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I and Thou

By: Martin Bube

...t is called in question; it is pointed out that the successive realms of culture have their beginning in a primitive state, whose colour may differ... ...So small world of objects. The life not of the race but of the particular culture would thus correspond to the individual life. But, apart· from the... ... isolated realms, through the historical in­ fluence of other pre-existing cultures they take over, ata certain stage, the world of It belonging to ~... ... they take over, ata certain stage, the world of It belonging to ~hese . cultures. This stage is not reached early, but neverthe­ less precedes the ... ...form of direct acceptance of what is contemporary, as Greece accepted the Egyptian world; or it may tak~ the form of indirect acceptance of what is ... ... of what is past, as western Christianity accepted the Greek world. These cultures. then, enlarge their world of It not merely through their own ex...

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...e Archive – Click HERE! Philosophical Musings and Essays http://samvak.tripod.com/culture.html Malignant Self Love – Narcissism Revisited http:/... ...ialogs Timaeus and Critias written by the Greek philosopher Plato (428-347 BC). An Egyptian priest was supposed to have described it to the Greek s... ...rnardino de Sahagun (1499-1590), a Franciscan priest with deep interest in Mexican culture, described a ritual in honor of the Aztec gods of fisher... ...uded replicas of the late Royal Family of France, a model of the guillotine, and an Egyptian mummy. It was a morbid hit. In 1835 she settled in Lo... ..., Prague and Skopje, 2000 Winner of numerous awards, among them Israel's Council of Culture and Art Prize for Maiden Prose (1997), The Rotary Club A... ...use.com/freebooks.html "After the Rain – How the West Lost the East" The history, cultures, societies, and economies of countries in transition in ... ...cgi?vaksam_JOURNAL 10. "After the Rain – How the West Lost the East" The history, cultures, societies, and economies of countries in transition in ...

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Secret of the Sands

By: Aren, Rai and E., Tavius

...PRESENT-DAY EGYPT “I don’t know if I will ever get used to working in the heat of the Egyptian desert. I honestly think I am about to pass out,”... ...eariness, thanks to Dustimaine’s harsh words, Mitch and Alex continued to work in the hot Egyptian climate for another couple of hours. Dehydration ... ... revealed. Their eyes grew wide as they saw what appeared to be a large, carved ankh, the Egyptian symbol of immortality, of life. “I don’t believe ... ...iling in it like nothing I’ve seen before.” “These symbols look an awful lot like ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs,” Alex started, “but they’re kind of ... ..., and, well…this doesn’t exactly fit the profile, you know. I mean, the ankh is obviously Egyptian, but…” “Bob, we know. We know exactly what you’re... ...of a lion, seated with a long thick mane. The lion was revered and worshipped in Kierani culture. To them, it symbolized strength, grace, and prote... ... see what it’s telling us about these people. Funerary rituals are an important part of a culture, saying many things about a peo- ple’s beliefs and ... ...tries, linens, chests, sculptures, vases. “This was obviously a sophisticated and wealthy culture,” Alex remarked. Mitch had started walking around ...

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The Ulysseans

By: Antonio Mercurio

...ver. A populace distinguishes itself from another populace by the type of culture it has been able to create and for the type of soul it has manage... ...en able to create and for the type of soul it has managed to instill in its culture. Experts say that humanity is moving towards a terrible conflict... .... Experts say that humanity is moving towards a terrible conflict between cultures; cultures that have a soul and cultures that don’t have one at a... ...o tomorrow’s Western World; a soul that can handle the massive invasion of cultures that are different from ours or the barbarians that are advancing... ...ome again and there are many authoritative representatives of contemporary culture (Argan, Guttuso etc...) who do not hesitate to speak of the death... ...tent on creating, individually and together, not like in the times of the Egyptian pyramids or the Gothic cathedrals, because now, if everyone is ...

