As complex human beings, it comes as no surprise that our relationships can get a little complicated sometimes.
We no longer perceive the other person
as a complex human being, one who may have hurt feelings, or be yearning to connect.
It therefore takes an effort of historical imagination to put ourselves into the shoes of the statue erectors, and understand
them as complex human beings.
Even if we abhor the beliefs of others, we are exhorted to see
them as complex human beings like ourselves.
Not exact matches
Where we are being connected together
as human beings, and together — we have
complex problems in the world, and we will solve them better together.
Ten years after «Night of the Living Dead,» Romero made «Dawn of the Dead,» where
human survivors take refuge from the undead in a mall and then turn on each other
as the zombies stumble around the shopping
complex.
Utilizing gigantic data pools, deep learning can identify and interpret
complex patterns much in the same way
as the
human brain.
These robots function
as a digital workforce — either completely autonomously or under employee supervision — and free up
human capital for more
complex tasks.
The biggest hurdle, of course, is what is seen
as the future of investing: a dramatic turn toward
complex computer algorithms and artificial intelligence - and away from the
human touch, the instincts and the judgment honed over decades that once put Miller at the top of the heap.
Instead, the technical and emotional guidance that only a trusted,
human advisor (
as opposed to robo - advisors, for instance) can offer to investors who are attempting to undertake the
complex job of coordinating the accumulation, distribution and transfer of their wealth, is invaluable — particularly in an environment that is likely to deliver lower returns and higher volatility than investors have grown accustomed to recently.
It is far more challenging when trying to replicate processes of nature, because nature is wildy more
complex than any
human engineering, but
as we get smarter and learn more we come closer adn closer to being able to simulate natural conditions and create the expected results.
But I want to respond to people throwing out examples such
as: The
human body is too
complex to have formed from evolution or where did the universe come from, both must have come from god because none of you can explain it.
But I do argue that even if we each had privileged and direct access to, and guaranteed inventory of, our own individual
human experience, only a
complex dialectical examination could, if anything could, reasonably and nonarbitrarily determine which features of our own experience — individual and
human — are essential to experience
as such, which are essential to
human experience but not to experience
as such, and perhaps which are essential to one's own experience but not to
human experience
as such.
Theism explains everything we observe, argues Swinburne, including «the fact that there is a universe at all, that scientific laws operate within it, that it contains conscious animals and
humans with very
complex intricately organized bodies, that we have abundant opportunities for developing ourselves and the world,
as well
as the more particular data that
humans report miracles and have religious experiences.»
As human intellect evolved, revelations became more
complex.
I prefer to apply lessons learned from a wider range of
human experience and condemn those biblical passages
as the product of an ignorant, arrogant, bloodthirsty tribe of self - centered nomadic shepherds whose primary characteristics were a raging persecution
complex and an unending quest for justification for their major case of the hots for the little girls in the naboring tribes.
Theres a
human designer... Would it be logical for something so
complex as a living being, animal,
humans..
By locating the discussion of evil in the context of the entire cosmic
complex, one may overlook the particular powerful role that
human beings increasingly play in bringing evil to their own species and to other species
as well.
Whitehead did work out a
complex theory of value, but my point here is only to indicate that Whitehead's way of understanding
human beings
as part of nature both requires that we extend the ethical discussion and gives us clues
as to how to do this.
Unfortunately, some defenders of theism in the eighteenth century wedded themselves to this view of the
complex machine and its maker and associated it with the view that such special forms of the machine
as the
human body came into existence fully formed in an aboriginal creation.
The
complex of ordered energy that is the
human body centred on the brain must itself be integrated through its own individual principle of transcendental control and direction - the centred knowing and loving
as person which we call our «soul».
your understanding of the change process is very simplistic, because your mind is not open, you specifically believe already in the traditional doctrines, Dogmas
as shown in thousands of years of history evolves, and the need for input variables, meaning the diversity of religious belief is necessay because nature through his will is requiring this to happen, we are being educated by God in the events of history.In the past when there was no
humans yet Gods will is directly manifisted in nature, with our coming and education through history, we gradually takes the responsibilty of implementing the will.Your complaint on your perception of abuse is just part of the
complex process of educating us through experience.
There are more
complex, more important
human questions than have been addressed by either the stern denunciations of divorce or the accommodating «cheap grace» efforts to bless divorce — or by the heralding of divorce
as a liberation from outmoded bourgeois morality.
A
human person is an example of such a personal order, and one could extend this image to include larger and more
complex corpuscular societies, such
as ethnic groups, geographical communities, or subcultures.
For if a husband may lord it over his wife, then it is only a matter of establishing additional categories
as the
human race increases and civilization becomes more
complex: chiefs and little people, conquering tribe and conquered tribes, white people and dark people, rich and poor, the «civilized» and the «barbarians.»
While guarding against a rush to judgment, we can easily think of ministries that are pushing all or many of the current success buttons: they are carried out by a professional elite; they utilize the best marketing and media techniques; they dispense a personal fulfillment strategy to essentially anonymous folk who are regarded
as consumers and called to respond in carefully prescribed ways which do not implicate them or their leadership in the more
complex and controversial
human issues.
As has been intimated in these posts,
human sexuality is incredibly
complex.
