Sentences with phrase «done by this myth»

A fourth step that can help minimize a lot of the damage done by this myth, is radical and open honesty, both within the self and within the relationship.

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He wanted to study the claim by consultants that executives need to be paid extraordinarily high compensation or else they would migrate to other companies and jurisdictions, which — as it turned out — did not happen, Feinberg said, or is a «myth» as was stated in the U.K. this week.

It's not uncommon for individuals planning their finances to base their direction on myth, hearsay, what their parents did or advice provided by friends, neighbors, co-workers, internet forums or the media.

iConstituent's success story flies in the face of a perpetual Facebook marketing myth: that Facebook users don't want to be bothered by business or political messaging while using a social network.

Do YOU concede that that is nonsense that will put us even farther behind our international competi.tors than we already are by losing time to teach actual science while all the worlds origin myths are covered over months of «science» class?

Given you do not accept the authority of the Bible then just call it a compilations of myths written by the Hebrews.

I don't pray because I truly feel God is a mythical character invented by a few wild imaginations and the wonderful myth has been perpetuated for 1000s of years by dupes.

Gee, does that mean that this Bible story like so many others in the Bible was just a myth spun by a bronze age dictator to control his subjects?

Did you realize that some of the myths that the bible has recieved credit for, were actually myths held by some of the writers of the texts, like the Greeks?

they would say point wands at you and claim you will get eaten by deatheaters if you did not accept their myth?

«sensible Austin, we don't know what christ did, we just have partial accounts of his life wriiten decades after the supposed facts in a book written by anybody's guess that contains myths and fairytales.

Austin, we don't know what christ did, we just have partial accounts of his life wriiten decades after the supposed facts in a book written by anybody's guess that contains myths and fairytales.

So, you see, there are many, many other explanations for a really big wooden boat to have been built by ancient people, and some that don't involve any ancient myths whatsoever, let alone one about a god who decided to destroy mankind which happens to be a pretty common theme throughout religion.

We do have to be sensible in the ways we help all of our brothers and sisters, but we can't protect ourselves from feeling their pain by dismissing them with the myths the article writer explores

I don't fear any «invisible man in the sky» who hasn't produced one credible, empirically based instance of his existence in over 3,000 years What is needed is for people to stop living by the rules of myth and mysticism and start living by the realities of the here and now

It burns my butt to be called ignorant by someone who believes that myths are true when they don't even know the origins of those myths.

Some people don't like the notion of a universe forming from quantum foam, but, instead, would much rather imagine a god forming the universe, which is why we have thousands of creation myths, including the two biblical ones, the one written by the Priestly Source in Genesis 1 and the older creation myth written by the Jahwist in Genesis 2, which borrow from older Sumerian mythology.

Religion: myths invented by simple desert dwellers, with lies piled on top of lies, believed by mentally ill fools, pretending to know things they do not.

Don't be fooled by the opposites attract myth.

The religious have gotten a pass for far to long on their myth being passed off as fact by the rest of us who don't believe in imaginary creatures.

Some people don't like the notion of a universe forming from quantum foam, but, instead, would much rather imagine a god forming the universe, which is why we have thousands of creation myths, including the two biblical ones, the one written by the Priestly Source in Genesis 1 and the older creation myth written by the Jahwist in Genesis 2, myths which borrow from older Sumerian mythology.

I should emphasize that there is nothing methodologically wrong with this assertion, although it does go against the grain for many New Testament scholars, who, as J. Z. Smith has observed, are still dominated by the essentially apologetic (and Protestant) myth of Christian autochthony.

How do you know that those Egyptian myths weren't written by eye witness to become the world of Horus?

The more one considers this eventuality (which can not be dismissed as a myth, as certain morbid symptoms, such as Sartrian existentialism, show) the more does one tend to the view that the grand enigma presented by the phenomenon of Man is not the question of knowing how life was kindled on earth, but of understanding how it might be extinguished on earth without being continued elsewhere.

In a period like our own, when we have lost our sense of direction, when we do not know where our goal is, when our myths have lost their meaning and comprehensive reason has been eclipsed by calculating technical reason, there is need for a rebirth of imaginative vision.

by John Dominic Crossan, Richard G. Watts 1999 ISBN 0664258425 pages 28 - 29 [19] James Barr, Which language did Jesus speak, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 1970; 53 (1) pages 9 - 29 [1][20] Handbook to exegesis of the New Testament by Stanley E. Porter 1997 ISBN 90 -04-09921-2 pages 110 - 112 [21] Discovering the language of Jesus by Douglas Hamp 2005 ISBN 1 -59751-017-3 page 3 - 4 ^ Jesus in history and myth by R. Joseph Hoffmann 1986 ISBN 0 -87975-332-3 page 98

Even Hegel's system, for all that it sought to have done with petty subjectivism, could do so only by way of a massive metaphysical myth of the self - positing of the Concept, and of a more terrible economy of necessity than any pagan antiquity had imagined.

