Lui, Diane Chin, «
Birth of Ideas», Davis Enterprise, March 9.
Paper models capture the intuitive
birth of ideas, free from the constraints of material reality.
The birth of the idea of civil society in dissenting Protestantism with its notions of covenanting and «federal liberty,» while historically irretrievable, ought to caution us against dismissing the significance of religion to civil society.
(Contrary to a period in the historical school when scholars tried to see the God of Israel as God of Sinai [as a place], or as a god connected to Jerusalem» after which he became little by little more universal, until
the birth of the idea of universalism.
Throughout human history this conflict between the «servants of Heaven» and the «servants of earth» has gone on; but only since
the birth of the idea of Evolution (in some sort divinising the Universe) have the devotees of earth bestirred themselves and made of their worship a true form of religion, charged with limitless hope, striving and renunciation.
With a complex, incisive screenplay by Aaron Sorkin and a brilliant cast including Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake, The Social Network bears witness to
the birth of an idea that rewove the fabric of society even as it unraveled the friendship of its creators.
Like every big projects, an advertising idea or creative concept might not succeed in its presentation if the Advertising planner does not plan out the whole process right from
the birth of an idea to the execution of it for a specific group of targeted consumers.
Not exact matches
Schlosser says he had a similar
idea following the
birth of his first child.
It's also a good
idea to run the numbers any time you experience a major life change, such as a marriage, divorce, or the
birth of a child.
A generation that's been stereotyped as urban, single and aghast at the
idea of a car - based life in the suburbs is starting to age, prompting fund managers to bet on companies that should benefit if the U.S.
birth rate reverses a six - year slump.
They rejected, as Paine wrote, «the savage
idea of man considering his species as his enemy, because the accident
of birth gave the individuals existence in countries distinguished by different names.»
when your mother / sister / cousin / daughter gets r / a / p / ed by some ass, remember you want her to give
birth to that child because «GOD» made that baby and don't expect a dime from the governement to help with that «love child» seeing you want the governement to «stay out
of your life»... but it's ok if they mess with everyone else based on your
idea of «GOD» and what you think is right and just in fairy land.
«In Rabbi Jesus: An Intimate Biography (2000), Professor Bruce Chilton develops the
idea of Jesus as a mamzer; someone whose irregular
birth circumstances result in their exclusion from full participation in the life
of the community.
If you think these
ideas are outdated or irrelevant, I suggest you take a look at the damage that has been wrought on society by rampant divorce, abortion, our
of wedlock pregnancy, falling
birth rates, and a general view that life is NOT sacred, family is NOT important, and that children are more a burden to be avoided than anything.
Interesting
idea but I don't think there's a danger
of anyone fornicating on bin Laden's hypothetical grave so your concern about
birth control is a bit misplaced.
The
idea of God's hand being directly involved in nature is far more believable than the virgin
birth, the ascent
of Christ, or the rapture.
In Rabbi Jesus: An Intimate Biography (2000), Chilton develops the
idea of Jesus as a ma - mzer; someone whose irregular
birth cir - c - umstances result in their exclusion from full participation in the life
of the community.
Arising out
of a process
of differentiation from transcendent order, the
idea of society stands, from the very moment
of its
birth, in a dialectical tension with the concept
of the individual.
By the time he died, the very future
of Europe seemed at risk, with a plummeting
birth rate and widespread abandonment
of ideas, traditions, and achievements which were theessence
of a Christian heritage.
We had a Roman Catholic speaker at our college the other day and somehow people got the
idea that we could celebrate the immaculate conception in March, since that's really the miracle, not the
birth, instead
of Christmas, to escape the racket.
The process by which this happened - by which concepts such as personal freedom, human rights and equality have been slowly distorted to mean something quite other than they did when Christian Europe gave
birth to them - has been laboriously traced by historians
of ideas such as Charles Taylor and Alastair Maclntyre.
For you too, as for all lands, the struggle, the traitor, the wily person in office, scrofulous wealth, the surfeit
of prosperity, the demonism
of greed, the hell
of passion, the decay
of faith, the long postponement, the fossil - like lethargy, the ceaseless need
of revolutions, prophets, thunderstorms, deaths,
births, new projections and invigorations
of ideas and men.1
The
idea of progress was one form in which the new historical sense came to
birth; but the historical consciousness can also be nihilistic, pessimistic, or realistic.
The explanation
of Isaac's name (from a word meaning «laughter») is indicated in the thrice - repeated narrative motif
of laughter over the
idea and fact
of Isaac's
birth (17:17, 18:12, 21:6) So is Ishmael's (16:11, 17:20, 21:17) The meaning «heelholder» is given to the name Jacob with the explanation that he was born holding his twin brother by the heel (25:26).
