Sentences with phrase «against our life experience»

In particular we measure new information against our life experience and the views of the people around us.

Not exact matches

My manager asked me recently why I don't like to share my personal life, and I gave him an honest answer (i.e., bad past experiences, unfair judgments against me, etc.), and I have the feeling that he thinks I'm weird.

A friend and colleague of mine who happens to be a wheat farmer shared with me his real life experience with trying to compete against the Monsanto - driven corporate farms in this country.

The sort of thing I would have thought that no one would really want to argue against in this day and age, yet here you are, calling me a «fear - monger» and talking like I was against anyone using their life experiences to make decisions.

I agree with Animenut: «a people who have experienced bigotry and hatred all their life would support bigotry against another minority».

The choose to go against God and that is why we live in sin and imperfection and all man experiences death.

Hatred is what they certainly project, not love for the embryos, which is a piece of nonsense no one could experience, but hatred, a virulent hatred for an unnamed object... Their hatred is directed against human beings as such, against the mind, against reason, against ambition, against success, against love, against any value that brings happiness to human life.

He observes, however, that «the modernist desire in Frost and Eliot — to preserve an independent selfhood against the coercions of the market, a self made secure by the creation of a unique style — is subverted by the market, not because they wrote according to popular formulas, but because they give us their poems as delicious experiences of voyeurism, illusions of direct access to the life and thought of the famous writer, with the poet inside the poem like a rare animal in a zoo.

This doesn't always happen, because we live in a twisted world (cf. the book of Job), but when we experience pain and suffering, it is never because God is punishing us for some real (or imagined) sin against Him.

Such a structuration of mental life warns us against locating the organization of experience in the dominant thread.

Against both the foregoing views, the truth is that life in all of its dimensions occurs under the law of ambiguity; we experience it as both blessing and curse, sometimes predominantly one more than the other, but never exclusively one without the other.

From my PERSONAL experience, I have never had a single person commit an «evil» act against me, in 51 years of life.

The Elder's reason for writing to his friends is that they have laid the foundation of a real Christian experience, and he would warn them against sinking again into a life of worldliness and sin.

It may indeed seem that what I have done so far is to offer a tentative argument against the claims of an exemplarist interpretation of Christ's work, namely, that if he is offered us as an exemplar his experience is in crucial respects too relative and limited to offer a wholly significant guide - post to men and women in all the circumstances of their lives.

For example, against both dualism and reductionistic determinism and in favor of the pancreationist, panexperientialist view that the actual world is made up exhaustively of partially self - determining, experiencing events, there is considerable evidence, such as the fact that a lack of complete determinism seems to hold even at the most elementary level of nature; that bacteria seem to make decisions based upon memory; that there appears to be no place to draw an absolute line between living and nonliving things, and between experiencing and nonexperiencing ones; and that physics shows nature to be most fundamentally a complex of events (not of enduring substances).

Another example was alluded to before: the fact that our world seems to have taken shape over a period of many billions of years, rather than having been created in essentially its present form a few thousand years ago, provides evidence against the view that the creation of our world required omnipotent coercive power; this fact is much more consistent with the view that the divine creative power is solely the power of persuasion, the kind of power we can experience working in our own lives.

His assumption that the kind of life he prizes can stand up rootless against the contemporary storm has nothing to commend it in the actual experience of men.

It would seem reasonable to hold that as one grows up, as one's brain develops and becomes more complex (a process which does not end with physical maturity but continues through life) and as one accumulates a wealth of memory against which one can compare and contrast present experience, the mental poles of the occasions of one's regnant nexus would become generally stronger.

In Modes of Thought, Whitehead praised William James for the character of his intellectual life, which was «one protest against the dismissal of experience in the interest of system» (MT 4).

Once for all God has secured the saints» will against basic disobedience because he has won their hearts for himself by their actual experience of the kind of life he offers.

Charles Hartshorne2 in The Logic of Perfection and Schubert Ogden3 in «The Meaning of Christian Hope» have forcefully argued against any subjective immortality, holding that as objectively experienced by God our lives are wholly preserved and cherished forever.

That we find no God — either in history or in nature or behind nature — is not what differentiates us, but that we experience what has been revered as God, not as «godlike» but as miserable, as absurd, as harmful, not merely as an error but as a crime against life.

Or begin with your own inspired hours, when you experienced what Hugh Walpole, the novelist, once described: «I affirm that I have become aware, not by my own wish, almost against my will, of an existence of another life of far, far greater importance and beauty than this physical one.»

To summarize, it is especially at the limits of our experience and problem - oriented questioning that we consciously come up against the truly incomprehensible and uncontrollable mystery to which our lives are inherently open.

It is at the limits of our experience and problem - oriented questioning that we consciously come up against the truly incomprehensible and uncontrollable mystery to which our lives are inherently open.

If this perspective on the nature of man has validity it will throw some light on the experience of lostness, revolt against life, and despair in the twentieth century.

