Sentences with phrase «as rational people»

The advocates of this approach imagine themselves as rational people, using the tools of science to improve others» lives.

If you think about it as a rational person, this lack of evidence is startling.

Either as a rational person who can have a rational, intelligent debate, or as a childish bully who needs a good span - king.

as a rational person you can't put it on Ebron for not «helping out» the team that is cutting him by signing a contract extension that he doesn't like.

As any rational person would expect, the subject of HBO's The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee — the executive editor who presided over the Washington Post's coverage of the Watergate scandal that drove Richard Nixon from office — quickly emerges as a heroic figure.

Wiseau's ambush of a famous producer in a restaurant goes just as badly as a rational person would expect, disastrously.

However, this does make the question of risk tolerance more confusing - I will refuse (as any rational person) even very tiny risk for poor Sharpe, and I would strongly consider even very large risk if Sharpe is good.

The most basic duty that people owe to one another is the duty to act as a rational person would, under the same or comparable conditions.

Not exact matches

«As quickly as possible, rational people on both sides of the table need to get together, recognize they had a huge customer - service issue and publicly declare peace,» says SmitAs quickly as possible, rational people on both sides of the table need to get together, recognize they had a huge customer - service issue and publicly declare peace,» says Smitas possible, rational people on both sides of the table need to get together, recognize they had a huge customer - service issue and publicly declare peace,» says Smith.

«And therefore, as with a lot of media, having an advertising - supported model is the only rational model that can support building this service to reach people.»

«In my experience people who assert statements like that are often immune to evidence or rational argument, and envision themselves as superior beings who are more enlightened than the rest of us.»

At this point, the vast majority of people my age — being honest, the dividing line seems to be around 45 years old — roll their eyes and, in a perfectly rational manner, argue that a currency is usually boring and backed up by meaningful institutions such as central banks.

Rational people already knew that no wall is going to stop anybody, as many migrants simply use tunnels.

And therefore, as with a lot of media, having an advertising - supported model is the only rational model that can support building this service to reach people,» he said.

When it comes to investing, people may not be as rational as they think.

As for the current market, I like to think that people are still rational in playing the gravity game with interest rates, albeit the recent optimism is slightly far fetched, but I think it's fine.

Unlike some of the comments left on this subject, I would hope that intelligent, rational people would listen and make their own decision as to what they believe, that is the freedom we have.

By replying to me and typing a counter arguement, a rational and thinking person will see those impliocations as things you have said.

Or perhaps I simply realize that many of the so called rational atheists who post on CNN are dedicated to reason only as long as it supports their positions and when it doesn't immediately switch to ad hominem attacks to try to get people to ignore the legitimate point that was made.

You're wasting your time, as House said, «if Religious people were rational there would be no religious people.»

This is why arguments about what god wants are as discredited as arguments about who people were in their last life or what Xenu wants amongst the rational.

are people so simple they crave the misguided beliefs of others to feel better about themselves or are we triing to understand the lunacy of our citizens to believe something as pathic as a 3000 year old IDEA in order to act properly when voting in those who will run this country for the next 4 years a.k.a. voting in one who using rational thinking and logic to make choices!

I prefer to think of people as rational until they open up their mind and let me know of the goofy magical things they feel proud to «believe in».

@ shieldofgrace You do realize to rational people YOU are in the «same category as scientologist.

First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)

On the other hand, he would worry over the competing desires corporations and governments face that might lead to a kind of rational planning that does not see human persons as a whole.

Of course I think a more rational approach is to simply view all those verses as written by mere people.

As I am aware that many are promoting a popular view that has been rationalized by whatever means, however you have failed to provide a shred of the emperical proof you claim, and as far as personal experiences, my point exactly has been that they exist in the realm of feeling and emotion, which any rational person would willingly admit is often self - deceptive...As I am aware that many are promoting a popular view that has been rationalized by whatever means, however you have failed to provide a shred of the emperical proof you claim, and as far as personal experiences, my point exactly has been that they exist in the realm of feeling and emotion, which any rational person would willingly admit is often self - deceptive...as far as personal experiences, my point exactly has been that they exist in the realm of feeling and emotion, which any rational person would willingly admit is often self - deceptive...as personal experiences, my point exactly has been that they exist in the realm of feeling and emotion, which any rational person would willingly admit is often self - deceptive.....

