Damasio proposed that the decision - making process, long deemed rooted in reason, was guided
by emotion as well.
Everything was transformed
by his emotions as much as by his intellect.
Not exact matches
«She lived,
as we all have lived, too many years in a culture broken
by brutally powerful men,» she said, and her words sparked
emotions of anger and, at the same time, the motivation to fight for change.
This is what often happens in movies,
as our
emotions are influenced and affected
by the characters and the story
as the movie unfolds.
Inside Out imagines the world inside a child's brain,
as controlled
by five
emotions: here joy, sadness, anger, fear, and disgust.
This is why you want to appeal to your prospect's
emotions, which are determined
by the brain's limbic system, not the logical, fact - finding cortex
as many people believe.
There is no doubt that, based on pure, cold, logical data, stocks are the single best long - term performing asset class for disciplined investors who are not swayed
by emotion, focus on earnings and dividends, and never pay too much for a stock, often
as measured on a conservative beginning earnings yield relative to the Treasury bond yield basis.
Bear markets are a natural outcome of a complex system such
as the stock market, which is driven
by emotions that can often take things to the extremes.
The stock market is driven
by the
emotion of investors
as a group.
By ignoring the chief of defence staff's «appraisal of the insurgency
as a complex and challenging entity» and seizing on his «rosy assessment» of the mission's progress, the Ottawa press gallery almost seemed to still be «mourning the departure of the last chief of defence staff and venting that
emotion on poor old Natynczyk,» Taylor suggests.
You want to be objective in looking at the business and not be swamped
by emotions and also not be affected always
as to whether you will be a consumer of that business or not.
If there is hope, it comes from knowing the enemy that lies within, so that, thus fortified, we can face the enemy without untrammelled
by such
emotions as greed or (later) fear» Frank Martin
As for your religious practices not being dictated
by any form of fear or other negative
emotion... bull hockey.
By the way, if you think there is no scientific evidence for the origin of love (
as apposed to similar
emotions, like lust), you're wrong.
He represents pride, liberty, and individualism — qualities often defined
as Evil
by those who worship external deities, who feel there is a war between their minds and
emotions.
Don't you see that children, 4, 5, 6 year olds can come to the same basic belief
as you have, and they do not arrive there
by using reasoning abilities, but are usually lead there out of fear or love, two very powerful
emotions?
If you think that your personal experiences and
emotions consti - tute evidence, then
by that same logic, every other god and religion is equally
as valid, and their followers say and feel just
as you do.
In the tense atmosphere of the city council meeting the night of the vote, Presbyterian minister Paul Miller acknowledged that
emotions were running high but told the overflow crowd he spoke from «deep pastoral concern»; he then read a prepared statement signed
by 18 members of the clergy who decried «the recent efforts to single out a given group... and to seek to castigate them
as being unworthy and unfit to belong to our community.»
What I experience
as I stand in face of — and in the very depths of — this world which your flesh has assimilated, this world which has become your flesh, my God, is not the absorption of the monist who yearns to be dissolved into the unity of things, nor the
emotion felt
by the pagan
as he lies prostrate before a tangible divinity, nor yet the passive self - abandonment of the quietist tossed hither and thither at the mercy of mystical impulsions.
Where is any significant biblical evidence that classical Israelite prophetism was predominantly manifested in a temporary and artificially induced state; that it was productive of a totally transformed personality; that it was a group - created - and - sustained state of
emotion and,
as such, a highly contagious condition induced
by violent seizure and involving the absolute suspension of rationality?
Play is sometimes viewed
as an instinct educator (Karl Groos);
as a means of catharsis, a safety valve to vent
emotions (Aristotle);
as a creative modeling of situations that enables the player to better handle experience (Erik Erikson);
as a means of resolving psychic conflict (Sigmund Freud), or, on the contrary,
as activity not motivated
by the need to resolve inner conflict (Robert Neale) 8
As I am aware that many are promoting a popular view that has been rationalized by whatever means, however you have failed to provide a shred of the emperical proof you claim, and as far as personal experiences, my point exactly has been that they exist in the realm of feeling and emotion, which any rational person would willingly admit is often self - deceptive...
As I am aware that many are promoting a popular view that has been rationalized
by whatever means, however you have failed to provide a shred of the emperical proof you claim, and
as far as personal experiences, my point exactly has been that they exist in the realm of feeling and emotion, which any rational person would willingly admit is often self - deceptive...
as far
as personal experiences, my point exactly has been that they exist in the realm of feeling and emotion, which any rational person would willingly admit is often self - deceptive...
as personal experiences, my point exactly has been that they exist in the realm of feeling and
emotion, which any rational person would willingly admit is often self - deceptive.....
Psychological operations, according to a field manual produced
by the U.S. Army, involve the «planned use of propaganda and other psychological actions to influence the opinions,
emotions, attitudes, and behavior of hostile foreign groups in such a way
as to support the achievement of [U.S.] national objectives.
The context of Genesis 1:26 - 27 gives us the best clues
as to what is meant
by «image» and it probably refers to the things that set us apart from animals — our intellect,
emotions, will, authority to rule over creation, desire for relationships, and other non-physical attributes and characteristics.
Radha is jealous
as she imagines the «vines of his great throbbing arms circle a thousand gopis», but more than jealousy she is infused with all the perplexing
emotions of a proud, passionate woman who feels deserted
by her lover.
Eighteenth century theologian Jonathan Edwards said that human nature is «very lazy» unless it is «moved»
by holy
emotions such
as anger.
Most atheists will pick stories they know will make people enraged and will respond with
emotion such
as the flood or any other event caused
by God.
