Sentences with phrase «as a living creature»

The fundamental question driving the AIBO experiments was: Would the dogs recognize AIBO as a living creature?

Dr Bishop is interested in understanding what extinct animals were like as living creatures, through approaches tested and validated on modern animals.

Marc Abraham, Kennel Club veterinary advisor and narrator of the STOP Puppy Farming film, said: «There is now an alarming trend which is seeing breeders view dogs just as commodities without any regard for their rights as living creatures.

We believe animals, as living creatures, deserve to be protected, respected, and given every consideration morally and ethically.

If these breeders truly cared about dogs as living creatures and not about them as a COMMODITY, they'd have only as many dogs as they could love and support — FOR THEIR ENTIRE LIVES.

Animals on factory farms are treated not as living creatures, but as economic units in a mechanized production system.

The Tri County Humane Society for the prevention of cruelty to animals believes animals, as living creatures, have value beyond economic measure and are entitled to legal, moral, ethical consideration, and protection.

By purchasing from a pet store, you are supporting puppy mills, and the people that run the mills do not view these animals as living creatures, they are viewed as a way to make money.

As all living creatures cats drink water and some cats love playing with it too.

By following the road to Antigua Guatemala you will find that the city is surrounded by volcanoes which are considered sacred by the Maya as the living creatures believe that can be used to communicate with spirits and ancestors.

Born and raised in the metropolis of Tokyo, Inomata was motived to become an artist due to feeling ill at ease with highly digitalized society and her lack of feeling truly alive as a living creature.

Another immediate, intimate necessity: acknowledging its presence, as the living creature it once was.

Not exact matches

The gist of my column was this: Given that Starbucks became a corporate powerhouse by positioning itself as the world's living room, home office and town square, it needed to make sure that everyone equal access to the creature comforts it offers.

But, just like the furry creature that lived under your bed as a kid, the noneconomic bond investor does not exist.

«Let there be light, let there be atmosphere, let there be vegetation, Let there be lights to serve as signs (sun, moon etc), Let the water and sky have living creatures, Let the land have living creatures of which man was the last created then God rested from creation.

The order of creation reads better as spiritual poetry which rings true yet I assume your issue is related to current physical and cosmological order: Let there be light, let there be atmosphere, let there be vegetation, Let there be lights to serve as signs (sun, moon etc), Let the water and sky have living creatures, Let the land have living creatures of which man was the last created then God rested from creation.

But why should sense even count, i mean you people believe that you are special and get to life forever compared to all the other creatures on this planet — such arrogance and pride — as the old saying goes, this will be your downfall!

So what is it about you that makes you see yourself as a lowly worm, as a sinning evil creature in need of saving from something, as someone who needs a deity to make all the rules for their lives?

It's almost as literal an incarnation of a mental «knee jerk reaction» to thoughts and feelings no other living creature on this planet has.

«Consequently, if my theory be true, it is indisputable that before the lowest Silurian stratum was deposited, long periods elapsed, as long as, or probably far longer than, the whole interval from the Silurian age to the present day; and that during these vast, yet quite unknown, periods of time, the world swarmed with living creatures.

Every creature has been made so as to turn toward, receive, and incarnate the divine life.

Second, it needs to see human life as profoundly interrelated with all other forms of life, refusing the traditional absolute separation of human beings from other creatures as well as of God from the world.

This extends the idea of evolutionary continuity of an inner being backwards from all living creatures to that in matter as it existed before living beings appeared.

If we take the Gospels seriously, we are left, in our dire predicament, facing an utterly humbling question: How must we live and work so as not to be estranged from God's presence in his work and in all his creatures?

It is forbidden to eat donkeys; beasts with claws such as lions, tigers, wolves, and bears; birds with talons, such as hawks and falcons; animals which the Prophet ordered killed, such as snakes, mice, crows; creatures which the Prophet forbade killing, such as ants and bees; animals judged to be dirty, and animals which live on dirt.

When Jesus speaks of having life more abundantly, this, I think, is the life he means: a life that is not reducible by division, category or degree, but is one thing, heavenly and earthly, spiritual and material, divided only insofar as it is embodied in distinct creatures.

On the other hand, it is obvious that normal life in a healthy ecosystem includes a great deal of suffering as well as a great deal of enjoyment on the part of the creatures that make it up.

