When human children are forced to care for themselves, like some primates, because they have been abandoned by caregivers, species - specific resilient behaviors begin to emerge.
Often,
when a human child arrives, the pet is displaced or unwanted (they miss the point of the «test» — a level of commitment that should last for the life of the «child!»)
Not exact matches
In an open letter to his baby girl — which doubled as a 2,238 - word press release, with bolded phrases and separated sections for maximum ease
when skimming — Zuckerberg writes that he wants to «join people across the world to advance
human potential and promote equality for all
children in the next generation.»
Since his last re-election, Clarke has openly supported Republican causes on local and national right - wing media outlets; proudly trumpets on official Milwaukee County letterhead his 2013 award from the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, whose leader suggested using women and
children as
human shields during Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's standoff with federal agents; accused Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele of having «penis envy» and being on heroin
when crafting the county budget and needing to be drug tested; blasted Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm and Chief Judge Jeffrey Kremers for being «soft on crime»; provided minimal protection for President Obama during his 2012 visit; employs former Scott Walker spokeswoman Fran McLaughlin, who was given criminal immunity over her role in Walker's mixing of campaign and county business; and created pro-gun public service announcements.
It doesn't so much matter
when the first people were named Adam and Eve; what matters is that all
humans are
children of one God and ought to treat each other well.
And,
when a not - so - tiny
child (a teenager, say) figures this out, the 2nd half of the
human temperament — the challenging, questioning, inquisitive, experimental, anti-authoritarian part — comes to the fore.
When the U.S. Muslim community sounds out LOUD and CLEAR, without equivocation, and immediately against all forms of terrorism, including all aggressive religious intolerance for
human rights, women's right,
children, equal protection under the law, the respect for other religions to coexist, the right to free speech, and the ability to separate church from state, IF THEY FINALLY DO THAT AND LOUDLY, then we will begin to feel comfortable that they are truly embracing American ideals and here to join us, not to oppose, defy, or undermine what we hold dear.
Contraception is the promise of
child - free sex, and
when something goes wrong and a
child is conceived ¯ due either to the technical failure rate of contraception or to the possibility of
human error in anything we
humans undertake ¯ abortion takes that
child - free promissory note to the bank.
But
when 1.6 Billion
human beings say don't hurt our feelings by drawing cartoons (good or bad) of a person who is closer to our hearts than our own families and
children, all the tolerance goes down the you know what.
When a
child is a viable
human life, s / he can survive outside the mother's body, at approximately 28 weeks or sometimes less, with neonatal care.
Hope amidst suffering, hope
when men know only defeat and despair, hope
when death seems to smother out the shoots of life springing from the hearts of men, hope for our society, our world, our city, our schools, courts, prisons, legislatures, hope for our
children, for our elderly, hope for all the millions of men and women over the face of this globe who simply want to live out their lives as free
human beings not trampled down and stepped on by the overlords of this world.
But
when, by contrast, parental love is grounded in the facts of biological and historical bonding, the
child lives in a setting offering the kind of acceptance
human beings need in order themselves to become capable of adult commitment — a setting in which individuals who are separate but connected can grow and flourish.
Perhaps John hints at this
when he says that those to whom Jesus gave the right to become
children of God were born «not of natural descent, nor of
human decision, nor of a husband's will, but were born of God» (John 1:14).
fred The Bible said that at a time
when the world's
human population was only in the millions, and disease generally prevented about 30 % of all
children from reaching adulthood, so having large families was a way of hedging your bet.
, then Job can ask — and indeed if he is
human he must ask — «Where were you, O God, on that day
when all my herds were taken and all my servants and even all my
children were killed?
When's the last time a
human parent asked their «
children'to «worship» them.
Paul VI taught that
when parents exercise responsible parenthood,
children will «grow up with a correct appreciation of
human values» (Humane Vitae 21).
It is only
when the
child has already been involved in a good deal of basic faith experience that he steadily attains more self - awareness, and his developing mind recognizes that the context of his
human existence is one in which the horizons are being pushed ever farther back.
@child: in that situation it's called adrenaline: wonder drug from your adrenal gland that permits amazing feats during times of «fight or flight» mothers have been known to flip cars
when their
children were trapped under them due to the surge of body strength adrenaline gives the
human body.