People who blithely go through life too busy or indifferent to ask hard questions about why they believe as they do will find themselves defenseless against either the experience of tragedy or the probing questions of a smart skeptic.

We are no longer assured of the spontaneous, immediate, unself - conscious participation in life, experienced with a whole heart and soul undivided against itself.

In summary, the virtues of organized religions include but are by no means limited to the following: they give their adherents something solid against which to rebel; they allow one to see farther by standing on the shoulders of giants; they insist on the primacy of lived experience; they work against illusion and historical insularity; they point to the power of the collective and the merits of deep diversity; and they are capable of the kind of mobilization that can transform the world.

Most probably the presentation of real Berlitz type languages and a flesh - and - bones, hungry and lunching risen Christ were both directed against the temptation to equate the life of faith with esoteric experiences in withdrawal from the real world.

Over against revivals and the conversion experience, High - churchmen upheld catechism, confirmation by the bishop, and a close direction of the spiritual life by the parish priest.

Everywhere (And such is now the case almost everywhere in Christendom, which, as it seems, either entirely ignores the fact that Christ Himself it is who so frequently and with such heartfelt emphasis warned against offense, even at the end of His life, and even when He addressed His faithful Apostles who had followed Him from the beginning and for His sake had forsaken all — or maybe silently regards this as an extravagant apprehension on the part of Christ, inasmuch as the experience of thousands and thousands proves that one can have faith in Christ without having noticed the least trace of the possibility of offense.

Against a background of these events and actions, in which more than fifty congregations are now involved and in which hundreds of people have gained experience in dealing with elected and appointed authorities, the story of the Nehemiah Project can he understood As Saul Alinsky said: «The relevant skill in modern urban life is that of knowing how to hold public officials accountable» — and that, as we shall see, is what EBC and the Nehemiah Project have been all about.

Thus they stood against any attempted control of religious life and experience by a minority of Christian believers.

A few things come to mind: it's temporal, over against the promise of eternal life; it serves a purpose in personal sanctification and in the larger scheme — the big story that God is orchestrating; and, it's part of the fallen creation and points us to the missing wholeness and beauty we know is lacking in our experience.

David Moyes has experienced a tough start to life at Old Trafford, and will hope to bounce back from that defeat to Liverpool with a win against Crystal Palace, a team who they have not lost against in the last 8 league meetings between the two sides.

Now I have my own children and like any other parent, I hope and pray they will never have to live through the experience of physical abuse, but I also hope that if they ever do, I'll have provided them the right kind of tools and language for them to feel confident in stepping forward and standing up against rape culture.

I'm unsure as to whether I would choose this against others on the market, partly due to the experience of the weight that seems to make me feel like my bike is less balanced than it has been with other child seats and the experience of trying to get it on and off the bike is beyond irritating, it now lives on it!

One pretty obvious mark against going live during birth is that if you're more of a private type of person, you might not want your intimate birthing experience to be broadcast outside of the delivery room.

· Voices Against Violence (Scotland) Voices Against Violence is a group of eight young people with first - hand experience of domestic abuse and support services who formed a national independent group of recognised «young experts» to tell people in power what needs to change to improve the lives of children.

«He's got a network of people around the state that have a lot of experience with the taxing policies of the state of New York — the small business guys, people who are trying to make a living running small businesses and they run up against the policies they think make life difficult for them,» Cunnginham explained.

The Ekiti experience, that propelled Ayo Fayose to power, for fury against Kayode Fayemi's person, if not policy, is a living example, of rash electoral choices.

When asked about her experience, which has been used against her in previous runs for NYS Assembly and Mayor of Rochester, Barnhart says now is a time when life experience, rather than political experience is coming to the forefront, citing how women across the country with no political background are running for seats to change up the game.

The argument against free will is that each decision we make is completely influenced by our previous life experience, so that given a certain choice this experience will trigger us to respond in a certain way, which is not a free choice.

A hardening of antivaccine attitudes, mixed with the despair experienced by families living under the strain of autism, has heightened the debate — sometimes leading to blowback against scientific researchers.

Additionally for young women, school was associated with them being less likely to have felt distressed about their sex life or experienced sex against their will.

This, Dr Cutler writes, highlights an emergent sociological process of «both seeing and believing» — whereby «individuals experience extreme weather and interpret the impacts against the backdrop of social and economic circumstances central to and surrounding their lives.»

«Our findings show that children, particularly those under the age of 10, experience a protective effect against IBD if they live in a rural household.

In relation to experiences of sexual abuse, more than 4 % of men and 6.5 % of women claimed to have had some kind of sexual relation against their will during their life, and 1.6 % of men and 6.1 % of women claimed to have been sexually abused or raped at some time in their life.

If actions against childhood obesity do not take place it is likely that today's children could be the first generation in over a century to experience a decline in life expectancy due to the epidemic of childhood obesity which leads to complications in later life.