Sentences with phrase «actually change reality»

Since God is in part temporal, relative, and contingent, man can actually change reality through his finite decisions — his existence has ontological significance.

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However, the reality is that the overwhelming percentage of the population needs to change how they think about the world at a fundamental level in order to actually follow through on starting a business and getting customers.

No God wrote any bible as the bible is simply a book of compiled stories written by people and the bible was actually written 300 years after the birth of Jesus (if he was) and the reality is most American ministers, priest, etc could have never read the first bible since it was written in Greek and changed over, and over, and over again.

In my experience at least Hartshorne's a priori claims, far from impoverishing experience, actually enhance it by leading to a structure of understanding which gives due weight to both the abstract and the concrete, both the necessary and the contingent, both the unchanging and the changing aspects of reality.

Because God's perfection is always relative to what is actually happening and because things are always happening, God's perfection is a very dynamic, changing (without loss), expanding, and including reality.

Why believe in real truth - that actually confronts the deep multiplicity of what it means to be human, and actually change your life - when you can believe in your own shallow truth that simply adds to one's self - justification and denial of reality, and remain the way you are?

I actually do celebrate it for the pagan meaning because it makes more sense than the christian meaning... it is at least based on reality - the changing of the season is undeniable and makes a tremendous amount more sense that celebrating it for the birth of someone who wasn't even born at this time of year (if he was born at all).

To suggest that now is the right time for change at the Emirates would be to overlook the reality that that time actually came perhaps four or five years ago.

While the reality is that we will actually gain an hour of night when the time changes at 2:00 a.m. on Sunday, November 6th, parents of young children don't usually get an extra hour to snooze.

It never crossed politicians» minds that they were changing the system: fully understanding the reality of MPLA domination, they were actually doing the opposite.

While the headline figure of 40 % is already far below what is necessary both to tackle climate change and spur the green economy, it would actually amount to a mere 33 % reduction in reality, due to the failure to retire excess emissions allowances in the EU's emissions trading scheme.

My morning reality actually looks more like this: My beautiful daughter is hungry and needs to be changed and fed immediately.

While ideally the time change works to my advantage since I prefer to take photos first thing in the morning, the reality has been I've been running too late the last couple of weeks for it to actually happen.

These memories can be tampered with, removed, replaced, even changed ever so slightly to make reality seem different than it actually is.

A retreat from the political realities of what it takes to make change — real change, not just the kind that makes partisans happy, but the kind that actually alters culture in a way that unmakes what is broken so something better can be created — isn't just selfish, it's self - interested.

In reality, the extra straight - line speed isn't hugely noticable unless you hop straight into the Cupra R from a standard Cupra; it's actually in corners where the differences really shine, thanks to suspension changes (the wheels are now slightly wider apart and angled at with a more aggressive angle), Brembo brakes and a new setting for the electronics.

And you have to actually make some drastic changes to your lifestyle if you want make early retirement a reality.

Obviously we've already worked the numbers and we KNOW that we can do this without changing our lifestyle but it's still a bit of a leap from seeing the numbers on paper to actually coming to grips with it in reality.

I've read studies about how marketing can actually change people's perception of reality, including their own taste for something.

Because your reality is the one you create, the people and organizations you choose to surround yourself with, and how open and responsive you are to actually changing your actions.

This genuinely puzzles me as, despite initial misgivings coloured by the lame attempts at virtual reality during the Nineties, upon actually using a VR headset I was well and truly on board the hype train, describing the experience to all that would listen as akin to those mind - blowing first moments playing Super Mario 64 and realising how irrevocably the transition into three dimensional gaming was going to change the industry going forward.

