Religious experiences cannot be explained empirically and tend to take place within a context of religious expectancy. Such experiences may be individual‚ in which a person becomes aware of the presence of the divine; or corporate‚ in which a gathering of people experiences feelings beyond expression – the ineffable. St Teresa of Avila described her experiences as: “God established himself in the interior of this soul in such a way‚ that when I return to myself‚ it is wholly impossible for me to
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And so he bathed in the blood of the lepers. Why would anyone want to bathe in the blood of a leper? They’re infected people. Rejected. Shunned. Unwanted. Useless. Or is that how society chooses to view them? Good morning fellow classmates. What is a leper anyway? In the past‚ it was simply a disease. When you caught this disease you were isolated. Taken out of society‚ never to return again. Your life would never be the same again. As time passed this disease obviously died out. Nowadays
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"Finny". They had a friend named Leper and they also knew a boy named Brinker. Leper and Brinker’s thoughts and actions affected Gene’s relationship with Finny by influencing jealousy‚ friendship‚ and warfare. In chapters 4 and 5 Leper affects Gene by making Gene believe Finny is better than him at everything. This causes Gene to become angry and he has mixed feelings about Finny throughout these chapters. It was Gene’s fault Finny had fallen out of the tree. Leper made Gene think about everything
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experience God‚ therefore God probably exists. * A) If an entity is experienced‚ it must exist b) God can be experienced or encountered directly c) people claim to experienced and encountered God directly d) therefore God exists * Richard Swinburne (wrote Is there a God? in 1996) says that it is reasonable that God would seek to interact with his creatures and he gives us a list of examples‚ such as God telling us individually to provide us with a vocation or to authenticate a revelation which
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religious experience together‚ then they are more convincing than one argument alone. If all the testimonies to religious experiences are taken into account‚ then this would certainly add weight to religious experience as proof of the existence of God. Swinburne concludes his work with the cumulative argument and believes that when the arguments are considered in isolation of the others they don’t prove God‚ but put together‚ they make an overwhelming argument which cannot be denied in the grand scales of
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Research has shown that the trauma in war caused many World War II victims to suffer from irreversible mental instability. Likewise‚ in the novel A Separate peace‚ John Knowles explores the issue of perception versus reality through the character Leper Lepellier entering into the war and Gene Forrester through the war inside himself. The physical effects caused by Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder are lasting and a direct result from trauma endured by a person. They are just as harmful and destructive
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Interview Transcript Interview conducted with : Muhamad Redhuan Bin ABD Rashid (R) Group : 8 Interview conducted by : Wong Boon Kher (BK) Date : 4 October 2013 Venue : G403 Time : 2:00 – 2:20 p.m. Duration : 20 minutes Interview Transcript BK : Good afternoon‚ Redhuan. Sorry for consuming your little time for this small interview. R : Good afternoon‚ It’s my pleasure by the way I’m free now. BK : Redhuan‚ I hope this would help me know more about you.
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an entity is experienced‚ it means that it must exist. It implies that God is the sort of being that is possible to be experienced and that people can claim to have experienced God directly. One may conclude from this that God exists. Richard Swinburne suggested that there are two different types of religious experience: Public and Private. An ordinary experience comes under public and is an experience where a person interprets a natural event as having a religious significance (for example the
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poverty before they took their trip. At the end of the movie‚ I think Alberto and Ernesto became more humble and more grateful for what they had. After Ernesto and Alberto visited the leper colony‚ the men realized how much their volunteer work meant to the lepers. Their small amount of work at the San Pablo leper colony had a huge impact on both the patients and the two men. Their volunteer work assured and showed the patients that they aren’t outcasts from everyone else. Ernesto and Alberto’s trip
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best friends. The other two kids in their group‚ Leper and Brinker are also facing many problems from the war. The story is a flashback with Gene narrating it‚ and is talking about his highschool years at the Devon School. The major thing it emphasizes is how the war completely changes the boys at Devon. Gene‚ Finny‚ and Leper pick up new characteristics as a result‚ that impact their lives. There are also problems like Finny breaking his leg and Leper becoming psychotic. These issues are mostly negative
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