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"Scrooge was better than his word.  He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father.  He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world.  Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded them; for he was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have the malady in less attractive forms.  His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.

He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge.  May that be truly said of us, and all of us!  And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God Bless Us, Every One!" - pg 275

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“He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of homes, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed of any walk, that anything, could give him so much happiness." - pg 273

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A Christmas Carol - After Seeing the Ghosts

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A Christmas Carol - After Seeing the Ghosts

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"I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!" - pg 270

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A Christmas Carol - Ghost of Christmas Future

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A Christmas Carol - Ghost of Christmas Future

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People don't care that he died because he was a selfish and cheap man.

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A Christmas Carol - Ghost of Christmas Present

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A Christmas Carol - Ghost of Christmas Present

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"'Spirit,' said Scrooge, with an interest he had never felt before, 'tell me if Tiny Tim will live.'

'I see a vacant swat,' replied the Ghost, 'in the poor chimney corner, and a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved. If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die.'
'No, no,' said Scrooge. 'Oh no, kind Spirit! say he will be spared.'
'If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, none other of my race,' returned the Ghost, 'will find him here. What then? If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.'
Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief.
'Man,' said the Ghost, 'if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? It may be, that in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man's child. Oh God! to hear the Insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust.'" - pg 250

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A Christmas Carol - Ghost of Christmas Past

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A Christmas Carol - Ghost of Christmas Past

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Based on what is exposed about Scrooge's past speaks volumes why he became the person he was. He had an incident that he couldn't get over.

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“I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.” - pg 225

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"If I could work my will," said Scrooge indignantly, "Every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!" - pg 217

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"The door of Scrooge's counting-house was open that he might keep his eye upon his clerk, who in a dismal little cell beyond, a sort of tank, was copying letters.  Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk's fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal.  But he couldn't replenish it, for Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room; and so surely as the clerk came in with the shovel, the master predicted that it would be necessary for them to part.  Wherefore the clerk put on his white comforter, and tried to warm himself at the candle; in which effort, not being a man of a strong imagination, he failed." - pg 216

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"Even the blind men’s dogs appeared to know him; and, when they saw him coming on, would tug their owners into doorways and up courts; and then would wag their tails as though they said, “No eye at all is better than an evil eye, dark master!" - pg 215

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A Christmas Carol - Theme of Transformation

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A Christmas Carol - Theme of Transformation

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- Scrooge's transformation is legendary. At the beginning of the story he's a greedy, selfish. He becomes a kind person who wants to give back so that he may atone for his sins and neglect of the needy in his community.
- Transformed when that girl broke his heart (made him a bitter person)
- Transformed when he sees Tint Tim suffering -- shows he has a heart (made him a better person) [had empathy with Tiny Tim] --> part of spiritualism

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A Christmas Carol - Spiritual Connections

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A Christmas Carol - Spiritual Connections

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- Reflects both the goodness of creation and the joy of heaven.
- A shift in theological emphasis in the nineteenth century from a stress on the Atonement to a stress on the Incarnation.
- Revival and increasing centrality of the keeping of Christmas itself as a Christian festival.
- Scrooge goes to church on Christmas Day, but Dickens simply states the fact and does not describe the service

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A Christmas Carol - Religious Connections

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A Christmas Carol - Religious Connections

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- Staves are used to name the Chapters -- Musical Representation
- Held together in 5 staves... A Carol is a piece of music that you sing in church and which brings people together; irrespective of social class, wealth or any other consideration.
- Marley's ghost is in Purgatory
- A Christmas Carol presents a depressing area where the ghosts are doomed to wander aimlessly, feeling unhappy, abandoned and irrelevant.
- The Three Ghosts represent the Holy Trinity -- the father, the son, and the holy spirit.

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- Christmas Past: The Son
- Christmas Present: The Father
- Christmas Future: The Holy Spirit

I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future.

