Sentences with phrase «about human powered»

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Meicun Weng, the founder of Chinese community and news site Boxun (which regularly reports on Chinese human - rights abuses and is blocked in China), drives home the point about how the Chinese government wields influence with its economic power.

MacKinnon said there is «real concern among human rights groups that this is going to lead to over-censorship» and put too much power in the decision of private employees about what to leave up and what to take down.

March «Letter about the coalition about the law CLOUD», writing that the draft law, in their opinion, undermines privacy and other human rights and important democratic guarantees, to bypass Congress and existing procedures for the storage of information in the hands of the Executive power.

Her allegations get at a core concern about the Trump presidency: that he may have used (indeed, may still be using) his money and power to make sure the ordinary rules of human behavior don't apply to him.

Now, in evaluating how that text got there, you are saying it's irrelevant that the odds of the monkeys actually doing it are 1 in 2 to the power 1billion, and the odds of a human having done it and left the room are actually about 1 to 1?

It says more about the power of the human mind over the human body than it does about prayer itself.

Sure lets talk about «binder's of women» anything but the real issues like the human rights violations when we drop bombs on cities with unchecked drone power, spying on our own citizens, still waging war on our own population calling it a war on drugs and turning us into a gulag state.

We can see that in human beings and many other creatures, the power to bring about new life has been divided into two collaborating halves — the male which prompts the gift of life, and the female which receives, actively responds, nurtures and brings forth the fruit of life itself.

It really is about time people stopped being so damned naive about human nature and the lengths to which people will go to protect money, power and status.

power / control is one of my favorite topics as well — i see one of Jesus» three wilderness temptations as being about that — and of course He rejected satan's offer of worldly power — i've written several blogs about power / control http://www.diospsytrek.wordpress.com — scott peck saw the desire for one human to exert control over another as the essential human evil — blessing on your work.

Complaints about the cultural «imposition» of ideas about universal human rights are, more often than not, in the service of nationalism, racism, ideology, or power politics - or all of these in combination.

In this view, Judaism is fundamentally about a divine - human partnership, a covenant, in which the divine partner increasingly cedes power and responsibility for creation to the human partner.

Sex at Dupont is mostly recreational, but sometimes, as Charlotte discovers, sex is about power, the power to define other human beings and their worth.

The new reality which broke into human experience in the person of Jesus becomes more distinct not through new conceptions about a transcendent reality, but through the growing experience of the power of that reality to bring transformation and healing in daily life.

Do we lose the power of the claim that an itinerant Jewish preacher who taught about love and was murdered by the political establishment of his time was God become human flesh if we turn out to mean only that it's useful to say that?

Can we reconceive theological education in such a way that (1) it clearly pertains to the totality of human life, in the public sphere as well as the private, because it bears on all of our powers; (2) it is adequate to genuine pluralism, both of the «Christian thing» and of the worlds in which the «Christian thing» is lived, by avoiding naiveté about historical and cultural conditioning without lapsing into relativism; (3) it can be the unifying overarching goal of theological education without requiring the tacit assumption that there is a universal structure or essence to education in general, or theological inquiry in particular, which inescapably denies genuine pluralism by claiming to be the universal common denominator to which everything may be reduced as variations on a theme; and (4) it can retrieve the strengths of both the «Athens» and the «Berlin» types of excellent schooling, without unintentionally subordinating one to the other?

We need only to look about us at the multitude of disjointed forces neutralising each other and losing themselves in the confusion of human society — the huge realities (broad currents of love or hatred animating peoples and classes) which represent the power of awareness but have not yet found a consciousness sufficiently vast to encompass them all.

In Kagan's account, Niebuhr's distinctive warnings about the temptations of human power are absent» as are his concerns about the perils of hubris and overreaching by those who are overly confident of the efficacy of power and justice in the world.

The reason for this flexibility of method is not a desire to be «liberal» either in the sense of an optimistic vision of human nature in general or in the more restrictive methodological sense of being optimistic about the power of one's critical tools.

Every human existence which is not conscious of itself as spirit, or conscious of itself before God as spirit, every human existence which is not thus grounded transparently in God but obscurely reposes or terminates in some abstract universality (state, nation, etc.), or in obscurity about itself takes its faculties merely as active powers, without in a deeper sense being conscious whence it has them, which regards itself as an inexplicable something which is to be understood from without — every such existence, whatever it accomplishes, though it be the most amazing exploit, whatever it explains, though it were the whole of existence, however intensely it enjoys life aesthetically — every such existence is after all despair.

Nevertheless, Mr. Bottum is right about the symbolic power of sacrifice, whether human or animal, to sustain a culture.

God is the structure of reality and the power of being which brings about these transformations of human existence, which can be described in personal terms as response to love and forgiveness and in ontological terms as the reunion of the separated.

But neither does she shy from addressing hard truths, for she knows that democracy, far from being a machine that runs of itself, is contingent upon truth and truths - about human nature, the dynamics of power, and what we can reasonably expect from history.

Make no mistake about it, he has the key of David and power over every living human being as I found out.

They can't see the basic human psychology in stories about a being (or beings) who have power over good and evil, who has the ability to give ot take life, to forgive or to condemn, to create heaven or hell.

@pockets: So, what scares you is that someone who believes everyone on Earth was created for a reason, and who believes that all live is sacred, is given the power to choose whether or not to bring about the extinction of the human race.

