Even the personally non-religious might accept its conclusions on trust, much
as blind persons now accept the facts of optics — it might appear as foolish to refuse them.
What started out many years ago
as a blind person having a seeing - eye dog has gotten totally out of hand.
I can only describe
it as a blind person might describe a situation when she suddenly senses she is not alone in the room.
They can identify mates, parents or offspring by voice, much
as a blind person might do.
«It's about what it's like to be in the world
as a blind person.
What insights did you get from the novel about the life of someone navigating the world
as a blind person?
As a blind person, it is challenging to find all the remnants and keep them from falling apart or smearing all over.
Not only are they big help for senior citizens but as well as for the physically handicapped such
as blind people and quadriplegics.
This is more personal blog from her perspective
as a blind person.
Through ample training, testing, and patience, assistance dogs are able to transform the lives of the human they help — whether they detect life - threatening seizures, act
as a blind person's eyes, or help a veteran acclimate back to civilian life, these amazing canines are an irreplaceable facet of the communities they help.
Whether they're prescribed glasses by optometrists or if they wear sunglasses to avoid discomfort from sunlight,
as some blind people do, these devices could prove to be a useful alternative that makes life easier with things like audio cues for navigation.
Not exact matches
Because we can show just
as much evidence of
people with extroversion and introversion skills their biases
blind them to.
As a
person in power, your employees are unlikely to share their true feelings about you — especially the negative feedback that will help you understand your own
blind spots.
Another study of VR's empathetic powers by Stanford University's Jeremy Bailenson showed that participants were twice
as willing to help a color -
blind person when they experienced seeing the world through reduced pigment vision.
The «tenner»,
as it is known in Britain, has two clusters of dots in the top corner to help
blind and partially sighted
people identify the note, and is decorated with a gold foil image of Austen's burial place.
Dutton's book rambles through the annals of neuroscience
as he interviews lawyers, con men and expert interrogators, and brings his own expertise to bear in mapping the brain's pressure points and the locations of
people's psychological
blind spots.
But of course and religious quotings you consider
as poison because you want to be deafening and
blinding your self from recognizing the existence of GOD the Creator of the universe...!?! Where ever you head you will find GOD and GOD loving
people so get used to it... You are running and running away but you can't run away from your self...!
This
person is obviously suffering from mental illness and yet this irrational respect that is given to «religious faith»
blinds CNN to the point where they post this
as «Belief» instead of on the medical page where it belongs.
It's interesting to see how
people will find their own truth, dig in their heals and be
blind to any other idea... What would Jesus do is an interesting question... I consider my self a Christian and a spiritualist... because I believe it's just not
as black and white
as one religion or another thinks... there is way more grey area... but a fundamental truths that are a good rule to live life by, wether you are christian or not... treat others the way you want to be treated... do unto others... I am my brothers keeper... all apply.
Fundamentalism uses the culture, rituals, sacraments, texts, language, and metaphors and allusions and symbols (verbal, visual, musical, etc.) of religion in
blind adherence to a dogma
as defined and interpreted by a
person or group who is self - aggregating and self - justifying raw personal power for the sole purpose of controlling the lives of others.
As far as the people who had a lot to do with starting these big religions I don't know much about them, but blind faith is pitifu
As far
as the people who had a lot to do with starting these big religions I don't know much about them, but blind faith is pitifu
as the
people who had a lot to do with starting these big religions I don't know much about them, but
blind faith is pitiful.
I'm all for
blind faith in God, but please don't take other
people's opinions
as true unless you have actually done your research.
See I am a very stubborn
person and when I see someone
as blind as you it just makes me even more determined to reach out and grab you.
The language simply does not exist for you,
as a sighted
person, to explain to a
blind person the concept of «color,» much less specific colors.
It is the same thing
as explaining «color» to a
person blind from birth.
These are the
people who eat the twisted theology, shit it out, and re-eat the same shit,
as it did not change by any means in the process of digesting — Hell, there's no digestion, just
blind acceptance, swallowing, and shitting back out of this hateful theology.
It's amazing how even
as Christians,
people who are called to walk in holiness and stand for truth and righteousness, we will turn a
blind - eye to the actions of someone because they play for our favorite team.
What came of it was an orthodoxy, a statism, more rigorous and coercive than the one it displaced; a morality just
as hypocritical
as the old one, a social conformism just
as blind, and a dictatorship that fooled the
people with its lies.
This is why something
as obvious to a
person not
blinded by such things is completely incomprehensible to a believer..