The change seems to emphasise the fact that the painting is to be regarded, not as an object, but simply the embodiment of an idea, whose «reality», if one can actually use this word in the context offered, is metaphysical.

ie does a slightly lower density of air mean a slightly lower ground level temperature (temperature normally decreases with height at the lower air density), so that in reality adding CO2 and subtracting more O2 actually causes miniscule or trivial global COOLING, and the (unused) ability of the changed atmosphere to absorb radiation energy and transmit it to the rest of the air is overruled or limited by the ideal gas law?

Here is another example of people actually doing something about the reality of man - made climate change, despite the wishes of the denialist fringe to paint reality otherwise.

So the idea of * two * climate changes is a nice way of encapsulating these dual realities (I'm guessing there's actually a lot more than two climate changes, but that's for another time).

Once again, a group of believers (Leviticus) claims that a strong change is discernable in some aspect of the AGW mythos, yet when the Leviticus paper is actually read, it is clear that as Pielke, Sr. points out, OHC is in reality not doing what is predicted, is significantly lower than the AGW prediction, and that Leviticus offers no mechanism to move this heat fromthe surface to the depths, unless one accepts arm waving as the method of moving heat content.

Bast and Spencer are motivated to debunk the 97 percent «myth» because they have a vested interest, via their affiliation with Heartland, in getting the public to believe that the scientists are a lot less certain about the reality of man - made climate change than they actually are.

And I'm worried that if governments keep saying what they're doing is organized at stopping warming at 2 - degrees, then the people who are actually on the front lines of climate change — coastal cities, farmers and so on — are going to think about preparing for a world that's 2 degrees warmer, when in reality the evidence seem to suggest they should be preparing for a world that [has warmed] a lot more than 2 degrees.

«Environmental destruction is such a disheartening topic and facing these realities can breed apathy which doesn't actually produce change,» he said.

Team Purple could check for UHI, albedo change, pollution etc theories to see if those, combined with the greenhouse effect, can produce predictions which actually match reality, something Red's efforts conspicuously fail to do.

Of course he did; Inhofe is so far removed from reality he actually thinks the pope wasn't discussing climate change in front of Congress.

This of course brings the other central and inextricable reality of climate justice and development into focus and the need for serious glocbal and local recognition and action to include (actually include) those vulnerable to the impacts (and politics) of climate change — the poor.

Actually I had thought that the concept of an actual reality extending beyond our minds behaving according to some underlying rules independently of what actually happens — ie if the rules do change, it would be according to a more fundamental set of rules — was a sort of «default» mode for most humans attaining a certActually I had thought that the concept of an actual reality extending beyond our minds behaving according to some underlying rules independently of what actually happens — ie if the rules do change, it would be according to a more fundamental set of rules — was a sort of «default» mode for most humans attaining a certactually happens — ie if the rules do change, it would be according to a more fundamental set of rules — was a sort of «default» mode for most humans attaining a certain age.

And I think you hit the nail on the head with: «5) Once we scientifically - oriented Skeptics accept the reality of the Atmospheric «greenhouse effect» we are, IMHO, better positioned to question the much larger issues which are: a) HOW MUCH does CO2 contribute to that effect, b) HOW MUCH does human burning of fossil fuels and land use changes that reduce albedo affect warming, and, perhaps most important, c) Does the resultant enhanced CO2 level and higher mean temperature actually have a net benefit for humankind?»

And we added a few elements of hope: that as the reality of climate change becomes more sensible and the climate protection coalition stronger, it would become possible to step past Kyoto to the global, equity - based treaty that might actually work.

40 What remains unclear, however, is how a court can actually determine what Canada's «business realities» are, and precisely how those realities should change the way the Constitution is interpreted.

In this reality, this divergence creates an incentive system that makes it virtually impossible to change the business model to align it with what the customer actually wants.

The reality is that Bitcoin miners are just one of many stakeholders which must be convinced to upgrade their software, and for game theoretical reasons are actually most likely to be the last to upgrade their software in the event of a hard fork change being introduced.

In reality, the needs of customers (who come in many forms) are actually what should be driving change in any organisation — not innovation for its own sake.