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The poetic style of the Heavenly Question is markedly different from the other sections of the Chuci collection, with the exception of the "Nine Songs" ("Jiuge"). The poetic form of the Heavenly Questions is the four-character line, more similar to the Shijing than to the predominantly variable lines generally typical of the Chuci pieces, the vocabulary also differs from most of the rest of ...
A game of "Questions and Commands" depicted by James Gillray, 1788. The game has existed for hundreds of years, with at least one variant, "questions and commands", being attested as early as 1712: A Christmas game, in which the commander bids their subjects to answer a question which is asked. If the subject refuses or fails to satisfy the ...
He says that if one wants to make room for animal immortality, although the scriptures are silent, then "a heaven for mosquitoes and a hell for men could very conveniently be combined". He goes on though to say that the objection of scripture’s silence would be fatal only if Christian revelation intended to be a system to answer all questions.
In Luke's Gospel, the parallel text has God giving the Holy Spirit to those who ask, [4] but David Hill suggests that Matthew's wording is likely to have been closer to the original. [5] The reference to good things might be linked to the idea that God will only give good gifts, that if you ask for something that will end up harming you God ...
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A former bishop refuses, having grown so used to framing his faith in abstract, pseudo-intellectual terms that he can no longer definitively say whether he believes in God; an artist refuses, arguing that he must preserve the reputation of his school of painting; a bitter cynic predicts that Heaven is a trick; a bully ("Big Man") is offended ...
After being diagnosed with a painful degenerative disease, a 5-year-old girl made the decision to "go to heaven" instead of the hospital.It started when Julianna Snow was 9 months old.
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