Sentences with phrase «absurdity because»

In this, Mattingly sees absurdity because the same economic machines that drive mining, the artist relies on herself to expose the causes of these defeated landscapes.

The irony is that, from a comedic standpoint, scientific talks are the perfect opportunities for absurdity because it's so unexpected.

And for Aristotle, «same - sex marriage» would be an absurdity because no state can be founded or sustained on its inescapably barren relations.

That you've admitted (at least subconsciously, to yourself) that this specific doctrine is BS, and have employed an exegesis of convenience in order to weasel your way around such manifest absurdity because you are quite attached to calling yourself a Catholic.

Not exact matches

Beyond the absurdity of basing investment decisions on a temporary weather event, these recommendations can be harmful to investors because they involve some stocks with very shaky fundamentals at a time when market volatility makes investing in strong businesses all the more important.

BTW, the tactic may silence the opposition, not because they can not think of a counter arguement, but because the absurdity does not deserve to be dignified by a serious response.

Perhaps this idea is ambiguous, perhaps there is a sense in which God should be conceived as perfect, another sense in which perfection can not apply to God, because (it may be) this sense involves an absurdity or, in other words, is really nonsense.

Because, once you invoke magic, any absurdity can be explained away by an exercise of magic powers or by things being «beyond our understanding.»

Faith is inauthentic because, at root, it is a form of obfuscation, a dishonesty about the terrors, pain, and absurdities of life.

I would guess exaggeration like this is the type of «absurdity» Hedges is referring to... you know, calling a work of non-fiction fiction because it disagrees with your beliefs.

The assumption that she would be lost forever simply because she heard one garbled sermon makes the doctrine of hell as often defended a moral and theological absurdity.

No Eric, they aren't aware that there are precedents to the OT or NT because their ignorance and fear is a tool that the priest - perverts use to keep people cowed and repeating the absurdities they put forth.

This act of a freedom that denies God is thus the absolute contradiction, in which God is affirmed and denied simultaneously, and this ultimate absurdity is at the same time made relative in the temporal sphere, because it is necessarily objectivated and mediated in the finite material of our life.

An opinion that would have been considered a self - evident absurdity and only laughed at a decade or two ago is now taken seriously because it can be exchanged for a high price in outrage» outrage both from those who agree and those who disagree» which is the media's coin of the realm.

And how is saying that comparing Obama to Hitler is an inappropriate way for a US statesman to conduct himself (because of the inflammatory nature, irrelevancy, and absurdity of the statement) a personal attack?

hinduism absurdity of Evolution bits the dust, because Evolution is nothing more than a medium for sperm to grow, but without proof of origination of a process.

Here we move into simple absurdity which is all the more baffling because of the nondualistic quality of Buddhist language.

This is humorous because of its apparent absurdity.

Yet, they find no absurdity in the idea that a non-believer, who fails to profess his / her faith in Jesus Christ and ask for the forgiveness of sins, but lives a good life (goodness for goodness sake, if you will) will burn in hell because of his / her failed acknowlegement of his / her «Creator.»

Because we get to laugh at the absurdity of it all, and watch these two teams start to hate each other all over again.

As a developmental psychologist, I am horrified to see in the photo that there is a shades - of - pink Rock - a-Stack, not only because of the absurdity of gender - typing toys by color alone, but also because it cripples the educational potential of the toy: the reduced contrast between the colors makes the rings harder to tell apart, and the use of only three colors (bottom ring is purple, center pole is yellow) reduces opportunities for basic color learning.

(Ok I'm actually cracking up at the absurdity of my example as I write this comment, just FYI) I also want to live in a society where if Dr. Sears feels he needs to comment on my parenting he's allowed to do so, because otherwise, as has been pointed out, how will anyone find out he's an asshole?

Dr. Seuss books, with their rhymes and absurdities, are particular favorites at this age, not least because your child can now read them to himself.

Since I am an almost 40 - year - old woman, this was not the first pinup calendar I had seen at a gas station, and quite honestly, I barely batted an eye because I have been desensitized to the absurdity of calendars like those.

It's almost Monty Python-esque in places, and it's clearly a conscious effort to amp up the ridiculousness, because they repeat one joke here from the first film — a rumble among rival news teams — that works, as both sheer absurdity and satire, in a way that it did not before.

It's funny throughout for the fan familiar with this sort of thing, but it's really funny in its final shot, when it reveals an understanding that people love movies like this because of their absurdity and not in spite of it.

I'm resisting the notion of a ranked Top 10 this year because there are enough absurdities in the real world and in pop culture without saying that Good Film A is better than Good Film B. Every movie is a two - hour window onto an alien planet; the infinite differences are what make the medium remain vibrant and mysterious.