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- There is no doubt that A Christmas Carol is first and foremost a story concerned with the Christian gospel of liberation by the grace of God, and with the incarnational religion which refuses to drive a wedge between the world of spirit and the world of matter.
- It is 174 years old

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Contrapasso is derived from the Latin contra and patior, which mean "suffer the opposite". Contrapasso refers to the punishment of souls in Dante's Inferno, "by a process either resembling or contrasting with the sin itself."

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- Born: 1265
- Died: 1321
- Poet, Writer, Political Thinker
- Medieval Italian poet and philosopher
- Three tiers of the Christian afterlife: Purgatory, Heaven, and Hell
- Florentine political scene
- In 1302, however, he fell out of favor and was exiled for life by the leaders of the Black Guelphs, the political faction in power at the time and who were in the league with Pope Boniface VIII. Dante may have been driven out of Florence, but this would be the beginning of his most productive period.
- True love was Beatrice... who died unexpectedly in 1290
- By 1314, however, Dante had completed the Inferno, the segment of The Divine Comedy set in hell, and in 1317 he settled at Ravenna and there completed The Divine Comedy (soon before his death in 1321)
- The Divine Comedy is an allegory of human life presented as a visionary trip through the Christian afterlife.
- Warning to a corrupt society
- The Roman poet Virgil guides Dante through hell (Inferno)... NOT DONE

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• Adharma - the opposite of dharma; includes all forms of injustice, evil, and immorality.

• Ahimsa - the sanskrit word for nonviolence.

• Akasha - the sanskrit word for the sky.

• Akshara - the equivalent of the syllable Om; a verbal equivalent of the eternal.

• Ashvattha - a holy tree, which Krishna references his depictions of the extent of divine power.

• Atman - the Self or deepest part of the soul in every being that is often concealed by illusions, deceit and delusion.

• Avatar - an avatar is a form that a God takes in order to come to Earth. Since Gods do not come to Earth in their most powerful, divine forms, they take the shape of animals, humans, or other recognizable earthly creatures.

• Bhagavad Gita -The Gita literally means 'Song of our Lord' and recounts the conversation between Arjuna and Krishna before Arjuna goes to fight the Kaurvas for the kingdom of Hastinapura.

• Bhakti - the sanskrit word for love and devotion.

• Karma - the most important concept in the gita, explaining the cycle of birth and rebirth. People have a debt of karma to work off in their lifetime, and do so either by fulfilling or avoiding their dharma. Every action has a karmic consequence and so karma either accumulates or dissolves until the cycle of birth and rebirth ends.

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• Yoga vs. Renunciation -

A number of Eastern religions preach a strict form of asceticism which involves learning to renounce action and will. Renunciation becomes a process, then, of casting off worldly possessions and obligations and proceeding on a quest for nirvana, as the Buddha did. But Hinduism, as dictated by the Gita, urges yoga instead of renunciation. Yoga is literally "skill in action," or the process of using selfless action -- action designed only to unite with the divine -- as the true process to achieving enlightenment. For we cannot help but act, says Krishna. It is our nature -- and because of that, we must learn to act in accordance with the divine, not as the result and in service to our own egos, which are nothing more than destructive illusions.

• Karma vs. Dharma -

The terms dharma and karma often get confused by introductory Hinduism students and with good reason -- they are both products of the samsaric cycle of birth and death, but they have entirely different spheres of purpose. Karma is the accumulation of debt of action in the course of a person's samsaric cycle. Every action has a reaction and over the course of a lifetime, if one is accordance with the divine, he will gradually work off his or her karma. If he is acting selfishly and for ego, then he will accumulate more karma to work off. Reborn, each person finds their "dharma" or duty in order to work off this karma. Some are born to wealthy families, others to poor ones, some to spiritual families, others to evil-doing ones. The question isn't what you are born to, but how you use your life to dissolve as much karma as possible in order to end the samsaric cycle.
• Proof vs. Faith -

One of the more subtle themes in the Gita is the contrast between faith and evidence -- and humanity's inclination to want to "see" something in order to believe it. Indeed, one of the central tenants of Buddhism is that we must believe what we see -- and spend our lives trying to see as clearly as possible. But Arjuna keeps asking for evidence, or practicalities of how to achieve yoga and meditation, and Krishna finally offers him the sight of him in his most powerful form. Why Krishna doesn't demand total faith is an interesting tension in the Gita, and one that requires careful attention.

