Though beliefs in Heaven and Hell are related, they are associated with different personality characteristics and social phenomena. Here we present three studies measuring Heaven and Hell beliefs' associations with and impact on subjective well-being. We find that a belief in Heaven is consistently associated with greater happiness and life satisfaction while a belief in Hell is associated with...

In this paper the author argues that the Chinese theory of All-under-Heaven is the best philosophy for world governance. All-under-Heaven is a deep world concept with a trinity of meanings: the earth, people’s hearts and a world institution. And it introduces a political principle, ‘world-ness’, that arguably transcends the principle of ‘internationality’. The author argues that the theory of A...

The benchmarking of window-based RDF Stream Processing (RSP) engines has recently attracted the attention of the Stream Reasoning community. Solutions like LSBench, SRBench and CSRBench tried to fulfill the need of shared practices for RSP engine evaluations. However, an infrastructure for the systematic comparison of existing systems is still missing. In this paper, we propose the requirements...

TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: The Prehistory of Greek Mythology and Poetics The Indo-European Heritage The “Cyclic” Tradition I. Father Heaven, Heaven’s Daughter, and the Divine Twins The rape of Nemesis Shape-shifting, rape, and corov" Heaven’s Incest Helen and Saran‰y ̈ ei[dolon and sávarn‰a The birth of the Dvine Twins II. Returning heroes The Dioscuri as rescuers Odysseus and the Phaeacian...