One is put in mind of P. D. James» wonderfully chilling novel, The
Children of Men, depicting a time
when human beings can no longer have babies and resort to all kinds of baby substitutes for consolation in their cold and sterile world.
When Aslan the lion speaks to the creatures of Narnia and to the
human children who visited there, they heard his voice: good, strong, kind, magical.
Here, we have yet another opportunity to put the best interest of
children forward
when considering allocation and research into
human cloning.
Jeremiah was known by God before he was born that he is gonna be a Prophet, God blesses even the unborn
children, but
when a parent slaughters a
child we call it a crime and
when she aborts a baby we call it
human right.
When God created Adam, he created a MAN... not a zygote, sperm, fetus, baby,
child... but a fully MATURED adult
human.
Its boisterous currents showed bewildering power
when they had overflowed their banks, and all our little
human preventions were washed away like piles of sand that
children raise against the onset of the tides.
Technological possibility will increasingly eclipse the very terms of our debate over abortion, and I suspect that «abortion politics» as we know it is on its way to being a relic of the past — a particularly brutal way we eliminated
human life back
when humans used to have
children.
The state's right to invade this area of
human relationship is justified only
when it can be shown that rights beyond the realm of familial authority are being violated, as, for example,
when children are being abused.
Its experience of the extent to which
human brutality can go, of the fury that can be unleashed
when the
human animal is attacked, its acceptance in wry cynicism of the venality of great and small; its acceptance, too, of a psychological analysis that tends to show how slight the power of reason, how great the strength of obscure passions; how corrupting of
children the possible love of mothers and the wrath of fathers; its portrayal of men and mankind in bitterly disillusioned novels and in shuddering chronicles of man's inhumanity to man — in all this the 20th century has perhaps gone beyond anything that Edwards said in dispraise of men, individually and in the collective.
When I see the tremendous support the Global March has received, it becomes certain that the 21st century is not going to flourish at the cost of the sweat and blood of
children, said Mr. Kailash Satyarthi, of India, the international coordinator of the Global March, who had originally conceived the idea and proposed it to NGOs worldwide working on
children's
human rights.
Just as in a
human marriage the
children reap the greatest benefits
when mother and father are in faithful harmony.
Examples are 9/11 hijackings, The holding back of stem cell research that could save countless
human lives, Aids being spread due to religious opposition to the use of condoms, Christians legally fighting this year to teach over 1 million young girls in America that they must always be obedient to men, the eroding of
child protection laws in America by Christians, for so called faith based healing alternatives that place
children's health and safety at risk, burning of witches, the crusades, The Nazi belief that the Aryans were god's chosen to rule the world, etc... But who cares about evidence in the real world
when we have our imaginations and delusions about gods with no evidence of them existing.
«Pakistan has set the standard for intolerance
when it comes to misusing blasphemy laws, but sending a schoolboy to jail for something he scribbled on an exam paper is truly appalling,» Bede Sheppard, senior
children's rights researcher at
Human Rights Watch, said in a statement Wednesday.
The age of accountability is a concept born from the compassion of the
human heart, from a deep and intrinsic sense that a loving, good, and just God would not condemn little
children or the mentally handicapped to such suffering
when they could certainly bear no responsibility for their faith.
Even
when our enemies are so corrupt and evil that there is no discernible sign of good in any of them, we can at least recognize that they are fellow
human beings and
children of God — however much they have violated His commands — and love and pray for them on that basis alone.
From the moment
when, as I have said, the phyletic strands began to reach towards one another, weaving the first outlines of the Noosphere, a new matrix, co-extensive with the whole
human group, was formed about the newly - born
human child — a matrix out of which he can not be wrenched without incurring mutilation in the most physical core of his biological being.
Sad
when you whiners complain about
human rights... you'd rather see innocent
children and the elderly die because they can't afford medical attention than give them a chance.
Effusive media reports give the impression that robots will befriend us, play with our
children, and care for us
when we are old — and that they may be (at least) as good as the
human alternative.
Buddhism: I was a Buddhist
when I had my first
child but realized that I did not agree with the Buddha that
human life was suffering and that it was better not to be born.
The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of
human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his
children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments
when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!
