Sentences with phrase «blind force of»

In practice, custom is transferred unconsciously; hence Whitehead appropriately speaks of «the blind force of instinctive actions» (S 81; emphasis added).

This conclusion is supported by Whitehead's admission that his main thesis is that «a social system is kept together by the blind force of instinctive actions, and of instinctive emotions clustered around habits and prejudices» (S 81).

Barr's statement is a form of anthropomorphism, attributing human characteristics to the blind forces of nature with no logical justification.

Panofsky stresses the signs of «unregenerate nature,» of «the blind forces of growth and decay» from which the new order promises salvation.

Not exact matches

In 2007, the success of Israeli Air Force's Operation Orchard against a Syrian nuclear installation was largely attributed to effectiveness of the Israeli Electronic Warfare platforms that supported the air strike and made the Syrian radars blind: some sources believe that Operation Orchard saw the baptism of fire of the Suter airborne network system against Syrian radar systems.

consider Dawkins (at least he's being honest here): «In a universe of blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice.

But you left off something: how did the blind, stupid forces of nature evolve a unique being like us who has religious instincts?

Albert Shanker and the American Federation of Teachers may have won some of the battles in Brooklyn, but they lost the larger war, as American liberalism, forced to choose between maintaining its classic emphasis on a race - blind society and keeping pace with the new black militancy, eventually chose the latter.

Preliminary rituals of Bible - reading (by the Commander to his household) preserve «bits of broken symbolism left over from the time before» (p. 60)-- bits that also appear on police vans (the Winged Eye), in uniforms (Handmaids wear red habits and stiff white blinders), in common speech (their standard farewell is «Under His Eye») and military orders (Guardians of the Faith watch everywhere, outranked by Angel forces).

In a blind headlong rush to gain profit by any means these forces have already begun to obliterate animal species, forest cover, fish stocks, water reserves, land and air, and have engaged upon a satanically mindless pilfering of finite resources by vandalism of Mother Earth, and have raised gigantic questions over human survival prospects.

The context is «a universe of blind physical forces» (read the full quote).

Don't you see... you are all blind to the simple fact that there IS something greater, there IS a force beyond your understanding, and you are all simply wasting your lives in defense of a singular man - made construct that does nothing to describe the greatness that is the creator of all worlds.

It is statements like yours that scare me the most because not only does it attribute bad deeds to outside forces, detaching humanity from its own actions, but it gives those who can «detect» the demons a mistaken sense of dominion over all others too «blinded» to see things your way, and countless followers who will not question your actions either.

«But Charles Darwin showed how it is possible for blind physical forces to mimic the effects of conscious design, and, by operating as a cumulative filter of chance variations, to lead eventually to organized and adaptive complexity, to mosquitoes and mammoths, to humans and therefore, indirectly, to books and computers.

It is the mask of a God of cold, impersonal force with blind eyes and a face of stone.

The social restructuring of society can not take place as a result of the blind working of economic forces or success in production.

Our existence is a product of blind forces, a series of highly improbable occurrences.

When, blind, religious passion rules the people, they cast aside all norms of justice and the rule of law Politicians of all parties dabble with communal forces and succumbing to their pressures deviate from the path of secular politics.