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The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty: Volume II

By: Juan Josafat Ben Ezra

...t various time oppressed and sought to exterminate them. Who can point out the Egyptians, the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Greeks, or even the R... ...s; and that the true sense of the prophecy is, that as various nations, to wit, Egyptians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Greeks, and Romans, had at various ... ...nt Sinai, the Lord spake to them these words: “Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles’ wings,” Exod. xix. 4. (or, ... ...osed her mouth upon the enemies who pursued after them: “the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. And the waters returned, and cover... ... marvellous things:” Mic. vii. 15. that the Gentiles shall see miracles, as the Egyptians saw them; and the more efforts they make, the more shall it... ...ch great iniquity to an end, and anew to plant righteousness, giving their last culture to the few plants which remain fit for use; and by these mea...

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The Path of Kabbalah

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...g the meaning of their lives, and more interested in science, social science, culture, literature, and so on. T H E PAT H O F K A B B A L A H 122 B... ...ize that there is no hap- piness in high technology, or the development of our culture and ethics. Drugs and other accessories for pleasure produce a... ...oistic desires. These desires are so egoistic that they are like those of the Egyptians, who knew how to use egoism so perfectly that they could mum... ...at awaken in them. This search produces the development of science, medicine, culture and technology. Our generation and the generations to come belo... ...Laitman’s scientific method provides individuals of all faiths, religions and cultures the precise tools necessary for embarking on a highly efficie...

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The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty

By: Juan Josafat Ben Ezra

... of God out of respect unto Christ’s eternal offering of himself; but, I begin from the Egyptian captivity, which denotes the bondage of the sense a... ...ssential, and perfect holiness of God. I say not that it is not capable of education or culture, nor that it is in all men of a like force and clear... ...rsaken of both her kings. And then he describeth the calamities which the Assyrians and Egyptians should inflict upon Judah. This first revelation of... ... the life spiritual and divine? In the ancient times, when he delivered the church from Egyptian bondage, they sung him “Wonderful in his praises.” ... ...of Ptolemy; I ask this explanation of the most celebrated philosophers and astronomers, Egyptian, Greek, Arabian, and Latin. I see the vain efforts ... ...will say that Isaiah speaketh of some single individual called Egypt, when he says, The Egyptians are men, and not God, (Vulg. Egyptus homo, et non D... ...ne out of Egypt, thou hast cast out the heathen and planted it.” Psalm lxxx. 8. By this culture it is certain that the vine yielded more and better ... ..., that all these things belong not at all to the fruit of the vineyard, but only to its culture. They declare and preach to us all that God has done ... ...norant that the goodness of a vineyard consists not in its possessing the best possible culture, nor as little in its containing plants by the thous...

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Kabbalah for the Student

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...oul. And as long as the majority of the people are captive in the foreign cultures of the nations and are incapable of Israel’s religion and culture... ... f o r T h e s T u d e n T However, while they were still mingled with the Egyptians, a portion of their needs was necessarily given into the hands o... ... only take Malchut. What would the authors of The Zohar say in view of the culture of such sinful people, denying that there is any knowledge or wisd...

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Shamati

By: Rav Michael Laitman

..., for He Hath Done Pride ......................305 151. And Israel Saw the Egyptians ...................................................306 152. For a... ... the end of the verse, ‘for He hath done pride.’” 151. AND ISRAEL SAW THE EGYPTIANS I heard on Beshalach In the verse, “and Israel saw the Egyptians ... ...possible to draw half a degree. And this must be specifically through the Egyptians, and this is called “exile,” when the Jews, too, must be under ... ...ing correction of the Masach de Hirik, they exit their rule, meaning the Egyptians themselves shout, “Rise up, get you forth.” And this is, “Me and ... ...it asked, “How are those different from those? Either Israel die like the Egyptians, or Israel will return to Egypt.” The thing is that Egypt is the... .... But like all good children’s stories, it transcends boundaries of age, culture, and upbringing. In Together Forever, the author tells us that if w...

