Sentences with phrase «as myth in»

Because Jung wrote about myth and considered all religions worthy of study and respect, many have wrongly assumed that he interpreted religion as myth in the sense that it is deluded belief, something childish and meant only for the unthinking masses.

In using what is now called myth, in the way in which they did, they were making a genuine response; in classing it as myth in the way we do, we are being true to the insights of our time.

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That is a frontal attack on the small - business - as - job - creator myth that dominates the political discourse in countries such as the United States and Canada.

Not only that, they fly in the face of some massively overhyped myths that masquerade as common wisdom, these days, especially among the entrepreneurial crowd:

It's usually a knee - jerk reaction to some uncomfortable modern issue or in defense of one of the many historical myths children in the mainland are taught as unshakeable facts about the world.

He wanted to study the claim by consultants that executives need to be paid extraordinarily high compensation or else they would migrate to other companies and jurisdictions, which — as it turned out — did not happen, Feinberg said, or is a «myth» as was stated in the U.K. this week.

However, there is increasing evidence that the STEM shortage is a myth and, as Fareed Zakaria points out in his book, In Defense of a Liberal Education, what we most need to improve is communication skillin his book, In Defense of a Liberal Education, what we most need to improve is communication skillIn Defense of a Liberal Education, what we most need to improve is communication skills.

They do not in fact bury their heads in the sand as the old wives» tale tells it, but the fact that most of us believe that myth to be true only makes a stronger point: if the move you choose is to burrow in deeper to protect the current nest on which you rest, the odds are high that you're leaving yourself a sitting duck (or ostrich, as it were).

Countless Americans believe the «good guy with a gun» myth, but — as we saw with the armed guard in Florida who never went inside the high school — that isn't always the case.

Fran Hauser is a long - time media executive, startup investor and author of The Myth of the Nice Girl.Best known for her role building PEOPLE.com — one of the biggest media brands online — Hauser made the leap to early stage investing in 2014, funding and advising consumer - focused companies such as HelloGiggles, Mogul, The Wing and Gem & Bolt.

• BP's C.F.O., Brian Gilvary, dismissed a claim that its C.E.O., Bob Dudley, had been poisoned in Moscow as «a complete urban myth.»

As with the myth that Bitcoin is insecure, the idea that Bitcoin itself was hacked in the MtGox incident is false.

12 Myths Uncovered About A Franchise Opportunity What You Need To Know About Investing In A Franchise Launching any new business can be rather daunting, even something a turn key as a franchise opportunity.

In fact, I understand that some in the crypto community view the necessity of cashing out itself as a type of mytIn fact, I understand that some in the crypto community view the necessity of cashing out itself as a type of mytin the crypto community view the necessity of cashing out itself as a type of myth.

And stocks were positive 6 out of the past 9 times in the year leading up to the start of a recession, dispelling the myth that the stock market always acts as a leading indicator of economic activity.

But one only has to glance at the weapons used in our nation's most prominent mass public attacks to recognize this claim as a myth:

As part of this interesting proposal, he talks about the «Austrian cryptocurrency myth» that tokens created in the operation of a double permissionless shared ledger could compete with fiat currencies in everyday use and concludes that for reasons relating to both technology and governance they could not.

There are also so many Panda myths reported as fact, which ends up resulting in webmasters attempting to «fix» Panda, but which ends up hurting a site even more.

I would suggest that your sources of information, particularly Michael Fumento's The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS, are hopelessly out of date and inappropriate to a discussion of the AIDS epidemic as it is developing in the 1990s.

In that case, teach the Vedas, Bible, Koran, Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime creation myths, Norse creation myths, and Hindu Vedas as well?

I am an atheist who feels that I should respect other peoples beliefs as long as they respect mine not to believe in the myth that they fell for.

As any student of Comparative Mythology knows, the Garden myth in Genesis was taken from the Sumerian Chaos myths, and was a HUMAN attempt to explain «disorder».

I am sure he believed in them as much as you believe in your god myth.

