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IDS EXAM #3
Islam, Christianity, Science, Sects, Cults, etc.
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05/10/2011

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Abraham
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Father of Ishmael and Isaac
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Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
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Sex guru/tantric yoga; New Age-ish; started a cult
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Brigham Young
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claims succession to Joseph Smith (JC OF LDS); journey to salt lake valley; mormon temple; University named after him (BYU)
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Charles Darwin
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Origin of Species - 1859
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Charles Taze Russell
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founded Jehovah's Witnesses
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David Miscaviage
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chairman of Scientology
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Chuck Colson
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author of How Now Shall We Live 
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Francis Schaeffer
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How Then Shall We Live; Escape From Reason; influenced Nancy Pearcey; Switzerland; started a place for study 
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Gabriel
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angel; 'recitations from Gabriel' --> Muhammad - the Koran; Islam

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Galileo
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1632 condemnation because he believed there were necessary conflicts between science and Christianity
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George Barna
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researcher of Biblical worldviews --> statistics and charts; show that churches are not doing a good job
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Hagar
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Ishmael's mother; Abraham's concubine/Sarah's maidservant
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Isa
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word used in the Koran for Jesus
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Isaac
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Sarah and Abraham's son; father of Christianity and Judaism
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Isaac Newton
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universe can only exist through creation of intelligent, powerful Being; Lord over all; creationist
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Ishmael
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Abraham and Hagar's son; father of Islam
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John Travolta
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advocate of Scientology
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Joseph Smith
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started Church of J.C. of LDS; killed in Illinois
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L. Ron Hubbard
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founder of Scientology
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Mary Baker Eddy
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founder of Christian Science; wrote Science and Health with a Key to the Scriptures
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Michael Faraday
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Christian; inventor; convinced of God and hereafter; creationist
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Moroni
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the angel who revealed the golden tablets to Joseph Smith
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Muhammad
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prophet of Islam
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Nancy Pearcey
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author of Total Truth; Christian turned atheist turned Christian
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Phil Vischer
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creator of Veggie Tales
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Richard Dawkins
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wrote The God Delusion; scientist; Atheist
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Robert Boyle
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Law of Gases; founded "Boyle's Lectures"; gave money for Bible translation
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Sarah
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Abraham's wife; mother of Isaac
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Stephen Gould
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NOMA guy
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Tom Cruise
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advocate of Scientology
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William Bordon
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got a world trip for graduation present; was super rich but decided to become a missionary to China, after intense study he was headed to China... died in Egypt before reaching China; wrote "No retreat, no reserves, no regrets" in his Bible
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Book of Mormon
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mormonism
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Dianetics
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written by L. Ron Hubbard; Scientology
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Escape from Reason
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Francis Schaeffer; Christian
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Golden Plates
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Book of Mormon; Meroni brought them and inspired Joseph Smith to find them
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Koran (Qu'ran)
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Gabriel appeared to Muhammad... 'recitations from Gabriel'
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New World Translation
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Jehovah's Witness Bible
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Science and Health with a Key to the Scriptures
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Mary Baker Eddy; All is spiritual; evil is illusion
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The God Delusion
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Richard Dawkins; Science trumps Christianity
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Total Truth
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Nancy Pearcey; Christianity
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Watchtower
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Jehovah's Witness magazine
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four presuppositions of science
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nature is real

nature is rational

the human mind is rational

the physical senses are adequately reliable

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five pillars of islam
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-faith profession: "There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger"

-pray 5 times a day

-give 2.5% of your to the less fortunate 

-fast and participate in Ramadan

-pilgrimage to Mecca if at all possible

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someone with a biblical worldview...
Definition

