Sentences with phrase «among other human beings»

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Unlike fire, the written word, gunpowder, the wheel, modern monetary systems, political parties, nuclear energy, television, the internet, Facebook, and Twitter, blockchain will be unique among all the other things human beings have invented and will be impervious to corruption, greed, and the lust for power.

But data wranglers from SAS are putting that talent to valuable use, wringing insights out of huge collections of information to help human rights workers, environmentalists, and educators, among others.

Turkle is the author of «Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other» and «Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age,» among many other books on human relationships to technoOther» and «Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age,» among many other books on human relationships to technoother books on human relationships to technology.

Among other incidents, a human tooth was found in a customer's french fry in August, while a child in December cut his mouth on a piece of plastic that was in a chocolate sundae.

That's unlikely to come under a Trump administration, whose recent budget proposal calls for a $ 15.1 billion cut to the Tom Price - led Department of Health and Human Services, the department that houses the FDA, the CDC, Medicare and Medicaid, among other government institutions.

The Forum: PopTech, the annual technology - and - society conference held in October The Speakers: Futurist John Naisbitt, investor John Sculley, and Microsoft visionary Linda Stone, among others The Insights: The times they are a-changing, and technology is changing faster than our poor human selves can handle it.

Over the years he's watched humans, robots, and a car rocket into space, toured crumbling and cutting - edge nuclear facilities, chased a total solar eclipse over the North Pole, and donated his feces to researchers, among other reporting adventures.

The Future Workplace Experience book has won the 2017 Axiom Business Book Award in the Silver category for Best Business Book for Human Resource Professionals and has been highlighted in TIME Magazine, NPR, SHRM's HR Magazine, Digitalist Magazine, and CIO Magazine, among many others.

As he did with other executives who reported directly to him, Mr. Parker met regularly with Mr. Ayre when he was the head of human resources to discuss, among other things, any active investigations of suspected employee misconduct, Mr. Wilkins said.

But the human mind is made to fall for stories and miscalculate the odds when a good narrative is in place, as has been usefully described by the work of Nassim Taleb and Daniel Kahneman, among others.

If humans were not designed by a higher authority, how can each individual's DNA be uniquely different among the human species, especially different than the other animals; how can the life sustaining elements be constantly available and exist in exact formulations: O, H, C etc. water is always 2 atoms of Hydrogen and one atom of Oxygen; sugar, fats, grains, and any bio-chemical products can be broken down to their simplest forms of elements, but can be re-constructed with specific (not by chance) formula.

Among those who value human life as uniquely significant in the universe the fate of all other lifeforms is ultimately inconsequential.

The only real overlap between most humans is that, among often many other goals, we mostly seek to reduce life time misery and increase happiness in ourselves and, usually, those around us.

This challenge led to a finger - wagging review by Hitchens in The Atlantic and a series of punch - counterpunch exchanges in various transatlantic venues, all of which obscured both the thoughtfulness of Amis» meditations on grief and his discovery of the depths of human depravity: «Hitler - Stalin tells us this, among other things: given total power over another, the human being will find his thoughts turn to torture.»

Augustine points out how difficult it is even for the wisest and most detached humans to discover the truth among lies — and how even husbands and wives in the closest of human bonds misunderstand each other so often.

Brennan's pursuit of amending the Constitution through interpretation by unelected officials would cause him, among other things, to vote repeatedly to strike away the legal protections that a world dead and gone had traditionally afforded unborn human beings.

Muchembled also resists a Western triumphalist narrative by suggesting that the taming of domestic violence was not simply the result of a progressive civilizing process» marking European civilization as the height of human evolution» but came at the price of colonial conquest on other continents and terribly destructive wars among nations in Europe.

But still Brother to Brother or Faith to Faith or Path to Path or Branch to branch are being stingy to each other and Greed drive them against each other, the living being means nothing to them as being just a Mankind a Human Being a creation among creationsbeing stingy to each other and Greed drive them against each other, the living being means nothing to them as being just a Mankind a Human Being a creation among creationsbeing means nothing to them as being just a Mankind a Human Being a creation among creationsbeing just a Mankind a Human Being a creation among creationsBeing a creation among creations...!?

