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The Great Controversy is a book by Ellen G. White, one of the founders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and held in esteem as a prophetess or messenger of God among Seventh-day Adventist members.
Six Myths about the Good Life: Thinking about what has Value is a popular philosophical book by Joel J. Kupperman of the University of Connecticut. Its primary focus is on what has value , and which values are most worth espousing in life — a question central to what is known as the philosophy of life.
The book has nine chapters. The first chapter, Don't Try, is named after the philosophy of Charles Bukowski, who served as a major inspiration for the whole book. The chapters have the following titles: Don't Try. Happiness is a problem. You are not special. The value of suffering. You are always choosing. You are wrong about everything (But so ...
[14] In Church Life Journal Michael Shindler in turn argued against Hägglund's notion of secular faith in favor of "the absolute sensibility" of religious faith. [15] In contrast, David Chivers in The Humanist heralded This Life as "an important work that pushes forward a secular, rational, and fulfilling view of humankind's place in the world."
The chapter is a meditation on how to maintain a watchful eye on, and cherish, life's small redeemable qualities (e.g., to "pet a cat when you encounter one"). It also outlines a practical way to deal with hardship: to shorten one's temporal scope of responsibility (e.g., by focussing on the next minute rather than the next three months). [21]
David Letterman opened up about the challenges he faced while in show business and explained why he thinks his experience made him become a worse person.
Murdoch, on the other hand, disagreed with what she saw as analytic philosophy's consequent "rejection of the inner life". [9] Iris Murdoch's main influence in The Sovereignty of Good is Plato, at a time when, as her biographer Peter J. Conradi notes, to be "a Platonist in morals seemed as bizarre as declaring oneself a Jacobite in politics".
Good Girls actress Retta is still self-admittedly “salty” over the show’s 2021 cancellation — and she’s now hinting at who’s to blame for its demise. On Monday’s episode of Live With ...