This is a myth spread by those who do not understand the Catholic Church, and / or just want to spread untruths to serve their own agendas.

Believing in a death myth or the supernatural does not make it real... fanciful stories... of the supernatural are not real... Read Caesar's Messiah by Joseph Atwill on how the Christian myth was created from the Jewish one....

If, as we suspect, the myths and legends of Genesis are shaped by Israel's faith, what does this mean?

Then we threw out the demigods, the muse, the spirits in the fountains, planets, trees, followed by symbols, sacraments — what use did modern myth - free mortals have for these?

They don't have to be overtly political; something like The Myth of a Christian Nation by Greg Boyd or Forgive Us by Lisa Sharon Harper, Troy Jackson, Mae Elise Cannon, and Soong - Chan Rah might be a good start.

In «Myth and Truth» he maintains that the truth of mythical utterances can be shown only by restating them in nonmythical terms.113 Yet adequately to demythologize Christian myths will require not just any nonmythological language but one, such as process philosophy provides, which can do justice to the biblical view of God.

However atheists not only do the same by replying to EVERY SINGLE post on any message board that mentions God that he's a myth, they also mock the Christians as well.

Alcoholics Anonymous, being «spiritual, not religious,» doesn't use the Bible at all; rather it uses another sacred text, the inspired Word of God as expressed through Bill Wilson, the Big Book... Unlike the Oxford Group, which claimed salvation and redemption by Jesus through the Oxford Group, AA proclaims «recovery» by one s «Higher Power» through the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous (Ken Ragge, The Real AA: Behind the Myth of 12 - Step Recovery [AZ: Sharp Press, 1998], pp. 82 - 83).

James, When the creation myths of all religions are shown to be incorrect by our knowledge of science and the majority of the bible is either proven wrong or can not be verified, don't you think that skepticism is the sensible path?

When the creation myths of all religions are shown to be incorrect by our knowledge of science and the majority of the bible is either proven wrong or can not be verified, don't you think that skepticism is the sensible path?

Most likely many myths made by men lived only a short life, but those that survived and spread did so because they readily met the common need of the human society where they flourished.

The Meccans did not threaten mohammad, and (turning this Muslim myth on its ear) only fought in supposedly SEL - DEFENSE after they were attacked by the MUSLIMS.

[6] Tolkien saw no essential difference between Fairy Story and Myth («the higher and lower mythologies») for «the inhabitants of Olympus and Faerie live by the same life just as in the mortal world do kings and peasants», and this life is breathed into them by their author.

What does bother me is his failure to perceive that he has not explained myths or rituals by being unashamed of reduction.»

By becoming fact it does not cease to be myth: that is the miracle.

After many years of confusion instilled by my religion, which is done I believe on purpose, I began to accept science instead of myth as fact.

Was he duped by an online hoax or did he perpetuate his own tragic myth?

@Chad «If you want to demonstrate that God is a myth, you need to answer how the universe came into being, how life was first created, and how all life forms as we know them today were achieved via a totally random series of genetic mutations and how that is in harmony with stasis in the fossil record» @hippypoet «I don't really care how we got here nor do I concern myself with the why either» @Chad «exactly» @hippypoet «See, I don't have to answer where, why, and by whom we are here because I don't need to» @Chad «exactly»

@Chad «If you want to demonstrate that God is a myth, you need to answer how the universe came into being, how life was first created, and how all life forms as we know them today were achieved via a totally random series of genetic mutations and how that is in harmony with stasis in the fossil record» @hippypoet «I don't really care how we got here nor do I concern myself with the why either» @Chad «exactly» See, I don't have to answer where, why, and by whom we are here because I don't need to.

If they did, they would know that most of the pious myths handed down are recognized as such by the most involved parties in the major religions.

Haha While I have mountains of evidence that you did coome from apes, you have a book written by ignorant iron age men.You choose to ignore real evidence in, and in its place you place myth.

Moreover, secular myths having to do with individual freedom, material success, and perhaps especially the wonders of technology may be an even more powerful source of societal legitimation than, traditional religious arguments by virtue of being grounded in many assumptions that are virtually axiomatic in the culture.

Asking what WE should do in our society, brought to its knees by policies based on these myths, is the real question.