Sentences with phrase «for irrational thinking»

@Scientist If you feel that my disdain for irrational thinking is bigoted, then you would be correct.

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And that [irrational] faculty is needed for creative thinking.

And while few CEOs are likely to start their mornings at their local Zen Center, the Dalai Lama maintains that a peaceful, well - trained mind is important for increasing quality of thought and decreasing irrational impulses.

«These are all things that people have bought in the past, and driven to completely irrational prices, not because they did anything useful or produced any money and value to society, but solely because they thought they would be able to sell them to someone else for more in the future,» he writes.

Perhaps X-tian Fundies should quit their whining and seek psychotherapy for their martyr complex, as well as their magical, irrational thinking.

Carrying an attitude of entitlement and focusing on what we think we «deserve» is an irrational response to Christ's sacrifice on the cross for us.

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.

@Sam, I think it's dumbfounding for me because I was raised around people of all backgrounds my entire life and I guess I was just ignorant to some of the irrational or unfounded fears that people could have of another.

As a carapace for the protection of irrational notions from legitimate questions, however, I think that the word has a lot of mischief to answer for.

If you think that pink unicorns are more irrational than your god, there may be little hope for a rational discussion.

«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 old saying «There but for the grace of God go I» comes to mind, it just changes to «There but for the grace of my intellect and education go I, like those poor souls clinging to irrational thought.»

These essays too show remarkable staying power, particularly the provocatively titled «On the Political Stupidity of the Jews,» his own exploration of the familiar puzzle of American Jews» fierce, visceral, but in many ways irrational and self - defeating commitment to liberalism, and his suggestions for a possible way forward in that regard» an effort to formulate a sound and well - grounded tradition of specifically Jewish political thought.

Any extremism has to be irrational and result in negatives, if for no other reason then it refuses to allow other thinking than its own.

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.

Religion is also the biggest source for delusional thinking and delusional expressions of same, - otherwise I would not be here posting this — to you, a person doomed to irrational thinking and behavior thanks to your «religion».

But I knew that you would be punched in the face for pushing that button and I tried to warn you not to push it (even though you really really wanted to push it and thought it was stupid and irrational for a rule to exist that people who push this button get punched), wouldn't I be caring for you in warning you NOT to push that button?

Atheists just don't make the irrational leap to think that a god is responsible (or needed) for it.

I don't think only a «handful» of religious people, for example, make irrational decisions based on faith.

I think killing for sport is just as irrational as killing for religious reasons.

Best Series: Kurt Willems with «Nonviolence 101» «For most of my life, nonviolence seemed so irrational that I thought: This couldn't be what Jesus actually meant?

It is interesting in saying you do not believe in Man - God — a tale made up and written down as proof — and that because there is something big i.e. the universe — somehow there has to be something bigger — Man - God and if you do not believe this you think «You are big» i.e. akin to a super-natural being is a logic that can only be rational if the basis for logic is irrational.

Sometimes I think I'm being irrational for feeling certain ways so if anyone has any coping mechanisms please let me know.

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.

I think for once some of our irrational fans, whose hatred for Giroud intimidates Wenger into not playing him, can see their folly.

and if he is getting flacks from fans it entirely down to his own stubborn increasingly irrational and amateurish decisions... moreover for 8million quids per year I think he is having it very easy

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

Belief in the paranormal and its association with irrational thinking controlled for context effects.

The reader will struggle to find an island of thought in the decision's sea of bilge, but there is one on the subject of people with disabilities: It is irrational and unconstitutional, Moukawsher declaimed from the bench, to continue to provide an eduction for many of them.

That kind of thinking leads to irrational decision making and it's what leads card holders to persuade themselves that they really do get value out of a card that, in reality, hasn't provided value for years.

Having said that I'm more than a little aware that loyalty programs are designed to encourage us make irrational decisions and, with the Conrad offering a considerably larger room for less money, I'm questioning my thinking.

, 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,

This is all an ideal example of your irrational thinking and conflating things looking for some political angle.

But I wouldn't call them a «denier» or «irrational» or «anti-science» or a «crank» or «McFraudit» or any other epithets until at the least I had determined why they thought as they did, and whether there was any justification for it.

And to think he wants money for a demonstration shows how irrational are the Green extremists.

This is something I just wrote, belatedly, in reply to one of Joshua's comments, more or less, implying we so irrational that it is, literally, impossible for us to think, we simian be,...

This is something I just wrote, belatedly, in reply to one of Joshua's comments, more or less, implying we so irrational that it is, literally, impossible for us to think, we simian be, but I thought it worth having a thread of it's own, if it deserves it:

For the most part, I don't think the ranking of conclusions is irrational.

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.

Even though we have known and understood for decades the basic science of the terrestrial greenhouse effect, and water vapor feedback effects, in the current climate (politically speaking) of the frequently expressed irrational thinking, there is unfortunately a clear and pressing need to keep on repeating and explaining the most basic of global climate concepts.

Yes, I'm very interested in cutting down the possibility for irrational «none - hitters» but, I think, again, putting this down to what we can «agree» upon (what can I, as a none scientist, not agree upon?)

And such problems are exacerbated when folks fail to be accountable for how their biases corrupt their thinking process to produce such irrational analysis.

What I mean is that I don't think that it is strictly accurate to use «rational» and «irrational» in such a loose manner, and in the end I think it is counterproductive if you have a goal of getting people to be more proactive about accounting for their own biases.

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.

This anger management training is for you to learn how to control your anger and how positive thinking can be used to achieve growth and success.Anger is a natural though occasionally unwanted or irrational emotion that everyone among us goes through from time to time.

I also provide relief for symptoms including constant worry, racing thoughts, nervousness, irrational fears, social anxiety, and panic attacks.

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

CBT gives the client tools for questioning negative thoughts and evaluating irrational thinking.

This book is full of valuable exercises for challenging the irrational thoughts and avoidance behaviors that fuel social anxiety.

For our cover story, senior editor Wendy Cole delves into the question of just how buyers and sellers make decisions and offers tips for breaking through thinking that can seem downright irrationFor our cover story, senior editor Wendy Cole delves into the question of just how buyers and sellers make decisions and offers tips for breaking through thinking that can seem downright irrationfor breaking through thinking that can seem downright irrational.