Essays on Supernatural Being

Summary

Different people from various backgrounds hold diverse beliefs on the origin of the world. Lewis, for instance, had the belief that the root of the world was from the darkness and beautiful distant sounds like those that emanate from far away singers. The Ohlone individuals in San Francisco believe that the head being was Coyote who created the world. The people influenced by Genesis hold that the world came being from the fall of refinement. Bestowing to the Pomo on the other side, a tribe in Northern California, the sphere was molded when a god set rolling the wax ...

Philosophy is the study of fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence specifically when considered as an academic thing or discipline. African philosophy often deals with metaphysics which is a branch of philosophy that deals with the study of nature such as being, substance, cause, identity time, and space (Ugwuanyi 513-522). Epistemology is a branch of philosophy that deals with the methods, origin, nature and limits of human knowledge or it is a concern with theories of knowledge. African metaphysics explain the way of life interaction, perceptions and how things come to existences within the reality of the African ...

The major religions of the world include Islam, New Age, Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism (Lomas et al., 198). The five categories justify Buddhism to be a religion. Approximately 370 million people in the world are Buddhists. The word Buddhism originated from the term "Buddha" which means to awaken. The religion traces its roots to about 2,500 years back when Gotama Siddhartha also called the Buddha became enlightened or awakened when he turned 35 years (Lomas et al., 200). Buddhism has evolved so much also to become a way of life or a psychology, but the fact remains that ...

War and violence have been the one of the main cause of the downfall of many nations, states, empires, communities and other social institutions. There are numerous diversities in the way various groups of people look at certain situations and how their opponents look at the same issues. Several questions will be tackled such as how opposing interests lures to violence. Do individual perception and say the expectations of individuals lead to violence and war whenever they are misconceived? When does cognitive imbalance lure to war and how does it limit the growth of an economy as well as ...

Many centuries ago, there have been arguments on whether or not there is the existence of God. These arguments are the result of atheists and believers. Atheists are people who believe that God and other supernatural beings are man-made ideas. The existence of many religions is also as a result of differences in beliefs about God. Theism, from which theistic is derived, is that belief in the existence of God or gods. From a religious point of view, a God is either a normal or supernatural being. Some religions have one supreme God while others have many gods. The ...