Immortality

they are nothing compared to the greatness of her single “wedding day” with Death. The last two lines of “Because I could not stop for Death” show that the woman may not have fully believed in “Eternity” at first. While riding with Death and Immortality in the horse-drawn carriage, she “surmise[s]” (1.23) they are heading for perpetuity. The word surmise does not simply mean “guesses” or “wonders,” but rather “suspects”—the woman had a certain amount of doubt in an afterlife, perhaps initially…

It’s a popular opinion these days that computers and the human brain are essentially equal in terms of how they work. With the growing rate of technology, it may one day be possible for people to upload their brains into a computer, and essentially live forever. The benefits of such technology are huge. A failing or aging body is obsolete if we can become mechanical and still retain our original selves. Disease would be a thing of the past. Computers however, are not free from flaws themselves.…

the Daodejing was thought to be a hallowed book for the Daoist belief and many presume that it was Lao Tzu who wrote it. A tradition within the religion is to be at one with the Dao, which means the way, and strive for transcendence or physical immortality. At the heart of their religion, they hold qi to be the most significant term in their perspective. Qi essentially means life or energy, and shares aspects of spirituality along with physicality. Daoism is not exclusive like other religions…

In the “Second Night” of Perry’s dialogue, Sam Miller takes another, more confident attempt in proving to his friend Gretchen Weirob that there’s even the slightest possibility of life after death. Sam begins by revaluating his idea of personal identity, and how it exists without bodily identity, meaning both are different. Sam then refines the Blue River analogy. He explains that one may see the river from two different areas, with different levels of pollution and hundreds of miles apart, yet…

The Ding is a ritual vessel that was created in the Shang Dynasty and there are two shapes of the Ding which are round and rectangular. The round Ding has three legs while the rectangular one has four. The Ding also has a lid and two handles. The Ding was used for food or wine and it has the Taotie image on it and The Ding is associated with the power to rule. The sacrifice made in the Ding was both human and animal. The sacrifice was made to the ancestors and the gods because the Shang people…

a man named Gilgamesh. When Gilgamesh’s best friend, Enkidu, dies he goes to search for immortality in fear of his own death. Through his journey he meets Siduri, the cup bearer. In Gilgamesh’s case his competition was beating mortality. On his quest to mortality he begun taking less care of himself, so much that when he encountered the cup bearer she noticed. Siduri said to Gilgamesh that the immortality he seeks cannot be found (Leonard, 13). She counsels him and advises him to be happy,…

writes “Because I could not stop for Death / He kindly stopped for me- / The Carriage held but just Ourselves- / And Immortality.” (Lines 1-4) In this passage, Dickinson uses two forms of figurative language; personification and irony. She ironically portrays Death as a gentleman by giving him human characteristics and allowing him to “stop” his carriage for both her and Immortality. In addition, in her poem “Much Madness is Divinest Sense,” she writes “Much Madness is divinest Sense- / Much…

According to Lucretius in On the Nature of Things, a “lovers’ passion is storm-tossed” (Lucretius 50). He views love as a sort of frenzy which engulfs the lovers in madness. It disrupts the lives of individuals as “their days are passed at the mercy of another’s whim” (Lucretius 51). They begin to “die from hunger and general idleness, because they would not do anything apart from each other” (The Speech of Aristophanes, 191a-b). They lose sight of their duties and strength, and instead focus on…

inevitable Lord Krishna as per the wishes of Arjuna became his charioteer and as requested by Duryodhana He gave His entire army to Duryodhana for the battle at Kurukshetra. It is at the battle field at Kurukshetra the great Divine Song namely Bhagavad Geetha emerged from Him. After spending one hundred and twenty years on earth in human form Lord Krishna felt that it was time for him to leave the earth as his mission for which he took birth in this world in human form that is, to destroy the…

“I celebrate myself.” Walt Whitman’s introduction into Song of Myself sets a distinctive tone for his writing. Whitman’s influenced American in many ways and the driving forces of this influence are disguised within the complexities of his writing. Whitman’s desire was for humans and specifically Americans to be in harmony with the universe, with themselves as individuals, and with each other as a nation and he used his writing to encourage this belief between fellow man. Encompassed in the…