Unlike most Buddhists, I'm not convinced of reincarnation, though being able to play with possible afterlife scenarios intrigues me. |
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And the ability of those programmes to create C, D and Z-list stars who have an afterlife in tabloid newspapers in turn validates them. |
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They believed in an afterlife, which was why they showed such disregard for death in battle. |
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Have yourself frozen by cryonics, a near death experience that should settle once and for all any doubts about the afterlife. |
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The only problem with this method occurs in the event that there actually is an afterlife. |
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Men fire blank charges during mock battles intended to guide the spirit of the deceased onto the path to the afterlife. |
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You will be given the chance to correct your ways and progress in the afterlife accordingly. |
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In Egypt, this sacred science of the afterlife was focused upon two things. |
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Perhaps it can be said that we idealise the afterlife because of a fear of death. |
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And there are promises of an afterlife or reincarnations that offer us hope and comfort. |
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It is the basis of his attack on transcendent metaphysics, and on all religions that postulate an afterlife. |
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At the end of the day, we all want more life and this need can be somewhat satisfied by believing in an afterlife. |
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So basically what I am saying is that it is possible that we each may get what we believe or desire in the way of an afterlife. |
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This is merely responsible social behavior and is not reliant on a belief in an afterlife or an abstract moral code. |
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I'm sure that the promise of sheer bliss in the afterlife appeased some people's fears. |
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He did not believe in the afterlife and considered death as the final phase of all souls, fools as well as the wise. |
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Each group has its own particular beliefs concerning the afterlife and death. |
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In the areas of death and the afterlife, the non-Christian belief systems of the ethnic groups are most noticeable. |
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Beliefs about death and the afterlife correspond to the doctrines of the major religions. |
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Starting from the time when the child is in the womb, these sixteen rituals end in the final journey of the body into the afterlife. |
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Sidhe never regretted doing it, even if her afterlife had not been as wonderful as she had hoped. |
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Through special prayers and offerings, the living can improve the afterworld conditions of the deceased and their chances in the afterlife. |
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Plots can contain the memorial stones and ashes of several generations, each ancestor bearing a new name bestowed by priests for the afterlife. |
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Others argue that belief in an afterlife is necessary to make us behave properly in this one. |
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Some people believe in an afterlife, or in reincarnation, or some other form of continuity of energy and spirit. |
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The catastrophic plague losses of the Black Death helped fuel an obsession with the afterlife and to popularize chantries. |
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The slain bodies of the townspeople had been given the ritual burial, cremated in the fire, their souls sent to the afterlife to live in peace. |
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The man who would conquer his contradictory feelings, would reach bliss in the afterlife. |
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The Egytpians mummified their dead because they believed a person needed a preserved body in order to survive in the afterlife. |
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In ancient Egypt, cats and dogs were mummified because they were believed to have an afterlife, and Egyptian Gods had animal heads. |
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If there is justice in the afterlife, he is getting banged around Hades like a brick in a clothes drier. |
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The mystery of the afterlife, the questions that surround the very idea of omnipotence are vivid and real within the scope of Wings of Desire. |
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The general consensus is that faith in an afterlife is a positive psychological state. |
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Finally, he investigates what he calls the instrumental functions, that is, the afterlife of the narrative or the consequences of the work. |
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The novel could be a kind of myth or fable of the afterlife for the 20th century. |
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The first impression of the exhibit is of a focus on death and the afterlife. |
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I'm not leaving you to deal with this whole afterlife thing by yourself. |
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As long as Congresses and Presidents exasperate each other, Schlesinger will have an audience, and an afterlife. |
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The religious narrative resolved our death anxiety through faith in an afterlife. |
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It also has a different, non-surrealist afterlife in photomontage, invented by the Berlin Dadaists and instrumental for the development of Soviet film. |
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Got sidetracked watching a documentary about Egyptian afterlife rituals and beliefs. |
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The Iranians are a god-fearing people and believe in an afterlife, and this is certainly true of the mullahs and ayatollahs who comprise their government. |
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The ba is also the link between life on earth and the afterlife. |
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Mark Svenvold has retraced McCurdy's life, death and eventful afterlife in a fascinating tale of the macabre under-belly of American sideshows and carnivals. |
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The widow's small thickset neighbours, gathered in the plain, seemly room, are doggedly attentive as the priest, comically, explains the afterlife to a ghost. |
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The seven objects include small funerary statuettes or shabtis, a bronze axe head, a ceramic bowl and amulets to help the dead find their way to the afterlife. |
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They are called shabti, and were figurines which were put into tombs and were believed to be invested with magical powers to do work for the deceased in the afterlife. |
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But Shintoism's kamikaze pilots were not motivated by afterlife rewards. |
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There are also a lot of rousing singalongs devoted to Gough's belief in the transcendental power of love, balanced by lyrical dramas bleakly pondering death and the afterlife. |
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I am an atheist in life and I won't choose to have my memory blemished by anyone taking the freedom to meddle with my choices in life, neither with my memory afterlife. |
