When
they are presented with facts about drivers in the state, though, they usually change their minds.
You are presented with facts (i.e., the Nature paper) and your blase reply is simply «I stand by all my comments».
Whenever
you are presented with facts you either dismiss them or answer showing yourself to be out of your depth.
I love how Mormons freeze in their tracks and their eyes roll back into their heads when
they are presented with facts.
Studies shows that when people
are presented with facts and figures, smaller areas of the brain are activated which indicates that information is being processed.
Because no matter how many times you have
been presented with facts on top of facts, you can't fathom a world where the defense did enough to win the game against PIT on Sunday.
Living in the wilds of Northern Idaho,
I am presented with the fact that my chances of meeting Hugh are very slim... so I live vicariously through others on the internet.
Not exact matches
«We
are disappointed by the
fact that such serious claims have
been made publicly, without any proof
being presented and without any attempt by the United Kingdom to clarify the situation
with the Russian side in the first place.»
'' [It] promises to teach readers how to make sense of a complex world, taking a critical view of the
facts, figures, and statistics we
're presented with every day.
In
fact, it
's better to
be present on just a few platforms and use them well rather than to
be on all platforms
with sub-par offerings.
Trusting your gut
is a matter of looking at decisions from every possible angle, and when the
facts don't
present a clear alternative, you believe in your ability to choose; you go
with what looks and feels right.
For instance, they attributed personal and logical failings to those who disagreed
with them that weren't actual
present (i.e., they said «this guy
is an arrogant, uninformed jerk» when, in
fact, the author showed no signs of
being arrogant or ill informed).
We can't find any similar campaign matching the text of the «unprecedented regulatory power» comments; that
fact, combined
with the evidence
presented by ZDNet, suggests these anti-net neutrality comments aren't coming from the people whose names
are attached to them.»
As I watched little people tackle the challenges
presented to them
with pure enthusiasm and creativity, I
was struck by the
fact that children
are natural engineers.
«In
fact there
was no evidence
presented that since his brother's arrest, Mr. Zachary Cruz has threatened anyone, has ever exhibited or shown violence toward anyone, or that he has
been seen by anyone
with a weapon.»
If we assume that hysteresis
is in
fact present to some degree after deep recessions, the natural next question
is to ask whether it might
be possible to reverse these adverse supply - side effects by temporarily running a «high - pressure economy,»
with robust aggregate demand and a tight labor market.
Since the major financial institutions which comprise the financial system
are still way overleveraged and opaque (in
fact with record amounts of debt and derivatives at
present), such a break in confidence could happen abruptly and without warning.»
Not many ex-Communists in
fact posed this question, because to do so would
be to undermine the presupposition that binds Marxism
with all modern forms of moral calculation; «the utilitarian attention to consequences rather than to actions themselves
is liable to lead to a continuous evaluation of the
present only as it leads on to some future.»
The only problem
is science eventually caught up
with them and
presented it
's own
facts.
Picking a position, or coming to a conclusion, because the
facts you
're presented with point towards that conclusion
is not «giving up».
But you
are wrong, champ, I have in
fact read the bible and if you could suss out where I mentioned that a bible, in its content (a.k.a. all the sh.it you quoted at me) can say that its true all it wants, but to make something non-fiction, the author, at the beginning and the end usually has a forward and an appendix
with multiple sources to back up the material its
presenting.
I care b / c I think that education
with the
facts as they have
been presented to us in the modern age
are vital to ensuring we continue to evolve and stop stay stuck in the dark ages where religion
was used to control the masses.
When Jesus said, «The poor will always
be with you...» he sort of disproved the author's next myth in his next phrase «but me you will not always have,» referring to the
fact that he would not
be physically
present in just a few months (though he would send the Holy Spirit).
But if we choose to believe something and
present that belief as scientific and factual when in
fact it
is not, we
are dealing
with another type of animal here.
You
are merely cherry - picking
facts to
present a narrative that fits
with your own beliefs.
For the time
being, however, «The Div School,» by the very
fact that its name perdures and its original purpose remains, has
presented us
with a serious matter both to ponder and talk about.
The best we can do as people
is look at the evidence and base our beliefs on the
facts that we
are presented with.
Whitehead wrote, «there
is no essential reason why memory should not
be raised to the vividness of the
present fact» (CN), but to revive the actual
present of a past state, i.e., not a memory of the past but a preceding actuality, would
be to hallucinate
with an object - like clarity.
You don't
present the
facts in a way that allows a person to reason out for themselves if they
are interested, you just hit them over the head
with your opinion.
In short, the irreducible complexity of molecular systems
is controversial among molecular biologists when it
is presented as an idea
with philosophical consequences, and tacitly accepted as reality when it remains in the world of innocent
fact.