In the early stages of Biblical history men regarded the major good of existence as physical — ample creature comforts, a long life, a large family, and victory in war — and for these benefits the Hebrews besought Yahweh.

Thereby the living power of the transcendent and omnipotent Judge is transposed in human experience into the dead body of Satan, as Milton's passage through the death of selfhood unveils the ground of an isolated selfhood as that chasm separating the creature from the Creator, thus making possible the reversal or dissolution of natural virtue and self - righteousness in the immediate and present actualization of the self - annihilation of God.

As the Akaranga Sutra says, «All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away.

Love has a history in the very life of God as he deals with his recalcitrant creatures.

It was quite a step forward when men first began to distinguish inanimate objects, such as stones, from animate or living creatures.

Just as each one of us wants happiness and fears pain, just as each one of us wants to live and not to die, so do all other creatures (quoted in Chapple, 226).

«1 Many of us who live in urban, industrial settings forget that we are members of a larger community of life, that we share with other creatures a common evolutionary heritage, that we depend on them for our sustenance, and that the earth is their home as well as our own.

In its thematization at the 1983 Vancouver Assembly, the phrase integrity of creation was clear in general implication but lacking in exact definition.2 In meetings of the Church and Society Working Committee, the phrase has come to name the intrinsic value that each and every living being has in and for itself as a creature loved by God, and the instrumental value that living beings can have for one another and for God as instances of an evolutionary and web - like creation.

Jesus is the logos not as some cosmic abstract principle, but in his human life as Israel's Messiah and as the one who brings the proper relationship of the creature to the Creator.

How is anything I've ever done in my life so evil as to make me a disgusting, vile creature with no hope of redemption without being covered in the blood of an innocent?

1 Peter 1:18 knowing that you were not REDEEMED with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, Revelation 5:9 And they sang a new song, saying: «You are worthy to take the scroll, And to open its seals; For You were slain, And have REDEEMED us to God by Your blood Out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, Revelation 14:3 They sang as it were a new song before the throne, before the four living creatures, and the elders; and no one could learn that song except the hundred and forty - four thousand who were REDEEMED from the earth.

It does indeed seem evident that, at least in evolution as it is seen in life on earth, homo sapiens have evolved capacities for sentience unparalleled by other creatures.

They will trust as Jews who affirm rather than deny their Jewishness and who can now see this as a way for them to affirm all living creatures, as Elhanan had done earlier.

We share this potential with the whole human family as God's creatures, and where abundant life is not possible, it is a loss we each share.

Pope Benedict XVI himself has said that an «industrial use of creatures, so that geese are fed in such a way as to produce as large a liver as possible, or hens live so packed together that they become just caricatures of birds, this degrading of living creatures to a commodity seems to me in fact to contradict the relationship of mutuality that comes across in the Bible.»

And in one's freedom one acts not only as a creature but as co-creator with God, able through one's actions and through one's life to alter the fate of the world and even, according to the Kabbalah, to reunite God with His exiled Shekinah.

Within the Jewish - Christian tradition, this refreshment and companionship is given a supreme and clear statement in the language in which the biblical writers speak of God as the living one who identifies himself with his creatures, works for their healing, enables them to experience newness of life, and enters into fellowship with them.

For as we play, as we commune joyfully with creation and our fellow creatures, we become aware that life truly is a gift from God (Eccl.

The Bible reflects, with an astonishing realism, the existence of man as a creature living in the realm of time and space, and subject to change and development; and this makes it curiously relevant to human life, in its complexity, as we have to live it.

The imagery drawn from the Transforming Earth the mustard plant serves as shelter for the birds, ensuring the protection of these creatures of God, and thus promoting life.

To become fully human, man has to achieve, on a self - conscious level, a process that operates on a non-conscious level, in all living things, namely, the synthesis of individuation and interaction, or of independence and interdependence... Accordingly, God as the power that makes for salvation is the cosmic process of organicity, which, in sub-human creatures, synthesizes individuation and interaction on an unconscious level, and in man, on a conscious level.

Such a creature is not a blob of tissue or, as the Roe opinion so felicitously put it, a «potential life.»

The depth of the self - expenditure in The Giving Tree poses for us the difficult question of whether we can commend in our everyday lives a love that seems so thoroughly to diminish the self, or that can reduce our prospects for flourishing as the creatures we were apparently meant or expected to be.