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  • I think the Jewish view of happiness emanating from that is that the life you've been given in this world is a gift and it is very much this-world focused and you should take pleasure in all the things, the spiritual things, the familial relationships, material things, enjoy the life.

    April L. Bogle: The Role of Happiness in the World Religions April L. Bogle 2010

  • I think the Jewish view of happiness emanating from that is that the life you've been given in this world is a gift and it is very much this-world focused and you should take pleasure in all the things, the spiritual things, the familial relationships, material things, enjoy the life.

    April L. Bogle: The Role of Happiness in the World Religions April L. Bogle 2010

  • I think the Jewish view of happiness emanating from that is that the life you've been given in this world is a gift and it is very much this-world focused and you should take pleasure in all the things, the spiritual things, the familial relationships, material things, enjoy the life.

    April L. Bogle: The Role of Happiness in the World Religions April L. Bogle 2010

  • I think the Jewish view of happiness emanating from that is that the life you've been given in this world is a gift and it is very much this-world focused and you should take pleasure in all the things, the spiritual things, the familial relationships, material things, enjoy the life.

    April L. Bogle: The Role of Happiness in the World Religions April L. Bogle 2010

  • Unfortunately, there are side excursions into such overtouristed places as Tir Nan Og. This isn't the first fantasy novel in which I find the this-world setting more interesting than the magical-world setting.

    March 18th, 2007 2007

  • There's Tom Deitz's "David Sullivan" series, in which the this-world setting is the mountains of northern Georgia.

    March 18th, 2007 2007

  • I raise this suggestion, as it appears that a solution to Japan's deep and apparently insoluble economic crisis requires both a dreamlike state and an out-of - this-world solution if there is to be any prospect of a resolution without the dire risk of national insolvency.

    Sheldon Filger: Japan's New Government Faces Dire Economic Challenge 2009

  • All of the Top 10 stories and the 13 honorable mentions deal with this-world issues: how we relate to our neighbors, how different groups get along or how they don't, how we deal with economic hardships and social change.

    Obama speech in Cairo tops Religion Newswriters' list of top religion stories | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009

  • Not one with the possible exception of #15 - I don't know enough about papal encyclicals to say for sure, but the subject looks this-world to me deals with matters of theology or doctrine.

    Obama speech in Cairo tops Religion Newswriters' list of top religion stories | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009

  • This appeal renders it likely that the constitutional democracy memeplex can, by offering people the opportunity to achieve concrete and actual this-world economic benefits, expanded ranges of personal choice, and genuine political empowerment, successfully compete for their cognitive memespace with the abstract and hypothetical next-world paradisiacal promises and infernal threats proferred to them by the Wahhab/Qutb memeplex.

    Think Progress » VIDEO: Bush Agrees Current Iraq Violence May Be ‘Jihadist Equivalent Of The Tet Offensive’ 2006

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