Hell's Illusion


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Hell, is a place that is depicted as eternal conscious torment for all people, other than those who have done specific requirements to escape this eternal, blazing inferno. Yet, God is unconditional love, and Christ came to set us free, so logically and realistically, how can we be set free if we are plagued mentally with the idea of eternal conscious torment in a place called Hell? God tells us through the Scripture's that He has no conditions on His love for all humanity, yet at the same time, the church tells us that we need to 'do' certain things or else pay the Hellfire price. Fear can not reside in love, so how can such a fear dominated place called Hell ever exist in God as the church over the years has portrayed? In this book, Don Keathley, who is a leading grace teacher with over 40 years of pastoral experience and a PhD degree, will expose the lies about Hell, which has been taught to us by the church. He has investigated all the words that Jesus spoke where He used the word Hell and present's to you all the correct original Greek meanings, context, and references for each time the word Hell is mentioned in the Old Testament and the New Testament. Once you understand what the correct meaning is, then the understanding about Hell that you hold will disappear into the illusion that it really is, and as God's truth can only do, it will set you free. God is love and in Him resides no fear and no evil. You and your loved ones only have one eternal destination.




Empire of Illusion


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Pulitzer prize–winner Chris Hedges charts the dramatic and disturbing rise of a post-literate society that craves fantasy, ecstasy and illusion. Chris Hedges argues that we now live in two societies: One, the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world, that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other, a growing majority, is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. In this “other society,” serious film and theatre, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins. In the tradition of Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism and Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, Hedges navigates this culture — attending WWF contests as well as Ivy League graduation ceremonies — exposing an age of terrifying decline and heightened self-delusion.




Illusion or Truth


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A practical guide to find the real freedom in modern age. In this book,you will find the answers to your questions,such as; What is the essence of all ancient religions,teachings and philosophies. What does it really mean "Total Awareness" and how you can reach to it. How to observe the "reality" with a clear perception and mind. How to find out "Meaning of Life". What really is "Matrix" and does it exist. How technology is changing and effecting our life. What is the real "Intelligence" and "Education". Table of Contents of the book include; Observation of Disorder Perception and Duality Dimension of Now Analyzing Money Society Control and Reason Education,Attention,Intelligence Awareness and Instinct The Art of Basketball Reaction and Butterfly Effect Philosophy and Real Religion The System of Your Mind The Meaning of Life and Science Thought and Artificial Intelligence Welcome to Matrix,Version 1.0. Be The Change Choiceless Awareness




Hell's Harvest


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'Allow me to introduce myself, ' it says with a Middle Eastern accent. 'My name is Nawkal the Treacherous One. It studies N.P. just as a hungry dog would size up a prime cut of sirloin steak. 'I was assigned to you from your birth. You my friend were one of my most prized projects.' What if an extremely successful man in the bowels of the earth, met the master demon that had prepared him for his day in hell? What if the great N.P. Grimes rejected God just one time too many and found himself in the place where hatred is unrestrained and mercy is not allowed? What if Hells Harvest is the price we all will pay without Christ? Join new author Roger Clayton on an unforgettable journey through the regions of the damned and learn how to avoid Hells Harvest. Author bio. Roger Clayton and his wife Kimberly, pastor International Church of Destiny in Indiantown, Florida. They have been married twenty-five years and have two grown children. Nicholas and Holly who are both students at 'Rhema Bible Training Center' in Tulsa, Oklahoma. They are a family dedicated to the purpose of their Savior. Roger is an accomplished guitarist and songwriter. He teaches Gods Word on a Saturday morning radio program that he uses to teach people the Gospel of Christ. Roger ends each show with the statement, 'Knowledge is power, but the most powerful knowledge, is the knowledge of God.' He has a passion to communicate the Truth through teaching, music and the written material God has planted in his heart. Christian Fiction-Adventure-Hell Persecution




