There are no pat answers, but something that may help is to know that us humans are able to hold or
feel contradictory feelings at the same time: «I love that we are doing better» with «I hate that we are doing better only after all this pain».
Not exact matches
If you
feel «scientific evidence» is a good thing to provide, as your words had indicated, then your beliefs are self -
contradictory.
Personally, I
feel that if there is a god, and he wants me to believe he exists, he can come over here and tell me himself, I don't accept the Bible as «proof» of anything, because it is self -
contradictory and appears to be heavily influenced by the governing culture of the time.
What I have presented as two
contradictory approaches he
feels to be dialectically related.
But since there are mutually
contradictory elements of experience in the world, it would seem impossible for God to
feel one person's pain and someone else's happiness simultaneously.
But God, according to Hartshorne,
feels fully even
contradictory emotions.
I was
feeling a bit this way this morning, having just read a few profoundly deep theologian's blogs followed by all the
contradictory comments... and coming here has been the truest «ahh» moment.
Yet even if we were to grant to human beings the capacity for full empathy of emotion, it would still be impossible for a single human being to
feel contradictory emotions.
If it is always and everywhere difficult for human beings to hold in their minds seemingly
contradictory tenets of Christianity, Silence makes the task
feel impossible.
All of us send such
contradictory messages occasionally simply because we all have conflicted
feelings.
A little
contradictory: «We want our LGBT friends to
feel truly welcome in our faith communities.»
She seems to be full of
contradictory feelings, telling Wangel, «I love no one but you,» yet also saying to him, «You came out there [to her village] and bought me.
Whitehead, following Leibniz's lead, claims that the expression is not
contradictory once it is metaphysically interpreted as «positive physical prehension» or «
feeling» — «a mere technical term... chosen to suggest that functioning through which the concrescent actuality appropriates the datum so as to make it its own» (PR 164 / 249).
So instead you have millions of
contradictory baby books and conflicting sources of advice, or just
feeling your way around in the dark until it all kind of naturally clicks into place at some point.
We can have many
contradictory feelings at the same time, can't we?
But maybe that's just another example of the
contradictory feelings of life after loss.
At The Loved Child, we realize parents can
feel overwhelmed by the well - meaning but often
contradictory advice from friends & family and the numerous online resources and books.
But maybe you can raise children who are better equipped than you are to cope with a culture that promotes unattainable and
contradictory ideals while simultaneously depending upon an economic marketplace of information and goods that promise to temporarily assuage media - induced
feelings of inadequacy.
I
feel like I'm drowning in
contradictory information and also am too sleep deprived to make sense of it.
With information around every corner and our culture projecting constant messages (many times
contradictory) regarding how we should raise our kids,
feeling like a confident and intentional parent can seem out of reach many days.
«For all I know it may embrace raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, and
feel warmly towards brown paper packages tied up with string: it's not that these ideas are impossibly
contradictory, just that cramming too many of them beneath one umbrella term renders it faintly meaningless.»
It might sound
contradictory, but praise is not just a
feeling, but an attitude,» he said.
Uncertainty over the future and
contradictory political information mean voters in the UK's EU referendum will be swung even more than usual by
feelings and biases
Pregnant women can do without being made to
feel guilty and burdened by wrong or
contradictory advice.
There's some
contradictory studies where nettle root decreased inflammation very little, but overall, it looks like nettles are mildly anti-inflammatory, despite
feeling like the opposite when you fall into a field of them.
Most of all, it's clarified how food and the environment impacts my hormonal health — there is so much
contradictory information out there which can be very overwhelming, and I
feel like this course has clarified a lot for me — like the last jigsaw piece completing the complicated puzzle....
At the low point of that journey, I contorted my life to abide by numerous,
contradictory rules in hopes of
feeling better.
The high waist has something to do with my
feeling of safety whilst making my legs appear longer, it's a little
contradictory I suppose but being confident that my flabby -LSB-...]
With that in mind my recent go at editing my belongings has
felt, at times,
contradictory.
Our intuitive
feelings are very complicated and often so self -
contradictory, that it takes a great deal of self - analysis to sort out the way we
feel for a brand - new love that's arrived so promptly after our ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend.
For Ardouin - Fumat, who is thrilled to have recently met a woman who plans dates in places like board game bars and with whom he immediately
felt comfortable having a debate, the New York dating landscape appears completely
contradictory.
There's also a
contradictory nature; Despite
feeling like an old - fashioned, Hollywood style picture it has many riffs and rip - off's of contemporary war movies.
But when I realized that it's based on such a boring (surely, some people will have a
contradictory opinion) memoir, I
felt somewhat relieved.
Ullmann's cold - blooded direction doesn't stop the ravishing, redheaded beauty from devouring one poetic monologue after another, while telegraphing Julie's often wildly
contradictory feelings through gesture and movement.
And while there are definitely flavors of both in it, my early impressions of Builders left me
feeling underwhelmed and wishing it had done a better job of blending both game styles together in a way that wasn't
contradictory or shallow.
Kim Kardashian and Donald Trump exemplify our
contradictory feelings about the rich and famous.
Mr. Turner covers 25 years of the
contradictory painter's life, and it often
feels like it, moving at a languorous pace over its two - and - a-half hours.
How are these two
feelings contradictory?
Celebrating «The Artist» for its originality may seem a tad
contradictory — after all, silent movies have been around longer than any other form of cinema — but when compared to today's crop of films, it certainly
feels fitting.
by Sean Rom «Puss in Boots is an amiable and gently entertaining film but it also
feels like the compromised marriage of two
contradictory desires...»
Still, on a site where some games get praised for their difficulty but then turns around and subtracts for it on a different game
feels contradictory.
We really
felt this stuff was sort of
contradictory, because you can't tell someone to stop and pretend it doesn't bother you at the same time.
«You must know, don't you, that [middle school] kids seem to delight in taunting and testing authority, especially if they
feel that the disciplinary consequences are the least bit vague, incongruous,
contradictory, or downright non-existent!»
A middle manager is
feeling squeezed between seemingly
contradictory demands from above and below.
«I always
felt that to teach a course on education organizing was
contradictory if we didn't also get involved,» says Harvard Graduate School of Education Associate Professor Mark Warren.
«Ultimately,» she writes, «it's a miracle that schools like Prior Lake can function at all when we, as a nation, haven't decided what we want them to be or do, but
feel free to beat them up for not meeting all our
contradictory expectations.»
The DS 5 offers a strangely
contradictory driving experience — it's not quite sharp or responsive enough to be considered a truly sporty handler in the mould of the BMW 3 Series, but it's suspension can
feel firmer than you'd expect sometimes.
The documentation from the time is
contradictory, but the captain
felt he was prevented from landing, while the United States Coast Guard, which appeared to block the ship from turning toward shore, claimed they were present merely «out of concern toward those on board.»
My slow travel preferences, combined with the
contradictory fact that I've visited seven countries in the last two weeks, contributes to my sense of
feeling flat in Moscow.
Austin, myself, and Rob talk about what to do with complicated (and often
contradictory)
feelings regarding a video game you're enjoying, while checking in on Rob's attempts to survive the zombie hordes in the strategy game We Are Billions.