• Theory vs. Action -
Arjuna is constantly asking Krishna for pragmatic advice of how to put the Gita into concrete action. This emphasis on action is at the core of the entire work. What Krishna gives Arjuna, then, are clear steps and hierarchies for achieving the path of yoga. First off, he says meditation is the most important element, for meditation allows a focus on the divine that will inform every aspect of one's life. Second, there is selfless service, and finally, though not as powerful, one can also turn to blind renunciation. Krishna sees an enlightenment as a process that requires self-control and self-discipline in a series of concrete steps.

• Seen vs. Unseen -

Krishna makes the distinction between the seen world and the unseen world -- both products of his divine lila, or play. The unseen world is the purusha, of which all things are born. It is the spiritually unseen realm that informs everything that comes of prakriti, the material world. As humans, we have a tendency to put a primacy only on what we see instead of believing in a higher realm. Krishna wants Arjuna to have faith in the unseen as the guide of all his actions.

• Jinana vs. Vijanana -

Jinana is knowledge - and Krishna preaches knowledge as the first step towards true nirvana. The self-awareness that comes with understanding the role of the divine in everything we do will help guide a person towards yoga. But this is not enough. Krishna also encourages vijanana, or the act of using jinana in life, as the key to finding spiritual peace. Vijnana is simply yogic action -- or being able to maintain self-awareness at every moment in life -- even at the moment of death.

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• Ashvatthama - Ashvatthama is also mentioned in passing in the Gita, and should be noted only as a great archer and warrior, who is Drona's son

• Bhisma - Bhisma fights against Arjuna, as one of the elders of the opposing Kaurava family. Arjuna and Sanjaya make it a point to extol Bhisma's courage and will

• Brahma - Brahma is one of the most revered Hindu deities, and is also known as the Creator. Brahma shouldn't be confused with Brahman, which is a concept, as opposed to a manifested deity.
• Buddha - Krishna makes reference to the Buddha, or Siddhartha Gautama Shakyamuni, who renounced all material possessions and his worldly life to seek enlightenment. He found nirvana in the course of his journey during the sixth century B.C.

• Dhritarashtra - Dhritarashtra is the king of the Kurus. Blind since birth, he serves as the king of Hastinapura, but is not the rightful ruler. The Gita begins with Dritarashtra aiming to keep the kingdom in the hands of his family, and willing to battle against Arjuna, the rightful heir, in order to keep it. Dhritarashtra's sons are the Kauravas, who fight against Arjuna and his Pandava brothers

• Drona - Drona is the general of the Kaurava army who fights against Arjuna and his Pandava brothers

• Duryodhana - Duryodhana is the son of Dhriharashtra, who tries to bequeath him a kingdom which isn't rightfully his. Duryodhana, then, is the antagonist of the upcoming battle documented in the Gita, and Arjuna's chief enemy in battle.

• Gandiva - Arjuna's bow, gifted from the deities, is called gandiva

• Garuda - Garuda is the eagle which serves as the deity Vishnu's form of transport

• Indra - Indra is mentioned in the Gita as the god of battle
• Duryodhana - Duryodhana is the son of Dhriharashtra, who tries to bequeath him a kingdom which isn't rightfully his. Duryodhana, then, is the antagonist of the upcoming battle documented in the Gita, and Arjuna's chief enemy in battle.

• Gandiva - Arjuna's bow, gifted from the deities, is called gandiva

• Garuda - Garuda is the eagle which serves as the deity Vishnu's form of transport

• Indra - Indra is mentioned in the Gita as the god of battle.

• Janaka - Janaka is referenced by Krishna as a king in ancient times who was wise, ruled effectively, and found a saatvic way of presiding over his people.