Grand Illusion


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Franco-German cultural exchange reached its height at the 1937 Paris World’s Fair, where the Third Reich worked to promote an illusion of friendship between the two countries. Through the prism of this decisive event, Grand Illusion examines the overlooked relationships among Nazi elites and French intellectuals. Their interaction, Karen Fiss argues, profoundly influenced cultural production and normalized aspects of fascist ideology in 1930s France, laying the groundwork for the country’s eventual collaboration with its German occupiers. Tracing related developments across fine arts, film, architecture, and mass pageantry, Fiss illuminates the role of National Socialist propaganda in the French decision to ignore Hitler’s war preparations and pursue an untenable policy of appeasement. France’s receptiveness toward Nazi culture, Fiss contends, was rooted in its troubled identity and deep-seated insecurities. With their government in crisis, French intellectuals from both the left and the right demanded a new national culture that could rival those of the totalitarian states. By examining how this cultural exchange shifted toward political collaboration, Grand Illusion casts new light on the power of art to influence history.




Illusion and Fetishism in Critical Theory


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Through the negative dialectics of Theodore Adorno, Illusion and Fetishism in Critical Theory offers an examination of Nietzsche, Benjamin, Castoriadis and the Situationists, who put the concept of illusion at the forefront of their philosophical thought. Vasilis Grollios argues that these political philosophers, except Castoriadis, have up to now been wrongly considered by many scholars to be far from the line of thinking of negative dialectics, Critical Theory and the early Frankfurt School/Open Marxist tradition. He illustrates how these thinkers focused on the illusions of capitalism and attempted to show how capitalism, by its innate rationale, creates social forms that are presented as unavoidable and universal, yet are historically specific and of dubious sustainability. Providing a unique overview of concepts including illusion, totality, fetishization, contradiction, identity thinking and dialectics, Grollios expertly reveals how their understanding of critique can help us open cracks in capitalism and radicalize democratic social practice today. Illusion and Fetishism in Critical Theory is a must read for scholars of political theory and political philosophy, critical theory, the Frankfurt School, sociology and democratic theory.




The Rebellion of Hell


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The Ice Princess's Fair Illusion


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All Marian wants is for society to accept that she's just not interested in... whatever society thinks she ought to be interested in. A princess with a reputation for insults and snide remarks, she's afraid to show anyone who she would be if people would let her. In a fit of temper at her refusal to marry, her father creates her worst nightmare: she is to be wed to the first beggar who arrives at the gates. Edel was visiting purely for diplomatic reasons, aiming to ensure her daughter inherits a strong and peaceful kingdom. She sees something in Marian that is achingly familiar and when Edel hears the king's proclamation, only one thing is on her mind: to protect Marian from the fate that had befallen Edel herself. Their lives threaded together by magic, Edel and Marian will have to find their way in the world in this queerplatonic, sapphic verse novel retelling of King Thrushbeard.




Dreams, Illusion, and Other Realities


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"Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty . . . weaves a brilliant analysis of the complex role of dreams and dreaming in Indian religion, philosophy, literature, and art. . . . In her creative hands, enchanting Indian myths and stories illuminate and are illuminated by authors as different as Aeschylus, Plato, Freud, Jung, Kurl Gödel, Thomas Kuhn, Borges, Picasso, Sir Ernst Gombrich, and many others. This richly suggestive book challenges many of our fundamental assumptions about ourselves and our world."—Mark C. Taylor, New York Times Book Review "Dazzling analysis. . . . The book is firm and convincing once you appreciate its central point, which is that in traditional Hindu thought the dream isn't an accident or byway of experience, but rather the locus of epistemology. In its willful confusion of categories, its teasing readiness to blur the line between the imagined and the real, the dream actually embodies the whole problem of knowledge. . . . [O'Flaherty] wants to make your mental flesh creep, and she succeeds."—Mark Caldwell, Village Voice




Hell and Back


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A brilliant new collection of essays on writers & writing by the man Joseph Brodsky has called "the best British author writing today."