Pittman's From A Late Western Impaerium constructs a loose narrative of nationhood that travels
between our present time and the distant past.
From the gallery: Pittman's From A Late Western Impaerium constructs a loose narrative of nationhood that travels
between our present time and the distant past.
Its chapters flip back and forth
between present time and 70 years ago, but there is no confusion or difficulty in following the time line.
Not exact matches
«During Christmas Day our fellows and the Saxons fixed up a table
between the two trenches and they spent a happy
time together, and exchanged souvenirs and
presented one another with little keepsakes,» one British soldier wrote.
In a new study published Tuesday in the BMJ, Brazilian researchers reported for the first
time a link
between Zika and arthrogryposis, a severe joint condition that's
present at birth.
Present indications are that overall growth of the economy is likely to remain strong, with the mix
between domestic and external sources of growth shifting to a more sustainable position over
time.
Instead of accepting startups serially, Age 1 will work with small batches of startups —
between three and five at a
time — and it's accepting them right now on a rolling basis, with plans to
present them to an invite - only group of investors on October 5 in the Bay Area.
Bitcoin transaction occurs
between two bitcoin addresses of two machine operators, which means none of the sender and recipient need to know a lot about bitcoin, have any wallets set up etc., they just need to have cash an be
present at two locations at the same
time.
At the
present time, however, there are significant accounting differences
between the Budget and the Estimates.
satans aim was to stop the fulfillment of the seed that would crush satan underfoot.This hybrid
between the angels and man created giants abominations in Gods eyes.They also were a threat to Gods people as can be seen by the giants in the land of caanan after the flood.If we agree on that then there is no way that Eve would have had intercourse with satan [false doctrine of the seed of satan -RCB- because the blood lines were still untainted by angelic beings or satan at the
time of Noah maybe that is also why the genealogy of Christ is well
presented with no surprises apart from Hagar and Ruth these two were gentiles that shows Gods mercy grace was always there to all nations he accepts people by faith not by race.Prior to the flood the mixing of the angels and man must have been widespread after the flood these beings were
present but in limited numbers and God told his people to destroy them as they were abominations but they were a threat to Gods people.It would be interesting to hear what the rabbis had to say on this matter as i would think the stories would have been past down from generation to the next.Especially regarding the flood.God promised he would never flood the earth again but a
time is coming when the earth will be judged not by flood but by fire Jesus is our ark and we are safe in him.brentnz
In her effort to
present this gap in belief and experience
between the
time of Jesus and our own
time, she includes an unusual element: two passages, five and eight pages long, which don't just describe but re «imagine the historical context of ancient Palestine.
The author maintains that the real need at the
present time is for a synthesis
between the scientific view of the world and orthodox, historic Christianity.
She had apparently got to the point where she honestly did not know that a child is the natural fruit of a union
between a man and a woman: in her understanding «sex» is something done for pleasure, according to one's desires, whether lesbian or homosexual or whatever, and procreation an entirely different matter connected with options
presented at various
times, possibly involving in - vitro fertilization and test - tubes.
At the
present time a conflict still rages in modern physics
between Heisenberg and Einstein.
This national universalism, in Buber's opinion, is the only answer to the
present conflict
between national sovereignty and the need for international co-operation: «A new humanity capable of standing up to the problems of our
time can come only from the co-operation of national particularities, not from their being leveled out of existence.»
We pretend that romantic comedies or naturalistic thrillers set in the
present day are more «realistic» than any that require us to remember that we live
between immensities, for no more than a fraction of sidereal
time in a world that we did not make.
The group then divides into two subgroups, led by the minister and her co-facilitator, for experiential and feeling - level sharing, including debriefing on such
between - session assignments as: «Talk to three people about death, being aware of how they respond» or «Imagine that you have only a limited
time to live and try to say how this awareness influences your feelings about your lifestyle and
present relationship.»
But consider that John McTaggart, who bequeathed to us the distinction
between A-series, past,
present, future, and B - series, earlier and later, argues effectively that each of these characteristics or determinations of
time require the other.
Central to McTaggart's philosophy of
time is his distinction
between the A-series (based on concepts of past,
present, and future) and the B - series (based on concepts of earlier and later).
Another idea always presupposed in practice is the reality of
time, meaning the distinction
between a settled past, a settling
present, and a partly unsettled future.
The intuition that reality for human beings, and indeed for all living things, is necessarily temporal, with an irreversible distinction
between past,
present, and future, is difficult to reconcile with the idea, long orthodox in the physics community, that
time does not exist for subatomic particles or even for single atoms.
Some Native American languages fail to distinguish clearly
between past,
present, and future verb tenses and thus the linear progression of
time may be more difficult to experience in these cultures.
Images of paradise invariably testify to a longing or a nostalgia for an original paradise, i.e., for participation in an original cosmic Totality, a Totality
present in a primordial
time prior to the advent of the rupture
between the sacred and the profane, a
time when suffering, death, and alienation had not yet come into existence.
