Based on the discovery of supreme sky-gods among " primitives ", Eliade suspects that the earliest humans worshiped a heavenly Supreme Being.

The third version, called No. 44, the Mysterious Stranger: Being an Ancient Tale Found in a Jug and Freely Translated from the Jug, returns to Medieval Austria and tells of No. 44's mysterious appearance at the door of a print shop and his use of heavenly powers to expose the futility of mankind's existence.

Being with him was like being swept away by a torrent of falling stones.

`` Being at the polls was just like being at church.

Being convinced that salvation is alone by accepting Christ as Saviour, and being convicted by the Holy Spirit of my lost condition, I do repent of all effort to be saved by any form of good works, and just now receive Jesus as my personal Saviour and salvation as a free gift from Him.

In a single sentence, parallel to Aristotle's statement asserting that being is substance, St. Thomas pushes away from the Aristotelian doctrine: " Being is not a genus, since it is not predicated univocally but only analogically.

" The words " Is, or Bee, or Are, and the like " add no meaning to an argument nor do derived words such as " Entity, Essence, Essentially, Essentiality ", which " are the names of nothing " but are mere " Signes " connecting " one name or attribute to another: as when we say, A man, is, a living body, wee mean not that the Man is one thing, the Living Body another, and the Is, or Being another: but that the Man, and the Living Body, is the same thing ;...." " Metaphysiques ," Hobbes says, is " far from the possibility of being understood " and is " repugnant to naturall Reason.

Heidegger, in his quest to re-pose the original pre-Socratic question of Being, wondered at how to meaningfully ask the question of the meaning of being, since it is both the greatest, as it includes everything that is, and the least, since no particular thing can be said of it.

Being is also understood as one's " state of being ," and hence its common meaning is in the context of human ( personal ) experience, with aspects that involve expressions and manifestations coming from an innate " being ", or personal character.

Heidegger coined the term " dasein " for this property of being in his influential work Being and Time (" this entity which each of us is himself … we shall denote by the term ' dasein.

Being is quite conceivable apart from actual existence ; so much so that the very first and the most universal of all the distinctions in the realm of being is that which divides it into two classes, that of the real and that of the possible.

Being a master of seven slaves is possible ; being a slave of more than one master is difficult.

Being further from the machine implies being closer to domain.

Being an opponent of Origen's teachings, he accused John of being too partial to the teachings of that theologian.

The conflict between oppressive, spiritually destructive conformity ( mauvaise foi, literally, " bad faith ") and an " authentic " way of " being " became the dominant theme of Sartre's early work, a theme embodied in his principal philosophical work L ' Être et le Néant ( Being and Nothingness ) ( 1943 ).

Being a Common Law jurisdiction, Gibraltar retains jury trial in a similar manner to that found in England and Wales, the exception being that juries consist of nine lay people, rather than twelve.

Being a lookahead parser by definition, it always uses a lookahead, with LALR ( 1 ) being the most common case.

Being " stuck " in a thermodynamic trough without being at the lowest energy state is known as being kinetically persistent.

Being able to compute the sides of a triangle ( and hence, being able to compute square roots ) is extremely important, for instance, in carpentry and construction.

Being pressured by his advisers to declare coffee the " bitter invention of Satan " because of its popularity among Muslims and it being a sort of antithesis or substitute for wine ( which was used in the Eucharist ), upon tasting it he instead declared that, " This devil's drink is so delicious ... we should cheat the devil by baptizing it.

Being " at peace " is considered by many to be healthy homeostasis and the opposite of being stressed or anxious.

According to Article I of the " Rehat Maryada " ( the Sikh code of conduct and conventions ), a Sikh is defined as " any human being who faithfully believes in One Immortal Being ; ten Gurus, from Guru Nanak Dev to Sri Guru Gobind Singh ; Sri Guru Granth Sahib ; the teachings of the ten Gurus and the baptism bequeathed by the tenth Guru ; and who does not owe allegiance to any other religion ".

Being the daughter of Dahak, she quickly developed supernatural powers, and kills within hours of being born, proving to Xena that there was no chance of saving her.

Being completely devoid of sensation and thought, a dead person cannot miss being alive.

Heidegger claimed that Western philosophy since Plato has misunderstood what it means for something " to be ", tending to approach this question in terms of a being, rather than asking about Being itself.

Being in a coalition allows males to dominate a third individual when they could not by themselves, as politically apt chimps can exert power over aggressive interactions regardless of their rank.

Being openly licensed and online can be helpful for teachers, because it allows the textbook to be modified according to the teacher's unique curriculum.

Game Attributes: Being fluent in five languages allows him to infiltrate enemy lines wearing a stolen enemy uniform and divert or give deceptive orders to enemy soldiers.

Being more compact and having a shorter length allows for greater close-in weapons usage ; however, being of a shorter length, bayonet length effectiveness would be dimensionally reduced.

Being with the other mannequins, she realizes that she is back in her natural place, which allows the next mannequin in line — the female salesclerk — to go out and live among the humans for thirty days.

In 1987, Day-Lewis assumed leading-man status by starring in Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being, co-starring Lena Olin and Juliette Binoche, as a Czech surgeon whose hyperactive and purely physical sex life is thrown into disarray when he allows himself to become emotionally involved with a woman.

Being aware of Linus's illness, Lucas allows him to watch the film alone while his friends wait outside.

Being an empath allows Phoebe to directly channel the emotions of those around her.

Being awarded the status of Chartered Geographer allows the use of the post-nominal letters C Geog and is evidence of a commitment to continuing professional development and the highest professional standards.

Being object-oriented, S2 allows the declaration of classes with members and methods, but global ( non-class-specific ) functions can also be defined.

Being an extensible syntax programming language, IMP allows the programmer to extend its syntax, although no specific means are provided to add new datatypes or structures to it.

Being built with an object-oriented design, it allows applications to customize and thus optimize the OS services required, and then on the fly hot swap kernel object implementations.

Being it located in the north eastern zone, right within the expansive savannah allows the state to share common borders with the states of Borno, Yobe, Taraba, Adamamwa and Bauchi.

Being the last meal eaten by Muslims before fasting from dawn to sunset during the month of Ramadan, Suhoor is regarded by Islamic traditions as a benefit of the blessings in that it allows the person fasting to avoid the crankiness or the weakness caused by the fast.

Being wired into a computer speeds their reactions, but still allows their human brains to make intelligent decisions based on calculations.

Being inside a national park and the Jackson Hole area, the region is very noise sensitive and the airport currently allows only stage III jet aircraft which have newer, quieter engines.

Being interpreted allows modifying programs and then restarting ( using GOTO ) in the middle of a run, even multi-day, without losing accumulated data.

Being a standardized interface and protocol allows systems management software to manage multiple disparate servers.

Being right on the Pacific ocean, the camp allows superb snorkling and scuba diving.

Being independent allows teams to be located close to major-league teams without their consent.

Being a Psyker allows even a newly initiated Grey Knights to use a Nemesis Force Weapon, a powerful combat weapon with various, specialised forms.