As was the
idea of monotheism, a virgin
birth and a trinity.
We now turn to politics, the field in which the
idea of democracy had its
birth and in which it is still most naturally and commonly applied.
The German mystical
idea of the
birth in the soul
of the Urgrund, or godhead, resembles the Kabbalistic and Hasidic
idea of the unification
of God and His exiled immanence.
The historians
of philosophy, in their study
of the development
of thought through the ages, prefer to dwell upon the
birth and evolution
of ideas, theses, formally constructed systems.
I'm not against the
idea of birth - control, but let's be careful when we throw the word «FREE» around.
According to the paper, the artist, a senior at Mankato State, said the piece was inspired by the
birth of his daughter, Jayla, and expresses the
idea of unlimited opportunities for her.
The traditional Hindu caste system was the most perfect form
of ascribed ranking: An individual's place in the social hierarchy was fixed at
birth and, at least in principle, remained immutable throughout his life (at any rate, in this life» the Hindu
idea that social mobility could occur in future incarnations is, alas, beyond the scope
of sociology).
... Britain intervened directly to stop the international slave trade... set new standards in healthcare... stood against a Nazi tyranny... forg [ed] the post-war international consensus which... ushered in a hitherto unknown period
of peace and prosperity in Europe... [and] helped give
birth to a peaceful resolution
of the conflict [in Northern Ireland]... Your Government and people are the shapers
of ideas that still have an impact far beyond the British Isles...
What would happen if... the
idea of developing human beings was considered so important and vital that each neighborhood had within walking distance a Family Growth Center which was a center for learning about being human, from
birth to death?
Indeed, there are
ideas within Buddhism that are so incredible as to render the dogma
of the vir - gin
birth plausible by comparison.
All the central
ideas of Christianity (the Resurrection, the Virgin
Birth, miracles and eternal life to name but a few) fundamentally do not fit in.
Shoehorning that, in turn, gave
birth to whole new theologies, like the spinning
of the fact that Jesus would have been «cursed» for having been hung on a cross into the
idea that his death removed the curse
of death from humanity.
For Nicodemus, the cautious «teacher
of Israel,» the nocturnal dialogue brings the
idea of a new
birth or a
birth from above.
(I should note that right here we have the
birth place
of the major
ideas about God behind Unitarians and Jehovah's Witnesses.)
The first half is filled with good, normal stories
of birth and the last half is about the the actual process and
ideas, techniques and wisdom from those stories.
They almost completely ignored and forgot the Christ within, focusing instead on the
ideas of blood - sacrifice for atonement, virgin
birth, divinity and physical resurrection, all
of which are irrelevant distractions from the principal teaching
of Jesus about unity with the Father and the Kingdom
of Heaven.
In the Fourth Gospel, written in Hellenistic Ephesus, where reincarnation was a common
idea, as everywhere among the Greeks, Jesus is represented facing the old question
of suffering as penalty — «As he passed by, he saw a man blind from his
birth.
So it is that existence and non-existence give
birth the one to (the
idea of) the other; that difficulty and ease produce the one (the
idea of) the other; that length and shortness fashion out the one the figure
of the other; that (the
ideas of) height and lowness arise from the contrast
of the one with the other; that the musical notes and tones become harmonious through the relation
of one with another; and that being before and behind give the
idea of one following another.
And, by a significant transference
of the
idea of predestination to another category
of explanation, Jesus was sometimes thought
of as actually pre ~ existent: not merely as having existed, as it were, in the foreknowledge and intention
of God, but as a divine or heavenly being who had existed in another dimension before his human
birth.
From this Hellenistic theology there developed the understanding
of baptism as new
birth and new creation -
ideas familiar to the mystery religions, but corrected by linking the interpretation with eschatology and by introducing moral obligations.
Had some decent
ideas, but the whole «son
of god, virgin
birth, resurrection from the dead» thing was a little over the top.
Here is an
idea: if you don't approve
of birth control, don't do it.
Yet the
idea of Mary's perpetual virginity became so popular that in the late fourth century the faithful greeted with horror two pro-marriage churchmen's suggestion that it was biblically and historically justifiable to believe that, following Jesus»
birth, Mary had children by her husband just as any other wife would.
Just like the Roman emperor, it was Jesus»
birth right to be the head
of the Christian church, a typical and convenient roman
idea.
Even if we extend the term individual to its usual designation
of personal existence from
birth to death, the
idea of an individual apart from community is meaningless.
The new exhibit at Washington D.C.'s National Museum
of Women in the Arts, «Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother,
Idea,» conceived even before the museum's
birth in 1987, opened this year at long last, just in time for the feast
of the Immaculate Conception.