THE BIBLE IS THE WORD OF GOD AND IT STANDS SURE... THE WORD OF GOD ALMIGHTY HAS BEEN SETTLED IN HEAVEN BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THIS WORLD... IF YOU LIKE BELIEVE IT OR NOT, «and i am so happy to tell you that WHETHER ANYONE BELIEVES IT OR NOT... ITS TOO LATE TO CHANGE GODS WORD... IT CAN NEVER BE BROKEN, ITS UNSHAKEABLE... IT DOES NOT FAIL EITHER, hahahahaha, thats when is so sweet... LET ALL MAN BE LIAR BUT GOD REMAINETH TRUE, i would never force anybody or kill myself because the Devil has blinded hearts of men from believing the truth... HALLELUYAH,,,, NO ONE CAN CHANGE GODS STANDARDS, NO ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!OF GOD AND IT STANDS SURE... THE WORD OF GOD ALMIGHTY HAS BEEN SETTLED IN HEAVEN BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THIS WORLD... IF YOU LIKE BELIEVE IT OR NOT, «and i am so happy to tell you that WHETHER ANYONE BELIEVES IT OR NOT... ITS TOO LATE TO CHANGE GODS WORD... IT CAN NEVER BE BROKEN, ITS UNSHAKEABLE... IT DOES NOT FAIL EITHER, hahahahaha, thats when is so sweet... LET ALL MAN BE LIAR BUT GOD REMAINETH TRUE, i would never force anybody or kill myself because the Devil has blinded hearts of men from believing the truth... HALLELUYAH,,,, NO ONE CAN CHANGE GODS STANDARDS, NO ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!OF GOD ALMIGHTY HAS BEEN SETTLED IN HEAVEN BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THIS WORLD... IF YOU LIKE BELIEVE IT OR NOT, «and i am so happy to tell you that WHETHER ANYONE BELIEVES IT OR NOT... ITS TOO LATE TO CHANGE GODS WORD... IT CAN NEVER BE BROKEN, ITS UNSHAKEABLE... IT DOES NOT FAIL EITHER, hahahahaha, thats when is so sweet... LET ALL MAN BE LIAR BUT GOD REMAINETH TRUE, i would never force anybody or kill myself because the Devil has blinded hearts of men from believing the truth... HALLELUYAH,,,, NO ONE CAN CHANGE GODS STANDARDS, NO ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!OF THIS WORLD... IF YOU LIKE BELIEVE IT OR NOT, «and i am so happy to tell you that WHETHER ANYONE BELIEVES IT OR NOT... ITS TOO LATE TO CHANGE GODS WORD... IT CAN NEVER BE BROKEN, ITS UNSHAKEABLE... IT DOES NOT FAIL EITHER, hahahahaha, thats when is so sweet... LET ALL MAN BE LIAR BUT GOD REMAINETH TRUE, i would never force anybody or kill myself because the Devil has blinded hearts of men from believing the truth... HALLELUYAH,,,, NO ONE CAN CHANGE GODS STANDARDS, NO ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!of men from believing the truth... HALLELUYAH,,,, NO ONE CAN CHANGE GODS STANDARDS, NO ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Those of us who do see or feel the presence of God, on the other hand, are forced to conclude that the others are either blind, or closed off to the spiritual realities of this world, or simply unlucky enough not to have experienced God.6

Accordingly, the social sciences may be expected to play an increasingly important role in liberal learning, as it becomes ever more evident that the conditions of human existence are not simply imposed by fate, nor the results of the interplay of blind, impersonal forces, but the consequences of deliberale human action.

Its center and essence was not blind force or some sort of cold, inert reality, but a personal God.

Yahweh is not some sort of Baal, a blind and brutal natural force... His destiny, like that of His people, is not identical with the cycle of the seasons, the regular succession of the day and the night, the growth and decay of the vegetation; Yahweh is the Lord of history, whose word alone creates and preserves Israel in life.»

The religious world view of the Hellenistic mind was centered in the notion of Fate, the belief that life was under the heel of blind and unfeeling forces over which one had no control.

«A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintendent has monkeyed with the physics, as well as chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature.

In the hands of later interpreters, particularly the writers of the French Enlightenment, the Newtonian world - machine was seen as deterministic and self - sufficient, the scene of purposeless and blind forces.

Finally, Hartshorne stresses the ethical and social defectiveness of humanism: if the total universe and even human bodies are essentially loveless machines driven by blind forces, «then it is impossible that the conception of spirit or love should have more than a very fitful hold upon us.

