Sentences with phrase «people change in their beliefs»

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«To our friends at Alphabet: we are partners, you are an important investor in Uber, and we share a deep belief in the power of technology to change people's lives for the better,» wrote Khosrowshahi.

Finding out how people behave in other places can support or negate your beliefs and change your marketing techniques in the best way possible.

«To our friends at Alphabet: We are partners, you are an important investor in Uber, and we share a deep belief in the power of technology to change people's lives for the better.

Hughes had his own revelation: Obama's belief in the power of real people to be agents of change dovetailed with his own.

«To our friends at Alphabet: we are partners, you are an important investor in Uber, and we share a deep belief in the power of technology to change people's lives for the better,» wrote Khosrowshahi in a letter announcing the settlement.

Smart leaders understand that executing a change in direction — even a small one --(picture of basketball players) requires their own thinking, expectations, and beliefs to shift, as well as those of the people on their team.

Following you for all these years and watching the changes in your cartoons, watching the comments, reading your posts, and some person e-mails between us, I know you as a changing person with fluxing beliefs.

You can leave this country at anytime, just do not change our way of life this country fought for... if this way of thinking continues in the United States of America you will be saluting a different flag... these people who think this way can go live in any other foreign country or go to an island and start your own country, with your own beliefs, sick of the ACLU running this country

Actually Saraswati, you abandoned your original position that America is a «two party system which only legislation is likely to change» and supported everything I said, which is that legislation is not required, and the number of parties is not designed into the system, and it's not likely to happen because people here prefer to abandon their true beliefs in favor of a lesser evil that might win.

Over thousands of years the Bible's interpretation has changed because in my belief evertime a translation is made, or a person edits the Bible the meaning changes.

Come meet other people who have changed their minds and are in the process of changing their beliefs at The Lasting Supper.

According to the document «Towards Common Witness» some of the characteristics which distinguish proselytism from Christian witness are: unfair criticism of caricaturing of the doctrines, beliefs and practices of another church; presenting one's church or confession as «the true church»; the use of humanitarian aid, educational opportunities or moral and psychological pressure, to induce people to change their affiliation; exploiting people's loneliness, even disillusionment with their own church in order to «convert» them.

If you know an establishments serves pork on Saturday and it clearly states so, why go there on Saturday and ask them to change the menu because of you.Same thing happen in Washington DC, even though there is absentee ballot, Jewish people want the District of Columbia to change voting day because it fall on Saturday.Trust me, contrary to your belief, you are not special.

After all these years of study, of experience, of seeing others change, and becoming a different person myself, my belief system has gone a long way from «because the bible says so» to lets see everything the bible has to say about it, what was going on then, who it was said to, and what it means in the context of life today.

Think your new group is a marvelous idea... people whose beliefs are changing or those who have been abused, need a safe container in which to express themselves.

While we are interested in bearing witness to the gospel of Jesus, our mission is not to recruit people from one religious institution or belief system for another; nor to give them new laws, dogmas and rituals; but rather to persuade all to change our lives and ways, and adopt a new way of seeing, doing and being.

People refusing medical treatment because they think they can pray disease away, The demoralizing way religion makes you feel about yourself (I am a wretch, a sinner, a bad person by nature), the religious wars that have been fought for millenia, the self righteous passing laws based on THEIR beliefs (change to the pledge of allegience which now excludes anyone who does not believe in a fairy godfather, the change to the national motto that turned it into the lie «in god we trust», the bigotry that «my religion is the right one and you are wrong so I'll pray for you» kind of crap... don't you realize that it is insulting to me when someone says they will pray for me... its the same as saying I'm going to do something for you but there won't be any effect, so it is just a waste of time.

That beliefs can affect actions even on the part of persons of great wealth and power has recently been suggested by the change of climate in the annual meetings of world economic leaders that have been held in Davos, Switzerland, until this year, when the group met in New York

So to allow God to work in the lives of others, we must allow those people the freedom to explore God, and allow God the freedom to change their belief structures.

The belief that every single person is precious in God's sight has inspired some Christians to work for social changes such as the abolition of slavery, an end to the exploitation of factory workers, the removal of racial discrimination and apartheid, and the prevention of cruelty to and the sexual abuse of women and children.

There are pretty cool things about all the prophecies Jesus fulfilled, historical info pointing to Christ and the disciples, as well as psychological analyses of the changes seen in people in the bible that could only be logically explained by major shifts in belief.

Contrary to popular belief, withdrawing from an unpleasant situation can actually act as the first step to a positive change in a person's life and be quite liberating.

And... I can think of many reasons why certain group of people might not be here, (a ssuming for the moment that your question is accurate), How about... why would «gays» want to be on a belief blog where there are Christians who constantly claim they are an abomination and going to burn in hell, and they are not worthy of God's love, unless they «change their sinning ways.»

It is easy to stand and prophecy that in the future there will be strange new religions, that people will do things foreign to our understanding, and swear that our gods will not be pleased... and be correct... because it is the nature of human beings to change, to modify our beliefs to fit our experience, to seek out new understanding, change the way we dress and do our hair, and unfortunately, it is in our nature to fight over stupid crap like land and religion.