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Somewhere in the afterlife, Laurence Sterne must have been tickled to see his fiendish book infused with new life. |
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Families can visit entire sculpture gardens featuring vivid depictions of what sinners face in the afterlife. |
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There was the hope of an afterlife and there were sacrificial rituals. |
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They dug up thousands of plates, brooches, hairpins and pendants, carefully placed for the afterlife with the bodies of wealthy rulers entombed in royal burial chambers. |
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Beliefs concerning the afterlife depend on the religion of the individual. |
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Needless to say he came of worse and, in fact, nobody else was injured apart from the hapless chap who was quickly dispatched to the afterlife in a hail of well-aimed bullets. |
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In interviews with the Italian press, she said she would remain single, return to America and enter a convent, hoping to be reunited with him in the afterlife. |
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Depending on what aspects of the evidence you choose to stress or underplay, it's not that hard to conclude that belief or disbelief in afterlife is warranted. |
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Having just died, Andy's not pleased to find himself in the ancient Egyptian afterlife, where the goddess Bastet wants a word with him. |
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The roads men choose in the beforelife lead to infinite joy or infinite misery in the afterlife. |
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Burial sites included weapons, carts, and both elite and household goods, evoking a strong continuity with an afterlife. |
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The humanists believed that it is important to transcend to the afterlife with a perfect mind and body, which could be attained with education. |
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The items buried with the dead give some indication as to what was considered important to possess in the afterlife. |
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Belief in the afterlife varies among Wiccans, and does not occupy a central place within the religion. |
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Some practitioners do not emphasize belief in an afterlife, instead stressing the importance of behaviour and reputation in this world. |
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In Icelandic Heathenry, there is no singular dogmatic belief about the afterlife. |
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It also conveys images of lost love and silent grief, for young girls were led into the afterlife by Iris. |
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Each side of the obelisk is inscribed with biblical passages in relation to the afterlife. |
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Some scholars speculate that this may have marked a fundamental shift in people's beliefs or myths about life and the afterlife. |
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These include multiple afterlife realms, several of which are controlled by a particular deity. |
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Norse religion had several fully developed ideas about death and the afterlife. |
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The Moche people frequently placed llamas and llama parts in the burials of important people, as offerings or provisions for the afterlife. |
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He was horrified, since the Inca believed that the soul would not be able to go on to the afterlife if the body were burned. |
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One of the most important teachings concerning afterlife in Judaism is the Resurrection of the Dead. |
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Those without the work ethic clung to the theodicy of misfortune, believing wealth and happiness were granted in the afterlife. |
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Over a period of more than 2,500 years, Egyptian beliefs about the nature of the afterlife evolved constantly. |
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Belief in the soul and an afterlife remained near universal until the emergence of atheism in the 18th century. |
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It is believed that the spirits of those who cannot find peace in the afterlife or die unnatural deaths remain on Earth. |
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Like their Chinese and Western counterparts, they are thought to be spirits kept from a peaceful afterlife. |
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The point is that, however secular our culture may be, notions of an afterlife seem to be dying rather hard. |
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Was I wrong on the afterlife, as so many among the bien-pensant brayed for me to admit that I was wrong on Iraq? |
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The notion of still playing a vital role and feeling very much alive in the afterlife is a thought-provoking concept sure to inspire much discussion. |
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Agave, dying, has an inflorescent afterlife and then decomposes. |
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This echoes the growing interest in the afterlife in Maccabean times. |
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The Isle of Apples was hardly religious doctrine for Lewis the antitheist, but it was the appropriate imagery to use for a hoped-for afterlife for an Irishman. |
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Predestination also reduced agonising over economic inequality and further, it meant that a material wealth could be taken as a sign of salvation in the afterlife. |
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Avoiding reprehensible acts and performing recommended acts is held to be subject of reward in the afterlife, while allowed actions entail no judgement from God. |
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It deals with various science fiction elements such as spontaneous generation, futurology, the end of the world and doomsday, resurrection, and the afterlife. |
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Preceding the miraculous events linked with afterlife is the Advent of the Messiah, also independently listed among Maimonides' Thirteen as a tenet of faith. |
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The site has a large number of Mesoamerican ball game courts, one with details reliefs showing the beheading of a ballplayer and his role in the afterlife. |
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Funerary practices included providing the deceased with everything they might need in the afterlife, including animals, servants, entertainers, hunters, homes, and officials. |
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The Chinese believed Tao and the afterlife was a reality parallel to the living world, complete with its own bureaucracy and afterlife currency needed by dead ancestors. |
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Many societies follow traditional funeral rites and practices. In China, this may involve burning paper money or possessions for the deceased to use in the afterlife. |
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Heathen ethical systems place great emphasis on honor, personal integrity, and loyalty, while beliefs about an afterlife are varied and rarely emphasized. |
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Although not accepted by all Wiccans, a belief in reincarnation is the dominant afterlife belief within Wicca, having been originally espoused by Gardner. |
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