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Unlocking the Zohar

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...iscusses human psychology, our inner makeup, family values, education and culture, conducts of Nature and the foundation of creation. Don’t we need ... ...y pairs, which are seventy souls, and brought them among the thorns, the Egyptians. And as soon as these thorns came, those pairs out there grew br... ...or sent to deliver Israel from Egypt. And He showed these plagues on the Egyptians and struck them for Israel. What is the difference between the re... ...an all the peoples; they were actually called, “slaves” because they, the Egyptians, were the lowest of all peoples. Babylon were low, as it is writ... ...earth quakes ... Under a slave when he becomes king” come true, since the Egyptians were slaves. The reaSoN for ISrael’S afflICTIoN Pinhas 143) one d... ...y. But like all good children’s stories, it transcends boundaries of age, culture, and upbringing. Further Reading 425 In Together Forever, the au...

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Corpus of a Siam Mosquito

By: Steven David Justin Sills

... "Love," said the cartoon of the mosquito, "makes up the vernacular of pop culture. It is innate as a quest. It lances life's old festers granting a... ...he did not understand. What did she know beyond the kinetic rhythms of pop culture? It was in her blank stare. The word had not penetrated. He want... ...tity of these self-professed "Chosen people," and for having the dominant culture of individual freedoms that went contrary to their Islamic tyranny.... ...od (the night having deadened his soul and put him to sleep as any ancient Egyptian laborer long ago believed of his own life), so Kazem in darkness c... ...amburger buns on a barbeque, and microwaving meatless tofu hamburgers in a culture that was all his own. As the two women chatted on the balcony Porn... ... programming of a woman. This feeling of love, this motif of women and pop culture, vexed her. It was annulling her marital contract that had been en...

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The Zohar: Annotations to the Ashlag Commentary

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...strictions of the snow return. 99. What is written next? “And he struck an Egyptian.” This refers to a secret: every time Israel sinned, the Creator ... ...all the goodness and all the Light that He shone upon them. “He struck an Egyptian.” “He” refers to Moshe, the Light that shines upon Israel. For in... ... Light, with which Moshe shone upon Israel. And this Light is called the “Egyptian,” for in Egypt Moshe was born, grew up, and attained the great Su... ...At once He descended to him in strictness and wrenched the staff from the Egyptian’s hand, for the moment the staff was taken from him, it was taken... ...hatchets and axes.” Hence, it is written that the staff was taken from the Egyptian, and will never return to him, for the staff refers to Malchut. S... ...y. But like all good children’s stories, it transcends boundaries of age, culture, and upbringing. In Together Forever, the author tells us that if w...

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The Religious Dimension

By: Donald Broadribb

...r religious institution, or we absorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most ... ...rity of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture which went hand in hand with their social structure. It has been on... ...f the meaning and feeling-value of symbols in personal life, as well as in culture generally. Jung was, with Sigmund Freud, a cofounder of psychoanaly... ...ssible to have a truly unbiased view. By virtue of having grown up in some culture every student inevitably has bias and preconceptions. Never- theles... ...rue of the Arab culture of the period. Mesopotamian religion was, like the Egyptian, organized on a higher state level, though apparently not as close... ... Book II, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1948. Egyptian + Palestinian + Arab + Mesopotamian Cultures Hebrew Hebrew + Zoroa... ... some basic historical information is required. On the first level we find Egyptian religion of approximately 1400 BC which became codified and highly... ...rue of the Arab culture of the period. Mesopotamian religion was, like the Egyptian, organized on a higher state level, though apparently not as close... ...dred, Akhenaten, Thames and Hudson, London, 1968; Henri Frankfort, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Harper Torchbooks, New York, 1948; A.H. Gardiner, Egypt ...