As the demographic cotinues to change and these people die off, the conservative far right will be either irrelevant or forced to embrace those true Christian ideals of loving and accepting their neighbors in a country not founded upon Christian beliefs but tolerance for all faiths.

There was a reason why the founding fathers put kept religion out of our government and now it seems we are being asked to» pick the Christian» in this next years election — we are not picking the leader of a church here people, we picking someone to be the most influential, most powerful person on the earth... do we want someone who has our best interests at heart or someone who will time and again try to change the US laws to reflect his own personal beliefs?

(4) Inability to distinguish minding your own business from telling others what they believe is in wrong — the beliefs are contingent upon THINKING they can change people on the spot by insulting them, their intelligence and making them feel foolish.

Atheists IMO are above trying to change peoples beliefs, let people believe whatever they want to believe as long as it doesn't interfere with my life, which in many ways Religion does on a daily basis but no need to blast the Atheist belief or non-belief on anyone else.

You insulted a few people on here for their comments and now you're doing the same thing... hypocrisy in your world is a sin... enjoy your time in your hell because hypocrites don't change and given that it is your belief, you can enjoy it!

I wish everyone acted like a quiet atheist out of respect for other people and kept their beliefs to themselves knowing full well, in time, beliefs will surely change.

People «believe» all sorts of nonsense, and their «beliefs» are subject to change on a regular basis (listen to any John Kerry speech, in which he begins every other paragraph with «I believe...» followed by his belief of the week.

When what a person sees goes against what they believe they can not continue to hold that belief, and it is nothing but dishonesty to attempt to change it after the fact as if they believed that all along in the first place.

Among these young people, religious belief is strong — 82 percent believe in God, one third have had a religious experience that changed their lives, and 40 percent pray every day.

In Christianity, it keeps people from questioning or changing cherished but flawed beliefs, from listening to and finding out what is true and what is false in everything, from discovering what underlying assumptions are taken for granted as true, when they might not bIn Christianity, it keeps people from questioning or changing cherished but flawed beliefs, from listening to and finding out what is true and what is false in everything, from discovering what underlying assumptions are taken for granted as true, when they might not bin everything, from discovering what underlying assumptions are taken for granted as true, when they might not be.

Sociologists also deal with such topics as the components of culture, i.e., beliefs, values, language, and norms; cultural dynamics; cultural integration; cultural change; ideal culture, what people profess to follow, and real culture, how people actually behave in relation to these claims; ethnocentrism, the proclivity to see one's culture as the best and consequently all others as inferior; and cultural relativity.

They tell people who are ignorant of the change in club membership that they play golf with the belief the ignorant person is impressed.

I think people get a little defensive in their own beliefs but he was right saying 2 - 3 years ago that we needed a change.

But that conclusion in itself would miss the great power he had to captivate an audience, to make people think and reflect upon their assumptions, to inspire a sense of capacity and a belief in change for the better.

For so many of us, Jon was a leader, a mentor, a friend and above all the person whose belief in our ability to create change moved us, day in and day out, to fight for the issues facing our communities, our city and our state.

The case, backed by Humanists UK and its section Northern Ireland Humanists, seeks to change the current unjust situation where religious people are able to have legally recognised marriage ceremonies in line with their beliefs, but humanists are not.

Political party and belief in climate change are the main determinants of whether people are willing to pay a modest fee to combat climate change, as opposed to education, income, or geographic location.

Experts should take note of local knowledge and beliefs when making plans about how to help people in vulnerable regions cope with the impacts of climate change.

Associate professor of natural resource social science Linda Prokopy and fellow researchers surveyed 6,795 people in the agricultural sector in 2011 - 2012 to determine their beliefs about climate change and whether variation in the climate is triggered by human activities, natural causes or an equal combination of both.

The researchers found that, far from convincing people to change their minds, the new information reinforced their existing beliefs and actually made people think longer and harder, and with more in - depth arguments, about how they defended them.

What's more, the cluster of stories swayed people's opinion by 2.3 % in the ideological direction of opinion articles, suggesting that news media might in some cases change people's beliefs.

But a study published online today in the journal Cognition by researchers at the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania found that the encyclical did not directly influence people's beliefs about the seriousness of climate change or its effect on the poor.

«There is very little evidence to suggest that we can change people's beliefs or knowledge in a way that will lead to increased immunizations,» said study co-author Allison Kempe, MD, MPH, professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

It's changed citizens» belief that they didn't matter to a belief that they could matter... It has benefited many people suffering from toxic releases or from plumes of contaminants under their soil or from dumps, or proposed power plants or other plants, such as the concrete plants just defeated in Cranston, Rhode Island.

Some years ago, our colleagues showed that people's perception of the level of scientific agreement was associated with belief in climate change and policy support for the issue.

In the current analysis, Bohr wanted to find out if people's particular political orientations and beliefs about global warming changed at all during periods of so - called temperature anomalies, when temperatures above or beyond the normal are experienced.