Eternity

Another argument by Aquinas specifically is that if a human is considered an eternal being, which is a common belief in the Christian ideology, then an exile for eternity is permissible. Also if heaven is an eternal place and the existence of free will is what allows evil to exist as well as an omniscient omnipotent God, then there must also be arrangements made for those who choose not. That arrangement is what…

God puts a high value on religion and warns of its destruction when he sees, “what looks like a sea of glass glowing with fire and, standing beside the sea, the ones who have been victorious over the beast and its reputation over the number of its name.” (Revelation 15:2). These beasts have special demonic powers of communication for they can speak of the devil. They pawn themselves off as the Lamb, the Messiah, and as they represent the world’s ecumenical religion they eventually destroy God’s…

This class was precisely as I had suspected it to be, in that we would touch on various religions, their origins, their beliefs, and the philosophy behind these beliefs. I selected this class in the hope that I would broaden my frame of reference philosophically rather than religiously. And to be quite frank I dispensed with any curious thoughts about religious practices and their origins even before the class started. I make no claims to be an atheist or agnostic, I exist in pretty much the…

Throughout history death is considered as a common process going around the world which is unavoidable. Death is like a public event, where a person who waits for death is surrounded by loved ones. The community is greatly affected because it is losing one of its participants. Human beings have different views towards death. Some people believe death is just an everlasting sleep, some believe that there is an afterlife when a person dies. This attitude towards death is uncertain. Sometimes…

Should people live forever? Everyone jokes about living forever, but who would actually want that? Life would be a boring continuum. After a certain amount of time, nothing would matter, and would we even be capable of emotions? Life would be a curse. With this potion could we ever die? Would the only way to die be murder or suicide? It would be a curse to walk the Earth eternally. It would be a crippling burden unless someone was afraid of death. Nothing would be exciting, and you would have…

Resembling John Keats in, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Humbert Humbert, from Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, envies the past innocence and youth that transforms overtime into a relationship of disenchantment, disillusion and destruction with a child. Through textual evidence, one can see that Humbert’s desires for the past love affair with Annabel, his young counterpart who dies before their consummation, manifests into a relationship with Dolores Haze, a young girl who resembles his young past lover. Time…

”Dimidium facti qui coepit habet“ (Horace) “What we do in life echoes into eternity” (Russell Crowe) Growing up in Garden Grove, California, I am greatly influenced by the Vietnamese culture. Surrounding me included authentic Vietnamese cuisine, and different aspects of the Vietnamese community that might be scarce anywhere else compared to the region I live in. With that, the culture flows within my home as well, and such a lifestyle still remains, except for a slight difference; my parents…

Brotherhood is an eight lines long poem. In this short poem, much is expressed. It was specially dedicated to Claudius Ptolemy, a greek astrologist. At that time the astrologists believed that Earth was the center of the universe, and that the stars were the souls of the death. This poem symbolizes the hope of an after life, and the belief in destiny. It starts with the: “I am a man: little do I last” With this beginning the author is making it clear that life is not forever, and indeed…

Apathy It is claimed by some biologists that a frog can be placed in lukewarm water in a shallow open container, leaving it the option of easily jumping out, and the water can be slowly heated until the frog is cooked to death. It will not jump out to save its life because the gradual process lulls the frog into a state of deadly apathy until it’s too late. To the frog, the warm water felt good. It didn’t seem to be a threat. But as time unfolded, it brought death. In the same way, many people…

Envision timeless on Earth. Wouldn’t that be something? Wrong! Life on Earth for eternity would be worse than the Holocaust. Just think of the worst way to live, and then think of unending time on the Godly gift, Earth. Many factors cause me to believe that eternal life on Earth would be a living hell. First and foremost, if every person who set foot on Mother Earth lived without end, overpopulation would take charge in a matter of days. Just imagine, the Earth is already exceeding its limits…