• Kauravas - The Kauravas are the sons of Kuru, or rather the sons of Dhritarashtra. Duryodhana and his brothers are the Kauravas and they fight against Arjuna and the Pandavas.

• Krishna - Krishna is technically an incarnation of Vishnu, and is the main character of the Gita. Here in battle, he serves as Arjuna's charioteer, and comes to earth precisely to help Arjuna see his dharmic duty. In the Gita, Krishna asserts full ominpotence as the ultimate deity, and reveals both his human and most divine form. Krishna's name literally means 'The Dark Lord.'

• Madhava - Madhava is another name for Krishna.

• Manu - Manu is known as the father of the human race, or the "first man" of mankind.

• Pandavas - The sons of "Pandu" are the Pandavas, and include Arjuna and his brothers Bhima, Nakula, Sahadeva, and Yudhishthira. Arjuna and the Pandavas have to fight the Kauravas for the kingdom of Hastinapura because the Pandavas have the rightful claim to it. The Pandavas are considered the forces of good in this battle, while the Kauravas are considered the forces of evil.

• Pritha - Pritha is mentioned in passing as Arjuna's mother.

• Rama - Rama was the son of Dasharatha and the king of Ayodha. He is famous for being the titular hero of the Ramayana, who slayed the demon Ravana to rescue his wife Sita. Rama, like Krishna, is an incarnation of Vishnu.

• Sanjaya - Sanjaya is the wise sage who recounts the Gita epic to the blind king Dritarashtra, who cannot witness what is happening on the battlefield.

• Shiva -Shiva completes the "Trinity" of deities with Brahma and Vishnu -- and is also known as the Destroyer.

• Vishnu - Vishnu is the Preserver, responsible for maintaining the cycle of dharma and karma in the world -- and thus comes to the earth in various incarnations, including Krishna, to right the balance of good and evil.

• Yudhishthira - Arjuna's brother, and the rightful heir to the kingdom.

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- Know the reality of the world in which you live. Know it to be impermanent, unreal and the source of your suffering and delusion.
- Know the Reality about yourself, who you are and what you are really. Know that you are neither your body nor your mind, but the true self that can neither be slain nor hurt. It is eternal, divine and transcendental.
- Know that the senses are responsible for your desires, attachment and the instability of your mind and that by restraining your senses you can achieve the stability of you mind and become impervious to the pairs of opposites, such as pain and pleasure, which is the key to self-realization.
- Cultivate buddhi or your discriminating intelligence to discern true knowledge, and practice wisdom so that you will know the difference between truth and untruth, reality and illusion, your false self and true self, the divine qualities and demonic qualities, knowledge and ignorance and how true knowledge illuminates and liberates while ignorance veils your wisdom and holds you in bondage.
- Know the true nature of action and inaction and how actions bind you to the world and cause you suffering. Know that it is not actions but the desires and the attachment behind your actions which are responsible for your karma. Know the truth about the doer-ship and who the real doer is. Do not seek to escape from your responsibility because not doing your obligatory duties is also bad karma. To neutralize your karma, perform your actions without desires, without attachment and without seeking the fruit of your actions, as a sacrificial offering to God, accepting Him as the True Doer and yourself as a mere instrument. Know that the true renunciation of your desires and the fruit of your actions.
- Know the Supreme-Self to be the all-pervading and all-knowing Creator of all. Accept Him to be the cause of everything and the real Doer in your life. Surrender yourself to Him completely and offer Him everything that you have.
- Cultivate the quality of sattva or purity so that you can experience true love for God and know the true meaning of devotion, surrender and sacrifice. Restraining your mind and senses, focusing your mind on the thoughts of God, and surrendering yourself to Him completely. Make your life and actions as true offerings to Him, acknowledging His role in all your affairs and expressing your gratitude. If you persist in your practice, you will begin to experience total devotion to God and His unconditional love. He will take full responsibility for your life and manage your affairs for you.