...n. Whether as children we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture which went hand in hand with their social struct...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...reans or did they yearn for bigger and better things seduced by the American culture that came to them through the cinema and the music and through hi... ...sion toward the rock-a-by song by telling herself that it was the collective culture in the earliest of all primitive American, if not western minds, ... ... reasons for the specific elements of a myth (the cryptic reason why a given culture might have chosen a serpent god or the son of god over the sun go... ...asting within the brevity of a human's lifespan); and historians of recorded cultures thread together implication, meaning, and motive from a few tang... ...owed to be subject to this Christianity, which had the plagiarism of Ancient Egyptian Literature, the Epic of Gilgamesh, Plato, Confucius, and God kno... ...he void devour her energy, and then she fell into the sleep that the Ancient Egyptians thought of as the death of the soul. When the quilt fell from t... ...e that she engraved onto the interior walls of her brain the way the ancient Egyptians chiseled eulogies in the tombs of the pharaohs. The smells of ... ...orrent memories loving and still as a photograph. Chapter 41 To the ancient Egyptians man died each night in this void absent of the sun god and then... ...l to command human affairs. The ancient and relatively forgotten myth of the Egyptians explained manチOs mysterious absconding from the night in seven ...

...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and le...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...ia. 14. Printers as Agents of Change After the fall of Rome, Western culture focuses for centuries on guarding rather than expanding accumulate... ...can let you move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English,... ...o record religious dogma and to glorify and proclaim the supremacy of the Egyptian king than for recordkeeping. Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, and Chi... ... just to learn to read, write, and do simple arithmetic. Pictographic culture‘s rigorous nature, moreover, left priests and scribes with little ... ...nd scribes with little time or motivation for creativity. Phoenicians, Egyptians, Assyrians, and Hebrews intermingled along the Mediterranean‘s e... ... for the four centuries before 1500 BC. Bringing together those different cultures must have made it obvious that they needed an easier way to commu... ...ogists said they traced each of our alphabet‘s twenty-six letters back to Egyptian hieroglyphic symbols—often even to the same sound value it had ei... ...ng research discovery was finding that Cleopatra‘s lineage was Greek, not Egyptian. Ptolemy I, her dynasty‘s pharaoh, was Alexander the Great‘s boyho... ... The Chinese language‘s continuity and flexibility has sustained China‘s culture down through the ages—perhaps most significantly by helping to uni...

...reaks the chains of ignorance that held most of mankind in bondage for millennia. -- 14. Printers as Agents of Change-After the fall of Rome, Western culture focuses for centuries on guarding rather than expanding accumulated knowledge, but the shift from script to print amplifies, reinforces, and disseminates the power of knowledge. -- 15. Capitalists‘ Link to Ink-Printer...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...of Life Energy Pg 192 The Definition of What is Human Pg 198 The Origin of Culture Pg 206 The Tool-Dynamic of Civilized Culture Pg 212 Wonder ... ... Pg 269 The Dynamics of the Transition Pg 279 The Creation of Robber Baron Culture Pg 280 The Basic Factors Pg 282 The Consequences of Accumul... ...ange Pg 508 Tools vs. Life Pg 508 The Dynamics of Distraction Pg 520 The Culture of Mass Media Pg 523 Hollywood and Perfection Pg 527 Tool P... ...-Hope Pg 1051 Slavery Pg 1052 The Slavery of Ownership Pg 1054 The Slave Culture of Civilization Pg 1055 Domestication and Slavery Pg 10... ... called volcanoes for 25 million years. Funeral Pyre… … This is what ancient Egyptians did for 5,000 years. Ignited by iron pyrites in the soil… cr... ...ecame a cultural nation of dimwitted fools, idiots… and liars: To lie like an Egyptian was a Roman’s highest praise for being out-smarted by a rival ... ...s that Egypt had once been. As if that were a reason to be proud of being an Egyptian, while living lives of near- total slavery and mindless submis... ...nd mindless submission to all and any authority figures in their culture. The Egyptians kept on revolting and rebelling… even being found slaughtere... ...for an armistice. The Romans slaughtered the mercenaries and slaughtered the Egyptians until they got so tired of killing weak, screaming cowards; ...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...ia. 14. Printers as Agents of Change After the fall of Rome, Western culture focuses for centuries on guarding rather than expanding accumulate... ...can let you move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English,... ...o record religious dogma and to glorify and proclaim the supremacy of the Egyptian king than for recordkeeping. Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, and China... ...ng just to learn to read, write, and do simple arithmetic. Pictographic culture‘s rigorous nature, moreover, left priests and scribes with little ... ... and scribes with little time or motivation for creativity. Phoenicians, Egyptians, Assyrians, and Hebrews intermingled along the Mediterranean‘s e... ... for the four centuries before 1500 BC. Bringing together those different cultures must have made it obvious that they needed an easier way to commu... ...ogists said they traced each of our alphabet‘s twenty-six letters back to Egyptian hieroglyphic symbols—often even to the same sound value it had ei... ...ng research discovery was finding that Cleopatra‘s lineage was Greek, not Egyptian. Ptolemy I, her dynasty‘s pharaoh, was Alexander the Great‘s boyho... ... The Chinese language‘s continuity and flexibility has sustained China‘s culture down through the ages—perhaps most significantly by helping to uni...