It isn't true that scientists are trying to change the beliefs of others, but rather they are observing and testing natural phenomena with tomes of evidence telling the rational person that the notion of a deity as a NATURAL being rather than SUPERNATURAL one is absurd and silly.

In contrast to people in biblical times «modern man acknowledges as reality only such phenomena or events as are comprehensible within the framework of the rational order of the universe... the thinking of modem men is really shaped by the scientific world - view, and.

That book defends the first and obvious meaning of publicness (viz., as meaning and truth available to all intelligent, reasonable and rational persons through persuasive argument) for the logically ordered questions of religion, God and Christ.

Thornton, for example, does not envisage change or development in God, whereas I postulate that the three divine persons undergo change in their relationships to one another as a result of their involvement with their (rational) creatures.

I am assuming this post is a joke because it too unbelievable to treat this as something a rational person would write.

With that kind of benevolent rational control, people for the first time experience themselves as unalienated or happy.

One of the scary things about reading posts from people like this is the realization that their vote counts the same as a rational, informed citizen.

Despite this, I still believe in God because of some experiences I've had as a child... other than that, I think people should start considering things through a rational, scientific perspective.

If heroes and gods of myth as well as comic book characters have powers similar to those of Jesus, where does the rational person draw the line?

Before telling me, like most christians do, that I don't know what I speak of, do note that as a Recovering christian I have a very good idea as to what I speak of and any rational minded person see's the belief for the true horror it is.

Modernity's emphasis on secularism involves three elements - a) the desacralisation of nature which produced a nature devoid of spirits preparing the way for its scientific analysis and technological control and use; b) desacralisation of society and state by liberating them from the control of established authority and laws of religion which often gave spiritual sanction to social inequality and stifled freedom of reason and conscience of persons; it was necessary to affirm freedom and equality as fundamental rights of all persons and to enable common action in politics and society by adherents of all religions and none in a religiously pluralistic society; and c) an abandonment of an eternally fixed sacred order of human society enabling ordering of secular social affairs on the basis of rational discussion.

* sigh * As rational humans, I would like to think we all have the ability to put ourselves in other peoples» shoes.

The mentally healthy person is the productive and unalienated person; the person who relates himself to the world lovingly, and who uses his reason to grasp reality objectively; who experiences himself as a unique individual entity, and at the same time feels one with his fellowman; who is not subject to irrational authority, and who accepts willingly the rational authority of conscience and reason; who is in the process of being born as long as he is alive, and considers the gift of life the most precious chance he has.

If we then understood philosophy as committed to rational thinking, we could see its necessary irrelevance to considerations of both the human person and the divine Pperson and the divine PersonPerson.

In addition to these crazy and immoral laws, there are plenty of examples of God's irrationality by his direct killing of many people for reasons that defy any rational explanation such as killing children who make fun of bald people, and the killing of a man who tried to keep the ark of God from falling during transport.

Some people have even experienced religious conversions as a result of subjecting their beliefs to rational scrutiny.

We may believe that God is Person, but we must do so on other grounds, such as the authority of Jesus» teaching, direct personal experience, or rational probability.

From these considerations it becomes clear that mathematics, which superficially appears to have no relevance to the knowledge of human nature, actually affords important insights about human beings, not only as rational agents, but as persons with freedom yet also bound by necessities in the spatiotemporal order.

But as a person is an individual ofrational nature, what makes us rational?

As people come to realize that the concept of «God» is just an ancient human fabrication «spiritual but not religious» seems to be a rational way to deal with this dichotomy.

We would not willingly choose such a person, no matter how rational, as a friend, companion, or guardian for them.

In Love» s Knowledge and elsewhere Nussbaum uses the fiction of Proust, Henry James, Dickens, and others to buttress her claim that the emotions are not necessarily opposed to reason» that, in fact, a truly rational person will experience certain emotions as the consequence of proper understanding.