To reckon with the state violence inflicted on black communities, evidenced in the frequent exonerated police killings of black women and men in the United States, Stephen Finley and Biko Mandela Gray draw upon Gordon's reflections to address what they view as an immanent concern by which the state occupies a
deific role, who as god, is the absolute judge of innocence or guilt and is legally and divinely authorized to terrorize black people.
Again this event confirmed the
deific vision of Khomeini in envisioning the success of the Shiite state in Iran.
Thanks to rapping Raap, the umbilical cord that connects Africana peoples with their inherent divinity pulsates with
deific beats, and throbs with numinous rhymes.
Part of the "Olympians" series of full -color graphic novel adaptations of Greek mythology, Aphrodite: Goddess of Love tells the story of the
deific personification of love, seduction, and desire.
It lauds Tao as "supremely honored," an allusion to his
deific status and the obeisances he receives even from the emperor himself.
* Insanity defenses (e.g., M'Naghten Rule, Model Penal Code, Irresistible Impulse Rule, Durham Rule, and
Deific Decree Exception) (2)
RAIL: The first thing I was reminded of was a beautiful line from Walt Whitman, "A blade of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars." As far as the use of the grass grid, I feel his poem "Chanting the Square
Deific" fits the sentiment of such a pantheistic view as well.
One must cross the boundaries of definitions and transcend the finiteness of conclusions, to lose his own being as a creation and to reach the
deific state, in which man loses himself in God, who is in the final instance the Ineffable, Nothing, and Silence.
Commenting on the recitation as a symptom of the idolizing of words per se as opposed to looking for meaning, giving the
deific hieroglyphics of Pharonic Egypt as an example, he said that monitoring of people's behavior rather than appreciating what went on in their hearts characterized many societies.
Doctoral theses have been written on the significance of the colors, likening them to orishas, the female
deific energies of Oshun, Yemaya, Oya.
As Loy writes in a poem on Joyce: "The word made flesh" can "fee[d] on itself." (3) Loy does not associate the
deific or sovereign with the act of communication; hers is a self-sufficient, secular view of the word.
Rather than arguing
deific agency versus self-disfigurement, this paper addresses only the comparative similarities that are within the purview of physical, sociological and psychological realms.