One way of viewing the religious crisis of our time is to see it not in the first instance
as a challenge to the intellectual cogency of Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, or other traditions, but
as the gradual erosion, in an ever more
complex and technological society, of the feeling of reciprocity with nature, organic interrelatedness with the
human community, and sensitive attention to the processes of lived experience where the realities designated by religious symbols and assertions are actually to be found, if they are found at all.
Human life
as a whole is a
complex interlacing of such webs of meaning.
You are applying
human characteristics to a divine being, that doesn't work.God is more
complex than that, you are running a shell game and calling it reason, you are, in this instance and for the cited reason, wrong.God is not a man, his ways are so far above mans ways, they can not be comprehended.You can not reduce God, and cite that
as proof.
Addressing this poverty is a
complex intellectual task, one that requires articulating the humanness of the
human, and presenting children and childrearing
as fundamental to the common good.
Stil not evidence that those colonies of bactieria can become a
complex multicelled organism such
as a frog or a
human.
However, if he remains true to his Divine Will
as reflected in the Law, it will not be sufficient for him to raise up religious truth in a sporadic fashion without any line of direction or fulfilment: «if God is the Environer of the soul of man, then from the very beginning of man there must be, within his personality and within the
complex of
human society a God - evoked and God directed line of spiritual truth, and good, and spiritual authority».
Just
as the success of the computer depends upon the meticulous preparation of instructions by the programmer, omitting no step in the whole process, so it is assumed that the success of the
human learner, who is believed to be (among other things) a very
complex cybernetic mechanism, depends upon the scrupulous logical organization of teaching materials.
Even
complex phenomena, such
as the emergence of the
human eye, can be explained by studying simpler versions of the same structure and positing some evolutionary succession of events.
Lumen gentium teaches that «Christ... has founded... his Holy Church»; «has made her visible framework... the dispenser of grace and truth»; «she is a society equipped with hierarchical organs and the Mystical Body of Christ, a visible assembly and a spiritual fellowship»; «we must not think of the Church
as two substances, but a single,
complex reality, the compound of a
human and a divine element» (n. 8).
Between these two reductive positions the social sciences may portray the person
as a
complex organism equipped with intellectual powers for adaptive adjustment to its environment, both natural and
human.
Aristotle described
human being
as a layered hierarchy of informed matter, the elements fusing together under the impress of a higher - level form to compose tissues, tissues serving
as the proximate matter for a yet more
complex organizing form at the level of organs, and organs bound into the active, dynamic organism by the yet higher form of soul.
The building block electronic and protonic actual occasions are, in the case of
human beings, swept into vastly more
complex, Chinese box - like sets of containing societies within which there are social levels that can be identified with cells, others which answer to Aristotle's levels of tissues and organs, and which finally are presided over by what Whitehead refers to
as the regnant nexus, a social thread of
complex temporal inheritance which, Whitehead suggests, wanders from part to part of the brain, is the seat of conscious direction of the organism
as a whole, and answers to what in Plato and Aristotle is called the soul.
Having said that, it is obvious that constructing the case for heterosexuality must be
as complex and nuanced
as the cultural and spiritual trajectories of the
human spirit.
Frustration is not new to
human nature; but
as life becomes more
complex and the means of satisfying material desires more numerous and alluring, frustration at failure to find the deeper satisfactions increases proportionately.
I have suggested elsewhere that value - free technology, the military - industrial
complex, and narrow nationalism might be modern examples of such principalities and powers.9 Hendrikus Berkhof suggests that
human traditions, astrology, fixed religious rules, clans, public opinion, race, class, state, and Volk are among the powers.10 Walter Wink sees the powers
as the inner aspects of institutions, their «spirituality,» the inner spirit or driving force that animates, legitimates, and regulates their outward manifestations.11 They are «the invisible forces that determine
human existence «12 When such things dehumanize
human life, thwart and distort the
human spirit, block God's gift of shalom, the followers of Jesus are rallied for a new kind of holy war.
Nor did they tell us how
humans came to have such unique and
complex abilities
as speech and abstract thought.
Once the exceptional, but fundamentally biological, nature of the collective
human complex is accepted, nothing prevents us (provided we take into account the modifications which have occurred in the dimensions in which we are working) from treating
as authentic organs the diverse social organisms which have gradually evolved in the course of the history of the
human race.
In short, the Nature we know from modern science embodies and reflects immaterial properties and a depth of intelligibility... To view all these extremely
complex, elegant and intelligible laws, entities, properties and relations in the evolution of the universe
as «brute facts» in need of no further explanation is, in the words of the great John Paul II, an «abdication of
human intelligence».»
The features of the
human being identified
as Homo economicus are abstracted from the
complex fullness of
human existence.
A corollary of this view, on the part of some scientists, is that the phenomenon of mentality in
human beings can be explained by the
complex interaction of molecules and atoms in the brain,
as epiphenomenon of matter.
In fact, when social scientists contemplate the mutually conditioning relations among
human development, family structures, law, commerce, and the overall culture, their situation is similar to that of natural scientists trying to make sense of such
complex phenomena
as the long - range weather or turbulence in fluids.
Naturally, he does not object to the use of such terminology
as «body» and «soul,» provided it is remembered that the
human body is essentially a vastly
complex society of actual occasions and the
human soul is the unifying, purposive agency of the body.
Unlike Pilgrim, with its several moments of intense oneness with nature, or Holy the Firm, with its more
complex treatment of nature
as a site of worship, Dillard here is bound by the project of the book, which has to do with
human design and artifice, to see how far she can go in resisting all humanizing of nature.