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...religion. They've got their sights set on that issue. But what they're failing to acknowledge is that there's a whole set, or a whole wide range of beliefs that are premised on the paranormal and the supernatural. The issue of religion is completely separate. It's almost a political issue, in terms of whether religions are good...
...then this serves as a consensus that helps the group cohere. There have to be some things which no one member of the group, no individual, can own outright. It has to transcend the mundane, it has to be something that goes beyond the earthly level, it has to almost become profound. It can be a book, it can be a temple, it can be a rock, it can be a tree. Every kind of culture or group has this...
...that bank balance sheets and loan portfolios needed close examination. It is also true that the private capital firms which plan to buy toxic assets using taxpayer money were not enticed into the new program based on an illusion. The banking system is still terribly weak and there is almost no one with an in-depth knowledge of the credit market tapestry who does not believe that there are hundreds of billions of Confederate dollars being held in the vaults of the major banks. (See the 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...giant joins the army, where his size affronts his superiors and they arrest him for insubordination. The rest of the story revolves around the inefficacy of military bureaucracy, as the officers attempt to build a prison large enough to house the growing giant. Almost everyone dies by the end of the story. Many writers have used fiction as a vehicle for political protest—take George Orwell—but at least they create compelling characters or futuristic worlds, or use talking animals as allegorical stand-ins for statesmen.Schwitters relegates the element of magic in his stories to exaggeration...
...velvet—his mantle and his chair—a fading man himself, not proud, with slightly bowed shoulders. His hands have a vitality and firmness that is balanced against his reticent, or perhaps suspicious, visage; the portrait recognized the inner life of its subject, which was something almost entirely new. Earlier, Michelangelo’s unfinished statues of slaves for the tomb of Pope Julius II also begin to reveal the psychological turmoil of their subject, but this Venetian school takes the artistic display of psychological depth to the next level, with massive canvases of deep emotional power...