And they're based on arbitrary measures of proficiency. (washingtonpost.com)
But if this is asserted and if we do not wish to think of the orientation of the development by God as a series of arbitrary measures taken by him and as giving impetus to the development from outside (a way of representing the matter which is absurd in fact and method, for all kinds of reasons), then this orientation can only be conceived as happening precisely through, and out of, 11 the of course ultimately divinely - created reality of what Is itself developing in that way. (religion-online.org)
It was as arbitrary a measure of distance as January 1, 2000, is a measure of time. (religion-online.org)