Sentences with phrase «ancient people told»

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Christian Communion is vampiric, The Great Rite is just using other people to get one's jollies, tell me a religion (modern or ancient) and I bet there will be at least one similarity regarding the control of people.

Who cares what the bible says, it is just a compliation of ancient stories told by people who thought the earth was flat.

God said we should not kill (murder is the word from the direct translation from the Ancient Greek and Hebrew) and He did not tell people to stone their servants if they worked on the sabbath (the metaphore was generated by mortal man).

And if your bias to an entire group of people based solely on what an ancient book tells you, then you're a bigot.

Christians need to learn to step outside themselves and think about how difficult and annoying it is to talk to people about important issues when the only thing Christians base their «ideas» on is ancient Middle Eastern fairy tales and that they were told to believe something.

Belief in resurrection, historians tell us, emerged in ancient Judaism only when disaster followed disaster and Jews could no longer feel confident that their memory and legacy would be preserved in the life of their own descendents in particular and the Jewish people in general.

Imagine how you would feel if confronted by an ancient Chinese person who told you had to join him in beating drums to make a dragon cough up the moon in order to end a lunar eclipse.

People who come here are experts in their field, they want to know that if you're telling me something about an ancient text that you're an expert in that, or that you're reading what I'm reading.

In Latin America, such persons have included those who tell of ancient Mayan greatness, old grandmothers with their colorful needlework and health - care workers who retain wisdom about the use of traditional herbs and medicines.

The God who, the ancient story tells us, led the people of Israel with a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night can lead us by the clouds of the subconscious and the fires of imagination as truly as by consciously studied thought.

Your faith is based on old stories told by ancient people, not in a God being that you have witnessed yourself.

Although people use those terms for a variety of reasons, I do know those who think those books tell stories of the religion and culture of the ancient Jews, and as such are only history.

I think the «Old Testament» is a bit derogatory... Regardless, I agree that they do tell the history of the ancient Jewish people and their religion.

«In the beginning, when some of our customers said they could eat our ancient wheat but could not eat modern wheat, experts told us that problems eating modern wheat were just in people's heads,» Quinn recalls.

This person called Will Butler (who told me he just was a musician) came to buy what he called my «black beast» (an ancient Heinzman piano).

(Before people go googling and demanding what my expertise is I should tell you that I'm writing a dissertation on ancient medical texts and am an expert on this very topic.)

«We aren't trying to make barley a fad diet, but we're telling people «Hey, here's a modern version of an ancient grain, and it's good for you!»»

In the ultimate whodunit of civilization, the ancient people of Tell Brak were, at the very least, important accomplices.

«Several years ago, people would have said we'd never be able to tell what colors ancient creatures were,» he notes.

As researchers from many fields realize just how much ancient DNA can tell them, the method is being applied to everything from the peopling of Europe to how plants and pathogens respond to climate change.

Textbooks tell us that modern Europeans and South Asians descended from a single ancient people.

As Malik told people about Functional Medicine, people were intrigued — especially by the ways this «new» prescription for healthy living echoed the ancient teachings of Mohammad in the Sunnah.

Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a Ice cream Food historians tell us the history of ice cream begins with ancient flavored ices.

What these ancient maxims suggest is that societies distant from us in time and place have something important to tell us regarding our efforts to educate young people for character.

We'll never know for sure whether these fables actually were first told by Aesop himself (who is said to have lived in Greece around 600 BC), or even if Aesop existed as a person, but they do appear to have been part of the oral tradition of ancient Greece.

The whole God thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have been telling one another for thousands of years.

Allowing people or businesses to pay for things on credit is an ancient practice, and just as ancient is the dilemma: How can you tell if they will pay you back?

Ancient stories tell of a time when Chumash People lived only on the northern Channel Islands off the coast of what we now call California.

The only known person known to carry on knowledge of that legend is the elderly Impa from the previous game, who tells Link the legend and helps him awaken the ancient sleeping princess.

Stunningly integrated paintings, sculpture, drawings, and decorative arts — ancient glass and bronzes, Italian maiolica, nautilus cups, ostrich egg ewers, mounted ivories, pottery, silver, ceramics, and extraordinary porcelain — tell stories about shared human experiences, revealing how people lived their everyday lives, how they related to the natural world, how they yearned to believe in something greater than themselves.

If you're getting only the slightest influence from your controls, and primitive peoples could entirely avert flood using their methods, this tells us you're not as bright as the ancient Incas and Egyptians.

Turkish garden historian Gürsan Ergil told me recently that you can still see people covering their roofs with soil and growing vegetables in rural Anatolia — and evidence at ancient sites that this practice was common in the past as well.