And yet what is equally true is that we are each made in the Image of God, which means (among many other things) that our worth as humans is never diminished by our actions.

While glad to see the change of attitude among conservative Christians with respect to gay civil rights and acceptance of gays as human beings, some persons were troubled over other aspects of the issue.

The gospel is nothing other than the proclamation of Jesus Christ himself, in the fullness of his historic human life among us, apprehended and declared as the definitive and focal operation of God in the affairs of men.

There is, moreover, a powerful inclination to pick and choose among human rights, which results in favoring some (e.g., the right to privacy) at the expense of others (e.g., the rights of the family).

She convincingly argues, among other things, that «where repression is especially severe, where institutions (schools, trade unions, churches, professional associations) have been purged and subject to constant governmental vigilance,» little discussion of human rights occurs («Human Rights in Latin America: Learning from the Literature,» Christianity and Crisis [December 24, 1979], pp. 328 human rights occurs («Human Rights in Latin America: Learning from the Literature,» Christianity and Crisis [December 24, 1979], pp. 328 Human Rights in Latin America: Learning from the Literature,» Christianity and Crisis [December 24, 1979], pp. 328 ff.).

I believe it is authentically Christian thinking to single this out for special focus and to imply it in the fresh application of the relations between God and the world, among human beings, and between human beings and other creatures.

Even people of other religions don't flinch in the slightest when I say «communion reminds me that God became human as Jesus, walked among us, and died for us on a cross» and that «we are followers of Jesus.»

Upon careful analysis, at least ten such points become apparent: (1) Blake alone among Christian artists has created a whole mythology; (2) he was the first to discover the final loss of paradise, the first to acknowledge that innocence has been wholly swallowed up by experience; (3) no other Christian artist or seer has so fully directed his vision to history and experience; (4) to this day his is the only Christian vision that has openly or consistently accepted a totally fallen time and space as the paradoxical presence of eternity; (5) he stands alone among Christian artists in identifying the actual passion of sex as the most immediate epiphany of either a demonic or a redemptive «Energy,» just as he is the only Christian visionary who has envisioned the universal role of the female as both a redemptive and a destructive power; (6) his is the only Christian vision of the total kenotic movement of God or the Godhead; (7) he was the first Christian «atheist,» the first to unveil God as Satan; (8) he is the most Christocentric of Christian seers and artists; (9) only Blake has created a Christian vision of the full identity of Jesus with the individual human being (the «minute particular»); and (10) as the sole creator of a post-biblical Christian apocalypse, he has given Christendom its only vision of a total cosmic reversal of history.

We share the sense that human beings are immersed in the natural world and do constitute one species among others.

One is «anti-people» (a self - aggrandizing, belittling of other human beings) and the other is «pro-people» (an other - enhancing posture promoting appropriate boundaries and perspective among human beings).

Meanwhile, United Nations human rights experts have issued a statement, urging Iran to ensure «a fair and transparent final hearing» for three Iranian Christians who have been sentenced for «conducting evangelism» and «illegal house church activities,» among other charges.

Any theology that so widens the gulf between Jesus and other human beings as to suggest that he is an alien intruder into our human situation is to be rejected, not only because it is heretical but more importantly because it makes nonsense of the Gospel record and denies the dignity and reality of that life once lived among us.

If refusal to face squarely the fact of death is found so widely in these days, so also is loss of belief in a continuation of human existence, beyond death, in what used to be called the «after - life» It is indeed true that among conventionally - minded church - people and many others there is a vague feeling that when the body dies the «soul» goes on.

These and other unique properties of the human species must have been among the potentialities of the primordial life and the primordial cosmic substratum.

If he and Voltaire and all the other literary «smugglers» of the same grand, ancient truth are wrong, which I doubt, if there really is no afterlife, nothing, zero, zilch, at least there'll be no more intolerable suffering amond humans or among the sentient creatures we call «beasts.»

