De La Soul

of the poem, “beautiful, also, are the souls of my people” (line 6). Now the narrator is ending it with something big, something that goes into deeper feelings and gives the poem more meaning. He ends it with the soul of his people which is not something they can visually see because it is in the interior of a person. Even though the narrator can not see the “soul” (line 6) of his people, he sees it as something more then “stars” (line 3). He compares the “soul” (line 6) to the “sun” (line 5)…

being personal, and showing the urgent need of evangelism to lost souls. God desires all Christians to scatter the seed of the gospel. Yet he provides encouragement in doing so. He recalls that the seed that feel on the good soil yielded 100 fold. While the one doing is often criticized, in God 's eyes he is better than the one not doing. The author mentions that Babe Ruth struck out 1330 times. So how can Christians better win souls for Christ? Over the next several chapters, Stewart…

Pastor Jim didn’t seem very enthusiastic about it. He told him, there is no mention in the Bible about orbs of light. The Pastor reminded him of what it says in, 2nd. Corinthians 11:14. “And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.” At home alone, he decided to get to the bottom of it. At his own request, his doctor arranged for him to see a psychiatrist. The doctor suggested to him. “Since you suffer from P.T.S.D., you could be reliving flares.” It was a reasonable…

tes own theory of the Soul? Socrates own theory of the soul is his explanation of our true self. Our soul is essentially what separates us from animals, as we have will, consciousness, and emotions. Socrates believed our souls were immortal, that once death arrived, our body and soul would separate. When our body dies, our soul dies along with it. The body is the prison of the soul. The nature of our soul is determined by the quality of life we choose to have, as it should be good and…

Materialism is a term that refer to all substances that physically exist and occupy space in the universe. An ordinary matter where the term materialism is derived from is an object that is composed of atoms and having a mass. Materialism in philosophical terms is completely different than materialism used in cultural terms. Cultural materialism is a doctrine that material success and progress are the highest values in life. At its simpler level, materialism involves the focus on the idea of the…

Unjustly can be letting a poor baby suffer. The magical question that scholars argue is this: Is a fetus a person? According to Muslim scholars, there are three different stages that are contemplated when the fetus is actually given a soul becoming a human being9. If the baby is not yet born or fully developed, is it still considered murder? Can you kill someone who is not alive? Of course, all of these questions have left the issue unsolved. Overall, Muslims who support abortion have…

and her group create in the ice. The hole defines the gateway to the underworld, a place in where souls go after they die. Mysterious voices come from underneath the ice calling out to Luba, sparking her curiosity of finding out what goes on under the ice and the source of the voices she hears murmuring. She then encounters the source of the voices coming from the ice; they began to comfort her soul as she seeks for happiness. In the end, she comes to the decision to…

appearance and private essence” (Deresiewicz 3). The soul needs friends so it can express its feelings but the soul also needs to be alone. People need to have a balance of socialization and solitude. Socializing helps the soul to share its thoughts and feelings with other people. If the soul keeps depressing emotions or thoughts bottled up inside it will eventually explode causing destruction to itself and others around them. Solitude helps the soul discover who its true self is by being…

of his claims of God entering our soul at birth, but eventually those views changed. His insight brought about a very harmonious way of separating outside distractions to create this union with God. According to Eckhart, the essence of the soul, God, is the “intellect, the memory, and the will’ (Baird 467). This essence enters our soul at birth and through meditation we entice God to bring about this realization. Therefore, I believe his revelation about our soul and God being the source, and…

In Rep. IV at 436b-c, Socrates puts forth the the principle of division. This principle provides a means to rationally and plausibly divide the soul into parts. Socrates states that the “same thing will not be willing to do or undergo opposites in the same part of itself, in relation to the same thing, at the same time” (436b). What this means is that a single body can not have opposite processes that occur simultaneously. For example, Socrates provides the example of someone who is standing…