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Modelling of Rationality...and Beyond the Physics

By: Gh. C. Dinulescu

...On the occasion of the celebrations occasioned by the ″Days of the Câmpina culture″ event, on July 3, 1999, the members of the Allan Kardec French sp... ...r gregarious happenings extolling libertinism, immorality and the lack of culture, mass hysteria induced in groups of youngsters by the ″techno musi... ...wledge of this phenomenon would indeed mean Pandora′s box, because if the Egyptians had known this fact and made use of it, that would have meant the... ...eing?), a proof to this effect being the fact he asserted himself as a non-Egyptian in a hostile society. It is also the case of Jesus whose scienc... ... those of the exterior), hence the already advanced ideas, that the 31 Egyptian or Aztec pyramids could have been interplanetary or even intergala... ...se known to us. The idea that in a more remote or near future the earthly culture and civilization benefited of knowledge other than the conventiona... ...a bottom, granting Moses and his people the opportunity to pass, while the Egyptian army missed this chance, vanishing in the waves. To support this... ...ical to that of Gyseth. Furthermore, pyramids absolutely identical to the Egyptian ones were identified. The photographs sent by Viking demonstrate ... ...extraterrestrial beings were not alien. Information on the Aztec and Inca cultures, lasting until the XV-XVI th centuries seem to confirm once more...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...ully. II. Issues in the Calculus of Rights IIA. The Hierarchy of Rights All human cultures have hierarchies of rights. These hierarchies reflect c... ...es, not primary ones. There have been periods in human history and there have been cultures devoid of either or both. The primary asymmetry seems t... ...with its proponents in the exact sciences as well - ran deeper than that. The very culture of commerce was thoroughly permeated and transformed. It... ...dependent. In some cases, pain is perceived as positive and is sought. In the Aztec cultures, being chosen to be sacrificed to the Gods was a high h... ...ocaust. Nazism posed as a rebellion against the "old ways" - against the hegemonic culture, the upper classes, the established religions, the super... ...ing tale of survival recounted in the book and eponymous film, "Alive"). 2. The Egyptian Scenario Resources become so scarce that family units...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...ully. II. Issues in the Calculus of Rights IIA. The Hierarchy of Rights All human cultures have hierarchies of rights. These hierarchies reflect c... ...es, not primary ones. There have been periods in human history and there have been cultures devoid of either or both. The primary asymmetry seems t... ...with its proponents in the exact sciences as well - ran deeper than that. The very culture of commerce was thoroughly permeated and transformed. It... ...dependent. In some cases, pain is perceived as positive and is sought. In the Aztec cultures, being chosen to be sacrificed to the Gods was a high h... ...ocaust. Nazism posed as a rebellion against the "old ways" - against the hegemonic culture, the upper classes, the established religions, the super... ...ing tale of survival recounted in the book and eponymous film, "Alive"). 2. The Egyptian Scenario Resources become so scarce that family units...

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