Meanwhile on a senisble note, I look forwrd to the day, as happened with the founding fathers, that you can run for a political office without believing in myths.

Some unfortunately will be continually recycled as «mythicians» doomed for all eternity wallowing in the myths of fortune telling, angels, global floods, magic trees, resurrections and ascensions!!!

The best you can come up with is a fleeting reference to the House of David, which leaves events that supposedly happened before that in the same realm as other ancient myths.

Though in the case of the flood myth the material from the two sources isn't as clearly separated, but is, instead, intermixed.

Those were your two sentences, in the second you claim the bible would be a myth, in the first that you think he's as you said, which is wrong.

I agree with your post, Mr. Stephens — insofar as I believe that a cobbled - together patchwork of Bronze Age myths that sanction slavery, genocide, human sacrifice, and child murder should not be arbitrarily invoked as the sole determinate for notions of morality in the modern world.

I do find a conflict between Intelligent Design and Science, you can't have both in the lab as you are looking for facts and not myths.

It can certainly be credited for geographical knowledge, as well as folk wisdom learned from experience, such as the proscriptions against eating shellfish or pork, but it is certainly nothing more than the recorded myths of a specific people from specific points in time.

I think @myweightinwords is on the right track, however, I would also suggest that a possible in - myth explanation is that the Moon actually doesn't reflect the UV spectrum as well as the visible.

Tryggve N. D. Mettinger in The Riddle of the Resurrection: «Dying and Rising Gods» in the Ancient Near East wrote: «There is, as far as I am aware, no prima facie evidence that the death and resurrection of Jesus is a mythological construct, drawing on the myths and rites of the dying and rising gods of the surrounding world.»

When Muslims become 80 % of the population, try and push creationism and other myths into our science classes, force their god on our currency, take over our government as you Christians do then they'll be in the bulls eye.

Belief in myths and legends and a life filled with puerile wish thinking, ruled by threats and promises is an insult to us as a species.

but it is exasperating to be told by the religious that atheists are perhaps lesser beings as god only favours those who reject what nature tells us is the truth, I find the god myths boring and in no way inspiring.

The Bible is just a disjointed collection of old myths, I have as much faith in it as the next Ponzi scheme.

Evolution shows that mankind was not produced as described in the bible, no one has ever seen a talking snake; so how likely is it that the garden story is not a myth?

But first of all, as an atheist, you have probably said the Bible is just a book of myths and lies and fairytales in the first place, so why are you basing your arguement on it?»

By way of an answer I explained that a large majority of Americans — anywhere from 76 to 83 percent, in fact — identify themselves as Christian and that many of the guiding myths, symbols and ideals of the United States have their roots in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles.

Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible, and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such as myth, legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.

Almost all the stories surrounding Jesus (if he did exist, some scholars say their is no proof of a historical Jesus) were borrowed from earlier myths and used word for word... as well as the rampant literary corruption and forgeries of Biblical Texts... It is also impossible for God to exist in the Christian version or form they created.

Summary: Christians see themselves as persecuted because the myth of their persecution fits into the story they are told in the bible.

«In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction.

I know the Jesus of the Bible exists in myth and legend, but as for a man - god who died and rose from the dead - seriously?

Belief in myths and fables, wish thinking and being obsessed with threats and promises in the afterlife does not help us as a species.

In the case of creationism, for example, scientific evidence now exists which contradicts directly with the creation myth (unless one thinks of the creation story as being an allegory or something like that).

Have you and your church, or any of the other christians heaping scorn upon the WBC in this blog, issued a public statement condemning your fellow christians at WBC for their behaviour, as many christians have demanded that muslims do when members of their tribe behave contrary to the declared principles of their myths and your expectations?

The myth of original sin is used every day in what a perceptive author designates as «the guilt - addled West» to manipulate and eventually subjugate us.

It's easy (and frankly immature) to dismiss those who disagree with your position as «sharing their hatredness»... But what's harder is to try to understand that, if you are wrong, then you and all likeminded souls are wallowing in the chains of mental slavery to a myth.