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- Bhagavad Gita means "Song of the Spirit," the divine communion of truth realization between man and his Creator, the teachings of Spirit through the soul, that should be sung unceasingly.... The underling essential truths of all great world scriptures can find common amity in the infinite wisdom of the Gita's mere 700 concise verses.
- The words of Lord Krishna to Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita are at once a profound scripture on the science of yoga, union with God, and a textbook for everyday living. The student is led step by step with Arjuna from the mortal consciousness of spiritual doubt and weakheartedness to divine attunement and inner resolve.

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Matthew - Assignment Ch.6 (Giving to the Needy)

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Matthew - Assignment Ch.6 (Giving to the Needy)

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- "'But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is dong.'"
- Matthew 6:3
- "'Pray then in this way:
Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come.
Your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And do not bring us to the time of trial,
but rescue us from the evil one.'" - Matthew 6:9-13
- Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal; but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.'" - Matthew 6:19-21
- "'So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today's trouble is enough for today.'"  - Matthew 6:34

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- The New Testament
- Matthew wrote his account of Jesus's ministry to show that Jesus was and is indeed the King, Israel's long-awaited Messiah.
- In Matthew, Christ is revealed as Israel's King and Messiah, but His coming to earth as God in the flesh reminds us of His deep love for us

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- New Testament was completed by A.D. 100.
- Mark is believed to be the first gospel written around A.D. 60.
- Matthew and Luke follow and are written between A.D. 60-70.
- John is the final gospel, written between A.D. 90-100
- The first three Gospels prophesied the fall of the Jerusalem Temple which occurred in A.D. 70
- First three Gospels predict this major event but do not record it happening.
- New Testament far surpasses any other work of its time.
- There is a period during which the gospel accounts were committed to memory by the disciples and transmitted orally.
- Jewish culture was a culture of memory.
- Christ's power over creation is supremely revealed in the resurrection. Resurrection is one of the best attested to events in history.

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"Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit " - Matthew 28:19

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"Then Jesus came to them and said, 'All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.'" - Matthew 28:18

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"'Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.'" - Matthew 11:28

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"'What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light; and what you hear whispered, proclaim from the housetops. Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.'"
- Matthew 10:27-28

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"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you." - Matthew 7:7

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"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them." - Matthew 5:17

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"This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit." - Matthew 1:18

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Shows how much history is in the Bible. Ruth had a child Jesse who also had a child. This child ended up being King David, who slayed Goliath.

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1) God is concerned about all people regardless of race, nationality, or status.
2) Men and women are both equally important to God. HAVE FAITH
3) There is no such thing as an unimportant person in God's eyes.
4) God uses "little" things to accomplish great plans.
5) God has a Redeemer in place who can rescue us from the devastation of our own sin. Redemption is Possible.

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Naomi was married to a man named Elimelech. They had two sons, Mahlon and Chilion. The family fled Bethlehem when the famine hit and found refuge in Moab. It was in Moab that Mahlon and Chilion married Ruth and Orpah. Unfortunately, Elimelech, Mahlon, and Chilion all died, leaving their wives widowed and motherless. After their deaths, Naomi decided to return to Bethlehem, which caused Ruth and Orpah to want to follow. Naomi refused, Orpah stayed behind, but Ruth was stubborn so Naomi allowed her to join the journey back to Bethlehem. While Ruth was gleaning for barley, she met the man who owned the part of land she was gleaning; his name was Boaz. Boaz insisted she glean off of his land and insisted that none of his workers would bother her. Ruth returns to Naomi with the barley and tells her what happened when Naomi realizes that Boaz is somehow related to the Elimelech. Naomi tells Ruth that the next time Ruth sees Boaz that she must lay at his feet. So she does. Later on Boaz tells her that he cannot marry her because there is someone else in the town that is more closely related to Elimelech. A deal is made that Boaz has the right to the land left after Elimelech's death as well as Ruth to whom he later marries. They then have a child Obed Jesse who goes on to have a son that becomes King David. The King David that slays Goliath.