The midpoint
between creation and redemption is not the revelation at Sinai or at the burning bush but the
present perceiving of revelation, and such perception is possible at any
time.
There are many Christians for whom the sacramental life of the Church and the Holy Communion would have power beyond anything they can at
present imagine if a genuine connection should be established in their understanding
between the Sacrament and the mutual ministry which is going on all the
time in the life of the Church.
But at this
present time I can not affirm a difference in kind
between Jesus and other men; indeed I find important religious reasons for wishing to deny this.
If one accepts Whitehead's definition of
time as «the conformation of state to state, the later to the earlier,» and if one assumes that the past really changes, then we would have no conception of
time because there would be nothing definite or determinate for the
present to conform to.12 The distinction
between the past and the future seems to be at least partly defined in terms of determinateness and indeterminateness.
What is needed at the
present time, then, is a theology of sin that builds upon the work of the persons cited here, but that can develop a stronger connection
between social structures and individuals, and with the ancient insights concerning original sin.
(Cf. the phenomenon of the «runners» at first connected with the mother plant and then separated from it; the fluid transition
between various plants and animals which appear to be one; the germ - cell inside and outside the parent organism, etc.) Living forms which
present what are apparently very great differences in space and
time can ontologically have the same morphological principle, so that enormous differences of external form can derive from the material substratum and chance patterns of circumstance without change of substantial form (caterpillar - chrysalis butterfly).
/ In your mind, go back and forth several
times between your
present situation and the other one, savoring the differences in the two.
The typical conception of
time in modern physics allows for no distinction
between past,
present, and future, thus denying the significance of
time.
The population explosion is also changing the economic balances, for it is the nations that are already economically poor, and in many cases saddled with massive international debt, that will bear the burden of feeding
between two and three
times as many more mouths than they do at
present.
What Bultmann means is that the difference
between the mythological language of the New Testament and ecclesiastical dogma on the one hand and his own interpretation on the other is that the former
presents us with a «miraculous, supernatural event», whereas the right interpretation is one which suggests «an historical event wrought out in
time and space».
There is a striking contrast, however,
between the circumstances which gave rise to this phenomenon in the fifteenth century, and the circumstances which have given rise to it at the
present time.
There is also a good discussion concerning the relationship
between present acts and the act of dying itself, and
between time and eternal life.
Holloway talks of «the
present time of transition
between an old order and a new».
The author maintains that the real need at the
present time is for a synthesis
between the scientific vie...
At the
present time, over one - fifth of all Americans are
between the ages of forty and sixty - five.
Beardslee's astute and penetrating analysis suggests that my thinking has fallen into a naturalization of historical
time by way of my inability to establish a creative relationship
between the
present and the past.
The connection
between freedom and
time (and
between them and selfhood or personal identity) appears clearly in Sartre's insistence that the good novel
present a self shaping an open future, not a puppet ruled by the past whose end is contained in his beginning: «But in order for the duration of my impatience and ignorance to be caught and then moulded and finally
presented to me as the flesh of these creatures of invention, the novelist must know how to draw it into the trap, how to hollow out in his book, by means of signs at his disposal, a
time resembling my own, one in which the future does not exist.
The key feature of this short passage is, for
present purposes, the relationship established
between God and
time.
But in spite of the above criticism of Toulmin's analysis, the
present investigation embodies his insistence on the relation in Newton's Principia
between his theory of dynamics and absolute space and absolute
time.
This problem of the connection
between the physical and the mathematical is one not merely of philosophical interest; it is one of the greatest relevance and importance for science, more particularly at the
present time, which is why Whitehead, himself a scientist, made this problem central to his endeavor.
The author looks at Niebuhr's typology of various possible relations
between Christianity and the culture and shows their relevance for our
present time.
In this approach sense - perception (a major preoccupation in these Dialogues) will be
presented as a three - term relation
between a focal («cogredient») event, another event perceived as a space -
time region, and a characterizing property called an «object.»
John Cobb and David Griffin have approached this question by making a distinction
between «responsibility» and «indictability,» and at the
present time I am attracted to their proposed clarification of God's relation to the fact of suffering.
• The WCED (1987) or Brundtland report argued that the poor world could only be helped if there were an increase in the world economy from
between five to ten
times the
present world economy.
The dilemma is this: If existence is not a property and if the future is determinate, there is no difference
between a future definite state of affairs and a
present definite state of affairs, and
time is unreal.
The
time span
between the given «
present» and the appropriated past varies widely, from the relatively narrow gap
between David and the account of him in II Sam.
For the
present we must leave them unanswered; we can come to grips with these superhistorical questions only after we have dealt with the historical situation, and have learned what this existence «
between the
times» was actually like in the Palestine of those days.