Highly significant for Christology are these two quotations from Hartshorne's The Divine Relativity10 In the first he refuses to allow «paradox» to cover up illogicality: «A theological paradox, it appears, is what a contradiction becomes when it is about God rather than something else...» In the second he applies this to the relation between God's power and our human decisions: «For God to do what I do when I decide my own act, determine my own concrete being, is mere nonsense, words without meaning.

All the serious questions about power and colonialism are graced with an enthralling visual style, a warm sense of humor and moments of tenderness that feel so human they'll make you cry.

Systemic suffering and social malfunctioning, therefore, are caused by human greed, self - centeredness, an illusion about power and control, racism, sexism, imperialism, ethnocentrism, and other factors.

then the bishops, the imans, the priests, the ministers, the holy posers would all just be another human with no power to bully and dictate what the universe is all about.

Atheist and believer will disagree too about the definition of the human person, about the sources and character of power, about definitions of success and materialism, the power and place of reason in the struggle for bread.

It could flit about here and yonder, could suddenly appear or disappear, could exercise superhuman powers; but none of this is determinative, for we find that certain human beings could do the same.

the possibility and necessity of living in a dimension of meaning in which the urgencies of the struggle are subordinated to a sense of awe before the vastness of the historical drama in which we are jointly involved; to a sense of modesty about the virtue, wisdom, and power available to us for the resolution of its perplexities; to a sense of contrition about the common human frailties and foibles which lie at the foundation of... our vanities; and to a sense of gratitude for the divine mercies which are promised to those who humble themselves.

But truth about God's goodness and power is revealed everywhere in the natural setting of human life, and this knowledge is not wholly perverted by sin.

They have accepted the fact that vast numbers of members of the human race have spoken or written about some such awareness, however it may have been conceived, of a presence which is believed to be more than human, and they have told us that they have experienced a power that seems to come from beyond, above, and below the level of human enabling.

If he had not given up everything that was part of being «God», then there would be no power in his sacrifice, there would be nothing profound about the way he lived... so, if he is fully human, the caption should read, «when a man stopped believing in God».

In the first place such education, now as always, is concerned with the nurture of men and women whose business in life it will be to help men to see their immediate perplexities, joys and sufferings in the light of an ultimate meaning, to live as citizens of the inclusive society of being, and to relate their present choices to first and last decisions made about them in the totality of human history by Sovereign Power.

The six theologians who led the event — Carter Heyward, Barbara Gerlach, Rita Nakashima Brock, Gail Paterson Corrington, Jacquelyn Grant and Delores Williams — challenged age - old assumptions about human life, divine power and Jesus Christ as the only true redeemer.

It is about bringing the power of faith to bear on the human experience of dying, death and bereavement.

see what you have to understand about living in a real world — a world where god is just a story and not real — its a world based on scientific and physical laws that are proven to exist and their effects are measurable... us as humans, mere animals, hold no real power or control aside thru ingenuity which allows us to change our environment to suit us... stay with me here... at this point in human history we ceased to change to suit our environment and started changing it to suit us — thats destruction of the earth to suit one species — that should go over well...

God remains powerful, but power — the capacity to influence reality or bring about significant effects — is redefined through the divine decision to remain defenseless in the face of our own human use of power in order to oppress:

Certainly human lives are intertwined, and we know as yet little about the power of thought transference.

A third error lay in putting the emphasis on human effort to bring about the kingdom, whereas God alone, by his kingly power, will bring it to pass when in his divine wisdom the season is right.

You hold the firmest convictions about Our Lord; believing him to be truly «of David's line in his manhood», yet Son of God by the divine will and power; truly born of a virgin; baptised by John «for his fulfilling of all righteousness»; and in the days of Pontius Pilate and Herod the Tetrarch truly pierced by nails in his human flesh (a fruit imparting life to us from his most blessed passion), so that by his resurrection he might set up a beacon for all time to call together his saints and believers, whether Jews or Gentiles, in the one bodyof his Church» (Smyrna I, 1 - 6).

Therefore, we approach the discipline of being a community of moral conversation, not only with our natural human anxieties about conflict and change, but also with the hope we have in God's grace, our belief in the power of the Spirit to work through and among us.

Funny I never thought of Jesus as having a hercules style body... Just average build... He did work as a capenter and the carpenters I know have good muscle tone... by are not body builder status, Hercules built to excess... They are just like a average farmer, strong and even in muscle tone... Jesus's whole life was about being humble and coming from the low end of the society... he was born with the animals in a very humble place... I do not see him as a super strong human... but then being the son of God, he would have had super powers if he wanted them... he just did not need them...

The man who spent his early life as a worker behind the Iron Curtain became the instrument of the Holy Spirit in teaching the world about the true dignity of man, of human labour, and about the unfathomable power of Divine Mercy to transform evil into good, despair into hope, and oppression into freedom.

We have quoted the Scots theologian Chalmers who spoke of «the expulsive power of a new affection» as a means of purifying and ennobling human existence; and the historian of French spirituality, Henri Bremond, has written about the way in which prayer, at its best, is «a purification of the self.»

Perhaps fatigued departments and weary scholars will commit themselves anew to basic arts of human flourishing — the capacity to read comprehendingly and comprehensively, the ability to think carefully and clearly about ideas, the power to communicate winsomely.