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...have evidence to that effect. The philosopher Justin wrote that Socrates said that the purpose of philosophy was to prepare us to die bravely, and when Justin saw illiterate Christians facing torture and execution in the public stadium, he became a convert - and later a martyr himself...
...Christians were undergoing terrible persecution at the time. Leaders like Ignatius felt that a willingness to "die for God" was essential for the movement to survive; otherwise, its members could be intimidated, and it might have died...
...Harvard ever encounter. At 17—the age at which Alex Arredondo made the fateful decision to join the Marines—my toughest decision was whether or not to play hookey from school. I can’t imagine signing a declaration of my willingness to die for any cause—political views on Iraq aside. At 19, as I ponder my current toughest decisions—whether to take a class with one Nobel laureate or another—I hope that something I’m learning here will prepare me for the kind...
...really, of course—it’s been around since the 19th century in more-or-less the form it stands today, but in all honesty, only the die-hards and the occasional Saturday afternoon ESPN watchers really saw it with any regularity...
...wife's remains hidden in the garage, Grant fled to northern Michigan, where he was later found wandering shoeless in a snowed-in wooded area. As he was treated for frostbite, Grant admitted to strangling his wife and dismembering her body at his family's tool-and-die shop. Grant then put several pieces of his wife in garbage bags, scattering them in a wooded section of parkland close to the family home in a semi-rural area laced with muddy dirt road and snow-covered fields more than 40 miles north of the center of Detroit...