Sentences with phrase «by magical thinking»

This overstuffed Marbled Pillow is crafted from cotton by Magical Thinking.

To equate the cartoon illustrating of Dr Spencer with filling in gaps by magical thinking is pretty disingenuous.

You were let down by the magical thinking of the so - called «baby friendly» hospital staff.

Not exact matches

Atheists: I know many there are many people that practice religion just by fanaticism, I've seen many people in my opinion stupid (excuse the word) praying to saints hopping to solve their problems by repeating pre-made sentences over and over, but there are others different, I don't think Religion and Science need to be opposites, I believe in God, I'm Catholic and I have many reasons to believe in him, I don't think however that we should pray instead of looking for the cause and applying a solution, Atheists think they are smart because they focus on Science and technology instead of putting their faith in a God, I don't think God will solve our problems, i think he gave us the means to solve them by ourselves that's were God is, also I think that God created everything but not as a Magical thing but stablishing certain rules like Physics and Quimics etc. he's not an idiot and he knew how to make it so everything was on balance, he's the Scientist of Scientist the Mathematic of Mathematics, the Physician of Physicians, from the tiny little fact that a mosquito, an insect species needs to feed from blood from a completely different species, who created the mosquitos that way?

You said «The reality is that Atheists post on a Belief Blog because it is a place to challenge the conceptions of Religion which we feel are a detriment to human society by proporting magical thinking»

Pretty please????» When man declared the earth was flat, the bible had already declared it round... When the Greeks declared the Earth was held up by a magical man in the sky, the bible declared it was held upon nothing... Give it some thought.

LET's Religiosity Law # 7 — If you think the bible is historical fact of the creation of the Universe, Earth or Mankind and believe without a doubt that some Jewish zombie can make you live forever if you symbolically eat of his flesh, drink of his blood, and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master; so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a sinful woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree!

Your last paragraph ignores the difference between an evolutionary hypothesis based on physical evidence and demonstrable mechanisms versus the magical causation inferred by scientifically ignorant ancient tribes resulting from a human tendency towards teleological thinking.

I will always trust an atheist in office over a «believer» — at least their policies will be guided by reason and critical thinking, not magical thinking and thousands of years of mythology.

«blinded by hatred and satan» Magical thinking at it's best!

i am thinking wnd is a pretty good season, above all except LC, who had a magical season, and who we beat twice, by a total of 7 - 3... united, chelsea, or liverpool will not play in the UCL...

My favorite book of all time is «Anne of Green Gables» but my grown - up favorite book is «The Year of Magical Thinking» by Joan Didion!

Regardless of whether or not the stats get interpreted correctly by the press, science usually takes a backseat in this new anti-science andti - reason magical thinking USA.

These moments of magical thinking fly by faster than Santa would need to travel to complete his furious dash around the world.

At the three - day Second Global Conference on Magic and the Supernatural, researchers will discuss the neuroscience of magical thinking and the ways some traumatized individuals try to cope with abuse and tragedy by attributing their suffering to mystical forces or imaginary beings instead of admitting that someone they love has hurt them.

So before you start thinking that the relaxation response can only be brought about by meditation however, you should know there is nothing magical about this phenomenon.

This magical time of the year when they turn on the lights in the center of the city, the time when you simply can't pass by a Christmas market without buying something, the time when I go mad on buying decorations and sweets and the last but not least the time when I have to think about my Christmas party outfit.I love dressing up on Christmas, but don't get me wrong, by dressing up I mean putting on some ankle boots with track sole, a red 60s inspired dress and a super cozy oversized coat.

This magical time of the year when they turn on the lights in the center of the city, the time when you simply can't pass by a Christmas market without buying something, the time when I go mad on buying decorations and sweets and the last but not least the time when I have to think about my Christmas party outfit.

by Hank Leukart March 21, 2008 No, seriously, there's something magical about Disneyland Disneyland is more romantic than you think.

Hong Sang - soo, whose recent film «On the Beach at Night Alone» finds an actress wandering around a seaside town thinking about her relationship with a married man, is not too different from his thematic concerns in «Claire's Camera,» This is a multi-lingual project that clocks in at sixty - nine mostly magical minutes, the whole episode graced with performances by Ms. Huppert in the title role and Kim Min - hee, who worked with the director in three of his films, in the role of youthful Manhee.

