Sentences with phrase «century people knew»

What is the value of an integrated assessment model that combines highly unlikely physical scenarios with an economic model that does economic calculations based on numbers that are throughout pure guesswork, and does that furthermore in a way that overemphasizes highly the part of the period on which we know as little as 19th century people knew about today?

Not exact matches

No matter what you think of his company and how it changed the world, it took a special kind of vision to be able to see what the world would look like in the future, back when most people were still rooted in a 20th - century, analog mindset.

Smith started Vice as a print magazine with Suroosh Alvi and Gavin McInnes in Montreal more than two decades ago; with Smith at the helm as CEO, it's now a multi-platform content mill with a reported audience of between 250 million and 300 million people a month, many of them members of Generation Y. Smith made his money by convincing an older generation that Vice knows millennials better than they could ever hope to, and that pitch has worked: Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox paid US$ 70 million for a 5 % stake of Vice in 2013, and Rogers Communications (which owns Canadian Business) inked a $ 100 million partnership.

While there are numerous other investment strategies people can use to prepare for old age in the 21st century, it's important to know that the retirement rules have changed and will continue to change.

People can buy it off the shelf, take it home, and cook it in the ways they've known for centuries.»

Granted you can and should use LinkedIn to make new introductions, but think of it as a 21st - century version of an old school Rolodex, and rekindle relationships with people you already know.

Those meetings have been happening for over a century, yet few people outside the Fed knew about them.

MH: Because they need altogether about $ 5 trillion to create... If they're going to create 500 billionaires to run the country for the next century and to create really a new feudal class they need $ 5 trillion and they don't want the people to know what's occurring because if they did the voters would get so upset they'd create probably a new political party, an alternative.

No, over 180 million people have been killed by their own secular humanist governments in the 20th Century.

I will no longer temper my understanding of truth in order to pretend that I have even a tiny smidgen of respect for the appalling negativity that continues to emanate from religious circles where the church has for centuries conveniently perfumed its ongoing prejudices against blacks, Jews, women and homosexual persons with what it assumes is «high - sounding, pious rhetoric.»

As it was, Whitefield became the best - known person in eighteenth - century Britain and America before the American Revolution.

They were no longer loving or hospitible and many of the traits that people used to identify a Christian in the first century were gone.

Ruether concludes: «The true struggle of religion in the sixteenth century and still today is not between the true god of the Bible and «paganism» but between the warlord gods of human sacrifice in both religions and the god of life who calls for compassion and mutual respect between peoples, a god revealed in Christ but also known in Quetzalcoatl.»

* sigh * people have known for decades if not centuries at least that the numbers of Christians martyred was exaggerated.

One thing is certain and proven... no matter what creed we utter, create, or claim to believe... more people over the centuries (including the 200 years of NT historians and theologians studies you lean upon) will remember... seek, find, and trust in a risen Jesus (the illiterate peasant carpenter) than will ever know you and I... let alone sing our praises.

It's no longer valid or appropriate to waste young people's minds and talents on the old songs of Glory, Glory Alleluia we shall overcome here in the 21st Century.

Having had the pleasure of knowing Hannah Arendt, albeit much too slightly, and moreover of having known more closely Heinrich Bluecher when I was his assistant in the World Civilizations program at Bard College in 1958 «1959, I can say there are few people who, in their writings and their persons, could face with such clear determination the heights and the depths of European civilization in the last century.

The people were forced to hear the stupid stories for so many centuries, and anybody who spoke up and said «that's ridiculous» got their head hacked off, that finally the people didn't know any better, and thought they were real.

Demon possession and Exorcism is no different than claiming evil spirits made people sick 2 century's ago.

If you people really want to know if God exists just look into our planet and look at yourselves and if you do not say the same thing King David said centuries ago» In a fear inspiring way I am wonderfully made» then something is really wrong.

How many people, even today, know that tomatoes only came to Italy from South America in the 16th century?

Why don't people realize that the Bible as we know it was heavily edited, cut down and added to by the college of cardinals in the 6th century?

It is an astounding detail when you think about it: The God of all creation, the One who knows every corner of the cosmos and fathoms every mystery, the One who could answer every theological riddle and who, I suspect, chuckles at our volumes of guesses, our centuries of pompous philosophical tomes debating His nature, when present in the person of Jesus Christ, told stories.

In the middle of the last century, the German New Testament scholar Rudolf Bultmann opined that people who had learned to use an electric light switch could no longer believe that God makes things happen.

Did you know that until the 19th century when the city of Petra was re-discovered, skeptics maintained that the Edomites were a legendary people?

We met in his office not far from the burial place of Bishop Frederick Baraga, a 19th - century missionary to the Ojibwa known as the «snowshoe priest» — a beloved figure among Indian people and the creator of the first Ojibwa dictionary.

An omniscient and concerned - for - our - welfare god would have known that these 1st century writings would not be convincing to many people (yes, I know the legend of Thomas - not a bit helpful).

We knew the history of that combination in Western Europe and how the rights of the people constrained during several centuries.

«You have suffered too much,» Boa Dia wrote, «during four deadly years, not to understand that the Vietnamese people, who have a history of twenty centuries and an often glorious past, no longer wish, can no longer support, any foreign domination.»

