Sentences with phrase «blind acceptance of»

Blind acceptance of an authority's statement.

Throughout her writing and lectures, virtual communication researcher Sherry Turkle shares unsettling stories of «connecting» in the Digital Age — chilling anecdotes from her own life and from the lives of others that illustrate the dangers of taking the norms of today's high - tech society for granted — snapshots of moments that expose the alienation created by blind acceptance of these norms.

The failure to interview credible and independent eye witnesses who presented themselves at the scene to Durham Police, the blind acceptance of absurd accounts by the attackers of Dafonte Miller, the wrongful and illegal arrest of the victim Dafonte Miller and the deliberate exclusion of the Special Investigations Unit are all undeniable realities of the Dafonte Miller case.

Also troubling was the lack of diligence of counsel to further investigate the arguments put forth by Tellermate and its blind acceptance of their statements as fact.

His blind acceptance of McI's accusation is unacceptable.

In Not Evil Just Wrong two Irish filmmakers take on Al Gore and the blind acceptance of his doomsday agenda.

First of all, acknowledging the power of index investing is not «imbibing the Kool - Aid,» which implies blind acceptance of an unproven claim.

It takes up and expands on the ideas of his previous work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, but approached from a more critical, polemical direction.In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche attacks past philosophers for their alleged lack of critical sense and their blind acceptance of Christian premises in their consideration of morality.

Without knowing how ideas were developed, learning science would require blind acceptance of many ideas about the natural world that appear to run counter to common sense.

Jack Paglen's screenplay offers a cautionary tale about our blind acceptance of the invasion of technology.

No, I learned them in science class and we got that knowledge by observation and questioning, not blind acceptance of what we were told by «authorities.»

During the recent controversy over whether Muslim women in Britain should wear the veil, Dr. Taj Hargey, chairman of the Muslim Educational Centre in Oxford, wrote «In contrast to a blind acceptance of specific 7th - century tribal Arabian dress and cultural norms, which have no eternal scriptural endorsement (as believers are required only to be modest), modern Muslims should revive the Islamic principle of ijtihadto interpret the faith for themselves.»

Im also sorry your grasp on concepts and blind acceptance of them as truth has apparently led you down a confusing path.

Mr. Wu (nice Niven reference, btw LW,) has used his to question the concept of blind acceptance of dogma without critical thinking.

A blind acceptance of the New Testament mythology would be arbitrary, and to press for its acceptance as an article of faith would be to reduce faith to works.

First let it be said that a blind acceptance of such stories simply because they are in the Bible or attested by Church authority has no place in an intelligent religious outlook.

Way to abandon earnest inquiry in favor of blind acceptance of absurd supersti.tion.

Use logic and reason instead of blind acceptance of 2000 year old myths, written by a primitive culture.

I support this movie for it encourages rational and critcal thinking instead of blind acceptance of 1st century bronze age attempts to understand our world.

Not exact matches

our country will be the worse for it as more students face the brainwashing of liberal education's agenda to promote blind acceptance that truth and creed do not exist.

There is so much blind acceptance and blind denial on both sides of the coin today.

These are the people who eat the twisted theology, shit it out, and re-eat the same shit, as it did not change by any means in the process of digesting — Hell, there's no digestion, just blind acceptance, swallowing, and shitting back out of this hateful theology.

Evangelical support for Trump, while robust, seems to have been driven by prudential judgment and fear of a Clinton presidency, rather than by blind acceptance.

Faith is not an act of blind credulity or the acceptance of irrational and absurd ideas.

The notion of blind acceptance on the part of the 50 % of Americans that Nye reports makes me want to update my Passport again.

Many times they were blinded by their own sense of external righteousness to the human need in everyone for love, acceptance, forgiveness, and community.

I guess we want to do it through hard work and observation... not just blind acceptance or just due to a principle of «we are here so somebody made us».

This is probably why there is not one pa.ssage in the Bible in support of intelligence and healthy skepticism, but literally hundreds in support of blind acceptance and blatant gullibility.

