Dog birth, know to animal experts as whelping, can be as complicated
as human birth.
The monthly heartworm preventatives that your veterinarian has for sale are very effective - about as effective
as human birth control pills - but with less side effects.
However, just
as human births can develop complications, equine births can present complications, and these complications may threaten the mother, the foal, or both.
Not exact matches
We're
humans, we need a personal approach that is fully cognizant of what happens outside of work (also known
as — the important stuff like the
birth of a child or buying a new car).
The point of this is that Jesus in his quality
as human being had no control on his
birth at all, where and by whom he should get born.
Even if the date and place of Jesus»
birth may be uncertain, the claim that God entered
human history is central to traditional Christian belief,
as the British poet Sir John Betjeman (1906 - 84) indicated in his poem «Christmas»:
As the time for
birth drew near, the fetus moved from the animal - like embryo to the
human child.
Just
as the Virgin
Birth, and the physical Resurrection of Christ are and were requirements of his literal Divinity and uniqueness upon the
human scene, so also this type of development to which we appeal can not take place, except in a Church which claims the infallible magisterium on earth of the same Jesus in the name of his Divinity, and can manifest a line of consistent and coherent, definition because she has done so.
The process by which this happened - by which concepts such
as personal freedom,
human rights and equality have been slowly distorted to mean something quite other than they did when Christian Europe gave
birth to them - has been laboriously traced by historians of ideas such
as Charles Taylor and Alastair Maclntyre.
Let us speak of a whole life of sufferings or of some person whom nature, from the very outset,
as we
humans are tempted to say, wronged, someone who from
birth was singled out by useless suffering: a burden to others; almost a burden to himself; and yes, what is worse, to be almost a born objection to the goodness of Providence.
The circumstances surrounding his
birth enable both Abraham and Sarah to see the permanent truth about parenthood: Children are not man's products or creatures, and thus the pride that
human beings naturally take in their own children
as their own children is vanity and self - delusion.
As humans are with a clean slate when they enter through the gates of
birth, for when born you are given the gift of free will which requires a clean soul that all choices are truly yours.
human beings, «born free and equal in dignity and rights,» are entitled to
human rights «without distinction of any kind, such
as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property,
birth or other status.
The brainwashing from
birth to take bronze age myths
as truth and demonize those who don't
as «evil communist atheists» has to stop before we
humans finally emerge from the dark ages.
As a Communication Act: The
Birth of a Performance, by Richard F. Ward Performance is a resource for homiletics because it addresses this problem of integrating language, sound and movement in an oral, interpretive act in
human communication.
If this is what it means to be
human, it may be no surprise that bioethics — concerned
as it is with Bios — should, especially at its most philosophical, focus so much attention on the beginning and end of life, on
birth and death.
Infant baptism was insisted on
as a necessity for purification from an original sin said to be inherited at
birth by all
humans due to the sin of Adam and Eve.
Christians, however, may understand the decisiveness of Christ
as the moment in evolution when God's promise and self - gift, which have been continually and creatively present to the cosmos from its
birth, are embraced by a
human being without reservation.
God created some souls to come back to this 2nd earth age
as women to bring forth the
human race (giving
birth) born of water.
He argues that
birth, breeding, and death are the features of life that most offend this sense of dignity, and
as such are the central battlegrounds for those attempting to help us become more than
human.
God created some souls to come back to this 2nd earth age
as women to bring forth the
human race (giving
birth) born of water» And, once again, women get the shaft.
«
As bishops and defenders of the
human rights and religious freedom of all, weare alarmed by the deteriorating situation of Christians and other religious minorities in Iraq... Christians in particular are caught in the middle of civil strife between Sunnis and Shiites... We are deeply impressed by the courage of many Christians who remain in the land of their
birth.»
Every
human experience of language grasps it
as repetition: no one would speak if those who gave him
birth did not speak to him first.»
if
humans had just fell in line with religious teachings and never asked questions other than «god did it»... then people would still be dying in child
birth, the common cold, small poxs etc etc etc. i find that we survived a s a species to become the alpha predator of this planet and the achievements we have made since then to be amazing; attributing everything
humans have achieved to a god just cheapens the value of our achievements
as a species.
with Paul's guidelines in 1 Corinthians 1 - 2, a community made by people which Paul describes
as «Not many of you were wise by
human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble
birth.
They often take away the diety of Our Lord by placing more emphasis on so called
human fallible «saints» and «pray» to
humans such
as Mary who did not remain virgin once she gave
birth to Christ and had more children.
As an aspect of God the Logos has existed since the beginning, and at the
birth of Jesus of Nazareth became incarnate in this
human being.
Nevertheless, in the very name of the Incarnation itself, and the majesty of divine wisdom contained within that economy of
human salvation, we insist urgently upon the fact that the
birth of Christ is the summit not only of theology and philosophy, but of the material sciences
as well.