• The eighteenth - century French writer and dramatist Nicolas Chamfort wrote: «Nearly all people live in slavery for the reason the Spartans gave us as the cause of the slavery of the Persians: they are not able to utter the syllable «no.»

I think most of the Americans are in lost... as most of them do not know who their father is and it is very unfortunate... even if they know who their father is, the mom has children from diff men outside of marriage... and while a child is being raised, watching what his / her parents do to enjoy their life... so things become normal when they grow up... like if you go back early nineteen century, women were not allowed to go to beach without being covered... and now it totally opposite... if you do not have a boyfriend or girlfriend before 15, the parents worries that their teenage has some problem... and lot more can be listed... And then you go to Church, what our children learn from there... they see in front of the Church an old man's statue with long beard standing with extending of both hand... some of the status are blank, white, Spanish and so on... so they are being taught God as an old dude... then you learn from Catholic that you pray to Jesus, Mother Marry, Saints, Death spirit and all these... the poll shows a huge number of young American turns to Atheism or believing there is no God and so on... Its hard to assume where these nations are going with the name of modernization... nothing wrong having scientists discovered the cure of aids or the pics from mars but... we should all think and learn from our previous generations and correct ourselves... also ppl are becoming so much slave of material things...

The Sumerian dominance was interrupted, then terminated by two great movements of the Semitic peoples best known by the personal names of Sargon and Hammurabi, standing though they do some five centuries apart.

For example a century ago, the only transportation was the horse riding or camel or donkey and so on... you can not imagine at that time people would be thinking about travelling the globe in a day or two... and we do not know what is coming as every scientists theory is being abrogated by a new scientist and the old one becomes obsolete... these also proves that human theory can not be perfect and will never be perfect... there will always be modifications...

There is some evidence of their earlier more or less temporary residence in the Aegean Islands and Asia Minor; and they, or related «maritime people,» actually threatened twelfth - century Egypt, as we know from records of Ramses III (C. I 175 - 1144).

Centuries ago we used to have the catholics not allowing the bible to be translated into the native tongue because of the «dangers of knowledge», now we have people using a fear tactic that if they know God too well, or know too much about God it will make them unloving.

The church in the late twentieth century is no different from the church in any age in her need for leaders to feed God's people by telling them the truth about God, the world, and themselves.

Given the pervasiveness of this moral theory and its impact upon the common person, it is no accident that our own century is replete with political movements that require or threaten the destruction of known values in order to create a future of unlimited happiness.

the priesthood ended at the destruction of the temple, the old testament ended, and the new testament began in the first century, we no longer have a priesthood after the destruction of the temple, these people are liveing two thousand years in the past,

But the Bible is full of visual imagery — and for centuries many illiterate people have come to know and love God through mentally picturing the great events it describes.

Today Christendom no longer exists and we are moving towards a world in which the Christian peoples or the peoples that have formerly been Christian will be a minority... We no longer have any solid grounds for believing that the post-Christian era is likely to realize any of the humanitarian utopias in which the idealists of the nineteenth century put their faith.2

No, 1 word, you are a pompous fool who wants to use iron age mythology to deny people civil rights here in the 21st century

Similarly, as we know that homosexuality is just as natural and God - given as heterosexuality, we realize that the Biblical injunctions against homosexuality were conditioned by the attitudes and beliefs about this form of sexual expression which were held by people without benefit of centuries of scientific knowledge and understanding.

People have been doing all kinds of religions, christianity, and islam for over 2000 years, praying to strange gods, not known to Abraham, Isaac, nor Jacob, all from the first generation of Adam, and of the covenant of the 10 commandments, and statues, ordinances, and judgments that are perpetual by YHWH, and the world has not gotten any better, since before the 8th century, this has happened, and at some point one must realize that this religion thing obviously is not working for us, the reality check is to «awaken'to the truth, and righteousness, of YHWH Our Righteousness, in Jeremiah 23:1 - 8, and not pagan religions, man - made, and all controlled for selfish gain.

Today's task of re-evangelizing may be, in some sectors of our society, more difficult than was evangelizing in, say, the fourth century, mainly because in the West so many people think, mistakenly, that they know «the Christian thing.»

I, by faith, believe that onlly God knew these things and revield them to Job (and Moses who later wrote the book of Job) How would you account for these people knowing these astronomical facts that were not proved until centuries later?

Such an idea might seem scandalous to most Christians today, but this idea is no more scandalous to us than the idea to the first century Jewish person of the Messiah dying on a cross.

Religions have been bigots and bullies for centuries so why are you so upset that people no longer accept their message of love?

Moses as well was Egyptian and on the exudes him and his people were turned to wander the deserts... those all from the area are descendants of those that were moving for centuries between reigns surrounding the area and they have every right for the holy land as any one else... Just remember that the ottoman army & leaders were all brought on their childhood from East Europian countries and then they got them educated and trained to lead the empire interests... So the people whom you call wanderers are decedents of such as those and Arabs of the Arabian Penisuler whom are known to trade between areas in what is called the Summer and Winter trade movement...

Our information technology is facilitating networking between people with open inquiring minds even more effective than the invention of the printing press and we know the 16th century cultural changes — for both good and ill — that technological development produced.

Hmmm, a bunch of bronze age peoples writings can know the ins and outs of 21st century economics.