Theory Of The Four Yugas

The world you once knew is falling to ashes and food is become such a scarcity that people are fighting over a few pieces of bread. The political class is too busy fighting among themselves to care for anyone else. Children are roaming the streets and begging for work to feed their dying, hungry stomachs. This is not a scene from a horror movie, but rather the reality of the beginning of post classical era. In these times of hardship the people turned to a higher power, which resulted in a religious boom. The main religion during the post classical era that had the greatest impact on people was Islam due to Muhammad, trade routes, the Black Plague, conquests and Islamic culture.

government of this corrupt society has raised each person to associate an idea of something as

Greed can also be the reason for idiotic and irrational decisions. It influences one’s decisions and could lead to their downfall. One example Irving gave was Tom’s choice to make a deal with the devil. The “black man” told Tom about the hidden gold that was buried in the woods, and a deal Tom could make to get this gold(246). At first Tom rejected the offer due to the fact that he would have to split this fortune with his wife, but after his wife’s disappearance he went back to search for the devil. When he found the devil the terms for the deal were negotiated. Tom would have to trade his soul and open a broker shop in exchanger for the money(248-249). This is where Tom’s greed made him irrational and influenced him to make a bad decision. He made the deal, not thinking of the others he would have to hurt in the broker business and without consideration that his soul will then belong to the devil. Greed made Tom not think rationally and make a decision that would lead to his downfall in the near future. The other example Irvin gave was a greed-based decision that Tom’s wife made the ultimately led to her death. After Tom’s first encounter with the devil he came home and told his wife about his experience and the offer the devil made. Tom’s wife was all for it but Tom did not want to accept his the offer(246). Her greed came into play when she decided that she would steal some valuables and go out and make the deal herself. This greedy decision was

“we were dealing with strange ideas...[a] moral breakdown that has been going on for two decades. One by one all of our traditional moral standards went by the boards, or were so disregarded that they ceased to be binding…We found our great cities and the control of much of our industry and commerce taken over by strangers, who stacked the cards of success and prosperity against us” (Document 1).

Each cycle of life lasts 4,320,000 years, every so often through those 4,320,000 years, giant floods destroy every living thing, except those who are saved to repopulate the earth and the cycle continues. After those many years the earth begins to lose all resources, followed by the universe being eradicated. Soon after the storm god, Rudra takes form to create all the things necessary to restart the cycle and create a new world (Bierlein 237 - 238). Although this myth still envisions the end of the world, there is more to it than that. This myth still holds important information that reveals a deeper meaning about the world, creation and destruction. As stated previously, this myth is all about a cycle the entire universe goes through, which can be related to the concept of the circle of life and balance in the world. The myth shows readers that everything has a beginning, middle and end. The myth states; “Then Brahma sends a wind that drinks up much of the water, establishing clouds in heaven. The world is now a watery chaos, the primordial state from which a new world can be created” (Bierlein 238). This quote shows that when the earth has been destroyed, the cycle starts over again, a new world is created from the destruction of the previous, which can teach readers that when something ends, room is made from something new to begin. Therefore, the myth of “How Rudra destroys the universe” is a good example of how apocalypse myths can teach lessons and give knowledge to readers aside from only focusing on the end of the world and total

The Hindu creation myths also provide significantly more amount of detail regarding the creation and the rebirth of the world and the cosmos. This story posits the notion that the earth has a finite amount of time with which to exist, known as the maha yuga. After four ages of the maha yuga, in which Brahma’s presence and the moral efficaciousness it produces becomes less and less to correlate with a shorter and shorter length of time of the age, the creator of the world becomes its destroyer, sweeping it away with floods and an unrelenting, scorching sun.

The debate about the age of the Earth has persisted for centuries! Some scientists try to disprove Christians and some Christians try to disprove scientific evidence. Nevertheless, there is a surprising number of Christians and scientists who have worked together to give their opinion about the age of the Earth by using both Biblical and scientific facts. The purpose of this essay is to succinctly describe both Old Earth and Young Earth viewpoints. My opinion about the matter will follow, in which I will provide Biblical evidence to support my claims.

