP, stands for The Utah Criminal Tracking and ...

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... perfect sense be likewise his children according to the spirit. We do not thus early set ourselves to the tedious examination of this supposition, w... ... that faith and goodness which God has extended to them, and no longer. If this period should ever be accomplished, as also the period of the unbelie... ...em to silence. And that with so much power and evidence, that we have seen some modern Rabbis, by the force of arguments compelled to allow, that Me... ... on the other hand, makes it more daring and desirous to occupy well that short period, without losing one single moment. The woman which brought for... ...of the serpent for the space of forty and two months, which is exactly the same period as that during which the Gentiles are to suffer the great ant... ...uivocal. The t ime of Messiah, the time of Christ, (according to all ancient and modern writers, and according to the fundamental principles of Chris... ...a thing cannot be contrary to the scriptures; partly because its origin is very modern; for it is granted that in the fifth century of the church, a... ...in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God shall help her, and that right early.” God shall not henceforth remove himself; nor depart away fro... ...that God helpeth his church, mane diluculo, that is opportunely, quickly, right early, are words which in reality explain nothing; because the Lord h...

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...Joe Darion put it so passionately, "march into hell for a heavenly cause." In modern times, a hotel company like The Ritz-Carlton uses a credo to ... ...quality. Ignoring the guarantees of the U.S. Constitution, Jim Crow laws of the period made it possible for one group of Americans to denigrate and... ...rintmakers Currier & Ives depicted these roadside sights in the 1880s, and the early twentieth century Our Gang film comedies carried them forward... ...he Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookie Company in 1975, he was the father of the modern gourmet chocolate-chip cookie industry. His most recent busin... ...ged with Laubach Literacy International to create ProLiteracy Worldwide. As an early childhood literacy advocate, Wally founded and is chairman of ...

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...their thoughts but conditioned into repudiating their aloneness. It was an early Bangkok morning with a new day tripping over the corpse of the earlie... ...e earlier one the way dogs on the Bangkok sidewalks were walked on. It was early in the relationship of the two passengers and this nascent associatio... ...a of the moon, that they happened to glimpse as accompanying them on their early morning departure as they were of the monarch, Ramkhamhaeng, that was... ... his boyhood-- whom he had stayed with while he was stiff and shaking. The periodic vomiting and shaking had seemed so incessant although it, like all... ...imself walking over toward them and watching their canine copulation for a period of minutes. Then an idea possessed him and he started up his motorcy... ...er really because that way you don't slip away at all but just put on some modern armor. It is like feeling invincible--like slipping on a soldier's ... ... "How much is your rent?" he asked at last as the two of them waited for a period of minutes for a bus. He was anxious to wedge them out of the coffin... ...of Kazem and Suthep. He didn't resist Kumpee's plan to replant them in the modern sordid capital of Bangkok. He sensed all along that Kumpee would le...

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... Also, in 1980 Phillips introduced the first optical laser drive. In the early 80's, the first 5 1/4" hard disks with voice coil actuators (more on ... ...pping in volume, but stepper motor drives continued in production into the early 1990's. In 1981, Sony shipped the first 3 1/2" floppy drives. In ... ...f each other form a cylinder. This scheme is slowly being eliminated with modern hard drives. All new disks use a translation factor to make their ac... ...ent data density is that the same amount of data can be read over the same period of time, from any drive head position. The disk space is filled... ...enter of the disk. Thus, a fixed amount of data can be read in a constant period of time, even though the speed of the disk surface is faster on the... ...aster on the tracks located further away from the center of the disk.. Modern disks reserve one side of one platter for track positioning informat... ...y bottlenecked by the moving parts of the drive. During the transitional period before true native SATA drives are released, most SATA drives actua... ...eus.com for more information) There are many ways to low-level format. In early time, it can be completed in CMOS or by some special disk tools, or ...

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... Also, in 1980 Phillips introduced the first optical laser drive. In the early 80's, the first 5 1/4" hard disks with voice coil actuators (more on ... ...pping in volume, but stepper motor drives continued in production into the early 1990's. In 1981, Sony shipped the first 3 1/2" floppy drives. In ... ...f each other form a cylinder. This scheme is slowly being eliminated with modern hard drives. All new disks use a translation factor to make their ac... ...ent data density is that the same amount of data can be read over the same period of time, from any drive head position. The disk space is filled... ...enter of the disk. Thus, a fixed amount of data can be read in a constant period of time, even though the speed of the disk surface is faster on the... ...aster on the tracks located further away from the center of the disk.. Modern disks reserve one side of one platter for track positioning informat... ...y bottlenecked by the moving parts of the drive. During the transitional period before true native SATA drives are released, most SATA drives actua... ...eus.com for more information) There are many ways to low-level format. In early time, it can be completed in CMOS or by some special disk tools, or ...