One thing I would ask you to reconsider is your statement about Christianity not allowing thinking, or as you said, «This is probably why there is not one passage in the Bible in support of intelligence and healthy skepticism, but literally hundreds in support of blind acceptance and blatant, sheep - like gullibility.»

If you believe that acceptance of evolution comes down purely to blind faith, you clearly have not looked closely into science in general, let alone evolution in particular.

some that with out self thought knowledge who called themselves athiest are really confused and truelly believe what they are saying even when wrong they believe to be telling the truth now that is not all atheist some are really cruel and mean to deceived others - those who are not stading in solid ground are those worth reaching out to - cause they need to know truth from false testimony... those who trully know God can not depart from him but there are those who blindly fight their way away from him... evil is blind and can't see the presence of god — that was God's course for rebelion... only a pure soul can be reach by the creator now that is not that easy to keep so its only through faith and the acceptance of jesus sacrifice for the human race that is posible to find the way and acceptance required by God in his second agreement to menkind... jesus was the lamb who took all our sin so even with a blind soul one can find the way to the creator and at one time if any find themselves in the presence fo the lord our God the reason we are here...

some that with out self thought knowledge who called themselves athiest are really confused and truelly believe what they are saying even when wrong they believe to be telling the truth now that is not all atheist some are really cruel and mean to deceived others — those who are not stading in solid ground are those worth reaching out to - cause they need to know truth from false testimony... those who trully know God can not depart from him but there are those who blindly fight their way away from him... evil is blind and can't see the presence of god — that was God's course for rebelion... only a pure soul can be reach by the creator now that is not that easy to keep so its only through faith and the acceptance of jesus sacrifice for the human race that is posible to find the way and acceptance required by God in his second agreement to menkind... jesus was the lamb who took all our sin so even with a blind soul one can find the way to the creator and at one time if any find themselves in the presence of the lord our God the reason we are here...

Buttons are out of place, there are things that are new and stuff missing, but generally after a while it would all become natural again and personality would change insofar as acceptance of a new outward appearance (I would like to think sort of like a person becoming blind, or crippled or deaf).

Her experience has given her unique insights into the methods used by food marketers and other influencers to erode the very meaning of the word «food»... resulting in blind consumer acceptance of what constitutes an «acceptable,» or «normal» diet, and «acceptable» or «normal» health.

For it to work, the movie relies on the conceit of blind acceptance to something that, beyond appearing ridiculous at face value, seems to have little to no effect to actually helping Walter's condition.

The JSET currently has an acceptance rate of 22.5 % per year from those articles that are sent out for double blind peer review.

Kurt Vonnegut, the writer and seer, was famous for seeing right through the fallacy of blind acceptance.

Stumbling literally and emotionally into darkness, into love, into couch - shopping at Ikea, into adulthood, and into truce if not acceptance of his identity as a blind man, his writerly self uses his disability to provide a window onto the human condition.

I am not blind to how unattractive Ethel's uncritical acceptance of racism was, to the extent that I think she buried in denial how painful it was to be separated from her only friend, and then see that friend be raped by her father.

As time went on I did hang out with John more, and he opened up my mind to the surprising insurgent potential of painting, initiated by its nearly blind acceptance as art no matter what you did with it.

But the Fear of Fear has locked you into a myopic defensiveness blinding you to realities about how people respond to risk, psychological and cognitive realities that suggest that a change of tack on labeling may be far better for you, and acceptance of biotechnology, than you think....

The problems are highlighted by their blind, unthinking, uncritical acceptance of the Mann «hockeystick», simply because Mann was the lead author of the section of the IPCC report where the «hockeystick» was published.

If they're not blinded by blizzards of algebra, students of advanced statistical inference are undermined by uncritical, unconditional, & unconscious wholesale acceptance of untenable assumptions.

Raff, your blind faith in the 1000's of experts at the UN IPCC is touching and you reveal it to be the cornerstone of your acceptance of man - made global warming as a significant problem.

The primary reason to ignore chicken little forecasts of thermageddon is the warmists» unquestioned acceptance of WAGs as to past «global average temperatures», which is matched only by their blind belief in the projections of GCMs as to future GATs.