Sentences with phrase «belief in reality»

When you have a film about time travel, you have to just suspend your belief in reality for a bit and just go with it.

The latest polling from the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication shows that belief in the reality of climate change, and concern about its effects, are at their highest levels since 2008.

Belief in the reality of One who interrelates empoweringly with every miniscule component of the cosmos is the conviction that I am not totally on my own in those acts of imagining.

Indeed, when one reads a good deal of writing about religion, one discovers that belief in the reality of God and belief in such a «life after death» seem to be linked together.

The challenge to the physicalist is how to make his belief in the reality of mental causation consistent with his physicalism — in particular, the physicalist must give an account of how mental events can exercise their causal powers in a physical world in a way that is consistent with the supervenience thesis and the physical causal closure.

Belief in the reality of Satan certainly promoted the frenzy of the witch hunts that seized all denominations and delayed the Enlightenment.

Because we have inherited, in the old - line churches, a vague belief in the reality of God, the church has declined.

The primary task of the American Protestant church is to recreate among its members belief in the reality of Christendom.

A greater belief in the reality of evil, certainly, and an impatient rejection of the shallow optimism and naïve faith in progress of preceding ages.

From Buber's basic premise, «As I become I, I say Thou,» it follows that our belief in the reality of the external world comes from our relation to other selves.

It was this dearth of belief in the reality of the miraculous that precipitated Keener's work.

But an extraordinary belief in the reality of the verities, in the power of man (sic) to know them and to live them by an interior realization, by purity, and above all be meditation».

But then again, his entire belief system requires a suspension of belief in reality, so I guess I am not especially surprised at how moronic he is being on this issue.

Schweitzer's disenchantment with theological conceptions of God and his passionate belief in the reality of human spirituality involved him in a quest that inevitably forced his intellectual and moral concerns to move beyond traditional theism.

For most Christians, stories like this do not nullify their belief in the reality of hell.

Belief in reality.

We just base our beliefs in reality and not what we WANT things to be like.

Not exact matches

This is only an educated hypothesis, but I'll bet it's pretty close to grounded in reality: Everybody saw «The Social Network,» and everybody has a belief that suing will net them millions whether they're in the right or the wrong.

«There needs to be a hole in the force field that protects their sense of reality before they will actively explore, examine and change their beliefs and behaviour,» writes executive coach Marcia Reynolds in her 2014 book The Discomfort Zone: How Leaders Turn Difficult Conversations Into Breakthroughs.

Related: Hey, James Damore: Your Beliefs About Women in Tech Are Nothing Like the Reality Women Live in Tech

Jeffrey Pfeffer proclaims in this new book that «much of the oft - repeated conventional wisdom about leadership is based more on hope than reality, on wishes rather than data, on beliefs instead of science.»

In fact, embracing flexible gender roles can make couples extremely happy — largely, I'd argue, because those beliefs are more adaptive to our 21st - century economic reality.

Confidence is about passion and belief in your ability to make things happen, but when your confidence loses touch with reality, you begin to think you can do things you can't and have done things you haven't.

The self - belief that led Castro to think in 1956 that a ragtag band of rebels under his command could overthrow Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship within a couple of years was not that different to the «reality - distortion field» sometimes attributed to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

The reason you are losing money in the markets is because your beliefs are not in - line with reality.

But this number only reflects my degree of belief that he drew a green coin — in reality, the matter has already been settled, he either drew a green coin or he didn't.

It's also about efficiently updating those beliefs in response to feedback from reality.

It seems to make more sense for Republicans to focus policy proposals on parental rights and restrictions on late - term abortion while noting that - whatever their ultimate beliefs - some abortion restrictions are very unlikely to happen in any foreseeable future while third trimester abortion on - demand is a reality.

In one of her speeches O'Connor does not mince words: «when the physical fact is separated from the spiritual reality,» she writes, «the dissolution of belief is eventually inevitable.»

What, after all, warrants our belief in the power of rational consciousness to give us a true knowledge of reality?

it's good if it gets more people to stop following these ridiculous belief systems that have zero grounding in the realities of life that we now know to be axiomatic to existence.

Finally, some reality in the Belief section.

You will forever be damaged with your closed minded beliefs, and unfortunately you will spend the rest of your pathetic life harassing others about your nonsense believing that youre «doing the right thing» when in reality your just being annoying.

Both of these statements are nothing more than declarations, like so many others often used by Christians, to add the semblance of authority to a belief which in reality has no basis whatsoever.

Their fears are utterly unfounded in reality and at times exaggerated paranoia and it reflects a belief that everyone has it in for them.Symptoms of persecution complex may be seen when the person interacts in normal ways and then over-reacts to perceived wrongs.)

But as previously mentioned, your belief in non existence is no more or less a verifiable reality than my belief in eternal life.

I'd like to see a reality show in which a Christian bigot, a Jewish bigot, a Hindu bigot and a Muslim bigot were put in the same cage to settle the question of whose belief system was the correct one.

Why you all don't understand that Chrisianity gave humans dignity in the belief of free will and our obligation as Christians to forgive then you avoid reality.

• False beliefs or thoughts that are not based in reality (delusions).

It's to the point with some Christian posters here that any criticism of their actions and religious beliefs garners the immediate judgment that the person doing so is being hateful when, in reality, they are only fulfilling that very same Bible observation made by Jesus.

It is one thing to believe in the delusional tenets of religion, but to to believe that anybody can survive death is to reject reality for a belief system that should land one in a funny farm where that person can pose no harm to himself or any other person.

For Schickel, that conservative language is found in the ordinary, everyday realities, a reflection of his belief that «the sacramental life of the Church is a recapitulation of the daily rituals of eating and drinking, working and resting, gathering and dispersing.»

The reality is that any absolute belief in any ism, without ability to challenge and change based on new evidence, is formula for disaster.

Every one of them has been convinced to profess a belief in Christ when in reality, they believe in something else.

William your reality is not my reality, the belief in Christ has survived over 2000 years and it will survive your angry fist being shook at the sky as well.

Your belief in God is based on nothing more than a simple desire to believe a comforting narrative because the alternative is to believe harsh realities about your existence.

Hartshorne also has a deep and abiding conviction «that idealism (here taking Ewing's definition: the belief that reality can be explained in terms of the mind) has more to teach us than most contemporaries realize» (CSPM xiii).

People should not ignore the reality of widespread immorality in the world of finance, or its source in weakened religious belief.

If you don't like a comment... then you simply make up a reality of your own choosing that is supposed to reflect our beliefs in some fashion and attack it.

The first step in bringing back to modem man the possibility of belief is a negative one — the destruction of the hellenic legacy of a dualistic reality.