Reality
.... etc. are known to cause hallucinations. but again,
i ask, how can we know for sure. i believe that question is a rhetorical
one, the obvious answer is that we dont know. it could be that these drugs
are a doorway into, not out of, reality.
These thoughts are not pleasant ones, at least as far as im
concerned. to think that this all, what i know(or better yet, think i know)
might be a grand illusion, scares the crap out of me. to wonder, just to
wonder, is enough.
I think our sense give us a false feeling of security. because i
can see, feel, hear, smell, and taste it, it must be there. right? well,
maybe not. to .....
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Egalitarian Language
.... in the world but even just in large cities. The only way to
enforce a law of this kind would be to have microphones in every room of
every building and on every street corner that would detect if an illegal
word was said and issue a ticket of some form, as in the movie Demolition
Man. Ironically, if this was to happen, we still would not be living in an
egalitarian society because our government would not consider us equal
enough to be responsible for our own language. If this kind of system were
to be installed I believe that it would cause an overthrow of the
government and lead to an anarchist society. People are not going to .....
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Professional Sports: The Hidden Greed
.... argue that most players work
hard to become great athletes and therefore they deserve enormous salaries.
They also plead that lockouts are healthy for professional sports because
they help each sport continually evolve and adapt to new problems it faces.
While the opposition does not notice the greed problems greed causes,
others do.
Greed is obvious in today's sports world. Plain and simple, the
salaries of sports figures these days are too high. In the NBA, Michael
Jordan makes over $13 million dollars per year for the Chicago Bulls
(Verducci 46). That means he earns more than 62 times that of the
president of the U .....
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The Running Of The Bulls
.... the race begins, chaos is formed. People are up and about
as early as 6:30, trying to find that perfect seat for the viewing of the
bull run. The race starts at exactly 8:00 am every morning during the
annual festivals that are celebrated from the 7th - 14th of July. All of
the spectators must stay behind a double-fencing along the route. One of
the most practical reasons for this is, that the runners have the space to
jump over the fence should they need to. The bulls are let loose from the
Rochapea Rampart, a structure that forms a part the ancient Pamplona
fortress walls, onto Santo Domingo street. This stretch, which i .....
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Model Rockets
.... cone forms the top of
a model rocket. It has a rounded point to reduce air resistance. The
recovery device which consists of a parachute. The parachute is used to
return the rocket safely back to the ground. The launch system consists of
a launch pad and an engine ignition system. A typical launch pad is made up
of a three-legged base and a deflector. The ignition system includes the
launch controller pad and a battery.(Rocket,Model World Book Encyclopedia
1992)
Aerodynamics play a big part in the fight of model rockets or
regular rockets. Aerodynamics is a branch of fluid mechanics that deals
with motion of air and other gaseous .....
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Halloween
.... food and drink. This practice became known as "mumming". So to this
day, witches, ghosts and skeleton figures of the dead are among the
favorite costumes for Halloween.
The practice of carving pumpkins probably comes from Irish folklore.
A man named Jack, a notorious drunkard and trickster, had a trick gone awry
with the devil. So when he died he was denied access to Hell because he
had tricked the devil. Instead the devil gave him a single ember inside a
hollowed-out turnip to light his way through the cold darkness. Originally,
the Irish people used turnips as their "Jack's lanterns". But when the
immigrants came to Am .....
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El Dia De Muerto
.... but there is a slight difference. The rural and poor
classes have very elaborate altars and offerings while the urban middle to
upper class might have a simple offering or mocking attitude toward the
tradition. Some simple offering may include a flower arrangement of
"cempazuchitl", the Nabfuafi language name for marigolds, and candles as
well. Some elaborate offerings include: a pie made off corn with various
fillings, plates of tamales, beverages which are usually the favorite of
the deceased including chocolate, an assortment of flowers, candles, bowls
of local fruits such as chayotes, limes, and avacados, and "pan de m .....
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Scandinavian Mythology
.... thaw another form was
created. This form became a cow called Audhumbla. From her teats flowed
four rivers of milk and it was upon this that Ymir was
fed. While he fed, Ymir slept, and while he slept a male and female frost
giant grew from his armpits and one leg fathered a six headed troll with
the other leg.
Audhumbla lived by licking the ice-blocks that were salty, and by
the evening of the first day there appeared a man's hair where she licked.
On the second day, a man's head appeared, and by the third day the whole
man was freed from the ice. This man was called Buri. He had a son name Bor
who married Bestla, who was t .....
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On The Jews And Their Lies
.... them how they interpret or understand
Scripture; I know all of that very well already. Much less do I propose to
convert the Jews, for that is impossible. Those two excellent men, Lyra and
Burgensis, together with others, truthfully described the Jews' vile
interpretation for us two hundred and one hundred years ago respectively.
Indeed they refuted it thoroughly. However, this was no help at all to the
Jews, and they have grown steadily worse.
They have failed to learn any lesson from the terrible distress
that has been theirs for over fourteen hundred years in exile. Nor can they
obtain any end or definite terminus of th .....
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Freud And Dreams
.... of the dynamics of dreaming increased, so did the
impression of ceaseless mental activity differing in quality from that of
ordinary waking life (Fine, 1973). In fact, the quality of mental activity
during sleep differed so radically from what we take to be the essence of
mental functioning that Freud coined the term "Kingdom of the Illogical" to
describe that realm of the human psyche. This technique of dream-
interpretation allowed him to penetrate (Fine, 1973).
We dream every single night whether it stays with us or not. It is
a time when "our minds bring together material which is kept apart during
out waking hours" .....
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The Code Of Hammurabi
.... and vernacular. To prove these points, I also
intend to explore Hammurabi's codification of natural law, and Socrates'
interpretation of the state of legal positivism in ancient Greece.
Although misguided, the ancient Egyptians systemically subscribed
their lives to divine authority and law. This is due to their culture's
unique co-habitation of secular life and vernacular authority. The source
of authority in Egypt, pharaoh god-kings, were the embodiment of human body
and divine spirit, hence, no distinction existed between secular and human
coexistence in ancient Egypt. Because “gods” and humans both existed on
the sa .....
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Canadians, And Why They Should Be Banned From America
.... destroying the very idea of
unity within the Canadian borders.
Canadians also have a huge problem with falling in line with other
countries. They resent international harmony and that is why they must
little differences in their country, that way they can not join the rest of
the world in one total earth government. Many countries nowadays are
becoming democracies. Why? These countries realize that although the system
isn't perfect it is better than Communism or any diluted form like
Socialism, which is the current system of government in Canada. A second
small difference in Canada is the Mounties. Why can't the Canadians .....
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