Sentences with phrase «by irrational thought»

It doesn't take much to understand conformity (faith), especially when it's backed by irrational thought and violence.

In order for a client to change, the cognitive therapist focuses on problems the therapist believes are caused by irrational thinking or faulty perceptions.

Not exact matches

He thinks these companies are being started and run by people who are either irrational or sadly deluded and that a massive shakeout looms.

Neither, it's all fiction / fairy tales / myths created, spread and practiced by delusional, irrational and weak minded folk all over the planet lacking capacity for critical thinking.

The people who are offended by the placement of the mosque in this location arguably have irrational thoughts and sentiments about Islam.

«In order to think,» he wrote in 1942, «we must claim for our reasoning a validity which is not credible if our own thought is merely a function of our brain, and our brains a by - product of irrational physical processes.»

The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.»

A further problem in Brunner's thought is that his doctrine is bound up with a conception of Providence in which the irrational circumstances of life, that is, our finding ourselves in this time and place and situation, are too simply identified with the inscrutable purposes of God.25 He makes too little room for the notion which is so well stated by Calhoun and which surely belongs in the Christian view of life, that the world is an unfinished world.

While both prophecy and tongues are inspired by the Holy Spirit, the gift of tongues calls attention to the realm of the Spirit's working that is not irrational, but that can not be adequately comprehended by conventional languages, categories of thought and rational explanations.

Though the thinking of our animistic ancestors may seem to us naïve, it remains true that a multitude of whimsical gods, so constituted that they are likely to be pleased or displeased by almost anything, is not incongruous with the welter of man's joys and miseries, befalling him, at least when superficially observed, with irrational capriciousness.

He esteemed the Qur» an and treated it with reverence, even though he thought it morally lax, confused, obscure, mendacious, irrational, and violent («their law began by the sword»), and he held that the law of Islam is not of God.

@CSmith, I would have thought that by definition theists were the irrational ones in the sense that their beliefs are not based on reason and evidence, but on faith.

Can we rely on the irrational interpretations by our primitive ancestors to pass judgments on the thoughts of others?

We all hbe our yes we tired by 11 years of mediocre but calling for the managers head at this time is absurd and irrational more pike decision out of anger.even if a new manager comes now it will be worse and target will be top four lets stop whining am angry as well but if wenger goes now then this season is awaste the new manager wouldn't pull a miracle and just coz hes new guys think we will win the league or rather challenge.

Postpartum Psychosis: ~ occurs in less than 1 % of moms ~ onset may occur one day after delivery, many occur by 3 months, the rest by 1 year postpartum ~ symptoms include agitation, bursts of anger, racing thoughts, rapid speech, panic, irrational thoughts, insomnia, hallucinations, inability to care for self and baby, thoughts of suicide / infanticide, paranoia ~ treatment can include medication, hospitalization, ECT, and psychotherapy

However, there is always the risk of danger because psychosis includes delusional thinking and irrational judgment, and women must be treated and carefully monitored by a trained healthcare professional.

However, there is always the risk of danger because psychosis includes delusional thinking and irrational judgment, and this is why women with this illness must be quickly assessed, treated, and carefully monitored by a trained healthcare perinatal mental health professional.

A key misunderstanding, however, seems to pervade popular thinking: that mobs are irrational and are driven to violence by a few bad apples.

It's as if in some irrational part of your brain, you're thinking if you just get rid of the sweets (by eating them!)

The unpredictable and sometimes seemingly irrational behavior exhibited by young students is simply a product of their biology — the frontal cortex, the area of the brain that controls reasoning and helps us think before we act, develops much later in our development.

Much of the landscape outside of Vegas is controlled by what Fessler called «irrational property owners who think that any day, the next big thing will come along and build a $ 10 billion casino,» spiking property value through the ozone.

I stick by my final conclusion, which was that dividend investing is not totally irrational, I just think people should not expect dividend portfolios to consistently out perform in every possible future period.

I know when I invest I can't let it be driven by fear, but I think planning according to the fears of others is nearly impossible... fear by nature is an irrational act.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

In this engagement with the irrational mind, the paintings and sculpture of Surreal Universe are inspired by Freud, who compared himself to an archaeologist, digging away at layers of the psyche to reveal our deepest thoughts.

Philip The long time scale favoured by environmentalists («think of the grandchildren») can certainly be linked to the decline of religion and a natural tendency towards the irrational when it comes to contemplating one's own mortality.

This could be a cause of irrational thinking by people living and working there, or even teaching at the university.

Unfortunately, too many of America's homegrown little Eichmanns and disciples of Mao and Al Gore — blinded by irrational fears of Thermageddon — have lost the ability to repress their natural instinct to tell everyone else what to think, what to do and how to live.

Since Gleick and his friends do not seem to have any ability to understand that their incessant irrational shrieking is but one of the reasons many thinking people are turned off by their attempts to act as «communicators» of the science, I do not think that humour or ridicule is unwarranted.

When requests for reducing CO2 emissions surfaced, I thought everything will be easily solved by employing nuclear power (later I learned it was not realistic)-- but to my surprise, the very same groups opposing CO2 emissions and promoting wind and solar were opposing nuclear power and building irrational fears of it.

«Belief», because it's based by definition on «irrational» thought, tends to lead us to resist counter arguments.

From the Original Post: «But [there are] people who think that climate change is mostly explained by natural variability, again this is not an irrational position that deserves the label of denier.

I highly recommend «The Hunting of the Snark» by Lewis Carroll (http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/carrol03.html) as a sterling example of irrational thought.

One of the key observations which strikes you as you study the findings of garbology, is confirmation of the theories propounded in the bestselling book «Blink» (by Malcolm Gladwell): our rational explanation for our behaviors is often merely a fictional reconstruction of what we think we should have done; our actual behavior often seems irrational and is highly dependent upon our subconscious perceptions.

After irrational beliefs have been identified, the therapist will often work with the client in challenging the negative thoughts on the basis of evidence from the client's experience by reframing it, meaning to re-interpret it in a more realistic light.