But insofar
as we can call racism a
blind spot (by which I don't in any way mean to absolve
people of responsibility), Jesus taught a very different process for correction: start with your own sin.
He gives a reminder that he is still the true king of his
people, that it is he (and not this feeble king) who commands in Israel, delivers Israel, and serves
as its commander - in - chief, that it is he also (and not this king that abdicates his responsibility) who himself bears all the suffering of this
people, who takes it to himself and suffers it, that finally it is on him (and not on this
blind king) that there falls all the evil committed among his
people.
Too often we have been
blind to the difficulties in marriage, treated divorced
persons as pariahs and, in general, approached the subject with the attitude that «nice
people like us don't get divorced.»
He just refers to them
as «lukewarm
people», and he also refers to them
as blind, naked, poor, wretched and pitiable.
I think this notion that b / c some religious
people are jerks and shove their religion down your face that its acceptable to be an atheist (which is in fact
blind faith
as well, do not confuse agnostic with atheism) jerk that wants to shove their opinion down your throat.
Whats rediculous is that there are
people as yourself who have been so
blinded that they cant even see the evidence, and results of a
person who has faith.
All you
people who talk about contraception and abortion
as sins are being
blind to the larger picture.
There is a temptation for members of a cultural elite to see their values
as the only respectable virtues, a tendency that
blinds the group to both cultural innovation and aesthetic dissent, especially from
people deemed marginal to established intellectual society.
By and large, music journalists aren't religious
people, and, if the philosopher Max Scheler is to be believed, the non-religious are
as able to describe the psychology of religion «
as a
person totally
blind is able to describe the sensation and mood produced by vivid colors.»
They did not mean, of course, that you might not find an odd individual here and there who did not know it, just
as you find a few
people who are colour -
blind or have no ear for a tune.
well just thinking about these wars in the muslim / mid-east world over religious differences (which may reflect mental states in many ways) in a world where most realize that living in the present moment is best way to happiness and being in the moment in non-strife and awareness through the teachings of masters such
as found in the buddhist, taoist, zen, etc., etc., etc. spriritually based practices of religious like thought and teachings, etc. that to ask these scientifically educated populace whom have access to vast amounts of knowledges and understandings on the internet, etc. to believe in past beliefs that perhaps gave basis and inspiration to that which followed — but is not the end all of all times or knowledges — and is thus — non self - sustaining in a belief that does not encompass growth of knowledge and understanding of all truths and being
as it is or could be — is to not respect the intelligence and minds and personage of even themselves — not to be disrespected nor disrespectful in any way — only to point out that perhaps too much is asked to put others into the cloak of
blind faith and adherance to the past that disregards the realities of the present and the potential of the future... so you try to live in the past — and destroy your present and your future — where is the intelligence in that — and why do
people continually fear monger or allow to be fear — mongered into this destructive vision of the future based upon the past?
You need to pull your
blind Christian heads out of your big Christian Azzes and realize that this Nation was built by and made up of
people of ALL religions
as well
as people with NO religion!
† Just because a
Blind Christian has the need to feel
as if they posses a traditional family lifestyle, religious holidays where the give their kids chocolate eggs, dvd gifts on christmas of movies full of women acting
as the equals of men (Against the bible), a lack of understanding culture, and the feeling of belonging, does not mean all
people need / want / or feel that way.
They recognize and fault religious extremism in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and throughout the middle - east
as being irrational and
as blindly leading those
people to support actions and positions causing severe problems... yet they don't question their own
blind extremism and the obvious aggressive exploitation of their own beliefs.
/ my IQ was 129 when tested at age 16, no idea what it is now, may have gone down for all i know, but i have to beleive that smarter
people tend to be atheists, they have more critical thinking and tend not to rely on
blind faith
as much.
I can not convey truth to a
person who has been
blinded,
as much
as I would want too.
Your hate
blinds you such that you continue to slander me and others here who have nothing to do with xxxchurch.com other than I see them
as a valid ministry that loves
people in the Name of Jesus and frees them from the sin you hate so much.
Everybody has an infinite, unpayable debt to sin to God, but many
people are
blind to their own sin and think of themselves
as «pretty good
people.»
People that are
blind are not defective they are just without visual sight
as is the deaf
person is without auditory hearing.
In fact, I can not name one
person involved in any of the above steps, but I accept the end product with
blind adherence
as, well gospel.
Speaking
as someone who does not, in fact, think one can know with absolute certainty that other
people exist at all, and therefore «strongly believes» that indeed other «minds» exist, calling the blief that other minds exist nothing more than «
blind faith» seems a little out there.