Sentences with phrase «as senseless»

and as senseless as hoping that appeals to individual morality are the solution to online piracy.

The puppy just perceives it as a senseless attack by the human she generally trusts the most.

Just as importantly, conservatives fail to realize that reliance on tradition can often be as senseless as technocratic thinking because it is based on limited human reasoning.

But what began as a senseless tragedy transformed into a glimmer of hope as the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School began to come forward and speak out against gun violence.

Home birth maternal deaths are every bit as senseless as Harry's parents» deaths.

The Universe, known and unknown, is possibly not the most used definition of God, at least in the western world... but it is the Pantheistic version that jives so much more with science and is not a misappropriation of the smaller definitions of God, merely an unfamiliar definition to those with less knowledge of various more advanced religious and philosophic thought, within and outside those religions... The idea of Pantheism also thoughtfully considers why there is, rather than ridiculing, such a wide range of philosophical and ritual beliefs from a scientific perspective... without having to classify large groups of people, as senseless idiots from one end or destined for hell from the other.

That said, to fight a war against terrorism is as senseless as fighting one against Blitzkrieg or the divine wind of the Kamikazes.

That is just as senseless and stupid as your point of view about my existence.

There were no other colors or flavors to vote for which means that this story is about as senseless as having Iowa as the first in the nation to choose candidates.

Not exact matches

The senseless act stunned the world, just as her recovery and continued activism — despite more death threats — have drawn many to her cause.

Juan Manuel Santos, the president of Colombia, tells the News Agency that peace will elevate country's expansion forever, as he urges Colombians to assist conclude the «senseless war» among the authorities and rebel fighters & # 13

Something senseless could happen to anyone in my family at any moment as well.

20 For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse: 21 because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four - footed beasts, and creeping things.24 Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves: 25 for that they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever.

atheists / deists / evolutionists always want to cut off criticism or debate about their senseless myth just as they continue to do so in academia.

For fellow Christians to implicate one of the beacons for Christian thought in the 21st century as a bigoted, senseless, reactionary institution, is equivalent to denying the ultimate conclusions and results of Wheaton's work in the 21st century up until this point, which as a graduate living in a secular world, has been mostly of incredible benefit not only to our world, but the kingdom beyond.

As their worshippers are also senseless.

OK, assuming you are defining senseless as «not possessing a conscious», why should it?

A quiet rage has been inside me since the shooting of Michael Brown on August 15 — a rage I kept under control as I tried to be objective and resist being manipulated by the strident and predictable rhetoric surrounding this senseless killing.

It follows that a putative moral prescription is meta - ethically senseless and thus can not be valid if the individuals to whom it is said to apply can not act as it requires and do so because the prescription is valid.

Thus, a prescription for social action or, as we may also say, the prescribed social action itself is meta - ethically senseless unless each participant can choose in a manner that expresses her or his dissent.

The presupposition that substantive prescriptions can be valid is senseless unless the principle of communicative respect also implies the meaning of «valid substantive prescription,» that is, implies the criterion in terms of which substantive prescriptions can be distinguished as valid and invalid.

If he believes that God is at the beginning as well as at the end, the Alpha as well as the Omega; if his hope for the future arises out of his faith in God's eternal presence; it is because he discerns the manner of God's presence and the way of his working in the strange person of Jesus of Nazareth, in his life and teaching, and not least in the bitter and apparently senseless tragedy of his death.

You will to good deeds top others, how to witness to others of Gods «indiscriminate, scandalous, shocking, outrageous, senseless, irrational, unfair, irreligious, ridiculous, absurd, offensive» grace as you began to practice your new self with Gods power to His glory.

In sum: for Marx, consciousness, subjectivity, ideal aims (e.g., the classless society) are fully as important as are the persuasive agencies for Whitehead and, vice versa, for Whitehead the senseless agencies are fully as important as are the economic conditions for Marx.

But it must be said, and as outspokenly as possible, that the so - called Christendom (in which after a sort all men are Christians in a way, so that there are just as many, precisely as many Christians as there are men)-- it must be said that not only is it a wretched edition of Christianity, full of misprints disturbing to the sense, and of senseless omissions and additions, but that it has abusively taken Christianity's name in vain.

There «disillusionment» enters the individual existence suddenly and unexpectedly and when, as may happen, it comes at the beginning of that existence, nothing is left to the one who is «saved» but the senseless and aimless vegetating of his only gifts.

Prayer is most natural when it comes from the heart and I do nt like to repeat God's name all the time in prayer as we have to use His name respectfully and I am not comfortable with in my viewpoint a senseless repetition of His Holy Name.