The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion.

which I think was a huge element of evo's own best drivers cars of all time feature about ten years ago including that magical old fashioned bonus called steering feel, those with it did exceptionally well... please evo, you are a magazine written by drivers for drivers.

On a trip through Wales more than a decade ago, the border town of Hay - on - Wye — where some 30 used bookstores live cheek by jowl — beckoned irresistibly, while on another U.K. trip, a book - loving friend and I tracked down an old manor house cum used bookstore in the middle of nowhere in, I think, Buckinghamshire, stuffed to its Victorian rafters with well - priced reading treasures (I have forgotten its name and exact location, and a Google search has come to naught, suggesting that this magical place is long gone — or perhaps only appears one day every hundred years like Brigadoon).

Once again another amazing book by Amelia Hutchins, she creates a magical world drawing you in, and shaking up the universe you thought you had figured out.

«Like The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, Beyond the High Blue Air is a spare, sharp memoir about the speed with which a comfortable existence can be blighted by grief.»?

I think it's important to note here that the state by state approaches to slavery in the novel do not represent actual distinctions among states in the 1850s — this is part of the magical realism aspect, he was playing with geography and time, to build suspense and deepen understanding.

To expect it to get anything but harder is magical thinking, unsupported by any of the evidence I'm seeing.

God forbid I compare property & junior resource stock investors, but sometimes I wonder... When it comes to real assets, too many investors seem to think something magical happens when they're acquired by listed companies.

Well, I'm starting to think that everything in the Jackson Galaxy Collection by Petmate has some sort of magical ingredient — or maybe the magic is simply that the entire collection was designed with input from the Cat Daddy himself.

This month is National Garden Month in the United States, and since many of my readers are US - based, I thought I'd celebrate the occasion by showcasing one of my favourite gardens here in the United Kingdom — the magical Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall.

The game was magical by all definitions of the word and I remember being completely unable to stop thinking about it.

Just think of Minecraft, another game that for all its other treats is by a lot of people (myself included) mostly played for that magical feeling of exploring a world where I am not guided along on a leash.

, 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,

«Magical Thinking» explores the supernatural powers and forces which are assigned to many things seen as symbols dominated by the belief that one's own thoughts, wishes or desires can influence the external world.

Psychoanalysts connect folklore traditions and superstitions to the idea of magical thinking by investigating series of actions or events which are fundamentally unrelated.

The problem with this is, regardless of the % you place on it, it falls under magical thinking: «In psychology... the belief that one's thoughts by themselves can bring about effects in the world or that thinking something corresponds with doing it.»

That's what doesn't register amongst the Tea Party, and where much of its magical thinking about the environment falls apart — you can't protect the nation's air, water, and wildlife just by being a determined, individual citizen and guiding your personal choice towards the morally correct end.

The idea that you could ever replace the rate of utilization of energy from fossil fuels, which has been estimated as consuming 400 years worth of photosynthesis per year, with a fraction of the annual photosynthetic harvest that does not impinge on food production is part of today's magical thinking, along with reducing deficits by cutting taxes while continuing to increase spending.

My climate enemies have done scientific and other academic frauds; they've destroyed, withheld and pretended to misplace scientific data in order to prevent the human race discovering things about nature; they've forged documents to frame people they don't like; mendaciously and publicly accused innocent people of deplorable crimes that carry prison sentences; betrayed the trust reposed in their professions by fraudulently abrogating to themselves the magical competence to diagnose entire swathes of the (perfectly healthy) population with thought disorders just to score points in an academic bitch fight; deliberately and self - servingly lied to * massive * audiences about the way science itself works — than which I can't for the life of me think of a greater crime against humanity in the recent history of the developed world, can you Joe?

In fact, I believe that those, like the author of this article, do a tremendous disservice to the creation of resilient communities by offering salvation through technological improvements that border on magical thinking when the specifics are examined.

Disturbing ter see «doing science,» innovation of an open society, captured by the thinking of a tribal society, magical thinking and observing taboos that serve social cohesion but not truth.

Looking at the things, one could assume that Apple would do AR with some additional hardware and Google being the software powerhouse will do it on existing hardware with some magical software update, well that school of thinking turned upside down with the release of ARKit by Apple.

Mothers who are low in Self - Directedness and high in Self - Transcendence can be characterized as a having magical and unrealistic thinking; in other words, they become preoccupied by their fantasies and wishful expectations rather than accepting realistic facts and being practical (Cloninger et al., 1999).