The movie reaches its peak in absurdity when Getty changes his mind because his security chief / fixer / ex-spy (Mark Wahlberg) threatens to beat him up if he doesn't.

I mock the absurdities that seemingly accompany every skirmish in the education revolution because the back - and - forths among teacher unions, education policymakers and parents on changes to how students and schools are assessed are as weird and disturbing as «The Twilight Zone.»

It is the height of absurdity to say that someone who can't possibly make a living, largely because of onerous contract terms such as non-compete clauses, publishing with for example Hachette is an author but someone who self - publishes isn't.

Just because you are anxious to get a dog, DOES NOT mean that you have to rush and feed into this absurdity of puppy mills, if you really love dogs you would die if you saw how these puppy mills operate.

I'd highly recommend it too, because despite its absurdity I'm a big fan of the story and pacing, which moves at a good, quick pace with little in terms of meaningless exploration.

Perhaps it's on account of my having been indoctrinated into the niche cult of folks who like Japanese games with their absurdity turned up to 11, or maybe it's the fact that I got into journalism in the first place because I find other people's interests and passions — no matter how bizarre, to include the aforementioned genre of games — absolutely fascinating.

It contrasts strongly with something like Frog Fractions — as Frog Fractions folded back on itself and rocketed off into sheer absurdity, I didn't mind too much, because all it left behind was a silly math game.

I'd probably give The Munchables my top pick for FGotY on Wii because it was so reminiscent of the absurdity of Katamari Damacy that I couldn't stop laughing the entire time I played it.

It is ridiculously impressive because of how dazzling the image quality and range is — in addition to the absurdity of its content.

Watching a super hero summon spray cans of varying colors and stencils like a cartoon character pulling a giant hammer out of his pocket is hilarious because of its absurdity, and the pictures, also split between good and evil, are an enlightening look inside of Delsin's head.

New characters and stories were being introduced and it was all within my grasp but the absurdity of fighting with cards had gotten me so frustrated that by the time I was locked out of the last room (because I did not have a blue number 1) I was in danger of losing all my hair from the stress and frustration this game was bringing out.

Kader Attia is one of my favorite living artists, largely because he's unafraid to cast a critical eye across various cultural lines to search for humor and empathy in misunderstanding and absurdity in different societies» hypocrisies.

Diana Frid says «In classifying, I'm also alluding to the absurdity of classification, because no one is reducible to just one thing.

The term supergroup is chosen because, like an aphorism, it has a playful and productive absurdity, a wish to live in common, while it distances itself from a single feeling or thought about what culture must be in the future.

Resistance arises because abstraction, as Arnoldi practices it, confronts us most clearly with painting as a freely chosen discipline, in all its absurdity, difficulty and reward.

Totalitarian propaganda raised ideological scientificality and its technique of making statements in the form of predictions to a height of efficiency of method and absurdity of content because, demagogically speaking, there is hardly a better way to avoid disussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future can reveal its merits.

And frankly, Keith Kloor's presence there as a columnist is a bad sign, because he's the epitome of the science - must - always - be-balanced-by-anti-science-advocacy-or-you're - censoring - Gallileo - and - you're - doing - shrill - advocacy - for - environmentalism absurdity.

It was originally a NORTHERN HEMISPHERE reconstruction paper.The chart shows NO MWP and LIA in it.That alone was preposterous because those two climate periods were very obvious and well documented to have existed.This absurdity was in the 2001 IPCC report.

Quite apart from the absurdity of arguing against truth in favour of being inside the teetering structure — it is a preeminent brittle structure — whether arguing high or low sensitivity — because that's what the punters want to hear — on a blog where science is meant to mean something and the policy nexus is in another room anyway.

Using absurdity to illustrate absurdity — one more example of how the claim that «climate change deniers are untrustworthy because they also deny the harm of cigarette smoking» implodes under hard scrutiny.

And, because those being brainwashed with ideal gas descriptions with no teaching on the differences between ideal gas and real gases which have real properties of weight, volume and attraction, which have been given different names because they are different from each other, what we also have is the inability of those pushing the GHE to see the absurdities created by extrapolating from their ideal gas..

They do not have any sense of scale and so can not see the absurdity of a trace gas being a thermal blanket around the Earth or being capable of driving global temperatures, because in their fake fisics world there is no scale.

Finally, I will note the absurdity of DeanMJackson calling scientists liars because in simplified explanations they call N2 (which absorbs 0.045 % of upward IR radiation) and O2 (which absorbs 0.029 %) transparent to IR radiation.