That does not mean only (or not primarily) that there
is no foreseeable end to the program — a
fact which, in view of what we
are at
present presented with, admittedly makes a certain hostility to the media understandable.
Dasein «has a past» not by
being located at the expanding edge of a field of «
facts»
with which it entertains «relations» (prehensions), which makes the past external and the
present related to it in a time - like way (i.e., as «coming after» it, in sequence
with it), but by itself ecstatically opening the very «having -
been - ness» (Gewesenheit.
If you want to have a serious debate, you'll have to start engaging
with the
facts and arguments that have
been presented rather than merely ignoring them and restating the same old arguments that you seem so desperate to believe.
Similarly, people born into any given religious faith — Christian, Muslim, Hindu, etc, etc, etc — and who
are immersed in that faith, and surrounded by people of that faith, all of their lives — and especially their childhood — can't
be expected to suddenly cast off such total indoctrination when an atheist such as myself
presents them
with certain
facts which conflict
with their world view.
Belief
is not concerned
with what
is, that
is,
with things in the
present,
with facts, for what
is present is attained by conceptualization.
Having once
been an agnostic, I know most of the arguments unbelievers use, I use most of them myself... I also know for a
fact that you can not argue someone into a belief in God, they have to get their on their own,
with the evidence
presented for Him...
I no longer have to represent my going to God as a departure from time and history.42 In
fact, to attain God as the Absolute Future who
is also the Fullness of Time, I must perforce
be occupied
with the
present and the tasks of the
present, for it
is only in and through the
present that I can advance into the future.
Verse 28, therefore,
with which we
are particularly concerned, must
be regarded as having existed as an isolated logion before it
was inserted into its
present context, and since, as we have seen, the probability
is that the Lukan version
is nearer to the original form, we must, in
fact, regard the saying as having so existed in very much the form it now has in Luke 11.20.
The capacities needed to apprehend God must
be guided by interests in God's peculiar ways of
being present and by God's idiosyncratic reality, not by persons» interests in realizing or fulfilling themselves; but the shaping and transforming of persons» identities this involves will in
fact also bring
with them movement toward fulfillment of their humanity.
Obviously, any idea of inspiration which implies equal value in the teachings of Scripture, or inerrancy in its statements, or conclusive infallibility in its ideas,
is irreconcilable
with such
facts as this book
presents.
The very
fact that six historically influential ideas
are presented in terms of development,
with their later formulations on an altitude immeasurably higher than the lowlands from which they came, may produce the illusion of constant ascent, as though
being posterior in time always meant
being superior in quality.
In
fact,
with a view of time as negative, as source of mutability and contingency, some other way has to
be found to explain time's origin in order to safeguard God's causality, by saying, e.g., that time
is the measure of the degradation resulting from the fall, or that God created a metaphysical and finished universe through an instantaneous creation in which every species,
was present from the beginning, instead of a world of becoming and growth.
In former times, however, the object and situation of a free human action
were simply ready - made data,
presented in
fact with almost static fixity and repetitiveness.
In other words, an enduring creature would
be confronted willynilly
with the
fact of its past redemption and compelled to accept it, to integrate it as part of its
present determinateness in the same way as it must appropriate any other
fact in its actual world....
You seem to
be expecting people to abandon their religion because you
are presenting them
with «
facts» that you
are sure will stand the test of time.
As for belief, I
'm absolutely fine
with people saying, «My belief
is such and such», However, when their beliefs
are presented as
facts, or as «THE TRUTH», and when questioned, they fall back on faith, that
is when I have issues
with it.
My emphasis
is upon what Whitehead called nonconformal propositions, namely, a subject / predicate statement that does not conform to
present fact, but suggests a possible future version of a
fact with respect to some particular subject or subjects.
That leaves the second option, which, even if it can
be defended, has not, in
fact,
been defended — at least not in any fashion commensurate
with the
present change in law and policy.
There
is no lust in christ but just an infinite source of the love of the spirit that
's pure and delightful.Marriage itself
is a concession to the weakness of our
present being.God designed woman as the companion of man
with complimentary attributes.I could justify all kinds of sin through the
fact that I
'm bonded to them.we
were slaves of sin as Paul tells us.I couldn't come out of sin
with all my efforts Jeremy.We have a sinful nature.But, Sin never provides life because the spirit of god
is love and life to us.When I cried out to God to save me from this nature, God did by his grace.Now, I detest sin having tasted love of christ.
The
fact remains, however, that the Vichy leaders have enforced anti-Semitic laws in a more and more strict and iniquitous fashion, depriving French Jews of every governmental and cultural position, imposing upon them all kinds of restrictions
with regard to liberal and commercial professions, mercilessly striking many of them who
were wounded for their country during the
present war, and hypocritically trying to hide a bad conscience under a pseudonational pathos in which religious and racial considerations
are shamefully mixed.