All Souls' Day

your ambitions and dreams. So basically being grown up is about how you deal with situations in a mature way. Growing up is not an easy process we must all go through in life. Everyone grows mentally and physically at their own individual rates and the process between being child and being an adult, there are certain behavior and attitudes that all mature adult acquire. Attaining these behavior and characteristic can only be done through life experience and learning from mistakes. The process of…

until you dry up like an old piece of leather. But I won’t stop there. I’ll have a reaper escort your soul straight to Lulerain where you will suffer for all eternity.” The demon had a smug look on his face. “You can’t touch me unless you’ve proof I committed a crime. Treaty rules say so.” He referred to the Thalox treaty that had been drawn up long ago, protecting demons from malicious slaughter. Seemed the world needed a balance of good and evil. Eli snarled. “I make my own rules, and they…

“Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. You may not win every battle. However, everyone will at least know what you stood for-YOU.” In The “Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot” by Robert Olen Butler, the jealous husband “dies” because of his cowardly actions he chose to deal with while his wife was cheating on him. Instead of standing up for himself and confronting his wife,…

When mowing the grass, it is very easy to miss the toad that might be hiding among the blades of grass. Does it matter if this single toad dies at the blades of the mower? “The Death of the Toad” tells the tale of this final day in the life of this toad. The toad is clipped and eventually dies from the blow but that only creates the questions of what is meaningless and what is meaningful. Does this amphibian’s life matter or does death have the final say? Also, why is the toad in a manmade…

Walt Whitman and Pablo Neruda were both authors of great transcendental and humanist works that emphasized both the beauty and ugliness of the human spirit and nature (plato.stanford.edu). Neruda’s work was inspired by Whitman’s ideas and Neruda is able to transform Whitman’s ideas about nature and humanity through looking at the subjects and their destruction. Although, indicated by his optimistic tone, Whitman saw more beauty in life than Neruda could-they demonstrate through their imagery and…

In Aristotle’s view, everything in this world can be categorized. Living beings include plants and animal. The plant has nutritive soul and the animal process both nutritive soul and perceptive soul. If we discuss animal further, we can divide animal into rational animal, which is human, and non-rational animal. The essential feature of “being an animal” is perception. From the Aristotle Introductory Reading: “413b2: What makes something an animal is primarily perception.” Perception is…

to God Confessions. Prior to his days of devout piety, St. Augustine had subscribed to the faith of the Manichees, preventing him from viewing God as an immaterial force. Although Augustine uses strict rationalism to come to his Christian beliefs, he establishes a few qualities of God to explore one of the strongest influencing factors of his faith: the inability to qualitatively…

Phaedo describes the moments before Socrates’ death to Echecrates; telling him about Socrates’ thoughts on the immortality of the personal soul. Phaedo ends by Socrates drinking poison and saying his final words to his dear friend Crito. Socrates teaches much about the nature of the personal soul, virtue, learning, and knowledge, however the Phaedo suggests these doctrines are intending to not be Socrates’ legacy. These suggestions are Socrates’ words to Cebes, his advice to his friends, and his…

similar in a dualistic philosophy “body and soul are temporary companions with different purposes and fates.” (Kastenbaum, 2012, p. 426) The belief in the soul’s destination after death is the catalyst of disputes among different religions. The similarity in each of these religions is the belief in a soul. Early Christianity dictates a belief in life after death. Dependent on how one led their life would be the judgment of whether the destination of the soul would be that of heaven, hell or…

fallen on deaf ears. We have been utterly ignored. To the end we suffocated and released all our emotions to the deaf ears in vain. Our innocence has ruined the nature of this loneliness. The lonely shadow has turned into something else, unfamiliar to the innocent cries of the souls and are now trying to turn us into one which we do not want anymore. We have seen the horrors of the tears of darkness, hell and by all means will not be pulled by them anymore. We deny being pulled, or…