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...ave some pictures now. Or, let’s call them “prophecies”. 6 Kingdom of Man Period 1 : 2001-2200. This period we shall name : the “Final Reign of Divis... ...anger leads, revenge obsesses us. And terrorism becomes the fashion of the period. Conflicts and divisions rule us all. This is why we are inevitable ... ...ut of Black Tower’s shadow. So, they, too, have already made their choice. Period 2 : 2200-2500. Integration age. By the end of this period the level ... ...ut alas, we all know how difficult any concentration is. The noises of our modern everyday life, of our modern everyday I make concentration almost un... ...is good enough for the false devotee. But yes, those of us who need a more modern pattern are absolutely free to search for it and have it. So, what t... ...le praying in peace? The guns were silent now. Under the soft light of the early morning the first enemy soldiers appeared in the square, looking arou...

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... inconspicuous groups. This is why the two most significant works of that period, Rashbi’s Book of Zohar and the Ari’s Tree of Life, were hidden by ... ...g Bar-Kokheva’s rebellion was the beginning of one of the most meaningful periods in the history of Kabbalah. The physical ruin of Judea was a manif... ...f The Book of Zohar (The Book of Radiance) was a Tana—a great sage in the early Common Chapter 2: Timeless Teachers of Kabbalah 33 Era centuries. ... ...spaper Haaretz, published December 16, 2004: “one day in Jerusalem of the early 1950s, Shlomo Shoham, later an Israel prize-winning author and crim... ...outh, and finally to an adult who one day became Mr. President. But Abe’s early stages did not disappear when he be- - came president. Without them, ... ...he mass of vegetation is much less than that of the still, the vegetative period was much shorter than Earth’s inanimate period. Following the compl... ...g cause of disability in the U.S. and worldwide.” Another major problem in modern society is the alarming abundance of drug abuse. Drugs have always ...

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...uach) with Aviut Aleph (1 st degree coarse- st degree coarse- st ness). This period is called “infancy” and lasts two years, or twenty-four months.... ... world, there are degrees of attainment. At the begin- ning of our preparation period for spirituality, we begin to understand the connections and re... ...evelopment. Almost nothing happened for many centuries, but gradually, over a period of time in which the souls incarnated from one generation to th... ...o something without wanting it! For instance, if I know that I have to get up early tomorrow morning, then I go to sleep early the night be- fore. Is... ...urn, Baruch would fill and warm the pots so the cook wouldn’t have to rise so early in the morning. He continued this way of life even after he got m... ...s are only possible with the help of the body. It is the body that awakens us early in the morning, takes us to bed only late at night, and encourag... ...ire reality, unlike every other science that explores only our world. Q: Does modern science accept this perspective? A: A science that studies the s...

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...life. This happens especially at times of war and global suffering, and during periods of misfortune that befall each of us at some point in our lives... ...ermined bytheCreator. Thus, if we yearn to comprehend true Providence, we must early on try in every undertaking to assimilate these contradictions in... ...GTHEWORLDSBEYOND 13 TheWayofKabbalah The way of Kabbalah is a long, difficult period of reevaluating one’s goals in life, of reassessing the self, cl... ...r of one’s egoism. The way of Kabbalah is, at the same time, a hard, prolonged period of suffering to search to satisfy one’s desires;itisaperiodofdis... ...o the question of our existence, in our time humanity has gradually adopted a "modern" outlook on itself. InnerQualitiesandOuterAspects -199- Modern ... ...s that others rise before sunrise to study, so one forces oneself to also rise early,evenifdeepdownthereisastrongdesirenottodoso. But if we realize th... ...vel. Theydidnotstandout due to particular depth of thought or of feeling. From early childhood, however, I had a strong reverence forscience,whichseem... ...bout researching an ancient mystical body of knowledge, but is rather the most modern science that is closest to man. It is the science of the 21 st c...

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...storically speaking, of making what is impossible today possible in a short period of time: living one’s own life like a unique, marvelous work of ar... ...far back in time (the I and its roots). 21 4) – The I and history, both modern and ancient. The I and science, the I and philosophy, the I and re... ...n kill her child’s desire for freedom. This goal strikes the child from as early on as the embryonic and fetal stages. It is there that the child’s ... ...and explain some things better. Afterwards, during the question and answer period, you can ask me questions and I will better elaborate on what I ha... ...er part of my paper and after this we will open up the question and answer period. Once we have learned to understand and explore these four strin... ...Second question: if we look at the evolution of life on earth, we know that early on there was no nervous system, then a peripheral nervous system de... ...emocritus and Anaximander, there are infinite universes, not just one. Our modern physicists are coming to the same conclusion. We do not know what...