-Love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength

-beliefs are adequately informed by God's revelation

-not taken captive by deceptive philosophies

-take every thought captive to Christ

-applies its implications and obligations to all of life


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immaterial
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physically infinite
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immense
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spatially infinite; transcendent
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immortal
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temporally infinite; timeless
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immaculate
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morally infinite
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immutable
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infinitely stable; never changing
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omnipresent
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everywhere
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omniscient
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infinite in knowledge
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omnipotent
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infinite in power; transcendent and immanent
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Abba
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"Father" personal (contrasts with Islam--> Allah)
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Absolute
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AD 610
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Muhammad; 'recitations from Gabriel' -> Koran
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ad 622
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Muhammad escapes to Medina
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Allah
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arabic for God
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Apostles' Creed
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'mere Christianity'; core beliefs; comes in different forms; a response to Gnosticism and heresy
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Arab
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descendant of Ishmael; 1 in 20 are Christian; 90% are Muslim
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arabic
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language of the koran; spoken by Arabs
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auditing
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rids individuals of any spiritual disabilities; ridding yourself of engrams; find you inner thetan
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Bahai
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(cult) Unity of God, religion, and mankind (1840's)
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Caliph
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successor to Muhammad
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Christian Science
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Mary Baker Eddy; emphasis on healing of the mind/no medication/modern science shouldn't be used... stops you from putting your full trust in God
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Cult
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a new movement with little of no prior specific connection to a particular religion; rejects or significantly reinterprets a core belief of Christianity
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Dominion Mandate
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God gives us domain over the earth -> creation; motivation for science/being good stewards
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engram
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what keeps you down/keeps you from actualization/becoming a Thetan
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Graded Absolutism
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always doing the greater good (allows for moral conflicts) (not sinful if you choose the greater good)
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hadith
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muhammad's sayings and actions
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inspiration
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scripture is God breathed
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Islam
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"submission"; a theistic religion with an integrate w.v.; everything = religious; requirements for salvation/salvation by good works/is not certain (Except by martyrdom)
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Jehovah's Witnesses 
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sect; Charles Taze Russel; Watchtower, New World Translation; Jesus = created being (not God); new paradise on earth; sould, death and hell; political neutrality; don't believe in blood transfusion; evangelism 144,000
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jihad
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'exertion' or an inner struggle (most go with this view); a political and military fight (extremist view)
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Kabah
Definition
big square box people circle around in (in Mecca)
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Koran
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recitation; book of Islam
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Mecca
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sacred site of Islam; Muhammad escaped to Medina in 622
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Metaphysical Naturalism
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more than just the natural stuff/science; what is really real?; worldview of naturalism; the only thing that is truly real is natural
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Methodological Naturalism
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science can coexist w. Christianity; methods of science - natural laws, etc.
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muslim
Definition
one who sumbits
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natural revelation
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given to all; limited in scope; God revealed through nature, etc.
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Nephi
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group of people who were in the New World and Jesus appeared to them and started preaching to the Nephites (According to Mormonism)
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NOMA
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non-overlapping magisteria; science covers the empirical stuff, Christianity covers questions of meaning and moral value;  Science and religion don't overlap in their beliefs; view is false according to Christianity
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progressive revelation
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ongoing revelation
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propositional revelation
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revelation is not given to us by God in words, but in acts and events; revelation is more that just words/reveals who He is by the way He acts; common truth claims
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qualified
Definition
always doing the least evil (still sinful for doing it though)
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Ramadan
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Muslim holiday; month of fasting and stuff
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Relativism
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all truth is relative; what's true for you is not necessarily true for me; Postmodernism
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scientism
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naturalistic w.v. plus scientific methods; 'metaphysical naturalism' (nothing exists that is not physical/natural); philosophy and science together (no god, just what we can see)
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scientology
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cult; Goal is to become 'clear' (an operating Thetan); man is basically good and is seeking 'attainment of brotherhood with the universe'; it's about survival/8 dynamics; auditing
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sect
Definition
deviant movements linked to a particular religion
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special revelation
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God reveals himself through the Bible and miracles
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Theopneustos
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God-breathed; inspiration
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Thetan
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a part of Scientology

who you are... kind of; life itself

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unqualified absolutism
Definition
no possible conflicts that are unavoidable
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