This feeling of national gaiety was synonymous with the social move from religion and morals to money, power and complete lack of morality.

1.1 The stages of a lifespan is infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood and older adult. Infancy is before childhood when they are babies, describes the growth and development of the child from about the fourth week through the second year of life. (reference FROM http://www.education.com/reference/article/infant-development-stage-period/) . Childhood is the time before you turn 13, childhood is the stage between infancy and puberty. Adolescence is between the age of 13 – 18 this is the transition before people develop into an adult. Adulthood is where a person is fully developed physically, mentally, intellectually etc. The adulthood stage is at the age ranges of 18 – 40. An older adult is the final stage in a person’s life, this is where a person is at an advanced age where their health might start to deteriorate the age ranges of an older adult is 65+.

Epochs are generally characterized by massively significant events, like the ending of an ice age. The current epoch, the Holocene, began after the last glacial period, roughly 11,500 years ago. The idea that mankind has had as

Since the beginning of time, people have become victims to their own conscience. In the time of Julius Caesar, Brutus would strike down Caesar in the claim that he would become too powerful. “Brutus’ strong desire to end Caesar immediately before he could come to power showed Brutus’ lack of willpower”(Shakespeare). Is it so uncommon to make irrational actions out of fear or greed? Americans on the holiday Black Friday are an example of a human ill nature;“Small groups of demonstrators gathered throughout the day Wednesday to protest the death of a black

Japanese artistry, for many, is seen as a style dominated by Buddhist representations and Chinese, Korean, and Indian influences. However, despite what one might believe, Japanese art once was its own style that differed greatly from other cultures. In fact, art historians can date the earliest form of art back to around 10,500 BCE, where the first distinct culture of Japan was discovered almost ten millenniums before the birth of Buddha (Gardner et al. 17-1a). This early culture existed for three periods of an independent, evolving culture; the Jomon, Yayoi, and Kofun periods. Even after outside influences began affecting Japanese art and culture, their art and architecture still remained unique from other civilizations of the time such as

John Ankerberg 2004 states the primary difference between young- and old-earth creationists is the speculated amount of time between God’s creative acts. Young-earth views insist that it was all accomplished in 144 hours—six successive 24-hour days—while old-earth creationists allow for millions of years. Dr. John Ankerberg describes a crucial variance between the two views, naturally, is the age of the earth. Young-earthers insist that both the Bible and science support a universe that is only thousands of years old, while old-earthers allow for billions of years. Young-earthers connect their view to a literal interpretation of Genesis (and Ex. 20:11), but old-earthers claim the same basic hermeneutic, which they believe can include millions, if not billions, of years since

The end of the Middle Ages and the flowering of the Renaissance brought many shifts to European societal structure. The face of Christianity changed considerably from the fourteenth century to the mid-sixteenth century, beginning with disagreement over who should hold absolute power, the Pope or the Holy Roman Emperor. While the corporate Catholic church had once maintained a fairly unified influence on society, a more nuanced form of Christianity began developing, leading to reformed religious groups with opposing views, namely the Protestants and Anglicans. In the wake of differing opinions, people’s group identification determined what people they sided with and who they wouldn’t tolerate. With more complex religious and political perspectives, people could distance themselves ideologically from peers, family, and leaders. Frequent mentions of treacherous actions within the literature of this time demonstrates that these differing views made people feel betrayed by their associates. The idea of betrayal is prominent in the lives and texts of several authors of this period, including Dante, Thomas More, and Niccolò Machiavelli. From a Christian perspective, betrayal was a grave sin befitting serious punishment, while it was irrational from a Humanist perspective and an inevitable, even beneficial part of mankind from an amoral perspective. During the tumultuous political and religious climate of the High Middle Ages and Renaissance, conflicting sociopolitical groupings and

In Avatar, it is evident that every portion of the environment- such as the Na’vi, Hometree, The Tree of Souls, Ikran, Direhorses, and all other living things on Pandora, can be imagined as having an endless course of becoming (Avatar, 2009). As these different facets on Pandora move through time and happen upon one another, the course of distinct elements is grouped together in varied and differing sequences, like an ‘interconnected network’ as described by Hägerstrand (Ingold,