They recognize that «a spirit of callous disregard for life shows itself in direct assaults on human life such as abortion and capital punishment, as well as in senseless violence, escalating militarism, racism, xenophobia, and the skewed accumulation of wealth and life - sustaining resources.»

Jesus is indignant that the scribes and Pharisees (1) will not enter the kingdom of heaven themselves and stand in the way of others entering it as well; (2) will do almost anything to win a proselyte only to make that proselyte twice as much a child of hell as they are; (3) confuse people by senseless oaths, telling them that if they swear by the Temple, their oath is not binding, but if they swear by the gold of the Temple, it is binding - the fools ought to realize, Jesus says, that the Temple includes all that is in it; (4) tithe some of their money but neglect justice and mercy and faith, which are weightier moral matters, when they ought both to tithe and perform these greater acts of righteousness as well; (5) are careful about outward cleanliness but careless about the inward disposition, so that they are filled with extortion and greed; (6) appear righteous but really are hypocrites, because their appearance hides all manner of iniquity inside; (7) pretend to revere the prophets of history whom their parents killed but continue to practice the evil of their parents by rejecting those whom God sends to them now (Matt.

So they are without excuse; for although they knew God they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking and their senseless minds were darkened.

It would be senseless, because there is nothing specifically Christian in the mythical view of the world as such.

At first I thought my Friend, God, was very powerful; but as I looked at the evil in the world, I knew that the God whose love I had felt would never willingly cause or allow such senseless suffering.

Truth consists in the conformity of mind and reality (being)- if the human mind can not know reality, thinking is senseless - but the mind can not grasp individuality as such.

This is a record of a child, odd and difficult from birth, in the grip of senseless obsessions, controlling the family with rigid rules and prohibitions, tearing through the house as fast and destructive as a tornado, grunting instead of talking, unresponsive to his parents» loving concern, their urging, coaxing, their vain attempts at discipline, their anger and spanking.

Kushner drew on the sufferings of Job and the Holocaust, as well as his own family's suffering, in trying to make sense out of the senseless.

«Again, the corrupt and unsound form of speaking in the plural number to a single person, you to one, instead of thou, contrary to the pure, plain, and single language of truth, thou to one, and you to more than one, which had always been used by God to men, and men to God, as well as one to another, from the oldest record of time till corrupt men, for corrupt ends, in later and corrupt times, to flatter, fawn, and work upon the corrupt nature in men, brought in that false and senseless way of speaking you to one, which has since corrupted the modern languages, and hath greatly debased the spirits and depraved the manners of men; — this evil custom I had been as forward in as others, and this I was now called out of and required to cease from.

First, many people have condemned the act as «senseless violence.»

leo, as bad as this allowed killing of eagles is for no valid purpose, your bible actually demands senseless animal sacrifice very explicitly, and for no useful purpose whatsoever.

Yes today was decleared a day of prayer so let all pray in ways that underline faith, no obligations to pray in a certain way, why use it as a time to continue the senseless attacks on Christianity?

To sit for hours in front of the television, as nearly everyone in America did on September 11, was to hear the same thought, over and over: senseless, meaningless, unintelligible.

It is tempting to view this heinous crime as purely an act of evil, with its senseless loss of innocent lives.

As for your statement» Suffering and death seem random, senseless.»

However, I think articles like this have an agenda, and it's not to comfort the victims family's, but are a self - serving attempt at creating answers that justify a senseless act as somehow part of a plan.

It is meant as a joke, but seeing how we would be granted CL by it, it does not really sound that senseless.

Eddie Howe MAY make an excellent future Arsenal Manager.Now is not his time.We have the money and (new) infrastructure in place to go forward as a club and to do this we need a Manager who is proven and understands the Big Club mentality that will go with the job.Steve McLarens opinion carries no weight and respect from anyone.We now have some very talented and highly respected people that were recruited by Ivan G to give us the backbone to finally move on from the One Man Dictatorship we have been forced to endure since the senseless departure of David Dein.They will identify the targets and I'm sure the list who WANT the job will be many.Eddie Howe will not make that list.Yet.

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While Vonn stands to make a killing in endorsements, Van, who won the gold medal at the women's world championships in 2009, holds on to her job as a physical - therapy assistant, blocked from the chance for gold by the International Olympic Committee's senseless refusal to allow women to compete in ski jumping.

As demonstrated above your points of argument were senseless, while you made false claims about what Wenger said.

My younger brother is a SERIOUS MUFC fan, a damn «MUFcker» (lol, luvs MUFC to a senseless point), but sometimes he'd tell you LVG portrays himself as a tactical idiot.

Senseless idiot he is, I have been very respectfull towards him for the past 3 years keeping in mind his age, as we in India respect our elders even if they are outright wrong.