Ever since the quarrel over artificial
birth control in the 1960s, wayward Catholic theologians have led the way in dismissing Catholic sexual morality
as mere «physicalism», this [dismissal] being an attitude which ignores the dual character of
human nature
as a union of body and soul.
John 8:39 - 41 is doubly interpreted: on pp. 81 - 82, 160 Redford favours the view that the verses obliquely refer to a charge of Jesus» illegitimacy (and thus awareness of
birth without a
human father) while on p. 137 that view is rejected
as «highly imaginative.»
Sir Julian Huxley, former UNESCO director, regards
birth control
as the only real hope in the problem and terms it «a prerequisite for anything that you can call progress and advance in
human evolution.»
This is the view that Jesus was a
human being who, either at
birth or at baptism, was chosen for the role of messiah, or «adopted»
as God's Son.
The only event of revelation he can allow is one which brings to
birth an understanding of
human life such
as man could never have produced for himself.
«So let me get this straight, you have two - way conversations with invisible spirits, you think the earth is 10,000 years old, you believe the world was once covered in water (about 5,000 years ago), you believe your invisible sky father came to earth in
human form after a virgin
birth, then rose
as a zombie, from the dead, then ascended into an invisible sky city... all because the first people on earth ate and apple before proceeding on with decades of incest... am I getting this?»
At his
birth a
human being enters on the scene of life, draws a breath of air, beginning the process of living with a cry of pain, pays the tribute of a tear to Nature, just tastes life's sorrows before any sweets have been his, and before his joints have consolidated, tender
as he is, he dies, perhaps because he was left exposed
as a newborn child, or because he has suffocated, or because some illness has suddenly put a stop to his life.
And, by a significant transference of the idea of predestination to another category of explanation, Jesus was sometimes thought of
as actually pre ~ existent: not merely
as having existed,
as it were, in the foreknowledge and intention of God, but
as a divine or heavenly being who had existed in another dimension before his
human birth.
As an ecologist with a degree in biological research, she is fascinated to watch the adventure of
human birth incarnated in her own body.
Tell me which Greek God or Goddess has changed the landscape of
human history since
birth and continues to exert powerful influence on cultures around the world to this day
as Jesus has.
This story of the
birth of the
human was never known so well
as now.
Although Matthew and Luke begin their Gospels with the
human ancestry and
birth of Jesus of Nazareth, John begins his with Christ in his preexistent state, with him
as he was with the Father through all eternity.
What he opposes most stridently in this book is not religious doubt itself or attempts to understand religion
as a
human construct or a biological phenomenon, but rather what he sees
as a very artificial and incomplete view of
human nature and its purpose: the very presumption that religion can be explained away
as unnecessary and that such materialistic perspectives could be definitive or anywhere near ultimately satisfactory for beings who are obviously designed to crave so much more than mere
birth, death, and extinction.
(The idea of the virgin
birth of Jesus can be understood
as a symbolic way of expressing the fact that deep unity is possible between God and a
human being (Mary).
As Paul says in another letter: «Not many of you were wise by
human standards,... powerful,... of noble
birth» (1 Cor.
The reaction of any person who begins to leaf through this illustrated chronicle of
human gestation will surely be extraordinary
as well, and the book should be helpful in promoting «bonding» of all readers with all unborn babies,
as it graphically documents the contention (made, for example, in this issue by William Saunders) that from zygote to embryo to fetus to
birth, each
human organism is nothing but
human.
Since the idea of rebirth was generally accepted by Buddhists
as well
as by all other people in India, and since
birth was not limited to the
human level, it was possible to have Buddha born to fit any ancient tale of India, whether of beast or people — and this was actually done.
Not only would ectogenesis — the process of growing a fetus outside a
human body in an artificial womb — save women and babies from those dangers, but just
as assisted reproductive means have allowed the rise in fatherless
births and mothers by choice, it would also make it much easier for men — gay, trans, hetero, whatever — to have children without needing a surrogate.
Veronica thank God, you must be the smartest person alive i'm tired of people comparing
humans and animals like they are equals.These people that think like that must be doing things to their pets I'm sorry.It's repulsive how some people compare animals and babies
as if you give
birth to a pet.Even when you're pregnant in the first trimester your pet starts to act out and become belligerent you get annoyed easily you feel big and sick you don't feel like dealing with a pet who is just acting out of jealousy.
Instead your clips of animal -
birth were contrasted with «
human -
birth» involving immediate cord clamping / cutting —
as though it was a species - wide norm, when in fact it is an unusual practice considering the rest of the world, even in the post - industrial / Western world.
After the rush of giving
birth wore off, I faced my first big challenge
as a mom of a new
human: breastfeeding the strongest, hangriest baby around.
Elephants in the wild also normally give
birth at night,
human mamas without interventions, too, will often give
birth overnight (
as a doula, I can attest to this reality
as so many
births happen during the calm and privacy of nighttime).