Articles for tag: Fight Club, Greatest Movies, Philosophy of Life, Tyler Durden

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The Best Quotes from “Fight Club”

Fight Club is no doubt one of the best movies ever made, and what else would make a movie so great other than the quotes? The first time I saw the movie “Fight Club”, all I could say was “wow”. The movie makes so much sense and it will really change the way you think. ...

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The History of Dianetics and the Origins of Scientology

Now that Tom Cruise has been identified as the second most powerful person in the Scientology hierarchy by questionable biographer Andrew Morton, perhaps we should turn our attention to discovering a bit more about the early origins of this movement. It only took a few hundred years to produce the first Mormon Presidential candidate and ...

John of God: Healer, Hoax or Worse?

John of God is the “stage” name for Joao Teixeira da Faria, a Brazilian who claims to be possessed by 33 different “healers” including St. Ignatius de Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order. Indeed, da Faria claims thousands of beings work with him as he ministers to the hundreds who flock to him for healing. ...

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Voltaire’s Candide and Maturity

This paper is a short essay addressing the protagonist of Voltaire’s conte, Candide, and his (Candide’s) enlightenment to the fallacies of the philosophy of Optimism. This relatively short novelette provided Voltaire a platform to satire Leibniz’s Optimism as well as incorporate some of Voltaire’s other views on life. The key questions addressed by this paper ...