If, as we have shown, the social phenomenon is not merely a blind determinism but the portent, the inception of a second phase of human Reflexion (this time not merely individual but collective), then it must mean that the phylum is reconstituting itself above our heads in a new form, a new ramification, no longer of divergence but of convergence; and consequently it is the Sense of Evolution which, suppressing the spirit of egoism, is of its own right springing to new life in our hearts, and in such a way as to counteract those elements in the forces of collectivization which are poisonous to Life.

Hence admiration and wonder at the inexhaustible life forces of nature is as wholly lacking as the typically modern horror of blind nature against which spiritual, personal life rebels in vain.

I, speaking as a victum, remember little of the actual accounts (except the smell of this guys after - shave and the way he would force me agains a wall), but my sleepless nights (the [ast 30 years), the loss of memeories of most of that time in my life and knowing that something did happen makes it difficult to fathom how someone like Mr. Bernard can be blind to this sort of thing.

I think that kind of perspective, willfully separating that «force» from the flawed characteristics and limitations of man, is more «faithful» than blind allegiance to ideologies KNOWN to have been manipulated by man.

If I were to ask your views you would doubtless reply that, menaced by this unleashing of blind forces, there is nothing we can do but evade them to the best of our ability, or else submit, since we are the victims of a sort of natural catastrophe against which we are powerless and in which there is no meaning to be discerned.

As an American Muslim who has worked overseas for the sake of peace, who has siblings (also Muslim) serving in the American Armed Forces, and who doesn't embrace ignorance, intolerance, or blind hatred from any race, religion, or creed, I feel that some of you are missing the mark as fellow human beings.

You tell your girlfriend that she is merely a result of blind random natural forces and there is nothing particularly special about her.

Yet at no point does God surrender his sovereignty to the devil or to the blind indifference of meaningless forces.

He argues convincingly that for all the neo-Darwinian atheists» claim that man is no more than the result of blind scientific forces, they have to wriggle to claim, as they do, some place for justice, equality and political fairness.

He discusses the reproductive processes that result from the «directive capacity of DNA» and «believe [s]» that the idea that «blind and purposeless forces -LSB-...] spontaneously produce such a process is -LSB-...] metaphysically impossible» (our emphasis).

According to the traditional scientific picture the universe is a random collection of particles with blind forces acting upon them.

And when we locate one of those underlying forces — an economic drive, a blind libido — with a clarity that allows us to let go our overt harmonies and relate directly to their components, those components themselves in turn begin to dissolve into thin films covering even more alien vortices of strange harmonies.

Most of what happens most of the time can be largely understood as the working of these blind forces.

Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928), in his later years hailed as the outstanding living man of letters in the English - speaking world, in his youth a believing Christian, in his maturity held that men's lives are governed by blind, unconscious, purposeless cosmic forces.

But they themselves are blind to that they are being used by those forces of darkness, and are ruled by them.

And then did their eyes bung out with lust and desire, for the angel started removing a Holey Garment whereupon rays of light shot out with the force of a thousand suns and blinded all those present.

The wider implication of Darwin's evolutionism was that blind forces immanent in nature account for the complex order that we now observe.

The defiant clouds over Seattle part for the Sunshine Boy, a force of natural light that blinds as much as it reveals.

The incoming manager — be it Sherwood, be it some other poor sap — won't just be struggling with the mess he's inherited; he'll also find that the forces of blind chance have arrayed themselves against him.

Van Gaal has been forced to play midfielder Daley Blind in the heart of the defence this season, although a long - term injury to Luke Shaw has also necessitated that the Dutch international has been required on the left of the defence.

In the second half especially, as United tried to take the game to the visitors in order to force the initiative and take the lead, the advancing runs of Blind and the team's two full - backs at times left Fosu - Mensah as the sole figure between De Gea and the rest of the team, receiving and redistributing the ball to start another attacking move.

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Manchester United could be forced to start Daley Blind at left - back in the absence of Luke Shaw and that will play to Mane's strengths as he will have the beating of the Dutchman for pace.