And, oh, when the hour - glass has run out, the hourglass of time, when the noise of worldliness is silenced, and the restless or the ineffectual busyness comes to an end, when everything is still about thee as it is in eternity — whether thou wast man or woman, rich or poor, dependent or independent, fortunate or unfortunate, whether thou didst bear the splendor of the crown in a lofty station, or didst bear only the labor and heat of the day in an inconspicuous lot; whether thy name shall be remembered as long as the world stands (and so was remembered as long as the world stood), or without a name thou didst cohere as nameless with the countless multitude; whether the glory which surrounded thee surpassed all human description, or the judgment passed upon thee was the most severe and dishonoring human judgement can pass — eternity asks of thee and of every individual among these million millions only one question, whether thou hast lived in despair or not, whether thou wast in despair in such a way that thou didst not know thou wast in despair, or in such a way that thou didst hiddenly carry this sickness in thine inward parts as thy gnawing secret, carry it under thy heart as the fruit of a sinful love, or in such a way that thou, a horror to others, didst rave in despair.

Human intelligence has other ingredients, some of which are also shared by some animals, but, in general, intelligence among animals can be measured by the speed of learning and the complexity of what is learned.

Among other significant ways that preliberal Christianity contributed to an expansion of human choice was to transform the idea of marriage from an institution based upon considerations of family and property to one based upon the choice and consent of individuals united in sacramental love.

Debate over this issue remains prominent among process theologians to this day and will be discussed more fully in the second part of this paper, but it should be remarked here that Hartshorne has consistently attempted to envision God, in this and in some other respects, after the model of the human person.

Just as the success of the computer depends upon the meticulous preparation of instructions by the programmer, omitting no step in the whole process, so it is assumed that the success of the human learner, who is believed to be (among other things) a very complex cybernetic mechanism, depends upon the scrupulous logical organization of teaching materials.

Among other topics, Volf discusses faith in the public square, and asks what kind of religious conviction will be able to give meaning to human lives and help people seek the common good.

In brief, philosophy and literature were different means by which the same goal was sought: eudaimonia, a key word often translated as «happiness» but more accurately rendered (by Nussbaum among many others) as «human flourishing.»

Here's a quote from William Stringfellow's book, An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land: ``... the basic conflict among all principalities remains, though it be subdued or concealed for awhile, because the only morality governing each principality is its own survival as over against very other principality, as well as over against human beings and, indeed, the rest of CreaOther Aliens in a Strange Land: ``... the basic conflict among all principalities remains, though it be subdued or concealed for awhile, because the only morality governing each principality is its own survival as over against very other principality, as well as over against human beings and, indeed, the rest of Creaother principality, as well as over against human beings and, indeed, the rest of Creation.

An attitude which avoids both sentimentality and cynicism must obviously be grounded in a Christian view of human nature which is schooled by the Gospel not to take the pretensions of men at their face value, on the one hand, and, on the other, not to deny the residual capacity for justice among even sinful men.14

To support his claim that property is natural, Pipes appeals to biological studies of possessiveness and territoriality among human beings and other animals.

Of the pain that this necessarily entails we shall speak later; here let it be said that it is erroneous to assume, as have some careless theologians and sociologists among others, that human wrong is located in self - concern.

If in the Old Testament, in Judaism, and in the New Testament, the unworldly takes the form of a future hope, of eschata — «last things» in the traditional sense — that is only one among other possible conceptions of man's relation to the unworldly, though no doubt it enshrines a genuine insight into human existence, namely that from a human perspective the eschaton can only be future.

«This responsibility for God's earth means that human beings, endowed with intelligence, must respect the laws of nature and the delicate equilibria existing between the creatures of this world... The laws found in the Bible dwell on relationships, not only among individuals but also with other living beings... by their mere existence they bless him and give him glory»... «the Lord rejoices in all his works» (Ps 104:31).

There are differences between human beings and other creatures, just as there are differences among various species of other creatures.

It is rather the next stage in the evolutionary advance on the planet Earth of overwhelming importance to us humans at this time, but perhaps only one among myriads given God's creative activity on other worlds.

When you consider the brightest Angelic beings and the first humans had God with them, walking among them, communicating directly yet, in short order they turned to some other desire than God.

Thus the non-Christian religions, and even other world views such as Marxism, may be seen to be genuinely workings of God among humanity, since in them enough is granted to provide a sense of significance or value in human life and to learn to live in love, seek justice, do one's duty, and follow truth and goodness and beauty.