[Brightman's] notion of the Given
as an intrinsic limitation of God's power, a passive element in his activity, analogous to sensation and
emotion in us, can be defined and defended only in the context of an adequate analysis of what is or can be meant
by «passivity,» «sensation,» etc.; and the exploration of such concepts taken in their most fundamental or general senses,
as they here must be, can only amount to a metaphysical system whose defense is not merely empirical, since the very meaning of «experience,» «facts,» etc., will have to be grounded in this system.54
It is, of course, governed
by democratic laws (including federal Civil Rights laws), just
as are the private clubs like those remaining in Philadelphia, Augusta, etc., or those set up
by college students — sororities, fraternities, or the sort of club in the SOCIAL NETWORK which provokes such envious
emotions in Mark Zuckerberg.
The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fulttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched down the wide avenue gay and fine in their new uniforms, the proud fathers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts cheering them with voices choked with happy
emotion as they swung
by; nightly the packed mass meetings listened, panting, to patriot oratory with stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts, and which they interrupted at briefest intervals with cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country, and invoked the God of Battles beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpourings of fervid eloquence which moved every listener.
Speaking to the Corinthian believers
as he was, Paul is inviting them to not seek to learn about God
by their reason and
emotions alone, but through the Spirit of God which was in them.
It is here that human
emotion, repressed at some points
by the austerity of the doctrine of God
as developed in theology, has its full outlet — a warm human
emotion which the peasant can share with the mystic.
The CCP stirs the nationalistic
emotions of the people
by contesting Japan over issues such
as: the disputed territorial claims with China: its writing of history that omits Japanese atrocities in its invasion of China, and in recent visits
by its leaders to Japan's Yasukuni shrine which honors national heroes including convicted war criminals.2
Sarah God forgives you for your actions if you confess it to God he does nt change he still loves you.It is hard but
as a believer we must forgive those who hurt us not for there sake but for ours harbouring anger bitterness and unforgiveness causes us to get sick that is where i believe your mental illness is coming from.Those negative
emotions have the power to destroy us if we let them.Only Jesus can help us to forgive when it hurts so deeply like you are experiencing tell him you cant do it and ask him to help you
by his holy spirit so he can set you free and bring healing and restoration to your life brentnz.
Nonetheless, many women feel so passionately about their pregnancy - which is to say, about their zygotes, even in the first few weeks of their existence -
as to reveal
by this deep
emotion the inclination that nature has imparted in mankind to cherish and nurture the next generation.
A proposed revision to the new DSM, due out next year, lists the following
as a mild impairment of interpersonal intimacy, and thus a criterion for the neurotic / personality disorders: the patient has the «[c] apacity and desire to form intimate and reciprocal relationships, but may be inhibited in meaningful expression and sometimes constrained
by any intense
emotion or conflict.
Instruction was provided
by a Father Trollope, a former actor whose «careful avoidance of the slightest
emotion or sentiment» appealed to Greene,
as did the thorough and businesslike quality of the church's formidable rules.
Overcome
by emotion, Dante turns,
as he has so often along the way, to Vergil for reassurance — and Vergil is gone.
As people pray through the Psalms, they learn that pretty much anything can be said to God, and any
emotion is welcome
by Him.
By all means, we must go where God sends us despite our feelings (I'm looking at you, Jonah), but this doesn't mean that we won't experience
emotions as we do.
The super-normal incidents, such
as voices and visions and overpowering impressions of the meaning of suddenly presented scripture texts, the melting
emotions and tumultuous affections connected with the crisis of change, may all come
by way of nature, or worse still, be counterfeited
by Satan.
Indeed one might say that liturgical worship
by and large speaks not so much to the conscious attention of its participants
as to those profound and almost unconsciously experienced areas of human life where men live in terms of feeling - tone, of unutterable
emotion, and of profound subconscious relationships, with an almost intuitive awareness of the «more» which is deep down in the structure of reality.
Most could keep their head above the murky waters, but I drowned in them, my mind and soul became
as a vegetable, void of all
emotions and life, there are ones that have my testimony when God apprehended me and manifested Himself to me, that I became One with Him in His life: I was a walking zombie and nothing more at that time, a vessel for my master use being cared for
by my adult children on disability with a grade 5 education, with ADDHD and dyslexia, I couldn't even spell or string 2 sentences together that made any sense: All that has been done in my life for the last 11 yrs.
This echoes the sentiments expressed in The Jeweler's Shop (a 1960 play written
by the man who would become Pope John Paul II) when Andrew says, «I wanted to regard love
as passion,
as an
emotion to surpass all — I believed in the absolute of
emotion.»
If we are not to he carried away
by emotion in discussing such issues, we must employ dull neutral phrases such
as «extramarital sexual relations.»
He improves Mark's style
by omitting repetitious words and clauses; he omits expressions which attribute human
emotions to Jesus (so also Matthew); he severely abridges the account of a violent action such
as the cleansing of the temple.
How this metamorphosis takes place; how a force existing
as motion, heat, or light can become a mode of consciousness; how it is possible for aerial vibrations to generate the sensation we call sound, or for the forces liberated
by chemical changes in the brain to give rise to
emotion, — these are mysteries which it is impossible to fathom.
One of the best definitions on forgiveness comes from — of all places — Wikipedia, where it's described
as «the intentional and voluntary process
by which a victim undergoes a change in feelings and attitude regarding an offense, lets go of negative
emotions such
as vengefulness, with an increased ability to wish the offender well.»
There are important differences between the altruism observed
by zoologists, and caritas
as described
by St Thomas (Chapter 8), and a biologist who ascribes the «
emotion of forgiveness» to hyenas is betraying a conceptual hinterland quite unlike that of the Thomist (Chapter 4).
Too complicated to be identified with Shintõ alone, the halo of symbols and slogans and
emotions which congealed around Japan in those years would better be denoted
by some more general term such
as «civil religion.»