A socio - biologist can tell a young woman on the best scientific authority that nature designed her, body and mind, to conceive, bear and care for
children, but it he can not tell her in the name of science that in so doing she will fulfill her
human possibilities, and he can not answer her
when she declares war on such natural necessities.
Even
when the Lord honored the
children of Israel as his chosen people, it was done to fulfill his divine plan for everyone, and in the context of his boundless love for a unified
human race.
«In the names of reason, science and liberty they had proved, rather effectively, that good societies need God to survive and that
when you have murdered Him, starved Him, silenced Him, denied Him to the
children and erased His festivals and His memory, you have a gap which can not indefinitely be filled by any
human, nor anything made by
human hands.»
Furthermore, this bodily conflict between the mother and her emergent
child anticipates the often much more painful act of separation,
when the
child, exercising the newly awakened powers made possible by his large head, reaches for his own autonomous knowledge of good and had, and repeats the original rise and fall from obedience and innocence in the ever - recurring saga of
human freedom and «enlightenment.»
as
humans learn more intricate sciences and venture out into space, religion will become a mythology taught to
children as «
when the world was full of hate» or as a course on «how to start wars»
I bring the conversation up because it came to mind last week
when I was reading about a Christian ethicist so passionately committed to defending the (unmistakably) exceptional nature of
human beings that he thinks it necessary to forbid his
children any sentimental solicitude for the suffering of beasts, and to disabuse them of the least trace of the dangerous fantasy or pathetic fallacy that animals experience anything analogous to
human emotions, motives, or needs; they can not really, he insists, know anxiety, grief, regret, or disappointment, and so we should never allow them to divert our sympathies or ethical longings from their proper object.
When morality is based on religious text, its OK to: • behead one's daughter to restore a family's «honor» • deny emergency medical aid to a
child • kill gays,
children who misbehave, anyone who works on a particular day of the week, entire groups and races of peoples, and many others for equally capricious reasons • buy and sell
humans as chattel, including one's own family members • kill anyone who visually depicts Muhammad
@NII YOU SOUND LIKE YOU ARE GUILTY AND TALKED ABOUT OTHER FALSEHOOD RELIGION YOU DID NOT LIKE OR UNDERSTAND
WHEN YOU WAS LITTLE
CHILD OR YOUNGER ADULT OR MID LIFE PERSON.THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF GLOBAL FALSEHOOD RELIGIONS.BUT THIS ONE THING DOES NOT LIE (DNA) Y CHROMOSOME EVEN TOP SUPER SMART BLOND HEAD BLUE EYE PALE SKIN SUPER DNA RESEARCH PROFESSIONALS WITH MULTIPLE PHD DEGREES FROM NORWAY SWEDEN AND FINLAND DENMARK ETC KNOW THAT THE Y CHROMOSOME ALSO KNOWN AS THE ADAM Y CHROMOSOME CAMED OUT OF EAST AFRICA.falsehood religion did not make.the
human race WISDOM DID WISDOM WALKED AND TALKED WITH MAN IT WAS WISDOM THAT MADE ADAM AND EVE.THINK ABOUT IT @NII NOW THE MOST DOMINANT DNA BELONGS TOO BLACK PEOPLE NOT EUROPEANS.LOOK AT ALL YOUR MIXED RACE BLACK PEOPLE»S TIGER WOOD»S HALLEY BERRY LENNY KRAVITZ LISA BONET ETC DNA DO NT LIE man made falsehood religion do lie
I wondered
when we would know better how to help
children more widely in schools and homes to understand their feelings, and
when we would be able to help parents understand theirs, so that the boys and girls now growing up might know not only about tanks and bullets but about the most powerful of all weapons for both good and evil — the
human feelings that propel us, if we do not understand them, into hating in place of loving, into killing instead of creation.
kindof how
when your a
child you can't fly, but you try to imagine what it is like for the birds; however regardless of how much you attempt to imagine flight you can't understand it as a bird because you can't fly... even as an adult
humans fail to truly understand what it is like to fly like a bird because we can't fly, so how can «god» understand death and create a creature that does die if he can't die?
In a single verse (2:11), in a little handful of common words familiar even to a
child, all that is essential is said and all of
human emotion accompanying the action is eloquently implied:
When Moses was grown, he went out to «his people» (lest there be any misunderstanding, the word is literally «his brothers») and he «looked on their burdens.»