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“So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife. And he went in to her, and the Lord gave her conception, and she bore a son. Then the women said to Naomi, 'Blessed be the Lord, who has not left you this day without a redeemer, and may his name be renowned in Israel!'”
- Ruth 4:13-14

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“And when she came to her mother-in-law, she said, 'How did you fare, my daughter?' Then she told her all that the man had done for her, saying, 'These six measures of barley he gave to me,' for he said to me, ‘You must not go back empty-handed to your mother-in-law.'”
- Ruth 3:16-17

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“Then Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, 'My daughter, should I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you?'”
- Ruth 3:1

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“When she rose to glean, Boaz instructed his young men, saying, 'Let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not reproach her. And also pull out some from the bundles for her and leave it for her to glean, and do not rebuke her.'”
- Ruth 2:15-16

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“Then she fell on her face, bowing to the ground, and said to him, 'Why have I found favor in your eyes, that you should take notice of me, since I am a foreigner?'” - Ruth 2:10

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“Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.” And when Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she said no more.”
- Ruth 1:17-18

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“Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.”
- Ruth 1:16

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Exodus Discussion - What is the difference between faith, belief, and knowledge?

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Exodus Discussion - What is the difference between faith, belief, and knowledge?

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You don't necessarily have to believe in something in order for you to have faith in it. Knowledge is something you know based off of fact or proof that something exists. Faith and belief are biased while knowledge is fact.

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Exodus Discussion - How was this demonstrated in Exodus or any of our readings to date?

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Exodus Discussion - How was this demonstrated in Exodus or any of our readings to date?

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Ex: In Exodus, Moses went back to save the slaves because he had faith that God would be there to help him although he did not personally believe he would be able to do it.

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The Lord created the heavens, the earth, plants, animals, and human beings. First he told Adam and Eve not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, but they were convinced to eat it by the serpent. Even after that He could see the true nature of humankind had become wicked and dark. He called upon Noah, the one God believed to be righteous enough to survive the 40 days and forty nights of flooding  the earth. Noah and the animals God had created were to be saved from the ravaging of the earth. Genesis was an interesting read. God is good, he gives and gives and receives nothing in return. Even when there are those whom may not feel the grace of God he is there for them anyway.

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"Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, and the earth was filled with violence. And God saw that the earth was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted its ways upon earth. And God said to Noah, "I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence because of them; now I am going to destroy them along with the earth. Make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with a pitch. This is how you are to make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits." - Genesis 6-7

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Genesis - Communication -- between God and Humankind

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Genesis - Communication -- between God and Humankind

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"God called to the man, and said to him, 'Where are you?' He said, 'I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.' He said, 'Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?' The man said, 'The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate.' The the Lord God said to the woman, 'What is this that you have done?' The woman said, 'The serpent tricked me, and I ate.' - Genesis 3

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"So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves." - Genesis 3

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"The Lord saw that the wickedness of humankind was great in the earth, and that  every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that he had made humankind on the earth and it grieved him to his heart." - Genesis 6

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"In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. Then God said, 'Let there be light'; and there was light. And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night" - Genesis 1

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"As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease." - Genesis 9

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The sin of man is met by the intervention of God

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Recollection is simply a departure of knowledge. People are always changing, they are losing hair and deteriorating so they need to leave something behind that will last forever... their name.

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You either want love or you have love. The nature of love is happiness, beauty, and wisdom. Love is mortal and immortal, it can be good and evil.

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Diotima believes that all men desire is to be immortal and since immortality is not feasible men are only left with leaving a legacy so that their name can live on in immortality. They will risk anything to have children to carry their name into the future. Diotima said men like the idea of being in love and being happy more than what or who they are in love with. Diotima believes that men hope that their offspring carry on their name and their memory.

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- Love himself never has anything
- happiness, beauty, and wisdom
- fulfillment in a life-long pursuit of wisdom
- EROS = love conceived by Plato as a fundamental creative impulse having a sensual element

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What is 'Love'?
- "'Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete." - Plato
- "all-consuming passion for wisdom and beauty"

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"For if a man had always on his arrival in this world dedicated himself from the first to sound philosophy, and had been moderately fortunate in the number of the lot, he might, as the messenger reported, be happy here, and also his journey to another life and return to this, instead of being rough and underground, would be smooth and heavenly. Most curious, he said, was the spectacle - sad and laughable and strange; for the choice of the souls was in most cases based on their experience of a previous life."

