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Unattainability

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Unattainability
See also Impossibility.
Elixir of Life
fabulous potion conferring immortality. [Medieval Legend: Brewer Dictionary, 371]
Fountain of Youth
legendary fountain of eternal youth. [World Legend: Brewer Dictionary, 432]
perpetual motion machine
machine operating of itself forever. [World Legend: Brewer Dictionary, 823]
Philosopher’s Stone
substance supposed to convert base metal to gold. [Medieval Legend: Brewer Dictionary, 829]

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God's unknowability and unattainability are essential to our relationship to God, and to any understanding of that relationship--which should never be mistaken for an understanding of God.
On the basis of Scheler's treatise we can now ask this question: Do the negative conditions of resentment, impotency, unattainability (and the cited aspects of resentment) appear in the phenomenon of Muslim terrorism?
 
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