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Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming!
For nothing stands alone, either in ourselves or in things; and if our soul did but once vibrate and resound with a chord of happiness, then all of eternity was necessary to bring forth this one occurrence—and in this single moment when we said yes, all of eternity was embraced, redeemed, justified and affirmed.
Existential nihilism is the philosophical theory that life has no objective meaning or purpose. [1] The inherent meaninglessness of life is largely explored in the philosophical school of existentialism, where one can potentially create their own subjective "meaning" or "purpose".
"Auguries of Innocence" is a poem by William Blake, from a notebook of his known as the Pickering Manuscript. [1] It is assumed to have been written in 1803, but was not published until 1863 in the companion volume to Alexander Gilchrist's biography of Blake.
The main debate over the interpretation of this verse is just how absolute it is. Schweizer feels that "until heaven and earth pass away" means that the Mosaic Law will only last until the end times, and will be superseded in the messianic age. He argues that the opening "for truly I say to you" is "typical of statements concerning the eschaton".
One of the earliest statements articulating the concept of creatio ex nihilo comes from a ~ 100 B.C. Jewish text, 2 Maccabees 7:28: [21] [22] "I implore you, my child, observe heaven and earth, consider all that is in them, and acknowledge that God made them out of what did not exist, and that mankind comes into being the same way". [23]
Ah, home sweet home. A house is much more than a roof with four surrounding walls. It’s about the life we live there and anyone we might share it with — including furry family members, too ...
This is a necessary result of the sympathy and tension which binds together things in heaven and earth." [ This quote needs a citation ] Chrysippus discusses the Void in his work On Void and in the first book of his Physical Sciences ; so too Apollophanes in his Physics , Apollodorus , [ 5 ] and Posidonius in his Physical Discourse , book ii."