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"A man must take with him into the world below an adamantine faith in truth and right, that there too he may be undazzled by the desire of wealth or the other allurements of evil, lest, coming upon tyrannies and smaller villainies, he do irremediable wrongs to others and suffer yet worse himself; but let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible, not only in this life but in all that which is to come. For this is the way of happiness."

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Movies the remind me of "The Allegory of the Cave"

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Movies the remind me of "The Allegory of the Cave"

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1) The Truman Show
2) The Lego Movie
3) Wizard of Oz

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People fear change, and that is shown in this passage. When the prisoner is released and introduced to the new world he tries to release the other prisoners but they refuse to go with him, because they are afraid of what the released prisoner has seen as it has already changed him greatly.

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Once you see the truth behind the lies you can never unsee them. Once the prisoner realizes the truth about the shadows he has trouble seeing the shadows once he returns to the cave.

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Socrates is the exemplar of the lover of wisdom and the lover of beauty, but is neither wise nor beautiful himself.

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Given that God does exist, must He be good?

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Given that God does exist, must He be good?

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I don't think that God must be good, because our opinion of whether God is good or not is clouded by our point of view. God is fair and He is just but we may not agree with his answer. Furthermore, God was never meant to be "good" so to say. He may possess good qualities but his goal is not to be "good" but certain things he does and creates can misconstrued as God Himself being "good". His actions are always justified and if a situation warrants God to be bad then he will.

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Have you had teachers like Socrates and if so did you learn much from them?

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Have you had teachers like Socrates and if so did you learn much from them?

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I have had many teachers like Socrates in the past years. They were overall the best teachers I had, now thinking about it, it may be because they all used portions of the socratic method. We had many socratic seminars and socratic debates. Those teachers taught me how to have a mind of my own and how to use it, those classes weren't just staring at notes on a board and copying them down. They were like ray of sunshine on a cloudy day because I got to openly express myself and my opinions. Honestly, they are the teachers and the classes I am going to most remember for years to come.

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What do you think of Socrates' Teaching Style?

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What do you think of Socrates' Teaching Style?

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I believe that Socrates' teaching style is interesting when used in class. The class becomes a student-centered learning atmosphere and the teacher becomes a facilitator in group discussion. Intellectual dialogue about growing topics makes you feel as though you are smarter than you are because you get to show what you know and have an opinion.

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Was Socrates surprised by the charges brought against him? Should he have been surprised?

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Was Socrates surprised by the charges brought against him? Should he have been surprised?

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Socrates was not surprised by the charges brought up against him because people are afraid of things they don't understand, and people did not understand the teachings of Socrates and therefore they were afraid of and threatened by him.

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Do you think Socrates was treated fairly?

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Do you think Socrates was treated fairly?

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I think that the charges brought up against him were bogus but I do believe he had a somewhat fair trial. The jury votes were 281 to 220 voting him guilty, so people were giving him the benefit of the doubt.

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What is Socrates' definition of wisdom in the Apology?

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What is Socrates' definition of wisdom in the Apology?

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As we discussed in class, we defined wisdom based off of Socrates in the Apology as the absence of ignorance. "The only true wisdom is to know that you know nothing" was the phrase coined by Socrates about wisdom.

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For someone that is so wise it seems beneath Socrates to for lack of a better word "curse" the people that took part in putting him to death.

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It is surprising to me that Socrates expected that the jurors would vote him guilty, but that he was surprised by the votes being so nearly equal. at 281 to 220 finding him guilty.

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I wish I could just have a conversation with Socrates. Because he didn't believe in writing anything down, it would be a privilege to just listen to him and his wisdom.

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It is interesting how Socrates says Athenians almost made him forget who he was by spouting false claims against him. You would think someone with as advanced and philosophical as Socrates would pay no attention to verbal attacks of his character.